P1M Weekly News

Apologies for the lack of photos this week – we have been so busy and forgot to take any!

Literacy: This week we have been working on the ‘oi’ sound in phonics. We have completed lots of fun activities to help us learn this sound. We even learned that this sound can be made using the letters ‘oy’ too. Mrs Scott taught us this chant to help us: “O I in the middle, O Y at the end.” We are very excited to have Mrs Scott in our class on a Tuesday to teach us phonics and reading with Miss Meechan. We have participated in a few guided reading lessons this week too where we are working really hard on our comprehension and understanding of the story which we read.

Maths: We are taken a wee break from numeracy and looking at mathematical concepts. Our topic this week was time. We had to think about our daily routines, days of the week and months of the year. We even worked on some collecting and displaying information. We found out when everyone in the classes birthday was and created a bar graph showing this. Have a look for this in our maths jotter.

Topic: We are continuing with our novel study topic “The Gruffalo”. This week we started to create our own Gruffalo books during our play: plan, do review session. We have also started to learn about rhyming words which feature in the Gruffalo. We played a board game called “Rhyme Robber” to help us with this. Well done to Kaimee and Kerr who have already won at this game.

Next week we are going to be learning the ‘ou’ sound and learn about telling the time (o’clock). The only homework we will have next week is reading books due to the short week. Homework will continue to as normal from the following week.

Time flies in P1…

As the title suggests we have started learning about time and this week the focus was on days of the week, months and daily routines. We listened to some catchy songs to engage us in our learning before doing some tasks. We did a cut and stick sequencing task, worked with a partner and in groups to discuss daily routines, made a class birthday chart and also tried to use simple timetables. Mrs Purdie popped in while we were making a birthday chart and we asked her when her birthday was, can you remember which month it was? Next week we will progress onto learning about analogue and digital clocks and how to tell o’clock times.

 

We planned out our new topic, The Gruffalo. We read the story and then came up with lots of ideas about activities we could do in class. We added this to our visible plan and our talking book. The nursery are working alongside us on this and we will have opportunities to share our learning as the topic progresses. One of the first suggestions was to create a collage for our classroom so we got to work in teams using different materials, felt, twigs, paint,crepe paper and feathers. It’s starting to look good on the wall and we add to it as we learn more. In reading we did a picture this activity when from memory we had to draw a detailed picture of the Gruffalo,we did really well with this. Then in writing we wrote a description of the Gruffalo using the drawings we had made. We added some of these to our class display.

Our transition work with the nursery continued and we invited the AM and PM groups over so we could share the Talking Transition Book with them. We told them all about school and answered some of their questions. Next week they will join us for a literacy and mathematics lesson.

Remember we are on holiday on Monday and PE kit (indoor and outdoor) needed for Tuesday.

 

Outdoor learning

This week we tried to take a lot of our learning outdoors and everyone had great fun.

In literacy we did some spelling work outside using the large chalks then played outdoor Frys word bingo. It got a bit messy but we all agreed that it was a fun way to practise our Frys words. Well done to Paul M for being our bingo winner!

In maths we were learning about positional language and directions. We played lots of fun games to help us, eg. Stand beside the door, sit on top of the table (don’t tell Mrs Purdie we were on top of the tables), sit under the table, stand beside the gate, etc. We also used hoops outside and had to follow more instructions, eg. Jump in the hoop, stand behind the hoop. Then Sahara had a great idea to help us remember left and right, she taught us all how to dab then we had to sing,” dab to the left, dab to the right”. We also used this song:

For our science learning we focused on seasons and went on a spring scavenger hunt. We had to use our senses to see,touch, hear and smell things. We all set to work and recorded our findings on our clipboards.

We then shared this learning with the PM nursery when we all joined together to go for a walk to the Dedridge pond and woods. It was a lovely afternoon and we were super excited to see lots of squirrels, ducks and 2 swans, we think the mummy swan was sitting on her nest guarding some eggs, we will go back in a few weeks to check how she is getting on. We also spotted some bat boxes and different types of flowers and trees.

To finish the week off we decided to stop off at the park for some fun and games. It was lovely to see everyone playing nicely together, seeing lots of smiles and hearing lots of laughter!

Lent Challenge -Wednesday 5th

Today’s challenge: If you can, attend the Reconciliation Service taking place on Wednesday 5 April at 7.00pm in St Andrew’s Church. (See you there!)

“This is a great opportunity for us to come together during Lent to acknowledge our sinfulness and celebrate God’s mercy in our lives, both individually and as a community. Fr Tony will lead a short service of Scripture reading, reflection and music. The service will end with individual confessions with one of the five priests available, after which you will be free to leave. A brief Examination of Conscience is offered on the insert in this week’s newsletter to assist in preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.”

This you tube clip is a fantastic way to remind children and adults alike about how to go to Confession:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=Ib8pzvnnL20

Lent Challenge – Monday 3rd

Today we pray The Hail Mary and ask the Mother of Jesus to give us grace, strength and to protect us. 

When you are finished saying the prayer, watch and listen to this beautiful piece of music called ‘Ave Maria’ composed by Franz Schubert. Beautiful!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RV9zJywh0

Hoorah,hoorah, it’s the holidays!

As the title suggests there has been a lot of excitement this week as the holidays approached. We have still managed to squeeze in lots of learning before the holidays begin….

It’s been revision week in literacy and numeracy to allow us time to assess our learning and decide on next steps for our final term. We have enjoyed choosing games and activities which have helped us learn, eg. Bug subtraction, The Bus Stop, digraph board games and lots more.

We liked using this song to help us learn about digraphs, click on the link to sing along with ua

In RE we have spent time learning about a very special story, The Easter Story. We have all been trying really hard to keep our Lenten promises and are looking forward to celebrating Easter with our families. We made some super ‘He is risen’ plates to show our understanding of the Easter Story.

Our structured play also had an Easter theme and we enjoyed Easter egg finger painting, making cone Spring animals, Easter themed maths playdough activities, Easter writing and Easter interactive games. On Friday we also made our own Easter bonnets.

We kept ourselves very busy during Ninian’s Natter this week – we had three stations – the kickstart station, reviewing our goals and GIRFEC wheel station and learning through technology station. Have a look in our online journals to see how we got on with reviewing our goals.

Today we celebrated achievements but also said goodbye to 2 members of our St Ninian’s family – Mrs Craig and Mrs Black. We will all miss you and wish you luck and happiness for the future!

Have a lovely holiday everyone, it has been a great term, I look forward to seeing you all on the 18th April!!!

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