Tag: Primary 1

We have learned the ‘oi’ sound this week.

Miss Boyes- The children developed their ability to establish their understanding that these two letters make one sound. They have  established  letter formation skills that reinforce this understanding by joining the sounds. They have developed more explicit awareness that oi  consists of 2 sounds = o+ee
It is therefore a described as a moving vowel sound and lives on the lift!

 

Shay- I know that ‘boil’ has the oi sound in it.

Adam – Soil has the oi sound in it.

Szymon- this week we have also learned the ‘ou’ sound.

Miss Boyes- The children developed their ability to establish their understanding that these two letters make one sound. They have established letter formation skills that reinforce this understanding by joining the sounds. They have developed more explicit awareness that ou  consists of 2 sounds = a+oo
It is therefore a described as a moving vowel sound and lives on the lift!

 

Emilie – The ou sound is a moving  sound which lives in the lift.

Ethan- The word ‘out’ has the ‘ou’ sound in it.

Joanna the word ‘house’ has the ‘ou’ sound in it.

Lily- ‘Mountain’ has the ‘ou’ sound in it.

Liam- An activity that we enjoyed this week was when we had to sort lots of pictures into the box labelled with either igh, ou or oi.

Connor- These long vowel sounds are usually in the middle of the word.

 

Last week we learned the ‘igh’.

Adam- ‘sight’ has the ‘igh’ sound in it.

Joshua – ‘might’  has the igh sound in it.

 

We enjoyed playing the dragon’s den phonics game.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/DragonsDen.html

We chose the  oi and ou sound options.

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjOtMya-ZPQ

 

We went to the library this week.

Miss Boyes, Mrs Kinnaird and our parent helpers read us a story. We got to choose which story we wanted to listen to.

 

Lily- “I loved the story ‘Mad about Mega Beasts.”

Adam- “I enjoyed listening to ‘Plunge into the pirate pool.”

Emilie- “I enjoyed listening to ‘Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleepover.”

 

Lucy- We were writing instructions for how to brush our teeth.

Julian- We had to use the word first at the beginning of our sentence.

Lewis- They had to be in the correct order.

Joshua- We had to use the word next.

Adam- We used the word last or finally.

 

This week in number we were learning to;

Emileigh-Rose: order the numbers 0 to 20.

Shakti- We had to write the numbers that were missing.

 

We enjoyed playing these games

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

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

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=SpringNumber

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B!

This week in phonics we have been revising our set 4 sounds.

 

Liam- We learned the difference between the tr sound and the ch sound.

 

Some children have been getting mixed up with these sounds.

We must remember that train starts with tr and not ch.

Emilie- ‘Tree’ starts with tr and not ch.

Szymon- ‘track’ starts with tr and not ch.

Connor – ‘trick’ starts with tr and not ch.

 

Lily- We had to sort pictures into the tr or ch box. We had to listen for the first sound in the word.

We have been learning all about syllables this week.

Joshua- A syllable is like a beat. We have been clapping out the syllables in words.

Julian- There are 2 syllables in apple.

Emilie- You can clap the syllables in a name. There are 2 syllables in Szymon’s name.

 

 

Adam- In writing this week we wrote a recount.

Emileigh-Rose- We wrote a recount for the story the Bird and the Cat.

 

Connor- We had to write what happened.

Courtney- The cat was asleep on the Chair.

Shakti- The little bird was in the birdbath.

Wojciech- The cat ran to catch the bird.

Lewis- The bird flew away into the tree.

 

Liam- We had to include where it happened. It happened in the garden.

 

Szymon- We wrote when it happened. It happened in the morning.

Isla- We had to make sure we wrote who was there.

The big cat and the little bird were in the Garden.

 

Numeracy-

 

Adam- We have been learning about fact families, we have to do 2 adding sums and 2 takeaway sums.

Joshua-The biggest number when you are adding goes at the end and when you are taking away it goes at the start.

Some of us have been finding this tricky and forgetting that we can only use the numbers in the triangle.

We have continued to learn how to find the missing number in addition and subtractions calculations.

Isla – If it was something    + 3 = 7

You put the number that is not missing in your head and you can count on until you reach the total. However many you counted is the missing number.

 

7 –       = 4

Joshua- To find the answer for this missing number sum you would start at 7 and take away the 4 to get 3. 3 is the missing number.

-4 = 5

Joanna- You work back the way, I started at 5 for this one and added the 4 to get to 9.

 

We have been enjoying counting in 2’s

 

Connor- We were learning about Constellations, since we learned about day and night we have been speaking about what we see in the sky at night.

Lily- The stars make different shapes and patterns in the sky.

Shakti- We drew different constellations on our paper and we learned their names.

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B

 

Phonics

Lily- We learned the y sound this week. The y sound is a green sound.

Szymon- Y for yoyo.

Adam- We sorted the pictures beginning with y. The y sound is at the start of yoga.

 

Emilie- On the netbooks we played the buried treasure game. Some of the coins were nonsense words and some were real words. If it was a real word you put it in the treasure chest and if it was a nonsense word you put it in the bin.

Here is a link to the game- https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

Emiliegh- Rose- We learned about the qu sound this week.

Julian- The qu sound is red and yellow because it is 2 letters joined together to make one sound.

Joshua- quick begins with qu.

Joanna- quack begins with qu.

Lucy- queen begins with qu.

 

We enjoyed singing along to the songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbyWa1Y7BM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMTMdXVr-Io

Writing-

In writing this week we learned how to write a recount. We wrote a recount on 2 highlights of the week.

 

Lewis- We had to write where it happened.

Emilie- We had to write when it happened.

Liam- We had to write why it was a highlight.

Joshua- We had to include who was there.

 

Wojciech- This week my favourite was playing tennis with the balloons in PE.

Khyla- This week my favourite was learning about shadows.

Emilie- This week my favourite was learning about Spring in RE. I liked it because Miss Boyes took us into the Garden. We used the iPads to take photos.

Numeracy-

In numeracy we have been practising our instant recall of our addition and subtraction calculations for number bonds to 10 or 20.

The flashcards in our home learning folders can be used to practise this at home.

 

Lucy- This week we have been learning about tally marks. We have been learning to subitize using the tally mark cards. I showed Emilie the cards and she had to tell me the amount.

We really like the subitize song.

Liam- When we draw the tally marks we draw 4 down the way and when we get to 5 we draw a line across those 4 to make a gate.

Joshua- We had to count how many penguins there were and write the tally marks to show the amount.

For free writing Friday we had the opportunity to write our own stories. It is important that when we are writing we remember our core writing skills (capital letters, full stops, finger spaces).

Sometimes if you rush you can forget these core skills. We will continue to practise writing independently during free writing Friday.

This week in Science we have been learning about shadows.

We know that shadows are created when a source of light shines on an object but the light is blocked and does not pass through it.

 

We used the animal shadow puppets and the torches to make shadows against the wall.

At home we could look at shadows in our garden.

We also completed an experiment using glow sticks, hot and cold water.

We wrote down our predictions in our talking book, completed the experiment and then recorded the results.

 

Shay- I think the glow sticks in the hot water will turn red and the glow sticks in the cold water will turn blue.

 

Liam- The glow sticks in the hot water are brighter than the glow sticks in the cold water.

 

Lucy- The glow sticks in the cold water are dim.

 

We have learned that the warmth from the hot water sped up the chemical reaction of the glow stick. We saw that the glow stick in the hot water glows more brightly.  We were amazed by how bright it was. The reaction was completed more quickly than the glow stick in the cold water. The glow stick in the cold water glowed dimmer but for a longer time.

We decided to add the glow sticks to our space station and to the control panel in the space station. It looks great!

 

For RE this week we went out to the garden to look for signs of Spring. We met Mrs Simpson in the garden and she spoke to us about the plants and the flowers.

 

 

 

Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P1B

Phonics

 

This week we were revising some of our sounds.

Emilie- We have been checking our learning of wh and ng.

“I know that ‘whiskers’ has the wh sound.”

 

Lily- We have been checking our learning of the j sound.

“I know that ‘Jam’ started with j.”

 

Liam- “I noticed that the ng sound is normally at the end of the word. It is at the end of the word  swing.”

 

Writing

Adam – “We were writing a recipe for How to Make Rice Crispy Cakes.”

Julian- “I tried to sound out the word chocolate.”

Joshua- “We had to include the openers from the mighty writer board.”

Emilie- “Our recipe had to be in order so that people knew when to do each part.”

Lucy- “We drew a picture of the ingredients.”

 

In numeracy this week we have been using our addition and subtraction skills to complete fact families.

Isla- We use 3 numbers to make 2 adding sums and 2 take away sums.

 

If we had the numbers 5, 2 and 7

Liam- We could do 5 + 2 = 7

Syzmon- We could do 2 + 5 = 7

Joanna- 7 – 2 = 5

Joshua- 7 – 5 = 2

 

We enjoyed playing the fact families game on the smartboard.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Choose option up to 10 or if you find this easy choose option up to 20 for a challenge!

We also extended our knowledge of subtraction by using it to complete missing number calculations.

 

If it said       – 2 = 8

We can play this game at home to work out missing number calculations.

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4728

Lily- You start at the 8 and work back the way to add the 2. This will help you find the answer which is 10.

In Science this week we have been learning we have enjoyed making moon sand, we used our problem solving skills to figure out how to measure and mix the ingredients.

We have been learning about the rotation of the Earth in relation to the sun. We used a torch to face the globe. We rotated the globe and pointed out that when 1 half of Earth is illuminated the other is in darkness.

We have been making pictures to represent the sun shining onto the earth to make it daytime.

Our learning in science led us to ask how close Earth and other planets are to the sun. So we decided to make our own solar system using the play dough.

 

Head over to our twitter page to see the photos.

This week we have been learning lots of new sounds.

We have learned the sh sound.

Julian- The  sh sound is green.

Lily- It is green because we don’t use the tip of our, or the back of our mouth.

 

We use the flat centre of the tongue to make this sound.

We have been learning to blend the sh sound in words with other familiar sounds.

Lucy- Ship has the ‘sh’ sound at the start.

Shakti- Shark has the ‘sh’ sound at the start.

Joshua- Push has the ‘sh’ sound at the end of the word.

We were singing the sh song to practise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJYK83Oqt8U

Wojciech- We learned the ch sound this week.

Szymon- The ch sound is green.

Liam- It is green because we use the flat centre our of tongue to make this sound.

We have been learning to blend the ch sound in words with other familiar sounds.

Emilie- The word chip has the ‘ch’ sound at the start.

 

Adam- The word chug has the ‘ch’ sound at the start.

Shay- Catch has the ‘ch’ sound at the end of the word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVE7NBcpZFA

Connor- We had to sort the picture into the ship with the right sound printed on it’s sail.

We sorted sh and ch pictures.

Joanna- We learned also about the soft th sound this week.

Isla- This sound is light blue, it is a quiet sound.

 

This sound is in words like:

Lucy- teeth

Emilie- thin

Joshua- thick

Liam- Thumb

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

Khyla- Our thin pens wrote us a letter to say that they had quit!”

Szymon- They quit because they were sad that their friends had dried up. This happens when we do not put lids on the pens.

 

Adam—They also do not like it when we make them work so hard that they put a hole in the paper.

 

Sophie- We wrote the pens a letter to come back to us.

 

Courtney- I wanted the purple pen to come back because it is my favourite.

 

Lucy- I wanted the pink pen to come back so that I could draw pink love hearts.

Lily- I wanted the red pen to come back because I like colouring in red butterflies.

We really enjoyed our word boost story this week, The Smart Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ891awceBQ

We like the following subtraction games

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4728 Choose the subtraction option

 

Minus Misson game https://www.arcademics.com/games/mission

 

Subtraction Balloon Pop

http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm

 

Subtraction fruit splat

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fruitshoot/fruitshoot_subtraction.htm

Our favourite subtraction activities are

Lucy- I enjoyed the subtraction colour by numbers, I had to answer the problems and colour in the flowers.

 

Adam- I liked the subtraction bingo game. I was the caller and called out a number up to 10 and my friends had to put a counter on the subtraction word problem.

 

 

Emilie-

I like the lego subtraction game. You start with 20 cubes and roll the dice, you move your counter and it lands on a space and tells you how many cubes to takes away.

 

Szymon- I liked the subtraction jigsaw. One side of the jigsaw had the subtraction sentence and the other side had the answer. We had to match all of them up.

 

 

We learned all about Fairtrade products this week and why they are important.

 

Liam- People who grow food in other countries do not always get paid enough.

 

 

 

Joshua- This means they do not have enough money for their own food and clothes.

 

Adam- The Fairtrade products make sure that people who grow the food and help make it get paid fairly and get paid enough for the work that they do.

 

Connor- We completed an activity where we had to sort the Fairtrade food and the non-Fairtrade food. We had to look for the Fairtrade logo.

 

Miss Boyes worked with us to make a bar graph of our favourite Fairtrade product. We had to choose from, chocolate buttons, orange juice, icecream and the bananas.

Khyla- The chocolate buttons were the most popular.

The Ben and Jerry’s Ice cream was the least popular but Miss Boyes favourite.

 

This week in topic we wrote our invitations for our Banquet which is on Friday the 8^th Of March at 11am.

We look forward to seeing you!

 

Have a lovely weekend, Miss Boyes and P1B!

Writing

Liam- This week we wrote leaflets.

We looked at the leaflets in our own Castle Visitor Centre (roleplay area). We have leaflets for Glamis Castle, which is one of the Castles Hamish visited.

Emilie- We wrote the leaflets to encourage people to visit Edinburgh Castle.

Connor- We were giving people with information.

Khyla- We wrote facts.

 

Lucy- The Castle has a Scottish Flag.

Lily- The Castle has a cannon.

Courtney- The Castle has a flag which is blue and white.

Szymon- We drew pictures of the Castle, the volcano, the flag and the Cannon.

Liam- The Cannon fires at 1 o’clock.

 

In numeracy this week we have continued to learn about subtraction.

Liam- I like playing the Mathopoly game because I can use my addition and subtraction skills.

Lily-I liked being the teacher by hiding ten counters and then taking some away.

Courtney- I liked playing with the skittles, you knock some over and then write down the subtraction sum.

Joanna- I liked using the ten frames to learn how to subtract.

We also were learning about subtraction word problems. We were learning to understand language and phrases…

Find the difference.

Subtract 5 from 10.

How many are left?

Take away 3 from 7.

 

 

In topic we were comparing life in the past to today.

Isla- My group had to sort pictures of food.

Lucy- In the past the royal Kings and Queens ate fruit and ham at banquets.

Khyla- We had to sort pictures of transport. The horses and carriages were used in the past.

Joshua- My group sorted pictures of clothing, in the past Knights wore armour.

Julian- They wore shields in the past.

 

We went to see the P3- P5 dress rehearsal for their show Blast from The Past.

Emileigh-Rose- I liked the singing.

Sophie- I liked the dancing

Joanna- I liked the signing.

Szymon- I liked the costumes.

 

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 1B

We have continued to learn the oa and ai sound. We want to be able to read and with these long vowels confidently.

We have been sorting sentences that have words with the oa and ai sound.

We have still like playing the dinosaur egg game to practise listening for the ai, oa, ee and oo sounds.

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurEggs_phonics/index.html

It is really important that we only practise these sounds on the dinosaur egg game as we haven’t learned the others yet.

 

The cvc balloon pop game is also good practise too.

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

 

 

 

Lucy- In writing we wrote imaginative stories, we had to pretend that we woke up in a castle.

Connor- We could choose to be a King, Queen, Knight, Jester, Prince or Princess.

Emilie- We had to write about what the character wore, how they felt and what they ate.

 

Julian- I was a King in my story and I felt happy.

Shakti- I was a beautiful princess in my story.

 

Word Boost

The word Boost story this week was

How to Grow a Dinosaur

Emileigh-Rose- Rip was a boost word this week. If you rip something you tear it without being careful.

 

 

Lily- Scatter was a boost word this week. If you scatter things you throw them or drop them so that they spread out.

 

 

Adam- Gigantic was a boost word this week. If something is gigantic it is very very big.

 

Joshua- Glare was a boost word this week. If you glare at someone you look at them with an angry face.

 

 

Shay- We are now learning all about subtraction.

We really enjoyed singing the subtract with a pirate song.

 

It helped us understand what subtraction is and what happens when you subtract. We also learned language linked to subtraction- subtract, minus, takeaway, find the difference.

Szymon- We played different subtraction games.

Here are some of them so we can play at home.

http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=SpringNumber Choose Match addition and subtraction to the answer. Complete within 5 or within 10.

Within 20 is a big challenge!

Khyla- When we take numbers away they get smaller.

 

Sophie- We pretended we were the teacher; we hid 10 counters under the sheet and told our group how many we subtracted. Our group had to guess how many were left over?

 

Courtney- We played ten pin bowling, you had to knock some over the pins and then write the subtraction calculation on the whiteboard.”

 

Isla- We have started to learn about weather in Spanish this week. We learned new words for the different types of weather and sang some songs.

 

 

For topic we learned how to identify 2 different types of evidence which can tell us about the past.

We learned the historians, find evidence to learn about the past too.

Miss Boyes read us the story Hamish McHaggis and The Great Glasgow Adventure.

 

In this story Hamish and his friends, have to make up clues for a treasure hunt. To do this they visit different museums in Glasgow, we think museums would be a great place to find evidence about the past because they have artefacts.

We also think that you could learn about the past from…

“newspapers”

“photos”

“the internet”

“books at the library”

“visitor centres”

We looked in non-fiction books to learn about Castle life in the past.

 

Connor- Non-fiction books tell us real facts.

Miss Boyes challenged us to find different pictures in the books.

Emilie- They have a contents page and an index which tells you where to find specific information in the book.

We have decided to design a museum about ourselves, of all of our favourite things.

 

Also this week we were learning about symmetry through art. We looked at pieces of art, buildings and animals which were symmetrical and then we created symmetrical stain glass windows by using different coloured tissue paper. We will look at symmetry in more depth soon.

Look at our twitter page for photos. @_MissBoyes

 

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B!