It has been a short but busy week in P1b this week! In literacy we have been learning the split digraph u-e such as huge or tune, as well as our tricky word all. In numeracy we have been revising our addition and subtraction to 20 and have been enhancing our problem solving skills by investigating powerlines, you can click on the link below to have a go. Our ELC transition also started this week. The children have shown great enthusiasm and kindness to our upcoming P1’s.

Ms King & Miss Greig x

powerlines

Children’s learning comments:

Austin – I was with Olly from nursery and we were building lego, we had a good time.

Kaelan – I liked assembly. The archery looked fun.

Charley – I liked learning the sound u-e. I know huge brute.

James – I liked playing with the nursery. I played with Holly. We played the rainbow game and sumdog!

Roshan – I liked the assembly this week. Archery and abseiling looked fun.

Alister – I enjoyed assembly, I liked the zip line part of the assembly.

Teria – I enjoyed having the nursery buddies. I liked playing with my buddy, we made hammabeads and my buddy made a circle. I also liked solving the powerlines.

Hiba – I liked writing the u-e sound. I know the word ruler.

Poppy – I liked the P6 assembly. Camp looked really fun. The abseiling looked fun but it was very high!

Sushanth – I loved the P6 assembly, I liked the climbing wall.

Lewis – I liked the new u-e sound. I know that it is a split digraph. I know the word dude!

Solomia – I  liked the assembly. My favourite activity was the raft building. I liked learning about the u-e sound too.

Learning Reflection for W/E 3.5.19

This week our sounds were the split digraphs i-e as in nice and o-e as in rose. The children are learning different tricky words as listed in their reading books, with our focused tricky spelling word being ‘was’. The children all enjoyed writing comic strips about Oor Wullie, these will now be stuck on our life size Oor Wullie, which will be part of the bucket trail this summer!  In numeracy we have continued to add and subtract using 10/20 frames and rekenreks , the children have been writing number stories. Everyone enjoyed the P7 assembly this morning about the importance of sport with several children reflecting on their favourite sporting activities.

Lewis – we learned tricky word ‘was’ you cannot sound it out!

Kaelan – I liked learning the split digraph i-e, the word wise has the i-e sound.

Poppy – I like dong number talks I like doing near doubles and doubles. This is a near double 3+4 is seven and that’s a near double. This is a double, 4 + 4 =8!

Christian – The P7 assembly was about sport, I like to play basketball.

Alister – I liked the P7 assembly it was about getting fit, I do football.

Subhan – The P7 assembly was all about sport, I like football.

Teria – I enjoyed making my Oor Wullie comic; he is a boy that’s very cheeky. His friends are Primrose, Bob, Wee Eck and Soapy Soutar. He calls his mum and dad, Ma and Pa. His Ma makes the best mince n tatties!

Solomia – I learned the i-e sound, it’s quite a tricky sound!

Sushanth – I love Oor Wullie, he is a boy and his friends are Wee Eck, Bob, Primrose and Soapy Soutar!

Roshan – I liked the P7 assembly it was about sports. My favourite sport is cycling.

Austin – I liked making the Oor Wullie comic. In my story they were trying to find Jeemy the mouse, Oor Wullie found him in the tin of cookies.

James – I liked learning the sound o-e it’s a different spelling from ow. Blow has ow at the end and Rose has our new sound.

Hiba – I liked the Oor Wullie story, his friends are Jeemy the mouse, Bob and Primrose. His favourite food is mince n tatties!

The children all seem to have benefited from lots of fresh air and sunshine during the Easter break. I was amazed at how much taller they all looked after the holiday! This week has been short but very busy! Our literacy focus was to revise our learned sounds. We are now learning set 3 sounds, the children are learning that there is another way to read and spell words, same sound different spelling! So far we have learned: ee as in see, ea as in tea, oy as in toy, oi as in join, ay as in play and a-e as in make. In numeracy the children have been using 10 and 20 frames to help add and subtract an amount. Our numbertalk focus has been doubles and near doubles on a Rekenrek. The children all enjoyed a STEM lesson with Miss Greig, they had to design and build a boat to help save Tiddler!

Ms King x

Children’s learning comments:

Subhan – I made a boat with Charley we had a net to catch the fish and it floated.

Hiba – Me and Teria made a sparkly boat/car with lots of sticks and pompoms.

Lewis – I liked the assembly about the pets I learned that you need to keep your pet safe.

Poppy – I liked doing our numbertalks it was all about doubles and near doubles. A double is the same number again. A near double is like 4 add 3=7, you can do double 3 to make 6 then add 1 more to make 7. We were building boats because we were trying to save the little fish called Tiddler we tested them and mine floated, I made 2 and they both floated.

Austin – I liked doing the boats because it was fun, I like making stuff.

Kaelan – I liked the pets assembly a pet needs home, food , family, fun and care.

Roshan – I liked the pet assembly because the vet will help pets.

Teria – I liked the subtraction game we were taking away counting in 5’s helped because it was a 20 frame.

Solomia – I liked the boats we did a great job!

James – I liked counting with Teria taking away from 20 on the 20 frame.

Nicholas – I liked Tiddler I made a boat with Lewis, we made a sail.

Alister – I liked when we made the paper boats, our boat sunk because it soaked up water.

Sushanth – I loved the pet assembly. The puppy called Chase ate a toy minion and the doctor took it away and he feels better now. Pets should not eat plastic toys!

Christain – I liked the pet assembly and the dog things they need a home and to be happy and safe!

Learning Reflection for W/E 25.1.19

This week in P1 we have been revising set 1 sounds and tricky words. Set 1 sounds: m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, ck, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu,  x,  ng,  nk.

Tricky words: you, so, all, no, of, my, he, said, the, I, me, put, was.

In numeracy we have continued with our time topic learning about the seasons and months of the year. Well done to all of the children who had a go at learning one of the Scottish poems. As the standard was so high we had four children through to the final, so a great big well done to Subhan, Poppy, Roshan and Sushanth. Our overall winner is………. Poppy! Who did a fantastic job of reciting “Crocodile” to the whole school during our Scottish Assembly this morning.

Here are the children’s highlights:

Poppy – this week we have been learning about the famous artist called Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We are learning about his pictures, he has a famous rose design. He designed long back chairs and his style was called the Glasgow style. He designed buildings in Glasgow.

Austin – My uncle Peter fixes glass windows with the rose design.

Charley – I liked doing gymnastics we learned flying saucer, squat alien and moon.

Austin – I liked when the people played the drums and bagpipes in the assembly.

Roshan – I enjoyed doing gymnastics, for flying saucer you have to put your knees together.

Subhan – I liked learning the poem Crocodile, the bird cleaned the crocodile’s teeth.

Lewis – I liked counting to 100.

Kaelan – I liked it when the bagpipes came in assembly, it was noisy.

James – We learned the seasons, in autumn the leaves fall off, in winter the snow comes.

Teria – I liked making different shapes in gymnastics.

Solomia – I liked gymnastics, I liked rocket, star and different shapes.

Alister – I learned moon shape in gymnastics.

Learning Reflection W/E 18.01.19

This week P1 have been learning nk and ng as well as tricky word was. The children enjoyed making real/nonsense words using sounds dice. In numeracy we have been exploring time. The children made posters showing the different ways we measure time. We have discussed lots of different time related words, have sequenced daily events and have been learning how to read o’clock on an analogue clock. The children were also set the challenge to find out if a bird really does clean a crocodile’s teeth. Well done to the children who researched this at home!

Austin – The birds clean the meat and stuff out of the crocodile’s teeth.

Kaelan – we learned the nk sound it has n and k, pink has the nk sound.

Poppy – I liked doing our poems we had to choose the Nessie one or the crocodile one, I am doing the crocodile one.

Charley – I liked learning nk it has n and k, stink has the nk sound.

Subhan – we found things which tell the time like: phones, watches and clocks.

Lewis – We made a Nessie out of lego.

James – I liked building a Loch ness monster.

Alister – I liked doing gymnastics we learned rocket, sitting star, star and pike alien, I am good at rocket.

Sushanth – In gymnastics we learned rocket, sitting star, star and pike alien.

Nicholas – I made Nessie out of lego.

Solomia – I liked doing the gymnastics I like star and sitting star.

Teria – I enjoyed assembly I liked the singing part, the best friend one.

Roshan – I liked to do the Nessie with playdough, I rolled it long.