This was us on our train ride through the countryside.  Letter sounds were our tickets and we talked about, sang, drew and wrote about what we saw out of the train window.  We had lots of fun doing these activities based on the story ‘The Train Ride’ by June Crebbin.

We are developing 5 core learning skills across the school this year to help children with their learning.  The first one we are focusing on is Communication.

Lynda Keith visited us today and taught us more about good communicating using ‘Teddy Talk’.  We enjoyed talking and sharing what we liked about the teddy we had and the teddy our partner had.

Today in maths  we practised counting on 2 more from a number in our heads and showing it on a number fan.  We are getting really good at it!

Apologies for the reading books not being issued yesterday.  New books have been sent home today.  

Apologies also that the homework was not posted on the blog yesterday.  A maths worksheet and new common words were sent home yesterday.

Many Thanks for your understanding in this.

Primary 1 Homework

Sounds

• Please continue to revise all sounds in your word wallet.

• We have been looking at words with ‘at‘ in them. Can you make up these words with your sound cards:

  cat	hat	bat
  rat	fat	mat

Words

• This weeks words are :  to  your  by  only

• Can you make up a sentence with the words and sounds in your word wallet e.g. I went  to  the  park  with  your  dog.

Reading Book

• Please try and read as often as you can.

• Remember to point to each word as you read it.

• Can you find any of your words or sounds in your book?

Maths

• Try answering some questions about the number before and after/more than and less than:

  1 more than 9	2 less than 6	The number after 4
  The number before 6	1 more than 2	1 less than 5

We had a great day for Children in Need and all of Primary 1 got to dance with Pudsey and participate in an interactive kids workout with Joe Wicks, the new schools ambassador for Children In Need.

Miss Donald was blown away with the amazing dance moves the children were breaking out, especially the break dancing!

As part of our school project to develop the outdoor learning environment we planted trees yesterday!  First of all we had a look at the existing trees in the school grounds and tried to identify them by matching their branches to pictures.  It was pretty tricky, but Miss Donald was so impressed by our investigative and identification skills!

We are missing a few reading books which haven’t been returned when handing out the new reading books every week.  If you have any previous weeks books could they be returned please.

Please also ensure that your child brings their reading book to school every day with them, as we have daily reading sessions where they will need their book.

Many Thanks for your support.

Miss Donald

Today we were learning more about 2D shapes.  We are getting very good at identifying all the 2D shapes and explaining why they are that shape (number of sides and corners).  We are remembering the pentagon, hexagon and octogon well and have been using a feely bag to describe and guess shapes.

We started to learn about 3D shapes too and then we played with the shapes to make patterns, to sort them and to build with them.

Primary 1 Homework

Sounds

• This weeks sounds are : w  z  y

• Can you make up any words with your sounds e.g. wet, zip, yes

• Can you think of any words that have these sounds at the beginning, middle or end?

Words

• This weeks words are :  on   be   but   you

• What sounds are in these words?

• Can you spell these words with your sound cards?

Reading Book

• Remember to point to each word as you read it.

• Can you find any of your words or sounds in your book?

Workbook

• Please complete the page of your workbook (with sounds  w   z   y) in pencil.

Maths

• Try answering some questions about the number before and after.  I have given all the children a cube to place on the given number on their number lines, as we have played this in class :

  • What is the number 2 more than 5?
  • What number comes after 6?
  • What is 1 more than 9?
  • What is 2 more than 4?
  • Please complete the number worksheet.

• Play this game on a computer, phone or tablet:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

We have been learning to blend together the sounds we know to make and read words. (cvc words – which means they are made using a consonant, vowel and another consonant e.g.  m-a-t,   p-i-g,   t-o-p).

We listen to the word and try to find the sounds on our board that make the word.