Day: October 29, 2020

Happy Halloween From P1A

 

Firstly, I would like to say that as a staff, we are so sad that this year we are unable to have a our annual Halloween disco. It is one of the highlights of the year for the children (and some of the staff!!) but hopefully next year things will be back on track. This week some of our learning has had a Halloween theme.

We have been painting pumpkins using a mabelling technique and used wax crayons and a paint wash to create different textured affects.

 

The books we have enjoyed reading.

The children especially enjoyed Funnybones!

Writing     

This term we are focusing on persuasive writing. As a starting point, the children were asked to share their opinion on  things that were important to them. Next, we focused on sharing how Halloween makes us feel. The children really enjoyed thinking of words to descibed how they felt and suggested scary, spooky, excited, happy etc. Some examples below-

                        

This week we began ELF which stands for Early Literacy Focus. ELF will run Monday to Thursday from 9.15 -10.25. Within this time, the children will complete 4 literacy tasks  e.g. reading, common words, handwriting and phonics, and will be supported by an adult during each task. We are hopeful that this will  enable the children to become more confident, independent learners. Below is a sound mat which we use to support blending. The children bring 3 sounds and place them on the mat, initial sound on the head, middle sound on the tummy and end sound on the tail, we then blend them together to say a word. We are beginning to change initial sounds to create new words.

News sounds this week i and t (for tiger)

   Number 10

This week we have been focusing on number 10. We have been using numicon to help us learn our number bonds to 10.

Health and Wellbeing

This term we will be looking at how we celebrate and value difference. We began this week by looking at similarities between ourselves and our elbow partner. Some pictures below.

 

 

I hope you all have a fantastic  Halloween!

Double Trouble in P5

Numeracy

This week we continued to improve our addition skills.

We feel we have improved our ability to double a number but adding near doubles was trickier!

Maths

We revised 2D shape and learnt about the properties of 3D shapes.

Literacy

In group reading we used inference skills to answer questions about the texts. We discussed in detail how we felt about the books with our partners. On Thursday we pretended to be one of the characters from the stories and wrote a letter to another character in the book.

Spelling

Hope – I enjoyed clapping out syllables when spelling and writing sentences for each word.

Grace – I enjoyed putting the spelling words into alphabetical order.

Christmas comes early!

Colin – I enjoyed designing a Christmas Card and spreading some Christmas joy!

Drama

I enjoyed the number game!

Health

We continued our ‘Celebrating Difference’ theme and learnt about how people are discriminated against because of the colour of their skin. Then we went on to design ribbons to raise awareness of racism and to help stop it.

Primary 1B Learning Highlights

Literacy

This week in Primary 1 we have been working hard to improve our literacy skills. We have started reading for ourselves! To start with our books feature only pictures, but this means we can use the pictures to tell the story in our own words. This is one of the targets we are focusing on in class. Whilst exploring our new books we have been discussing the setting, this means where the story takes place. We drew pictures to describe this as well as having ago at writing a simple sentence.  We have also been introduced to all the characters we will be reading about. Their names are Kipper, Biff, Chip, Mum, Dad and of course Floppy. You will hear lots and lots about them over the coming months.

We have been learning the new sound t and i, we can identify the sound and we are becoming experts at writing them too. Our new words this week were ‘and’ and ‘it’.

In writing, we have been learning how to give our opinion. This week we wrote about what we felt about Halloween. Here are some of the sentences we wrote.

Saatvik – I think Halloween is great.

Cooper – I think Halloween is exciting.

Alex – I think Halloween is good.

Sophie – I think Halloween is scary.

We have been working really hard to write tricky words on our own and to use the sounds we know to help us with spelling. We have been remembering to use our targets, this week we had a focus on using a capital letter, a full stop and putting finger spaces in between the words. Here are some examples of our work.

Numeracy

As we continue to focus on teen numbers we found a great game to play that not only helps us to recognise teen numbers but helps us to develop that skill of subitising         (seeing the amount without counting) on a ten frame. Here are some pictures of us in action.

Halloween

It is a shame that we can’t properly celebrate Halloween this year. In Primary One we have decided to make our classroom a bit spookier by creating our own bright orange pumpkins. After reading the story ‘Pick a Pumpkin’ by Patrica Toth we discussed all the different Halloween traditions that our families follow. Carving pumpkins was the most common one! Here are our spooky Halloween pumpkins.

Happy Halloween everyone! We hope you have a suitably spooktastic evening even if it is a little bit different this year.

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

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