Reminders

• It is the ‘Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper Day’ this Wednesday. If possible we ask that children bring a donation to give to the local foodbank (tins or dried food) instead of a £1 donation. Hopefully we can spread a little extra Christmas cheer by helping local families.

• Please hand in the slips letting us know what your child would like for the Christmas lunch on Wednesday. Children in p1/2 get free school meals but still need to indicate what they would like.

• Thursday is an In-Service Day due to the election.

• The school nativity is this Friday. Please can children wear black trousers or leggings to school – they will be provided with a t-shirt to wear on stage.

Primary 1 Homework

Sounds

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

• We are still looking at words with ‘an‘ in them. Can you make up these at words with your sound cards:

  fan	tan	ban
  man	can	van

Words

• This weeks words are :  from  this  that  then

• Can you make up a sentence with the words and sounds in your word wallet e.g. She  was  not  in  the  bus  with  dad.

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

• Please complete the sheet in the  pencil.

We have been learning to count sets and then count how many there are altogether.

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 :  are   dad   not   she   came

• Can you make up a sentence with the words and sounds in your word wallet e.g. I do not like sprouts.

• 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

• We have been learning to count sets of objects and then find out ‘how many altogether’.  Complete the dominoes worksheet to find out how many spots altogether on each domino.

We enjoyed the new learning zone today, which has been changed to a Christmas theme!  We decorated the tree in the house, played with the arctic small world scene and dressed up.  We are excited about the Christmas shop opening soon!

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!