Dear Parents and Carers

I hope you all had a lovely October break.  We have made a super start to Primary 1 and are excited to bring home our jotters to show our brilliant work to you.

­Health and Wellbeing

We have been learning all about the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators (Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included).  We have been learning about all of the animals that live in the Wellbeing Wood and how we can make sure that everyone is happy and safe at school.

This term we will be focusing on the Emotionworks Cogs and looking at the nurture principles.

Numeracy

We have been busy learning to count to 10.  We are learning to  recognise numbers to 10, put them in the order from smallest to biggest and biggest to smallest. We are learning to count forwards and backwards and identifying numbers before, after and in between.  With Miss Jack we have been learning to identify, draw and make 2d shapes and identify 3D objects.

How can you help us?

• Use toys or objects to count out amounts within 10
• Match numeral to the number name and picture with that number of objects
• Practise formation of all of the numbers and number names
• Encourage us to find numbers and shapes in our environment

Literacy

We have been busy learning lots of nursery rhymes and learning about rhyming words – words that sound the same at the end. (hat, mat, bat, rat, fat etc).  We are learning to recognise, identify, form the phonemes and build words using the phonemes a, t, s, i, p and n.  We are also learning r, m, d, e, c, k and ck.  We have been using the 5 finger approach to build words.

 

Say it (say the word)

Make it (with magnetic letters on the pink board)

Break it break the word up by separating the phonemes)

Blend it (starting at the beginning, blend the phonemes together)

Read (read the word aloud)

Write it (write the word 2 times)

How can you help us?

• Help us to recognise all of the phonemes that have been taught
• Practise the correct formation of all of the phonemes
• Practise reading and writing the common words
• Help us sound out words in our reading books

Google Classroom 

Please contact the school office if you are having difficulty accessing Google Classroom.  All homework activities are posted here on a Monday and are due in on the Friday of each week.

Story Sacks

Our lovely Parent Council have very kindly made up some story sacks.  There are 8 bags which will be given out to children on a rota basis.  We kindly ask that you return the story sacks on a Friday so that the bags can be checked and given to another child on Monday.

 

COP26 

As part of our learning on climate change you will have a visit from a little Polar Bear for a night in the lead up to COP 26.  The Polar Bear has some ideas to help save their environment.  Can you help?

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Miss Cassidy