Every Wednesday, P1b enjoy visiting the school library. Children are able to take a book home each week and can return this the following week to allow them to take out a new book. The boys and girls enjoy their weekly visit so please help them to remember to put their library books in their bags each Wednesday to avoid the disappointment of not being able to take out a new book. Thank You.
This week we have been doing lots of work on rhyming and have been finding rhyming words in books we are reading as well as trying to make some of our own rhyming words.
So put down your book and take a look!!!
Today P1b worked in their reading routes groups to explore a piece of text and to highlight the parts that looked different. The class all co-operated very well in their teams and worked together to take turns when highlighting. They really were text detectives as they managed to spot different examples of bold and italic text. We read the text aloud and discussed how these types of text affect how the reader reads aloud the text and thought of some ideas about why they author uses these different types of text. Can you spot some different types of text in any of your books at home?
A big well done to P1b as last week they presented their class talks about their favourite toys which they worked on at home as part of their homework. The class were a super audience for each other and I was very impressed with all the confident individuals who were able to use a loud and clear voice. Lots of good questions were thought up by the audience and some detailed and well thought out answers were provided by the presenters. Impressive work – I better watch out!!
We have been working very hard in literacy this week. We have been working on our sounding out skills to read words and to draw pictures to show that we have read the words correctly. Look at our fantastic work:
We have also been using the sentence boards and have been making sentences which Mrs Lloyd dictated to us. We did so well with this that Mrs Lloyd even asked us to make our own sentences. We had to remember our capital letter and full stop and had to check that our sentence made sense! We were really good at it!
Our non-number maths work was different this week as we were working on making some arrow diagrams. We picked this up really well and will be working more on reading arrow diagrams next week.
Road safety was a focus this week and we practised crossing the road safely during role play in the hall. We know not to stand too close to the kerb and know to Stop, Look and Listen before crossing. We remembered to walk across the road and not run and we discussed the importance of wearing brightly coloured clothes so that you can be seen clearly when crossing the road. We used what we learned to design a brightly coloured reflective coat which would allow you to be seen clearly. Lots of bright colourful designs were produced. Well done P1b!
Last week we were describing autumn leaves in our writing work. To help us with this we went out for a walk and had a look at some different types of leaves. We worked together to think of lots of describing words to describe the leaves and came up with lots of good words like: long, short, tiny, smooth, soft, jaggy, pointy, red, brown, big, small, wet, curvy and many more! We all worked really hard to try to sound out our words and tried to include our capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. Here are a few photos of us looking at the leaves outside along with some examples of our writing. Mrs Lloyd was really proud of our hard work.
Yet another busy week in Primary one.
In literacy, we have been working hard to blend our sounds together to make words as well as reading and writing our tricky words.
In maths, we have been consolidating our addition work, beginning our subtraction work and practising counting, writing and ordering the numbers up to 20. We are getting really good at this!
We were also lucky enough to have a visit from the SSPCA this week and we enjoyed listening to the lady telling us all about her job and showing us the equipment that she uses to help the animals that are hurt. (Don’t worry, it’s only a pretend snake!).
We have also begun our toys topic and have been thinking about what we already know about toys and what we would like to find out.
Keep up the good work P1b!
P1 have been learning ‘g’ this week. They worked really hard designing their own glasses and couldn’t wait to leave today showing them off to all the parents and carers in the playground. What a good looking bunch! Happy holidays everyone!
At the open morning I was asked if there was some more information about colourful consonants and vowel house available for parents. To help you to be able to help your child with their sounds and with the mouth part colours I have added two files to the useful documents section. One shows the different mouth parts and the letters that are made in certain parts of the mouth while the other tells the vowel house story. Please let me know how you get on and if you need any more information or clarification.
This week P1b have been introduced to the vowel house story. The children really enjoyed listening to the story and worked very hard on all of the activities. Try asking your child about the vowel house story! I am sure you will be super impressed!
