Dear Parents,
Hope you are all well. Please find attached below a learning grid for the week together with a power point with suggested activities. Please only complete if and when manageable to do so.
I will also attach some play based activities which can be completed at home or in the garden.
Keep safe and healthy and please contact me if you have any questions.
With Best Wishes,
Alison Taylor
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Home Learning Week 1 St Josephs’s PS Primary 1
This week Primary 1 have been learning about subtraction in maths. We also went outside to measure using non-standard units. In topic we used clay to make houses and used the large wooden blocks to build castles. In literacy we used talking tins to listen to a dictated sentence and wrote the sentence on whiteboards thinking about the sounds and common words. We have been introduced to our new Health and Wellbeing characters and have been using QR codes to listen to stories all about the Wellbeing indicator of the month ‘Nurture’.
Primary 1 celebrated World Book Day. We designed our own bag with a character from our favourite story. We raised funds for the school by going on a ‘Welly Walk’. We used QR codes on the i-pads to listen to the story of ‘Pablo’s Bananas’ to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight.
This week Primary 1 celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight. The Fairtrade Committee performed a short drama to the school at Assembly. Many thanks to Mrs Byrne for helping to organise. We learned a Fairtrade song and found out about where Fairtrade chocolate comes from. We celebrated ‘Shrove Tuesday’ by making pancakes with Mrs McLardy, they were delicious! We had a lovely service on Wednesday where we received our ashes to signify the beginning of Lent.
Primary 1 have had another exciting week! Thank you very much to Rena’s mum who took the time to come in to Primary 1 to teach us some French colours. We met ‘Pascale’ who helped us to learn the colours red, blue and yellow. We loved it! It was really fun and we learned so much! We were introduced to our new sounds ‘igh’ and ‘y’ and are getting very good at recognising these sounds in words.
Primary 1 have been introduced this week to our new vowel digraph ai/ay. We have learned that ‘ai’ comes mainly in the middle of a word and ‘ay’ comes mainly at the end. We have been continuing our daily Number Talks and are very good at explaining our strategies. We listened to the the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds and created our own dot black pen drawing. We then wrote a super sentence describing our dot picture. We are continuing to enjoy developing our skills during our topic afternoons.
This week Primary 1 have celebrated Robert Burns day with lots of fun Scottish activities. We listened to the story ‘The Gruffalo in Scots’, drew a picture of the Gruffalo and labelled it with some Scottish words. We performed the song’Bananas are the Best’ by the Scottish writer Ewan McVicar, we were fantastic! We continued our ‘Houses and Homes’ topic activities showing skills in teamwork, problem solving and creativity.
Primary 1 have had a busy week. In literacy we have been wordbuilding with the ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ sounds. We listened to the story ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and wrote a sentence describing the character. In maths we are continuing to develop our understanding of addition. We have been introduced to ‘Number Talks’ where we discuss the strategies we are using to solve a problem. We have been very good at learning all the hand signals. We have started our new topic ‘Houses and Homes’ and we have been very interested in finding out about different types of houses in Linlithgow.
Happy New Year!
Primary 1 have had a great start to the the new year. We listened to the story of ‘Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution’ and thought of our own resolutions. We used different materials and loose parts to create a winter picture. We developed our understanding of addition by using ten frames and numicon. We used oil pastels and water resist paints to make a Snowflake picture. We had the opportunity to use our creativity and problem solving skills to build different structures with the large wooden blocks. We were very imaginative and worked really well as a team.
Primary 1 have had a very exciting week. We presented our nativity to the school community at the Church on Tuesday evening and in the school on Wednesday afternoon. We put on amazing performances, Mrs Taylor was very proud of us. We went to the pantomine ‘Cinderella’ at Howden Park on Monday. We had our Christmas lunch on Thursday, it was delicious! On Friday we sold our keyrings at our Christmas Fayre.
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