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This week we were learning the ‘e’ and ‘h’ sounds. We also learnt the ‘r’ and ‘m’ sounds last week. Here we are doing some activities related to our sounds. We used the magnetic boards to build and write CVC words. We have been using our phoneme fingers to sound out words and identify all of the sounds. We then blend them together with our rainbow wand. This helps us read and write words. We have been working very hard on our reading at home too. We are enjoying getting to know all of the characters in our Oxford Reading Tree books.

In Numeracy we were practising accurate counting and making sure we were putting our finger on each object as we counted it. We even made up some counting rules to teach other people how to count carefully. We also practised ordering our numbers to 10, starting at different points. On Wednesday we did our Outer Maths lesson on 2D shape. We made pictures out of 2D shapes and completed a colouring challenge.

In IDL we were learning all about our local area. We talked about what a town needs to help the people that live in it. We drew pictures in our Floorbook to evidence our learning. Here are some services we need in a town: shops, houses, doctor surgery, fire station, police station, park, supermarket. We then looked at lots of photos of Linlithgow and talked about our favourite places. Igloo seemed to be a very popular one!

Mrs Gordon was teaching us some French this week and we learning how to say please and thank you. Mrs McAulay was doing some HWB with us. We were introduced to Jigsaw Jennie who helps us talk about our feelings We did some circle time activities to share our ideas about what makes us happy and sad. In PE this week we took a trip to the zoo and had to use our bodies to move like different animals. We were developing our balance and some of the movements were quite tricky! We also played a great beanbag game and we had to try and move in different ways, keeping our beanbag on our heads.

We had a secret task to complete this week too! Our wonderful chef Jessie is retiring on Friday and we wanted to make something special for her. We drew pictures of Jessie and of our favourite school lunches. We are so grateful for all she has done for us. It will all be made into a special book to present to her in our assembly on Friday.

 

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

P1B and Mrs McAulay x

This week we have been learning the ‘i’ and ‘s’ sounds. We have now started to build simple words using our sounds. In our challenge area we had to try and build an igloo out of sugar cubes but could not use our fingers. We had to use the tweezers. It was very tricky but we all showed our value of ‘resilience’.

In Numeracy we continued learning our numbers to 10. We worked really hard on our formation this week as we have been finding that a bit difficult. We had lots of active stations to help us get used to the shape of the numbers. We read stories about our numbers ‘7’ and ‘8’ in the number zoo and in PE we were doing lots of actions in groups of 7 and 8.

In PE we have been following our Better Movers, Better Thinkers programme to work both sides of the brain. We practised our dribbling skills and did lots of tricky sequences with the basketballs.

In IDL this week we did a little descriptive writing lesson. We looked at different pictures of dragons and came up with lots of describing words. Then we created our own friendly dragon and tried to write some words to describe it. We listened hard for the first sound in the word and all had a great attitude towards writing. We just had a go!

On Thursday we read the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and spent the afternoon working around the 4 different activities linked to the story. We talked about healthy eating and foods that are good for our bodies. We designed healthy packed lunches for the caterpillar. We also made paper plate butterflies and used collage materials to decorate them. We did some finger painting of caterpillars and practised our counting. We also worked in groups to use the story stones to sequence the events in the story. We worked very well together and showed patience and kindness.

Hoping you all have a lovely long weekend.

Mrs McAulay and P1B x

 

This week we have been learning all about our P and N sounds. Now we have learnt 4 sounds we have started to build words eg. tap, tan, nap. We learnt how to read words too. We sound them out and then blend the sounds together. For our P sound we used popcorn and pasta to make a P. We did some pompom painting. We made the letter ‘N’ out of newspaper!

In Numeracy we were learning all about the numbers 3, 4 and 5. We read stories about these numbers and did lots of fun activities to help us learn them. We played connect 4, matched the giant dominoes and learnt little rhymes to help us with our number formation. We also started learning our 2D shapes. We looked at the different features and played games outside to identify shapes. We then used the stones and sticks to make some of the 2D shapes we had learnt.

This week we launched our topic for this term. We came back to class and found a trail of glitter leading to a letter. We were all so excited!! Who could it be from?

Mrs McAulay read out the letter and it was from a friendly dragon. He had a problem because his home (Fairyland) had been destroyed and he asked us to help him. We came up with lots of ideas and we started to build a home for all of the Fairyland characters in our classroom. We read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and built Jack his very own beanstalk. Firstly we went outside and collected leaves to look at the different colours. We then used crayons to design our own leaves. Then we twisted paper to create the stalk. We used cotton wool to make the clouds.

The infant classes have all been doing some work for Miss Baillie’s display on Beatrix Potter. Today we talked about the different vegetables Mr McGregor might grow in his garden. We then used them to to do some vegetable printing pictures.

Another busy week in P1B!

We hope you all have a great weekend.

 

Mrs McAulay and P1B x

A big well done to K for winning the enjoy-a-ball trophy. We are very proud of you in P1B

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This week we have been learning the a and t sounds. We have learnt to say, read and write our sounds. We even started to blend them together in simple words.

 

In Numeracy we have been learning all about the numbers 0, 1 and 2. We have been doing lots of different activities to demonstrate our understanding of these numbers.

We have been learning all about our school values. The kindness fairy sent us a letter and left us a tub of kindness for Mrs McAulay to sprinkle over the classroom. We drew special pictures to show all of the kind things we have been doing in P1 and created our own kindness tree. We even showed kindness to our buddies and made them special thank you cards as they have looked after us this week. On Thursday we were learning all about resilience and we read a story about a little boy who couldn’t ride his bike. We did a circle time activciyt and shared all of the things we have found tricky. Mrs McAulay set up some tricky activities around the class and we had to try and use to encourage each other and not give up. The P3 play leaders then came across to help us build some junk model towers. It was very tricky but everyone showed a great attitude!

Paddington arrived in our classroom this week and asked us to write him letters to tell him all about our first week in Primary 1. We took up the challenge and wrote some beautiful letters to him in our free play time.

A big well done to N and A for winning the enjoy-a-ball trophies. A great achievement and we love hearing all about achievements outside of school.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P1B and Mrs McAulay x

 

A very warm welcome to all of the new Primary 1 children who have started at Springfield Primary this week. We have had a very busy week trying to learn all of our new routines. We have done some nice circle time activities to practise our listening skills. We have had lots of fun free play time to explore our new classroom and toys. We drew some self portraits and even did some number work!

Each day we went out onto the pitch to get some fresh air and do our daily mile. We have a had a great week in P1B and Mrs McAulay said we are all  stars!!!!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

P1B and Mrs McAulay x