A great day in Primary 1. We’ve worked so hard today!

We enjoyed our reading tasks this morning before going out to play with the nursery preschoolers. After break we went to gym and took part in some obstacle courses.

This afternoon we completed some maths before exploring some of our rights in health and well-being.

Our Learning Zone was closed today as it was transformed into ‘space’ so we had a little play with some of our new resources in the classroom.

Have a brilliant long weekend & see you on Wednesday!

Today we were able to tell Mrs Thomson how we get onto Word & how to use the “down & around” button to go onto a new line. Then Mrs Thomson showed us how to change the size of our text & how to change the colour.

Some of us had a chance to play on the interactive board too!

Literacy

Word Wall and Sound Card

• I have included a laminated sheet in everyone’s homework folder this week. The sheet has all the common words from this year and all the sounds your child is learning in class.

• Can you time yourself to read the words? How long did it take you?

• Please practice going over the sheet at home as often as you can.  If your child finds this difficult, then help them to read the words they can.  Count up how many they managed and try to better their score each time.

• This weeks new sound is ‘wh’ as in whip, wheel, whiskers.

Reading Book

• Please read this weeks new book.

• Can you find any ‘wh‘ words?

• Can you find any words with sh ch or th ?

• Can you name the capital letters you find?

Maths

• Try counting forwards and backwards within 20.

• How far can you count to in 10’s?

• Can you answer the mental maths questions below?

• Practice your doubles up to 10. e.g. 1+1=, 2+2=

• 4 + 6 =	10 + 2 + 3 =	5 + ? = 9	2 + 6 + 2 =
  11 + ? = 15	3 + 8 + 1 =	7 + ? = 11	13 + ? = 16

 Fairytale of the Week:

Our Fairytale of the week is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

We have set up the tuff spot in the class with lots of props and masks for the children to retell the story.

Ask your child to retell you the story at home. Who were the characters in the story? Where was the story set?

PE

We are now attempting to change into our gym kit every time we have gym.  Please ensure your child has a change of shoes for inside and gym kit.  Thank you 

Mr Green found a set of keys… the boys and girls thought they might open the gate over the school pond!

Primary 1 found lots of interesting insects and loved exploring the wildlife in the playground and pond in the senior playground.

After playtime Primary 1 we’re using the keyboards in ICT to write their names. They were able to type their name multiple times, leave a finger space and take a new line. Fantastic work Primary 1.

This morning Mr Green was very impressed with Primary 1. The boys and girls showed  their skills with numberbonds.  The boys and girls also were adding  up 2 and 3 digits to make a new number.

Remember our post last week about retelling the story of the Little Red Hen? Well today we had a go at changing parts of the story to make it our own! We had a Little Green Hen who lived in a cotton candy castle, spiders, farmers & cows that all could talk & instead of corn the animals could eat hotdogs!

It was a lot of fun playing with a familiar story!

We had a great morning retelling the story of The Little Red Hen. We listened to the story without pictures, joined in retelling the story with Mrs Thomson & then created a story map. We used the story map to retell the story to a partner. We couldn’t believe how well we could tell the story!

We have also been learning how to tell the time using o’clock – we are getting pretty good.