What a busy, busy few weeks we’ve had in P1.

Practice has started for our Nativity performance.  This year our Nativity is The Innkeepers Breakfast.  The Innkeeper is trying really hard to have his breakfast but he keeps on getting interupted!!! We have been learning the songs and next week we are going to start practising our lines on stage. We hope you cna make it along to see our performance!

In Numeracy we have been:

• learning to count on from a given number
• learning to write numbers 6-10
• sequence numbers 0-10 backwards and forwards
• adding 1 more/2 more
• identifying the number before/after/in the middle number

Some of us have been challenging oursleves and making bigger numbers with the numicons.  Do you know if you start with a 10 and add on another numicon you can make big numbers??

In Literacy we are going to be starting to write about the Christmas Story.  You can chat to your child about the Story of Christmas at home to help with this. We are familiar with some of the story through our Nativity practice.

Share our Learning!! Have you signed up to come along and see your child’s work? Please come along on the 1st December to chat to your child about their learning.  Ask at the office for more detials.

Another busy week in P1W!

A thank you to all the parents who came along to our first parent’s night!

Literacy:

• we have now been introduced to all of set 1 sounds (m, c, k, s, p , a, t, i, n)
• we have been listening for these sounds at the start and end of words.
• we have been learning to write these sounds (even in the shaving foam)

Numeracy:

• we have been practising finger patterns for numbers to 10 and different ways we can show 10.
• we have been counting on and back within 20.
• we have been counting and writing numbers to 5.

We also enjoyed talking about our favourite tv programmes and drawing them onto our tv’s. We done a super job with our drawing and colouring so Mrs Wedlock put them on the wall.

We have been very busy in class this week learning lots of new things.

We have been introduced to our Learning Ladybird (he tells us what we are learning) and our Successful Spider (he tells us what to do in order to be successful). They are used throughout the day to help the children understand what they are learning and how they are going to achieve it.

Numeracy

• We have been counting on and back within 20.
• We have been using numicon to make number sandwiches.
• We have been learning about numbers 1-4. We have been trying to write them in the sand, on whiteboards and tracing them on our hands and tummy.
• Ask us about penguin 1, ticklish 2, butterfly 3 and feathery 4, they have been helping us draw and count items to 4.

Literacy

• We have learned the sounds m, c, s, p and a.
• We have been gluing and stciking coloured collage to help us remembe the colour of each sound.
• We have been practising to write the sound on big paper using coloured pens, pencils and crayons.
• We have been learning songs to go with each sound, Mrs Wedlock liked the song for ‘a’…….she might’ve played it about 100 times!!! But the wee ants were too cute 🙂

BIG TALK HOMEWORK

• We have been learning to draw a story, we have to include WHO is in our story, WHERE we were and WHAT we were doing.
• Next weeks story will be – I went to a party………
• At home can you spend some time talking to your child about a time that they have been to party to help them gather some ideas for their drawing/writing this week.

We love snack and a chat time in class. Here is a picture of some us doing what we love best……CHATTING!!

Wow what a busy few weeks we have had since school started.

We have been very busy settling into the new routine of school. Our P7 buddies have been extremely good at helping us learn the routines of getting ready in the morning and packing up at the end of the day.  They even joined us for lunch on our first day to help us in the dinner hall.

In class we have been talking about what rules we should have to help us have a happy and safe classroom.  We all made rockets to go up on our Rights Respecting Rockets display.  This is where are class charter is and helps remind us of the expectations.

We have been learning some sounds and have enjoyed playing games to help us rmember them. We have played ‘m/c’ bingo, smartboard sorting games and gluing and sticking for the sound m.  Next week we will be learning about ‘s and p’.

In numeracy we have been practising to count forwards and backwards and have been exploring and investigating the maths area in the classroom.  We enjoyed playing with the marbles and numbered cups and the really tricky maths puzzles.

We have been practising to write numbers 1 and 2 and our sounds m and c.

This week we have been painting portraits of each other to help us get to know everyone in the class.  We had to pay attention to facial detail and use appropriate colours.  Mrs Wedlock is going to put our portaits up on display outside our classroom.

Thank you to all parents for remembering to return homework on time, I’m really looking forward to looking at everyone’s work to see how hard youve all been working at home.

For information –

• OUTDOOR P.E is on a Monday with Mrs McGlynn
• INDOOR P.E is on a Wednesday with Mrs Wedlock.
• Please name ALL items of clothing, this helps prevent items from going missing/unclaimed.