Day: October 28, 2021

Weekly Update From Primary One

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Some highlights from our busy week!

Writing – Persuasive

The children have began a new writing genre. From now until the end of term they will be exploring persuasive writing. This week the topic was Halloween. They were given a sentence starter “Halloween is good because ………..” They came up with a number of reasons- “you get to trick or treat”, “you get to dress up in a scary costume” “you get to scare people” etc. Some super examples below.

Phonics – “a” sound

This week the children were introduced to the “a” sound. This is an important sound as it enables the children to start blending and reading 3 letter words. They used sound mats to support the blending process. They did really well, I am so proud of them.

     

   

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we have been sorting, counting and ordering numbers!

   

   

As a special Halloween treat the buddies came to help Primary One carry out some spooky Halloween art!

     

     

Lastly we are still working on our Autumn display. We think it looks fantastic!

I hope you all have a great Halloween weekend and the children enjoy dressing up and eating lots of sweets! I will be back next week with more updates.

Primary 4/3 Learning Highlights

In Green Gym this week we have been working on improving the biodiversity of our school though building nests for the Bees. During the colder months bees need a safe place to keep warm to help them survive. We have been learning about the important role that bees play in worldwide food production therefore we all need to do our bit to help save them. Whilst we had the tools out we also decided to make some hedgehog nests and some wild flower bombs to help encourage the growth of more flowering plants in our schools grounds.

This week we have been introduced to a new writing genre, ‘Exposition‘, this is where we have to argue one side of an issue. This week we thought it would be a great idea to focus our writing on arguments for reasons we should be making steps to save the bees!

We came up with some excellent reasons. Here are some of our  examples.

Ashley – If we didn’t have any bees we wouldn’t have any chocolate or pizzas!

Nathaniel – Bees can make our world more healthy.

Isla – Bees can pollinate other flowers and encourage biodiversity.

This week we have started learning how to play basketball in gym. We have started off by practising throwing, catching and bouncing the ball with a partner. We even had to try and catch the ball one handed, it was really tricky!

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog, we wish everyone a Happy and safe Halloween.

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