Our new sound in primary 1 is qu as in quack, queen, quick and quiet.       We shared a story called The Quest  and the Alphablocks taught us about q and u working together. We made a quacking duck to take home to help us learn our new sound.

It’s been a busy few days in P2/1. We’ve been learning about Remembrance and why we all wear poppies. Yesterday we did a great job making our own poppies to hang in our windows. Today we watched a short video about the effect the First World War had on animals and it inspired our own pictures and writing.  At 11am we sat quietly to remember those who have lost their lives fighting in the various conflicts and those serving in the Armed Forces today. We all enjoyed listening to Mr Johnstone and Archie play the pipes.

Also this week we revisited the pictures we took six weeks ago of the trees around the school field. We knew the leaves had changed colour and were falling but we were quite amazed at the difference (photos by Daniel, Noah and Amber). We also did an autumnal scavenger hunt, looking for something autumnal that makes a noise and evidence of wildlife around the playground.

Our new phonics sound on on Monday was ‘x’. We had fun making x-rays of our hands and writing real and nonsense ‘x’ words.

Have a good long weekend and we’ll see you on Monday!

Today we used our black pens to create street scenes. We had to control our pens to make lines, patterns and shapes.

Everyone in school this week has been  learning about Remembrance Day. We have talked about the poppies that grew up in the muddy battlefields of World War 1 and how they help us to remember all the brave men and woman in the forces today, and in the past who have helped to keep us safe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04p4zsl/poppies

BBC Children’s remembrance film

For Remembrance Day  we have all made a poppy to put up in our windows and we will be observing a minutes silence, at 11am on the 11th November.

This week we have learning about “x” sound as in box, fox, six, mix and fix. We think the  “x” sound  is similar to the noise made by an X-ray machine.

Here are our X-rays!

We were inspired by P5’s Kindness Boomerang video and came up with our own ‘chain of kindness’. When someone is kind or helpful we add a link to our paperchain. We’re hoping it will soon reach across the classroom!

We’ve had lots of fun with fireworks this week. We designed rockets and fireworks with 2D shapes. We then painted these onto our black fabric with acrylic paints for the virtual fireworks display. We were so excited to see all of the brilliant banners in the field! We learned about why we celebrate Bonfire Night, who Guy Fawkes was and why put him on the bonfire! We also had a chat about bonfire, firework and sparkler safety.

In numeracy we’ve been doing lots of addition, this week focusing on the add (+) and equals (=) signs. In class we’ve been adding frogs on logs and outside we’ve been adding whatever we could find! We’re still practising our numbers in lots of different ways  and trying to make sure they all face the correct way.

In phonics this week we’ve learned the z and v sound, making a zebra and a vase. We’re continuing to put all of our sounds together to make short words and are starting to write short sentences, practising tricky words like ‘the’.

Our black pen picture and writing this week had the title ‘Cold Hands’. We’re concentrating on getting the detail in our facial expressions and our hands, and we wrote stories about a time that we had cold hands.

Today primary 1 were learning about the “v” sound. We talked about words with the v sound such as van, vet, vase, vegetables and volcanoes! We  watched a video of a volcano and made our own volcano model.

We have been drawing pictures of different things we do, thinking carefully about the position of  our arms and hands. We share the story of our pictures with Mrs Collins and have begun to copy out  our ideas.

This week we talked about the story of Guy Fawkes, why people have fireworks and bonfires  on November 5th. We worked together to make this display of colourful fireworks.

We have been learning to form the letters c o a d and g. They all start in the same way and in the same place. We practise writing in the air with our finger, on our whiteboards with our pens and then in our jotter with our pencil. We use a website on the smart board to help us.     https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/letterformation/