The boys and girls have been busy working on using all of their set 1 sounds to begin to sound out words. The independent challenge this week was to pick a picture and use the coathanger sounds to try to make the word. Mrs Lloyd was very impressed at how well the children did! Take a look for yourself!
Today we were taking pictures of words in our heads and trying to remember what they said – ‘the’ and ‘A’. We used the magnetic letters to spell the words and completed some jigsaws of the words. Have a look at us in action. Mrs Lloyd was very impressed!
It was such a lovely day on Thursday that P1b enjoyed our story and milk outside. The children listened really well and enjoyed the story which Nathan C chose.
P1a were shocked this morning to find that Eco Ted had taken himself off on a pirate adventure! This morning the children found a message in a bottle inside our classroom. When we opened it up we found a letter from Eco Ted and we discovered that he had disappeared. He has sneaked aboard a pirate ship and he wanted the children to write back to tell him what he needs to do in order to act like a pirate. The quality of the writing that the children produced this morning was fantastic and I’m sure when we put these messages in a bottle they will really help Eco Ted to fit in onboard the pirate ship. The children are really hoping that he will return tomorrow so that someone can take him home for the weekend. We’ll keep you posted!!
P1a really impressed Mrs Lloyd today with their fabulous vowel house work. The children worked independently at a number of different stations while Mrs Lloyd worked with small groups to play the Swap vowel house game. The independent activities included playing vowel house bingo, reading tricky words, playing vowel sounds games on the laptops, using the big interactive vowel house on the wall, matching sounds and words to the correct positions on the vowel house and drawing the vowel house on the big paper (as suggested by Josh). Try asking your child to tell you all the sounds in the vowel house and the vowel house story – I bet you will be impressed! These sounds are helping us with our reading and writing work. Here are some pictures of us in action!
This week, the children in P1a have again been using their teamwork skills. The children worked in groups after we all read a text about butterflies. They then had to work together in their groups to form a question which would help them to better understand the text. We discussed question words and the children really impressed me with their fantastic questions, examples of which included:
Here are some photos of the children co-operating in their groups. Well done P1a, you worked hard together to think of quality questions!
P1 transformed into some of their favourite characters from a variety of books today for World Book Day. Well done boys and girls, you all looked fab!
A group of pupils from Bankton represented their school to the highest standard at the West Lothian Heat of the National Burns Federation Competition, held in St. Kentigern’s Academy on Wednesday, 6th March.
Louis Hartl-Hazette played Auld Lang Syne very competently on the trumpet – I’m sure Mrs. Scobie, our brass tutor would have been very proud of you!
Katie Tripney, Kai Wilson and Beth Kinroy performed Burns’ poetry from ‘A parcel of rogues among nations’ to ‘The Joyful Widower’ and ‘Scots Wha Hae’. Our youngest performer, Eric McLeod from P.4 brought some humour with his Scottish poem. All children performed their poem with drama and great attention to the meaning of Scots language. Mrs. Ferguson and I were extremely proud of our Bankton Champs!
Well done everyone!
This week P1 have been busy extending their learning of our Fairyland topic. In the structured play area this week, the children were drawing detailed pictures of a fairytale of their choice – Jack and the Beanstalk was a firm favourite! The children enjoyed using their imagination when playing with the castles in the small world area and they really impressed Mrs Lloyd with their writing at the literacy table where they worked hard to write a speech bubble for the Gingerbread Man, sounding out their words really carefully. At the maths table, Miss Campbell played dominoes with the boys and girls and was impressed by how well the children were able to match symmetrical butterflies. Finally, in the role-play area the children were challenged to act out a favourite fairytale to see if Mrs Lloyd could guess it. During this time the wolf could be seen trying to blow down the little pigs house, Goldilocks was caught eating the bears porridge, Cinderella lost her glass slipper and the evil queen was asking the mirror who was the fairest of them all!
In class this week, P1a have been learning about rhyme and rhyming words. We started off by reading a rhyming book and made a list of all the rhyming words in it. The class were very good at picking out the words that rhymed with ‘at’ and went on to make some of their own rhyming words independently.
