Day: September 24, 2020

Update From Primary One

I hope you all enjoyed the long sunny weekend.  It was great to see the children coming back happy and rested.  They couldn’t wait to tell me what they had been up to, talking turtle time (daily check-in) took a little longer than usual. This blog will be a little shorter as we have only been in school for 2 days so far.

Literacy – Writing

We are continuing to develop our descriptive writing skills. This time we have been descibing an Autumn tree. Some of the children’s work below.

We have also been enjoying reading books about Autumn and have made our own leaf men using leaves collected during outdoor learning.

Our new sound this week is “p” we have also started focusing on common words. Today we explored the word “the”. I have hidden the word around the classroom, the children have to find it, say it, write it and as a challenge find the word in a book from our library.

Numeracy

We are continuing to explore numbers to 10 , creating collections, identifying numbers before and after. Some pictures below of our number talks. All children are becoming more confident in sharing strategies.

I hope you all have a great weekend and I shall update our blog next week.

 

Primary 1B Learning Highlights

This week in Primary 1B we have been focusing on the fact that it is now officially Autumn, our favourite season. We have discussed all the different and exciting events which happen during Autumn such as, Halloween and Bonfire Night. These are the things we are most excited about……

Finlay – seeing all the branches on the trees.

Arianna – maybe seeing some snow!

Saatvik – Seeing the colourful leaves.

Leighton – seeing the branches on the trees as the leaves fall.

Alfie – carving a pumpkin at Halloween.

As part of our learning we read the story of Leaf Man.

This is a beautifully illustrated story book about the adventures of a ‘Leaf Man’ and where the wind takes him. We had great fun identifying all the different animals in the story and were amazed at how they were all made out of different types of leaves. Once we had finished the story we had a go at creating our own Leaf Man, using some of the leaves we had collected on our Autumn walk.  Here are some of our creations.

We had lots of left over leaves so we practised our fine motor scissor skills by cutting the leaves up and gluing them onto a leaf template to create a colourful Autumn leaf collage.

As one of our writing tasks we have been drawing, describing and labelling Autumn trees. We discussed all the possible details which we could include, such as, Autumn animals which live in trees! We were able to share some amazing ideas. We also all had a go at writing the title on our work and some of us even tried to add some of our own labels onto our pictures. Check out some of our fabulous efforts.

We have also been busy this week working on learning all about our new sound ‘p’. This is soft, short and bouncy sound made with our lips, it is much quieter than the red lip sound ‘m’ that is why it is pink. We have been fantastic at recognising words which begin with the p sound and practising how to form this letter correctly. We made some Popcorn p’s to help us remember the shape of the letter.

It’s been a busy but fun week yet again. We have worked our socks off this week and we are looking forward to next week already! Have an amazing weekend everybody.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

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