Author: Mrs Davenport

Welcome to P1D!

We have had a fantastic first week of school and I am so proud of every single one of the children for the way they have settled into school life.

A few points to consider for this term:

Our PE days will be a Tuesday and a Thursday (at the moment, if this changes you will informed immediately). On these days children should bring PE kit with them – yellow PE top and black shorts/jogging bottoms/leggings etc. You may wish to get your child to leave their PE kit in a bag on their peg. This will ensure that PE kits are not forgotten on PE days.

All children should now have a pair of black indoor shoes which are to be left in the classroom to change into at school.

Children in P1-3 are entitled to free school meals and these can be order using ipay impact online system. If you are not able to access this, your child will be asked by myself in the morning to order their lunch.

 

This week in class we have been working on our daily routines and what to do in class. We have made our class charter and thought about  the rules for our classroom and how we can follow these.

We have been developing our pencil control by following patterns and we have been learning how to hold a pencil correctly. We know how to use the crocodile fingers to hold a pencil or we can nip it and flip it. Ask your child to show you these different strategies.

In numeracy we have been focusing on number formation and counting. We have been counting lots of different objects from dinosaurs to cubes to grapes and loom bands! What can you count at home?

We have learned some rhymes to help us form some numbers correctly.

2 – half a heart says ‘I love you’ add a line, now I’ve made the number 2.

3 – around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3.

4 – down and across and down once more, now I’ve made the number 4.

Can you practise these too? Could you write the numbers using a pencil, chalk, play-doh, on a mirror (after a bath or shower) – be creative!

We have had lots of fun playing this game on the smart board in class too:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

 

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you next week!

Primary 1 Learning Adventure overview for the final term:

Learning-Adventure-Overview-P1-Term-4

Ideas for a snow day if you wish to complete:

Literacy:

Write your sight words in the snow.

Logon to Oxford owl. Can you find a story that has theme of snow? Read or listen to the story. You could create a new character for the story; play ‘find a word game’; create a new book title or front cover.

Numeracy and maths:

Make different sized snowmen e.g. A tall snowman and a short snowman. Use sticks to measure the different sizes. How many sticks tall are each snowman?

Subtraction snowballs: e.g. make 7 snowballs, throw 4 of them away. How many do you have left?

Health and Wellbeing:

1. Play! Have fun in the snow, go sledging, have a snowball fight, throw a snowball as far as you can! What muscles can you feel getting stronger?

Literacy

Victoria: “the a sound is black.”

Liam: “the a sound comes from the vowel house. You get to the vowel house through a black tunnel.”

Mark: “we used black play-doh to make the ‘a’ sound.”

Kayla: “we learned the ‘t’ sound too.”

Oliver: “the ‘t’ sound is blue because it comes from our tongue, there are blue veins on the bottom of our tongue.”

Eve: “we played ‘t’ sound bingo game and I won 2 times.”

Maths and Numeracy

Isabelle: “we made plates and put pom-poms on them. We had to write a number in the middle of the plate and put on that many pom-poms.”

Seren: “I made a plate with 11 pom-poms.”

Joshua: “we sorted out emojis into crying and not crying.”

Mark: “I sorted shapes into squares, circles, triangles and rectangles.”

Oliver: “we matched them all together.”

Eve: “we made caterpillar bodies using green paint and our fingers. There was a number to tell us how many parts of the body a caterpillar needed.”

Isabelle: “I made a circle using beads.”

Oliver: “I made hands to show that I had 10 fingers.”

Kayla: “we made potions for a witch.”

Isabelle: “she wanted a full bottle and a half full bottle.”

Evie: “she wanted an empty bottle too.”

Evie: “I put pink stars into the potion for the witch.”

RE

Blake: “we went to the Lanthorn to go to mass with our buddies.”

Hanna: “I sat beside my buddy.”

Chloe: “we watched a video about God making the world.”

Blake: “it took God 7 days to make the world. On the 7th day He had a rest because He was tired.”

Victoria: “we took the ipads outside to take pictures of  what God made.”

Liam: “I took a picture of plants.”

Mark: “I took a picture of bugs.”

Eve: “I took a picture of flowers.”

Science

Liam: “we played instruments and checked what were loud and what was quiet.”

Oliver: “we all closed our eyes and someone had to play an instrument and then someone had to guess what instrument they played.”

Mark: “I picked the guitar to play.”

Blake: “I picked a beater and a sound bar to play.”

Joshua: “Miss Meechan told everyone to get a quiet or a loud instrument. The loud instruments were really loud and the quiet instruments were quiet.”

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for lots of photos – check your child’s learning journal for more personalised photos and comments.

@missm_stnps

Below are some links and ideas you can use at home this week to support learning:

Write a number on a paper plate and ask your child to put that amount of grapes/raisins/maltesers etc. on the plate.

Write a number on a small piece of paper, get some paint, a paint the correct number of finger dots beside that number.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_KvU5oc9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVER0qQ6Q0

 

Here are the children’s highlights of our learning this week:

Oliver: “the ‘s’ sound is blue.”

Seren: “it is blue because the back of our tongue is blue and the ‘s’ sound comes from our tongue.”

Chloe: “we were making the ‘s’ sound with pipe cleaners.”

Eve: “we made a Harry and the dinosaurs book.”

Kayla: “we stuck on the author and illustrators name onto the bottom of the book.”

Isabelle: “the title goes at the top of the book.”

Hanna: “we learned how to write the number 8.”

Mark: “we went a walk around the school and saw Mrs Roy.”

Liam: “I made a dinosaur and wrote about the dinosaur. I was the star writer.”

Victoria: “we were writing numbers in flour trays. I wrote the number 8.”

Robert: “we made dinosaurs using plasticine”

Chloe: “we took vidoes with our dinosaurs.”

Blake: “in PE when the music is on we done lots of travelling like running or galloping and when the music stops you freeze or find your own space.”

Evie: “We made a letter ‘p’ with pasta.”

Joshua: “We have a ‘s’ box and a ‘p’ box. Pasta is in the pink ‘p’ box and scissors are in the ‘s’ blue box.”

Below are some ideas to support learning at home:

If you make something at home e.g. a dinosaur, why don’t you make a movie by filming you acting out a story with your creation – great ideas for oral literacy and improving your technology skills!

We were learning about ‘heavy and light’ – what things can you find in your house that are heavy and what things are light?

‘s’ is a blue sound because we use our tongue to make this sound. Can you find the blue veins on the bottom of your tongue. ‘p’ is a pink sound, we make this sound from our lips. Some lip sounds are red because they are loud sounds like ‘m’ but ‘p’ is a quiet lip sound so this is a pink sound. Here are the songs we used to support learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiJTZNLvTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlPKm1Hbl8

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for videos and photos of our learning @missm_stnps

Check out your child’s online journal for lots of updates too.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to reading all of your comments on Monday.

Miss Meechan and P1M

 

What a busy week we have had in P1M.

In numeracy we have working on number formation, sequencing numbers within 5 and counting to 20. Below are some links for videos and games you can use at home to support learning.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

 

In literacy we have introduced 2 sounds this week. The ‘m’ sound and the ‘c’ sound. We have learned that the ‘m’ sound is a red sound, because we make this sound from our lips and our lips are red. We put jam on our lips and made the long ‘mmmmmmmmm’ sound because the jam was very tasty! The ‘c’ sound, is a yellow sound. We make this sound from the back of our moths, we used a torch to look into the back of our partners mouth and when we shone the torch, their mouth turned yellow! Here are some songs we have learned to help us remember the ‘m’ and c’ sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUhr2LToBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-g13UbDxu0

Next week we are learning the ‘s’ and ‘p’ sounds. Do you have the ‘s’ or ‘p’ sound in your name?

Finally, we continued our ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’ topic by listening to the story ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School’. We were able to compare the way Harry was feeling starting school with our own experiences. In the story, a boy called Jack named himself Jack-osaurus. We thought this was very funny so painted our own dinosaurs and gave them funny names. Mark’s dinosaur was called Mark-osaurus, Blake’s dinosaur was called Blake-osaurus – you get the idea! We can’t wait to show you our paintings!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan and P1M

The fantastic children of P1M have had a super first week of school filled with fun and laughter.

Here are some of our highlights:

This week we have been getting to grips with our classroom routines. We have now mastered changing between our indoor and outdoor shoes really quickly and getting our coats off first thing in the morning. When we come into school there are always different activities for us to take part in straight away. The favourite ‘soft start’ task of this week was the construction, we have some fantastic builders and engineers in the making in P1M!

In numeracy this week we have working on numbers within 10. We have been learning how to form these numbers correctly using little rhymes to help us.

2 “half a heart says ‘I love you’, add a line, now I’ve made the number 2”

3 “around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3”

4 “down and across and down once more, now I’ve made the number 4”

If you are practising writing your numbers at home, these rhymes will help you. What number do you think we will be learning about on Monday?

We have been forming our numbers using lots of fun ways, writing in our number formation booklet, using the glitter trays and using play-doh too. These are some other ideas for you to try out at home too.

We listened to the story ‘Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs’ this week and decided that this would be a very fun topic for our first ever topic at school. After listening to the story we thought about what different activities we would like to take part in based on this topic. Miss Meechan was very pleased with some of our ideas and we have displayed this on our ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’ wall just outside our classroom. We took part in a dinosaur themed ‘structured play’ session after listening to this story. This was lots of fun!

We visited the morning nursery class to let our old friends know how we were getting on. We can’t wait to visit the afternoon class next week and speak to our old friends there too!

And of course, the favourite activity of the week had to be golden time! We can’t wait for golden time again next week. During golden time we get to play with our friends in P1B!

 

All the children are looking forward to full days next week and having their lunch in the lunch hall.

See you on Monday, have a lovely weekend.

Miss Meechan and P1M

Kerr picked the name of our blog this week.

Writing

Adam: “everything in our classroom was upside down.”

Rutendo: “there was a monster in our classroom and turned our classroom upside down.”

Sophie: “he turned the chairs and tables upside down.”

Casper: “I think the lizard turned the classroom upside down.”

Esmee: “I think it was Mrs Gardner.”

Marcel: “I think it was Mrs Purdie.”

Patryk: “Mrs Purdie is naughty and she likes everything upside down.”

Jakub: “Mrs Purdie was wearing high heels and if she was wearing high heels then she can reach the things to turn them high heels but if she wasn’t wearing high heels she couldn’t do it.”

Number Work

Kaitlyn: “we had to sit on the upside down chair or on the floor to do number work because everything was upside down.”

Stefan: “I know that 9 add 2 is 11.”

Kaimee: “We were counting in 2’s.”

Daniel: “2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20”

MacKenzie: “I know some sums. 1+1 is 2 1+2 is 3.

PE

Jarred: “I liked on the ropes and climbing on them and swinging. This gives me exercise and gets me fit.”

Jakub: “I was balancing on the benches and people helped me.”

Casper: “I was throwing bean bags into hula hoops. I scored zero points.”

Kyle: “I scored 10 points.”

Kaitlyn: “We copied some exercise in the hall from Joe Wicks to get fit.”

Oliver: “I done the daily mile.”

Reading

Rutendo: “We got new books. My book was called ‘The Bus’.”

Adam: “My book was jungle shorts.”

Kayla: “My book was Robin Hood.”

Stefan: “My books was Drumsticks.”

Patryk: “My book was On The Mat.”

Patryk: “We had a vowel house that was all mixed up.”

Rutendo: “We had to put the vowel house in order.”

Play

Sophie: “I was playing doctors.”

Kaitlyn: “You can play in the sand pit and you had to match the sums.”

Jakub: “Making a Gruffalo.”

Poppy: “We were making cards for who we want as our new teachers. I made one for Miss Boyes.”

Hayley: “I made a card for Miss Boyes.”

Kerr: “We had to draw around peoples bodies and draw in the missing parts.”

Jakub: “You can make your own clock too.”

Kerr and Esmee picked the name for our blog this week, well done.

Below are our health week highlights:

Kaitlyn: I liked cheerleading because I like the pom-poms and it is my dream to do cheerleading.

Rutendo: I liked football because it is my favourite sport. I was good at kicking the ball.

Jakub: My favourite was the fun run because you can run and it makes you healthy.

MacKenzie: I liked football because it is my favourite sport and I practise everyday at my home.

Stefan: I liked making the fruit salad because it tastes nice. My favourite was the strawberries.

Esmee: I liked the inflatable assault course because we got to have race.

Daniel: My favourite is football because I kick the ball.

Adam: Football is my favourite because I am good at tackling and getting the ball.

Kayla: Football is my favourite because you played fun games.

Marcel: My favourite is fun run because there were lots of people there.

Patryk: The cheerleading was my favourite because we were the teachers.

Kerr: Cricket was my favourite because my got lots of things with the balls.

Oliver: Dancing is my favourite because the girl was showing us how to dance.

Adam: I liked cricket because you get to do lots of fun stuff.

Kyle: Dancing was my favourite because I copy the lady doing the dancing.

Casper: Football is my favourite because you can kick the ball and I can do it all.

Poppy: I liked dancing because it was fun.

Hayley: Dancing is my favourite because it was so cool and I loved it.

Check out the school facebook page for all our pictures of health week. We will make an album ‘P1M Health Week’.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan and P1M

Marcel picked the name for our blog this week, well done Marcel.

Our favourite parts of the week:

Romera: “I liked learning about the Gruffalo and singing the song and doing the actions.”

Sophie: “I learned a new sound. The ‘ow’ sound.”

Jakub: “In number work we were learning about numbers before and after. Before numbers are smaller and after numbers are bigger.”

Daniel: “I liked assembly because my mum and dad were there. I was singing about the Gruffalo.”

Casper: “I liked number work. I liked big maths beat that because I want to move to the next level.”

Kerr: “I liked reading ‘The Treasure Chest’. I liked when they found the treasure chest.”

Kaitlyn: “I liked the daily mile. We also played on the trim trail and played duck, duck, goose. We had to take a drink outside with us because it was very hot.”

Rutendo: “I liked reading. I was reading ‘Ken, the Rat’. Bob chased him and he hid in a log.”

Adam: “I liked golden time and I play with my fidget spinner.”

MacKenzie: “I like big maths beat because I finished all the adding sums.”

Stefan: “I liked number work. I was learning about numbers before and after. Before 19 is 18 and after 15 is 16.”

Oli: “I liked assembly. I sing about Gruffalo.”

Marcel: “At assembly I see my friends. I was speaking at assembly.”

Patryk: “I liked assembly. It was our assembly about the Gruffalo and I was speaking.”

Esmee: “I liked milk and story and listening to the peep story.”

Jarred:”I liked assembly and seeing mummies and daddies.”

Kyle: “I like golden time and I will be playing in the shop.”

Kayla: “I like play time with my friends. It was been very sunny and it made me feel hot.”

Kaimee: “At golden time I will play with the ipads or go in the story corner.”

Remember health week next week. Uniform does NOT have to be worn, you can wear sport clothes next week.