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.

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!

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/

We had a visit in P1 from Buzz the bee who taught us all about the “z” sound. Mrs Collins told us the stories of How the Zebra Got His Stripes and Dear Zoo. We sounded out the words zap, zip and zigzag with the Alphablocks and made our own Zebras out of paper plates.

Today we enjoyed some Halloween Fun in primary 1. We shared some scary  stories about the Funny Bones,  listened to some spooky songs and music. We made a pumpkin mask and a ghost to take home.
Happy Halloween 🎃