Author: Mrs Fleming

Firstly I would like to say thank you to everyone who managed to join us last Friday for the Big Bedtime Read. The children had a fantastic morning and hopefully you have had time to read some of the books the children were given. Some of our favourite pictures below.

Literacy – Phonics

This week we have been focusing on the “ck” sound which appears at the end of words. The children have successfully blended ck with different consonant and vowel sounds to create words.

Elizabeth and some of the other children are beginning to use their knowledge of blending to create words independently. I am so proud of them!

Reading

We continue to practice reading and tricky words as often as we can. This week the red group were reading Fun at the Beach. One of the tasks was to draw themselves at the beach with their family and write a sentence about their picture. It is important that children can make a link from a story they are reading, to an event they have or may experience. Louie was extremely proud of his detailed picture and matching sentence. Well done!

Writing

This week we have been focusing on our writing targets. The targets are to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. As well as ensuring we meet our targets some children are challenging themselves to write 2 or 3 sentences.

We are also beginning to look more closely at how to improve our learning across all areas of the curriculum. The children are now more aware of their “Next Steps” and how to achieve them. More general information about this will be posted on the blog.

Numeracy

This weeks challenge was to firstly use their knowledge of number bonds to 10 and then to break the bonds down further e.g. 5+5 =10 – 2+3+5 also equals 10. They used numicon frames to build towers of 10 with different combinations.

Health and Wellbeing

As a continuation from last week we discussed in more detail what we should do if we are being bullied. Layla said ” we should tell a teacher or an adult” Sophie said we should say “I don’t like what your doing” Emily said we should tell them to “stop”. We drew pictures to demonstrate our understanding.

The children are very excited about our Nativity “It’s a Baby”. We are now practicing on the stage with P2 and P3. It’s all beginning to come together.  We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 12th or Friday 13th December.

Have a lovely weekend. Only 20 sleeps to the big day!!

 

 

 

 

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.

We have had another extremely busy week in Primary one.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been focusing on Celebrating Differences. One of our school values is to make everyone feel included and special. So with this in mind we firstly began to unpick what makes us special? Sophie thinks she is special because she is kind and caring, Mark thinks he is special because he loves taking part in tricky math’s challenges. After a lot of elbow partner discussion we all agreed that we are all special in different ways and that’s a great thing. All of us are unique and  have a valuable part to play in our learning community.

This is the picture we used as an example. At first glance they look similar but when you look closer you begin to notice the differences and that what makes them special.

PE

In PE we are continuing to develop our balance and ball skills (we are improving every week!) Here are some pictures to prove it!

We have a lovely visit from our buddies today. They support the children  by listening to them read, helping them with tricky words and  meeting writing targets. They also come down on a Friday to take them to assembly.

Math’s Challenge

This weeks challenge was to make 10 in as many different ways as possible. The children worked collaboratively in small groups, supporting and encouraging each other.

Other News

We are continuing to learn new sounds and tricky words. The children are blending  sounds they know to make new words. We use word mats which encourage the children to identify beginning, middle and end sounds. Some  are now changing sounds to create words. We have completed a winter poem plan and will use the plan to write fantastic poems (I will include some photographs of them next week) We have also been researching and writing facts about rainbows. The children were amazed that you can not ever find the end of one or touch them. Nativity songs are being sung everyday, the children are loving it and can’t wait to get on the stage.

Next Week

We hope to see you next Friday for our book bug event. Thank you for your continued support.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

 

On Friday the 8th of November, Deans celebrated its 50th birthday. We had a fantastic fun filled morning. The children and I welcomed a record number of visitors to our classroom. In Primary 1, we  demonstrated how children learn in 2019 through actively investigating, collaborating, discussing and sharing strategies.  Thank you so much for your support and in case you were unable to attend here a few pictures of some of the activities.

On Tuesday we celebrated Armistice Day  by observing the 2 minute silence and making poppies.

On Wednesday afternoon we decided to take our learning outside. We have been learning some new tricky words and played a game of word splat.

Our new sound this week is a. Now that we have a vowel sound we can begin to blend and segment words. We have been using our word mats to create words and change the beginning sound to make new ones.

Lastly we had a math’s challenge. It was really tricky but there was a lot of valuable discussion around the problem, such as “how many different ways are there to make 5” “can we use concrete materials (red and green cubes) to help us”

Thank you for your continued support especially with reading and recognizing tricky words. Have a lovely weekend.

 

It has been another busy and exciting week in Primary 1. On Tuesday the 5th we welcomed firefighter Steel. He told the children all about his role in the fire service and explained how they not only fight fires but rescue people who get into trouble in the water and climbing. However, the most important message was keeping safe around fireworks. The children asked him lots of questions and some enjoyed trying on his special (very heavy) firefighters hat.

Summer wrote a lovely thank you letter to all  fire fighters who work hard every day to keep us safe.

Story Writing

The children have been learning how to retell and sequence a story. They picked The Rainbow Fish and discovered that the story reflects  our own school values of feeling included, supported, safe and valued.

Yoga has become a form of exercise that the children really enjoy and look  forward to. The children are learning about the benefits of yoga through stories, music and games. Yoga helps to build resilience,  manage emotions and promote a sense of well-being through the use of postures, meditation and mindfulness.

We have also been busy preparing for Deans 50th birthday. We hope you can come and visit us. We are showcasing learning in the present time.

Have a lovely safe weekend.

We have had another really busy week in Primary one.  The children have taken part in a number of math’s challenges (as you can see below) . We have been ordering and writing  numbers, counting in 10,s, drawing number collections as well as identifying number patterns.

You will have noticed that the children now have tricky words as well as sounds to learn. They are updated weekly and your support in helping them to read and recognize them is greatly appreciated.

We have had great fun reading  Room on the Broom. The children have been retelling and ordering the story , discussing the characters and even making a new broom! We challenged P1 and P2/1 to collected items from the field outside the school to make the witch a new broom. The children enjoyed this task and the discussions that went on were thoughtful and imaginative. New parts to make the broom go faster, a bigger broom for more characters etc.

A big thank you to all parents who put in a tremendous effort in making fantastic costumes. I took a group picture before the disco, looking at it today on the smart board they thought they looked “really scary”. Autumn and Halloween art have been a big focus. We have a tremendous Pumpkin Patch. The children used a range of media including marbling, paint washes, chalk, line and shape to create a variety of pumpkins.

 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.