Category: Primary 1

Welcome back everyone, we hope you had a lovely October break!

We got straight back to it this week and learned two new sounds – d and o. Letter formation:

d – around the dinosaur’s bottom, up his neck, down to his feet (it also helps to remind them it starts like an a!)

o – all around the orange (remember to start at the top)

In Numeracy we learned about ‘more’ and ‘less’. We looked at two groups and identified which group had more/less. Here’s an online game to practise:

http://www.ictgames.com/mucky.html

We then challenged ourselves to find out one more and one less than a given number, eg, what is one more than 8? What is one less than 5? Some of us found this quite tricky but using a number line and concrete materials helped.

On Wednesday we began learning about Time – days of the week. We discussed what we usually do on each day of the week. We then looked at the starting sound of each of the words, this helped us to read the days of the week and put them in the correct order:

This song helped us to remember the order:

In IDL we continued with our Fairyland topic and designed castles for Fairyland. Lots of fantastic ideas, including a floating castle!

Thank you for all the signs of autumn collected over the holiday, we are enjoying exploring them. We had lots of fun outside this week in the autumn sunshine:

We were very impressed by DK who designed this tower in the block play area, we think he will be an architect one day!

Check out LR’s super homework – great effort!

Next week we will begin our book study focus, we will be focusing on books and stories about hedgehogs. If you have any at home that you wouldn’t mind us borrowing that would be fab! Any hedgehog experts out there, we’d love to hear from you 🙂

Have a great weekend,

Love P1b and Mrs Bell x

We had a busy week in P1 doing lots of revision in numeracy and literacy. In literacy we focused on being able to recall our sounds and then use them to make and write cvc words (consonant, vowel, consonant) like pat, sit, men etc Mrs Gordon was very impressed with how well we are blending our sounds together to read and write words. Here we are practising…

In numeracy we did lots of activities within 10 to ensure we are confident in ordering, missing numbers, dot patterns and ten frames. In shape we continued with 3D shape recognition and played a game of bingo with real life 3D shapes. It was really fun trying to recognise them.

We had a lovely harvest assembly with Mrs Hocknall on Wednesday and loved singing the songs especially Big Red Combine Harvester.

Today was really exciting as we got to have a BEAR event… Be Excited About Reading! We loved bringing in teddies, books and blankets and reading stories whilst having hot chocolate, yummy!

Happy holidays to all, from Mrs Gordon and P1a x

A busy final week of the term in P1B. We have been revising our sounds, counting and ordering numbers to 10, making a beanstalk for Jack (thank you to those who sent green material in for this!) and learning all about Harvest time.

We had to best end of term treat ever today. We loved snuggling up under our blankets, sharing our favourite books with our friends and drinking yummy hot chocolate!

If you go on any autumnal walks over the holidays please can you have a look out for and collect any signs of autumn (conkers, autumn leaves, etc) for our tuff tray. We will be learning about autumn in our first week back.  Thank you 🙂

Have a lovely, relaxing holiday!

Love P1B and Mrs Bell x

Literacy

P1a were very busy this week when we did our first piece of writing. We decided to write to our dragon visitor. The first thing we had to do was close our eyes and imagine what our dragon looked like…we then told our partners and went on to draw the dragon. After that we wrote a sentence about our dragon. Some of us had some great ideas like “my dragon is confident”, and “my dragon shoots fire”. Everyone of us had a try at writing the sounds they could hear in the words we wrote. Mrs Gordon was very impressed with our work.

Our new sounds for this week were e like egg and h like hat. We love the rhyme for h as we get to hop around.

Numeracy

We revised our numbers to 10 and were able to count forwards and backwards and order them with ease. Mrs Gordon was very proud. Next week we move on to more and less and after the holidays to addition.

In shape we started to learn 3D shapes, this was very tricky. We learnt cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder and pyramid. We then had to sort objects into their shape. We are finding it hard to know when it is a rectangle or a cuboid. Maybe we could practise with shapes around our house.

French

In French this week with Camembear we learnt how to say how we are. The question is ca va? and we can answer ca va bien (feeling good), comme ci comme ca (ok) or ca va mal (not feeling good). Everyone managed to tell Mrs Gordon how they were feeling.

HWB

In PE we are continuing balancing skills with Mrs Reid. We had to balance on benches and the horse. We also had a session with the P7 sports leaders where we did a circuit course. It was really fun.

The value we focused on this week was resilience. We loved hearing a story about Zid the alien and how he was trying to make the best dress in the world. Each time he had to listen to his friends and make a change to improve it. We talked about times when we had been resilient, and shared it with the class.

If anyone has any little bits of green fabric/material in the house could you please send in for next week. We are making a beanstalk for Fairyland and it works particularly well with different textures and materials. Thank you!

Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

 

 

 

In Phonics this week we have been learning m and r. This is how you can make these at home :

m – down Maisie, back up Maisie, over the mountain, back up the mountain and over the next mountain.

r – down the robot’s back, back up then curl over his arm

Now we have learnt 8 sounds we can make a large number of CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words like mat, rat, pin, pat, sat…how many can you make?

In  numeracy we finished our numbers to 10 booklet by practising formation and how to make numbers 8, 9 and 10. Number 8 was really tricky, but we realised that you can make a ‘s’ and then join it up!

We launched our first IDL topic this week when a friendly dragon left us a trail of green glitter and a letter. He needs our help to rebuild Fairyland…we have already written him lots of letters and sent pictures so he knows we will help him. We also made a list of all the things we should do and that we need to rebuild Fairyland. What an exciting time…

In French we learnt how to say yes and no, oui and non. We also loved learning our bonjour, salut song for the European Day of Languages.

bonjour, salut song

We also learnt frere Jacques in French, Spanish and German….talented children. Mrs Gordon showed us a really funny clip of “les trois petits cochons” the 3 little pigs, here it is if you want to watch it again….literacy across languages!

Happy weekend from Mrs Gordon and P1a

In Phonics we have been learning m and r. Letter formation:

m – down Maisie, back up Maisie and over the mountains.

r – down the robot’s back, back up then curl over his arm

We are getting very good at building words on our magnetic letter boards. Here are some you could try at home: rim, ran, rat, ram, mat, man, map

In Numeracy we finished learning all our numbers to 10. Next we have to work on the numbers we find tricky, we are good at recognising the numbers we need to work on. In Maths we finished off our learning on 2D shape by making 2D shape monsters!

In Health and Well-being we learned about what it means to be respectful. We learned the importance of greeting people, making eye contact and smiling. We made a ‘book of respect’ for our class library, each of us completed a page with a drawing showing how we are respectful. Lots of us drew pictures of how we are respectful to our parents by helping around the house – washing dishes, hoovering and gardening! Mrs Bell was very impressed!

On Wednesday a friendly dragon visited our classroom. He left a letter telling us that he is feeling sad because fairyland has disappeared! We are going to help him to rebuild fairyland by reading fairytales and working very hard to turn our classroom into fairyland. We built a beanstalk for Jack out of lego, designed castles and wrote letters back to the friendly dragon.

Here’s a little French song we are enjoying singing in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxt5qkOWXo

Reminder that it is Parents’ Evening next Wednesday and Thursday. If you haven’t already booked a slot, there are quite a few times available for the Thursday. I look forward to seeing you all then,

Have a great weekend!
Love P1B and Mrs Bell x

We had a lot of fun in P1 this week. Inspired by her love of the Great British Bake Off Mrs Gordon thought that P1 might enjoy their own cake design competition. Our Cake Week however was not of the edible variety….we used washing up sponges, shaving foam and food colouring icing, rice and sequin sprinkles to make our creations. What fun we had…Mrs Gordon was very impressed with how carefully we completed our task. Mrs Hocknall was the judge and pronounced the top 3 as follows : Rose, Marisa and Nathan.

Our new sounds for this week were i for igloo and s for snake. We can now make and write a variety of words like sat, pat, ant, sit, pan etc Have a look at our wonderful letter formation.

In numeracy we looked at the numbers 6 and 7 which were quite tricky to write, and we revised our 2D shapes and drew our own shapes.

Happy long weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a.

In Phonics this week we learned i and s. We have learned enough initial sounds to start word building and blending, we built words on our fingers (rainbow blending), magnetic letter boards and using our bodies (robot blending). We are working hard to form letters correctly, s is quite tricky to form the correct way round but we will keep practising!

In Maths we have been learning about the numbers 5, 6 and 7. We also learned more about 2D shapes and had a go at making and drawing a circle, square, rectangle and triangle.

In Health and Well-being this week we learned about the 5 point scale.

If you are feeling a…

1 – You are not worried and nothing is bothering you.

2 – Something is bothering you a little bit.

3 – Something is making you feel nervous.

4 – Something is making you feel really upset.

5 – Something is making you lose control!

Most of the time we will be a 1. However, everybody feels worried sometimes! We talked about what makes us worried and what we can do to make ourselves feel a 1 again. Strategies such as taking deep breaths, thinking about our favourite things or cuddling a soft toy can help us to get back to a 1.

We are going to use the 5 point scale in our classroom and move our picture according to how we feel. This will help us to understand our feelings.

There will be no homework or reading books next week due to the short week. In class we will be revising the sounds and numbers we’ve learned so far.

Reminder that it is our P1 Curriculum Evening on Wednesday 18^th September at 6pm.

Enjoy the long weekend,

Love P1B and Mrs Bell x

 

This afternoon in P1 we held the Great Springfield Bake Off!

We had lots of fun creating our cakes using sponge, ‘icing’ and ‘sprinkles’…they looked so real we wished we could eat them!

Mrs Hocknull judged the competition and found it very tricky to pick her top 3…

Love P1B and Mrs Bell x