Today we were learning about  “b”. We thought of lots of “b” words such as basket, banana, biscuits and bikes. We enjoyed reading the story of Mr Bump and made our own buzzy bee to take home to help us learn our new sound.

Learning about “f”

Michael the puppet had drawn some pictures. We had to guess what the picture was and what sound linked each picture for example there was a picture of a clown…mmmmmm it was a  “funny face”. We made f words on our whiteboards and drew and wrote words that start with f like fan and fin.

We shared stories about a fox and made a fox to take home to help us learn our new sound.

Primary 1 have been talking about showing kindness to others and have begun to think about ways we can do this. We are going to try and be kind and helpful to  each other in the classroom, cloakroom and in the playground.

We think it is important to speak nicely to each other using kind voices and words. We are going to try hard to remember to say please, thank you and excuse me when working together.

We wanted to do something to make each other happy, so today we each made a friendship bracelet for someone else in the class.

Threading carefully to make our bracelets.

Saying thank you to our friends.

We were very pleased with our bracelets.

Hands of Friendship

The children in Primary 1 took home a copy of the sounds and keywords we have been learning in class. Please help your child to practise  these sounds and words over the holiday.
Thank you from Mrs Collins and Mrs McGilp
We hope everyone has a lovely holiday week.

Lots of lions in p1 learning about the l  sound !

We had a great end to a busy week making our leafy lions! In the virtual assembly this week Mrs Wilson spoke about courage, one of Kingsland’s four values, and read us a story about a lion and a mouse. We spoke about how there are some things we feel brave about and some things we feel nervous about and need to have courage.

To make our lions we went for a walk around the school grounds and collected leaves in autumnal colours. Sycamore leaves were our favourite lion shade. We mixed orange and yellow paint to find the right shade, painted paper plates and then glued on the leaves, eyes and nose.

In phonics this week we learned the l and u sounds and are doing a great job of putting all the sounds together to make short words. We’re also becoming more familiar with the Oxford Reading Tree characters and key words like ‘and’.

In numeracy we’ve been looking at the different ways to make ten, practising writing our numbers the right way and have been using the language more, less, bigger, smaller and in between.

Have a great break and see you on 19th!

Our new sound is “u”. We shared “u” stories, made our own umbrellas and used our sounds to build words with “u” in them.

This week primary 1 are learning about number 10. We have been using our rhyme to help us write 10.

One hen lays an egg 🥚…..10

We have been counting sets of 10 and making 10 in different ways using our Cuisenaire  rods

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We’re shadowing the UKLA book awards, which means we have the exciting role of reviewing the shortlisted books and then voting for our favourite. We’ve read all of the picturebooks and are now re-reading them and carrying out related activities.

First we looked at Mixed by Arree Chung, a colourful picturebook where blue, red and yellow stop living separately and ‘mix’. We talked about how we’re all different and this makes us interesting. Then we painted our own characters. We learned about the primary colours and then mixed them to come up with some creative shades, including fiery orange, midnight purple and evergreen green among many others. We then added black pen detail to bring our characters to life.

Today for our friendship topic we looked more closely at Lubna and Pebble. In the book Lubna gives her pebble to her friend who is sad when she has to leave. We painted pebbles with smiley faces and gave them to our friends. We said if we’re missing our friends in the October holidays we can look at our pebble, or like Lubna, we could even speak to it!

In P1 we have been putting our sounds together to make words. We use our fingers to help us, each time we say/hear a sound we put up a finger. We have been talking  about words with the same sounds rhyming. Mrs Collins helped us to build a sentence,  using finger spaces between each word. We then pointed to each word as we read back what we had written.