Category: Primary 1

Lent Challenge – Saturday 18th

In the words of Pope Francis :

Let us strive to fast during Lent with a smile, rather than a long face.

Today’s Challenge – choose one or more of the things below to fast from.

Don’t forget to follow Pope Francis on Twitter! @Pontifex

#LentChallenge

 

 

 

 

 

P1M Weekly News

Numeracy this week:

We have started back up our subtraction learning this week. We will continue with this until the Easter holidays. Miss Meechan has been so impressed with how much we have remembered about subtraction after having a break from this concept for a few weeks. We took part in different games and activities to help us with our skills. One of the tasks we participated in this week was to decide which our favourite way to do subtraction sums is. We used cubes, drew pictures and crossed out objects, used our fingers or used a number line. What was your favourite way to do subtraction sums?

Literacy this week:

This week we learned a really tricky sound. The ‘th’ sound. We found this really tricky at the start of the week but by Wednesday we were spelling lots of words which used the ‘th’ sound. Jakub and Casper were spelling ‘cloth’. Kyle is spelling ‘that’ and Jarred is spelling ‘throne’. WOW! Well done everyone.

We also visited the library this week. When we were at the library we returned the books we had borrowed from our last visit. The lady at the library was teaching us about fiction and non-fiction books. We found out where the non-fiction books are kept in the library, some of us even decided to take a non-fiction book back to school with us. We even stopped off for a play at the park on our way back to school since we were all so well behaved.

Cooperative learning:

This week, Mrs Purdie set us a challenge to think about ways we show cooperative learning. We were talking about these big words and decided that it meant about ‘teamwork’. Teamwork is one of our values which we all show very well every day at school. Here are some pictures of our cooperative learning this week. Kerr, Kayla and Rutendo were learning about money together by playing in our sweet shop. The boys and girls in the lions reading group are showing how well they work together during reading time. These pictures show us using our higher order thinking skills by answering blooms buttons questions with a partner.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Meechan and P1M

Weekly update

Another busy week in P1R.

In phonics we met a rude clown who taught us about the ‘Th’ sounds, Mrs Roy made us all stick our tongues out when practising this sound, have a go at home. We played a cool game on the smartboard which revised sh, ch and th where we had to fill the rocket tank with fuel. The game was called Letter Planet and it is on the Topmarks website if you want to play it again. We also made th books and practised spelling th words using magnetic letters.

Subtraction was the focus in numeracy this week and we learned more about mathematical language, did you know there are different words that mean the same as subtraction? We enjoyed playing the Lego subtraction board game with a partner to help us in our numeracy learning and also made subtraction ice cream cones. We also went on a visit to the local shop to finish off our money topic. Everyone had 20p to spend and had to look at the price labels before making our choices. Klaudia and Isla had a great idea to team up and put their money together as they saw something which was 30p, well done girls, good problem solving and teamwork! Nathan found it tricky choosing as there were so many things he liked. Dexter was able to buy 4 things with his 20p, he added the prices together to make 20p.

In RE we were looking after the new life we had planted and we were delighted to see how our seeds had grown. We’ve taken them home now to show our families. We decided to make our Lenten promises and came up with some lovely ideas – Ephraim will help look after his little brother, Brooke will give to the poor, as a class we decided to say an extra prayer every day in school. We also learned about St Patrick while listening to some traditional Irish music – Mrs Docherty visited us to show us her Irish dancing!!

Our pirate adventures continued this week and we all made pirate masks to use in some role-play activities. Isla enjoyed taking videos and pictures as we acted out our pirate adventures. We also wrote stories about being marooned on a desert island which we are going to submit to the Young Writer’s competition. There were some great imaginative ideas and a selection of WOW words.

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Lent Challenge – Friday 17th March

 

 

The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Way of the Cross, is normally prayed each Friday during Lent. 

Today’s challenge – watch this video of Children’s Stations of the Cross. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT8BBlk1pko

Finish your challenge by saying The Our Father.

#LentChallenge

 

Lent Challenge – Thursday 16th March

Almsgiving is a way of showing love to the people around you.

Choose at least one of the following almsgiving tasks for today’s challenge:

  1. Give someone at school or at home a compliment today.
  2. Call someone and tell them you are thinking about them.
  3. Take a treat or meal to someone.
  4. Donate food to a local foodbank or clothes to a charity shop/clothing bank.
  5. Tidy your room without being reminded!

What did you choose to do today? #LentChallenge

P1M Weekly News

P1M have been working very hard this week.

Our sounds for this week are ‘ng’ and ‘wh’. Could you find the jolly phonics jingles for the ng sound on YouTube? We have been working very hard on our spelling this week. Kayla was able to spell the word strong. Well done Kayla! We also really enjoyed our finding words task. We needed to use a magnifying glass to look for words hidden in a mini beast garden.

We have been learning more about number names. We found this really tricky at the start of the week but we are now super stars at Reading number names. Miss Meechan has updated our sumdog accounts with new skills. We are excited to participate in a West lothian sumdog challenge next week. You can login at home and get some more practise in!

This week we were given a new ‘just play?’ session based on numeracy. Ask your child what they chose to do this week? What has been your favourite so far?

Have you heard about our visit to the shop? Miss Meechan gave everyone 50p to spend at the shop. We had to check out the price tags in the shop to make sure we had enough money to pay for the item.  What did you buy? When we got back to school we hado to write a story about what we decided to buy at the shop. We were all on our best behaviour in the shop and the shopkeeper left us a lovely message on Facebook. Thank you for letting us visit your shop.

Today we were talking about the changes we can see around us which show us signs of spring. We went out into the garden and took pictures of the signs or spring we could fine. We then showed our photos to the other groups.

Wow! That really was a busy week.

Enjoy a well earned rest this weekend.

Miss Meechan and P1M

Signs of spring

This week we have been continuing to look for signs of Spring or new life during our RE lessons. Many children have spotted some new flowers growing near our school or in their gardens. We decided to do some planting of our own in the classroom. We made lots of links in our learning when doing this:

RE – new life, Lent, preparing

Science – growing seeds, what will we need, what are the best conditions for growing things, seasons, weather

Literacy – sequencing, writing instructions

Numeracy – counting seeds, measuring soil

In phonics we learned about ‘ng’ and ‘wh’, we all agreed that they were quite tricky. Ephraim has been great at spotting ‘ng’ throughout the week in reading books or on the smartboard – well done Ephraim. We tried a new activity at our choice station this week – the ‘wh word hunt’ – we had to use magnifying glasses to spot the tiny wh words hiding in a colourful picture, it was good fun. We have also been using magnetic letters, playdough and written tasks to help us learn these new sounds. Another station was the peer assessment station, one of us read the words and the other person had to spell the words on the whiteboards, we loved taking it in turns to be the teacher! Next week we are moving onto the rude clown sound -Th.

In numeracy we worked on number names to 10 as this was something we chose as a next step after learning about money. We played games to help us do this, eg. Matching names to numbers, spelling number names games on the spelling bug app, number name wordsearches. We are all more confident now in reading number names and are ready to move onto something new next week. Remember to log onto Sumdog to take part in the West Lothian Contest this week. We will also make time at school next week during Smartstart and numeracy to do it too.

In IDL we learned about mapping and made our very own treasure maps for our pirate adventures. We discussed what you would find on a map: symbols, a key, a compass, a route. This will help us during Outdoor Learning Week where we will have a go at following some maps outside.

Pupil voice:

Dexter- I liked playing the sky phonics app on the iPads.

Klaudia-In PE we were playing hockey.

James-I enjoyed learning about Lent.

Amber- I liked learning about subtraction.

Isla- We made a treasure map.

Brooke- I liked our RE work this week.

Ephraim- I liked learning about number names.

Mark- We were planting seeds.

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