Dear Parents and Carers
We hope you all had a lovely relaxing Easter break.
We can’t believe that the summer term is upon us already and that the children are approaching the end of primary 1 – it really has flown by. This term we will be helping and supporting the children as they prepare for their transition into Primary 2.
Numeracy
We have been busy learning to count accurately within 20, identifying numbers before after and in between and learning how to subtract within 5. We have blown Miss Cassidy and Miss Jack away – we are so good at subtracting! Miss Jack has been teaching us about money. We can identify all of the coins and are learning to use money to make totals.
This term we will be learning to subtract within 20 and using money to subtract. We will also be learning about time and measure.
As we approach the final term of primary 1, your child should be showing increasing confidence in
- oral forward counting – starting from various numbers and counting on.
- oral backwards counting again starting at various different numbers and counting back.
- identification, recognition and sequencing of numbers to 30.
- correct and legible formation of all numbers to 30.
- matching the associated numeral, number name and amount of objects to 20.
- identifying numbers before, after and in between within 20
- addition within 10
- subtraction within 10
Literacy
Phonics
We have now learned all of the single phonemes and are busy learning some joined phonemes.
We use our pink Active Literacy boards every day at school and they help us to build words. You can use your pink board at home to practise making and writing words too.
5 Finger Approach
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, remembering correct letter formation and a finger space between each word)
Writing
In school we are learning to write simple sentences using joining words. We are also learning about dictation where Miss Cassidy says a sentence and we have to listen carefully and write it down.
Reading
We can use all of the knowledge that we have about phonemes and common words to help us to read. We know that if a word is tricky to read we can sound the word out by saying all of the sounds and then blending them together to read the word.
As we approach the final term of primary 1, your child should be showing increasing confidence in
- identifying and recognising all single and joined phonemes which have been taught.
- identifying, reading and writing all common words which have been taught.
- correct and legible formation of all lower case letters
- sounding out words by saying each letter in order and blending the sounds together when reading.
- writing a simple sentence using a capital letter at the beginning, full stop at the end and finger spaces between words. Your child should be trying to spell common words with increasing accuracy.
- creating oral lists of words that rhyme.
STEM
During term 3 we have been learning about Science with different teachers. We spent 4 weeks with Miss Cassidy learning about computer programming using the Beebots and the story ‘We are going on a Bear Hunt’. We then spent 4 weeks with Mrs Mark learning about Engineering and we are currently spending some time with Mr Connor and Mrs Potter learning about the Human Body. This has been great fun and we have really enjoyed visiting other classrooms and spending time with different teachers.
Primary 1 Assembly
This term we will be preparing for our class assembly. This will be filmed and we will share this on Google Classroom with you at the end of May.
As always, thank you for your continued support.
Miss Cassidy & Miss Jack
Literacy
