Welcome to everyone in Primary 1 and to all our new and existing families.  What a busy session we have had so far – learning and sharing with each other at our Primary 1 Curriculum event, our Open Afternoon and Parent Consultations.  Thank you to all who managed to attend any of these events.  It is always good to meet and share information on the children and their learning journey. 

 

Literacy

We are working hard in literacy and are doing a great job of learning sounds. We have learned our first few sounds a, t, s, i, p, n and have been using this knowledge to blend and to read words.  We will continue to learn new sounds so we can build new words every week.  Common words are words we learn every week and can be tricky.  Please use the sound cards and the common word cards to practise at home.  These are yours to keep, cut out and use as you wish.  We have started our picture reading books and are enjoying taking these home to discuss with our adults.  Please take the time to discuss the pictures and build the story using the pictures and the child’s vocabulary.  We look forward to progressing with our reading throughout the term as we bring together all of our learning to help us. 

Numeracy

In numeracy, we have been learning to count and form our numbers to 10 correctly.  We have been learning numbers before, after and in between, it’s tricky so we will keep practising – keep challenging us at home by asking us questions!  We will be moving on with estimating and rounding then addition.   In class we have lots of different activities that help us to learn and we enjoy the challenge of completing target tasks independently.  Please help us at home by working on forming numbers to 10.   

Learning Across the Curriculum

Mr Connor has been teaching us science. We have been doing lots of fun activities – learning songs about the bones in our body and using our five senses in different activities – we may have done enough to earn a badge?   Watch this space…. 

In French, Mrs White has been teaching us greetings and numbers.  We have worked on hello, goodbye and we are learning our numbers to 10.  We love this as we usually get to sing and dance while we are learning – what fun! 

We have been learning about our emotions during our Health and Wellbeing lessons.  We have worked on Emotions Works where we have been spending time exploring emotions.  We have been naming emotions, understanding behaviours, noticing body sensations, understanding triggers for the emotion and regulation strategies to help cope with the emotion.  The discussion was fantastic and the children were very good at sharing ways to manage emotions.   We also spent time drawing around our classmates and creating a healthy person – discussing then drawing all of the ways we can be healthy.

We will soon be busy rehearsing for our Christmas Shows.  Time flies when we are having fun!  We look forward to entertaining everyone in December.   Look out for more information nearer the time.