We have had another extremely busy week in Primary One. The children would like to share some of their learning with you.
Literacy – Reading
In addition to daily reading the children have been carrying out a number of reading skills activities such as, unscrambling jumbled sentences from their reading books. This supports and encouraged them to read individual words, sequence sentences as well as track and count words. We have also had daily tricky word challenges to help recognize, read and write words.
As you can see from the above pictures Mark and Oliver have extended their learning in a fun way by playing word and picture dominoes.
Literacy – Writing
The children have been writing winter poems. In order to focus their thoughts and ideas about winter we decided to use our 5 senses. The children described what they would see, hear, smell, feel and taste during the winter season. A lot of work has gone into the poems and the children are very proud of them. Here are a few examples.
Health and Wellbeing
As a follow on from last week and in keeping with our school values we have been focusing on inclusion and how to recognize when someone is being excluded through bullying. We looked at pictures of children and decided you can’t tell a bully by the way they look, you can only tell by their unkind actions. Children can find the term bullying a difficult concept to understand so we decide that there are 3 key features-
It doesn’t happen once: it goes on over time and happens again and again.
It is deliberate: hurting someone on purpose, not accidentally.
It is unfair: the person doing the bullying is stronger, bigger or there are more that one of them.
The most important message is to tell an adult, no one should ever feel excluded! The children made posters to demonstrate their understanding.
Numeracy
We have been working on adding numbers within 10. This weeks challenge was slightly different, the children had the answer (1-10 written on a large sheet of paper) and had to work collaboratively to place the addition sum(e.g. 4+5) next to the correct answer. There was lots of super discussion and competition to finish first!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and if you can make it to our Book Bug event tomorrow (29/11/21) at 11.50am it would be great to see you.
