Last week we were working on our fine motor skills, we were drawing with pens and chalk, painting, using plasticine and play dough, cutting and building.

P1 enjoyed sharing the story of Badger’s Bath by Nick Butterworth. We thought it was a very funny story, we drew our own badger pictures and wrote the story together.

On Thursday Primary 1 took home their reading packet. Inside their reading packet there was a copy of the sounds we have covered so far, the names of the characters from the reading books (key words) a copy of the number rhymes and a number formation sheet. These sheets of paper are to be kept at home to help the children practise. The children should bring their reading packets to school everyday so they can put their reading, reading record, keywords, sound activities and letters into it.
Thank you in advance for helping your children with this.

We have been sharing different stories about Floppy the dog that belongs to Biff, Chip and Kipper, the characters in our reading books. We have been learning how to read his name by looking at the patterns of sounds in the word Floppy. We have talked about his  appearance and character from his actions in the different stories. On Thursday we painted Floppy and then used play dough  to make a model.

Today our new sound was g as in goat, garden and gold. Primary 1 were very surprised that instead of Michael the puppet coming out of his special bag it was the Gruffalo! Mrs Collins read us the story of the Gruffalo and we found lots of other g words in the story. We looked at the shape of g and made a goose.

A gaggle of geese by P1a

We have been talking about how trees change through the seasons. To make our autumn tree we used torn tissue collage leaves and cut shiny paper to make the acorns.

Primary 1 were talking about their journey on the river of life. Mrs Collins made a river and put her boat onto the calm water, she then added some obstacles for her boat to travel around.  We talked about how sometimes our journeys are smooth and at other times we face challenges. We have to have the tools in our tool box to help us cope in difficult times and we will be leaning more about this over the coming weeks.

We made our own boats to get us thinking about our journey.

Primary 1 have been learning about the d sound as in dinosaur, duck and dog! Michael the puppet had a feely bag full of things that begin with the d sound including a drum. We  had great fun marching around the playground to the beat of the drum. Mrs Collins taught us the action, the Jolly Phonic song for d and we began to learn how to form the letter. We also made a dog puppet to take home.

Primary 1 having been talking about the different seasons. We have begun to think about the changes we see through each season.
We worked together to create this mighty oak tree in summer.

Keep checking our blog to see how we create the same mighty oak in autumn!

Everyday we use our word cards to practise our sounds. We play a game called Show Me, Mrs Collins asks us to  to hold up the different sounds that we hear, the sounds might be at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of words. We are also beginning to build small words , we use our fingers to help us break up the words into sounds, today we were making the words hen and pan.

Every week we focus on learning new words. Mrs Collins hangs the words up and we practise reading them.

We have been continuing to meet the characters from our reading books. Mrs Collins has been reading different stories about the characters and we have been learning to read their names by thinking about the different sounds in the words, the shape of the words, any letter patterns in the words.