Tag: Primary 1

Skakti “We learned the ai sound this week.”

Connor- “ai is a long vowel sound and I stretch my lips to make this sound.”

Emilie- “ai is 2 letters but it makes 1 sound.”

Liam “I can blend this sound with other sounds. I know that ‘rain’ has the ai sound.”

Lucy- “When writing this sound we join the two letters together.”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8okZgUgNE

Joanna- “This week we learned the oa sound, the boy in the vowel house says oa for “OH NO!” because the light will not turn on and it is dark.”

Lily “Our lips are round like a circle when we say the ‘oa’ sound.”

Adam –“boat has the oa sounds.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0u65e9pBDo

 

Julian- “We went to the library this week. Miss Boyes read us a story.”

Miss Boyes read us ‘A library Book for Bear’.

 

Our Wordboost book this week was “The Train Who was frightened of the Dark.”

Joshua- “One of our boost words was passenger.”

A passenger is someone who goes places in a bus, boat, plane or train.

Khyla “Terrified was another boost word.”

If you are terrified you feel very, very frightened.

 

Emileigh-Rose “Entrance was a boost word.”
The entrance to a place is the way into it, for example a door or a gate.

 

Adam- “Cosy was the other boost word.”
If something or someone is cosy

they are warm and they feel nice.

 

Isla – “In writing this week we listened to the story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea”.

 

Ethan- “I wrote a story about a panda who came to tea.”

 

Sophie- “I wrote a story about a dolphin who came to tea.”

 

Emilie- “A unicorn cam to tea in my story and ate chocolate cake.”

 

We loved playing in our role play corner, where we acted out the story. We also enjoyed writing invitations at the writing table and drawing what we would give the animal to eat.

 

This week I enjoyed playing the money bingo game. The caller says an amount and you have to count the coin to see if you have it on your board.”

 

Liam- “I have enjoyed finding out different ways to make an amount this week and completing lots of fun challenges.”

 

Lewis- “I enjoyed counting the money to save  in the piggy bank.”

 

Wojciech- “I liked buying toys at the toy shop with the money.”

 

We started our topic about life in the past. Hamish Mc Haggis came to visit us and he has been sending us his books. Some of his books are visits to famous castles in Scotland so we have decided to learn about these castles.

We made a topic plan so that we can start our adventures with Hamish.

We have been making our own castle in the classroom and we decided to make it gold on the instead and painting bricks on the outside with a sponge.

We celebrated Burns day by learning about Robert Bunrs and having a Burns Supper.

Khyla- “He was a famous poet.”

Isla- “We ate Haggis, shortbread and oatcakes.”

Sophie- “I thought the highland dancing was really fun.”

Connor- “I liked listening to the bagpipes and listening to Auld Lang Syne.”

 

Check out our twitter page with photos from this week!

Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P1B!

 

Literacy

Liam- We learned the r sound this week.

Emilie- r is dark blue because it is a loud sound.

Szymon- r is a long sound.

Joshua- I know that ‘run’ starts with r.

We consolidated the l sound and did activities for l and r.

Lucy- I liked the l and r bingo game because it helped me learn lots of words that start with l or r.

Lewis- I made the word rat at the blending line using the sound cards.

We were sorting sentences that were jumbled up. The sentences included words with l and r.

Here is the r song to listen to at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdD7ESj_GE

 

In writing this week we listened to the story “My Granny is a Pirate”.

Here is the story to listen at home.

 

After listening to the story we used our imagination to write about one of our family members and what they could become.

Shakti- “One day my mum was a queen and she wore a crown.”

Connor- “One day my Dad was a footballer and scored lots of goals.”
Shay- “One day my dad was a superhero.”

Emileigh-Rose-“My Mum is a mermaid.”

 

 

Money

In Maths this week we have continued to learn about money.

Joshua- We have been colouring coins to show an amount.

Isla- We have also been thinking about different ways to make an amount.

Liam- We have been matching coins to the correct value.

Lucy- We have been adding different amounts of money together and finding the total.

 

This week we spoke about the different types of weather. We recorded the weather on Tuesday and were discussing different words which can be used to describe the weather. We watched clips of different types of weather and we know that we can find out what the weather might be from the weather forecast online or on tv.

 

Lewis- I liked learning Spanish outside at my committee.

Sophie- I was singing loudly at my committee.

Joshua-I liked designing a game in my committee.

Adam- I liked painting in my arts and crafts committee.

Have a lovely weekend!

Happy New Year everyone, we hope you all had a lovely festive break!

We have been busy learning lots on our return to school!

This week in phonics we have been learning to blend the ee and oo sounds with the set 2 sounds that we learned last term.

We have also been learning to blend the l sound with ee and oo this week.

Here is the song for the l sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDViX6Y9Q_0

Emilie- We practised our formation in the glitter trays this week.

Lily- We have been making words on the magnetic boards. I made the word peel.

Also this week we have been sorting sentences that were all jumbled up. We had to put the words into the correct order so that the sentence made sense. This motivated some children in our class to try to write their own sentences on whiteboards.

Connor- Miss Boyes was very impressed with the sentences we wrote.

There are clues to look out for when we sort the words for the sentences.

Adam- “Look for the word with the capital letter because it will go at the beginning.”

Joshua-“Look for the full stop because this will go at the end of the sentence.”

 

Khyla- On Thursday morning there were slimy, green, glittery alien footprints on the floor In our toy shop in front of the till.

Emilie We thought it was  alien footprints because Miss Boyes got sent a picture of a dancing alien and a moving spaceship.

Lucy- So for writing this week we decided it was a good idea to write instructions for the Alien to tell it how to buy a toy at our toy shop.

Liam- The instructions need to be in the correct order.

The mighty writer board helped us with the order of our instructions and we even learned how to use super openers.

Adam-Finally

Liam- Next

Lucy- First

Our instructions were great and we are hoping the Alien will be able to buy the toy he wants.

Khyla- We were learning about money this week.

Julian- We were learning to save money.

At the tuff tray our partner had to show us a picture of a pig with an amount on it. We had to then choose the correct coins to make that amount and put them in the piggy bank.

Sophie- We were counting the money.

We were using our toy shop role play area to count coins to buy toys. We also made and attached prices labels and made a sign for the shop.

Emileigh-Rose- We sorted money.

All of Miss Boyes coins were mixed up, so we have been sorting them.

Courtney- I liked playing at the shop and using money to buy toys.

Here are some games which can be played at home if we wish. Follow the links below.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/cashing-in/cashing-in.html

 

We discussed our school values and vision. We reflected on what we could do to be like Christ.

We also thought of values that we think reflect our class.

We chose to draw the values on jigsaw pieces. We drew pictures to represent happiness, fun, respect, kindness, pupil voice and love.

 

We completed an emotion works activity this week. We spoke about the feeling of being scared because we had listened to the story “The Rabbit Who was Afraid of the Dark.”

We decided that the trigger for the rabbits emotion was the dark.

The body sensation was shaking.

The emotion words we thought of were-scared, frightened, and terrified and we also thought about relief and happiness when the Rabbit saw Percy.

The emotion behaviours were running, hiding and  jumping.

We drew pictures and even tried to write the words under each cog. We were very good at reflecting on the characters feelings and we thought about what might make it feel better too.

 

We have started our gymnastics block in PE and everyone has been raving about us!

Mr McCurdy and Mrs Purdie couldn’t wait to share with Miss Boyes how amazing they thought we were at our rolls this week. We have been doing a pencil roll, egg roll and forward rolls.

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B!

In class we have been learning about 2D and this week we will be learning about 3D shapes and how to complete patterns.

We have been learning to recognise the shapes and their names.

Can you find these shapes in your home environment with an adult?

sphere

cylinder

cube

cone

pentagon

triangle

circle

square

We have been listening to lots of shape songs.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQDyx59QY4

We enjoy singing about the properties of the shapes.

How many sides does it have?

How many corners?

 

We have also been learning how to complete a pattern.

Here is a game that you could play at home.

 

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

Choose level 1

 

Enjoy exploring shapes at home with your children.

Miss Boyes and P1B

Joanna- This week in phonics we have been learning about the long ee sound.

Emilie- We now know that two letters can make one sound and for the ee sound two e sounds are together.

We have been working on our letter formation skills and showing our understanding of how to join the two letters.

Lucy- The two e sounds join when we write the ee sound.

Joshua- ee is is a stretchy vowel and our lips ‘smile’ when we say this sound.

Lucy- ee + e make different sounds

When we sing the ee song we do not sing ‘or’ as the donkey in the vowel house has a sore throat so can only say ee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3sugn25FJQ

Adam- We have also been learning the oo sound.

Shakti- Two o sounds make the oo sound.

Shay- The o sound and oo sound are different.

Lewis- oo is a long stretchy sound.

Lily- The ghost says the oo sound in the vowel house.

When we write oo we join the 2 o sounds together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxiRp9Vxz98

We will continue to practise blending these sounds with other sounds.

This week we had our nativity performance. Miss Boyes thought that we were amazing!

Joshua- I liked being Joseph and saying my lines .My favourite song was The King of All Kings

Adam- My favourite song was Don’t tell Herod.

Shakti- My favourite song was Stargazing.

Khyla- I liked dressing up as an angel.

Shay- Stargazing was my favourite because I liked the actions.

Liam- My favourite song was Heaven on Earth.

Connor- I loved being the first person to speak and introducing the whole show.

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 1B!

This week we learned the x sound.

Connor- X sound is made up of 2 sounds, c + s.

Lucy- This is why it is light blue and yellow.

We have been learning how to say the sound.

How to blend x with other sounds to say words.

How to write this sound.

Emilie- I know box has the x sound at the end.

Isla- I know that mix has the x sound at the end.

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

 

We enjoyed our visit from our local Librarian this week, she came to read us the bookbug stories and we got to pick our favourite. Our favourite was I am bat.

 

Here is a clip of the story…

We had a special visit from an elf this week, his name is Eddie.

Eddie said that he needs our help with some tasks as it’s very busy in Santa’s workshop.

We had to help Eddie sort lots of toys because the Elves forgot which force you use to make them move. First we had to learn what a force was and then we investigated the toys and sorted them by push toys and pull toys.

We then made our own toys because Eddie said there were lots of lists coming in and they needed help to make enough toys. We used our creativity and imagination skills to design and make the toys.

Some of the toys we made were- a castle, a robot, a boat and a rocket.

Following on from this for our writing lesson we made a poster to encourage children to put the toys being made in the workshop on their list. So we had to write about what the toy looked like and what it could do. Our persuasive posters were super and we think the children will know exactly what to wish for this Christmas.

 

 

In numeracy we have been learning all of the ways to make 9.

How many ways do you think there are to make 9.

This game could be played at home to help with learning the different ways to make a number.

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

 

 

We have continued practising for our nativity and we are busy learning our actions and words. Our singing is super and we can’t wait for you to hear all of the songs.

 

Just a little reminder that costumes should be brought to school by Monday the 3^rd of December.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 1B.

Hello,

Literacy

Connor- This week we learned the z sound.

Liam- The Z sounds is dark blue because you make this sound at the tip of your tongue.

Lucy- The Z sound is dark blue because it is a loud sound and the s sound is light blue because it is quiet.

Isla- I know that zip starts with z.

 

Emilie- We have been learning the v sound.

Lily- The V sound is loud and I know this because the red sounds are loud.

Khyla- Valley begin with v, when you write v you pretend to go down one side of the valley and up the other side.

Joshua- Van begins with v.

Here are our jolly phonics songs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPqQZQcdkG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbE4FhN_NcY

Writing-

Joanna- In writing we wrote posters for our baking stall at the Christmas Fair.

Lucy- We designed beautiful cupcakes on our posters.

Emileigh- Rose- We hope you can bake treats for our stall.

Shakti- We had to make our posters colourful.

Ethan- We had to check that our writing made sense.

Numeracy-

 

To learn our addition sums we have been completing lots of fun activities.

 

Joshua- My favourite adding activity is the bus ten frame. We have to complete the adding sum to find out how many people are on the bus and how many tickets they will need.

 

Emilie- I really enjoyed using the ten frames this week to find different ways of making 7.

Isla- I liked playing hit the button so that I can recall my addition facts quickly.

Szymon- I like playing the football addition board game.

 

Courtney and Khyla “We liked choosing a flashcard and making the sum on the ladybird with numicon, counters, ten frame and rekenreks.”

We liked working with our buddies to learn our boost words. This was lots of fun.

Today we are going to complete fun activities that are linked to the book bug books and we are looking forward to Eileen the librarian  coming to visit us next week to ask us about our favourite book bug book.

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B!

Hello everyone,

Spanish-

We have continued to learn the Spanish colours.

Connor- “We played pass the parcel- Miss Boyes put a picture of a Spanish colour in the envelope and every time the Spanish colour song stopped we had to open it and say the colour in Spanish.”

Lily- “Rojo is red.”

Julian- “Verde is green.”

Shakti- “Rosa is pink”.

Joanna- “Azul is blue”

 

 

Literacy

This week we have been learning the d and g sounds.

Emilie- “The d sound is dark blue.”

Liam- “We make the d sound at the tip of our tongue.”

Sophie- “The d sound is a loud sound.”

 

Lucy- “The g sound is orange.”

Adam- “The g sound is orange because it is a loud sound.”

Joshua- “goat has the g sound at the beginning.”

Connor- “Our boost word gobble has the g sound.”

Lewis- “Dad has the d sound at the beginning and the end.”

Here are our songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bU2RgXz1Pc

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

Numeracy-

 

We used the rekenrek on the smartboard during number talks. We moved the beads and had to say how many we saw and how we saw them.

We made addition sums from looking at how many beads there were altogether.

Could you make these addition sums using the rekenrek at home?

2+8   3+7  4+6   5+5

Here is a link to the rekenrek
https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-rack/

 

 

We have been playing the hit the button game. You can choose number bonds and then pick addition to 10, this is a fun way to practise our adding.

Here is a link to the game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

This week was cool to be kind week. We listened to the story of Superworm and we shared all of the things Superworm did to help other characters in the story. We then wrote a recount of something which happened in the story.

Lucy- “Superworm was very kind and he made himself into a skipping rope for the bees.”

Here is a link to the superworm story so that we can listen at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpN4dftXLI

We listened to a song all about RESPECT.

We liked talking about the scenarios in this song.

Being respectful is one of our school rules.

 

We hope that everyone has a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P1B

Hello everyone,

Literacy

Lucy- “This week we have learned the h sound.”

Emilie- “The h sound is yellow because we make it at the back of our mouth and we need a torch to see it.”

Joshua- “We made words with the h sound. I can make the word hot.”
Connor- “We coloured in pictures that had h at the start. I coloured in the horse.”

 

Emileigh- Rose “We learned the u sound this week.”

Liam- “The u sound lives in the vowel house.”

Lily- “The picture for u is an umbrella because we need to put our umbrella up so inky’s ink does not drip on us.”

Adam-“The u sound is usually in the middle of a (cvc) word.”

Lewis- “I made words with u in the middle using the magnetic letters. I can make the word hut.”

Here are our songs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHLwPK_068

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoVrsX6P-W8

For writing this week we wrote about our experience of seeing fireworks. We used our mighty writer board for the first time.

 

We were able to use our mighty writer board to help us structure a sentence. It showed us where to put our capital letter and it had picture reminders for what to write.

 

Khyla- “ I wrote about sparkly fireworks.”
Isla- “The star on the board meant you had to use a wow word.”

Ethan- “I wrote about the loud fireworks.”

Emilie- “I wrote about colourful, rainbow fireworks.”

Numeracy

We continued to learn how to add numbers this week. We have been completing written calculations. We have been counting on and trying to do this in our heads.

We enjoyed reading the number sentences and then using the numicon to identify the total amount.

 

We also completed addition challenges using the cubes this week. We had to read the cards and add the correct number of cubes together.

We have been using our ten frames to add 2 amounts within 10.

 

In number talks using our addition knowledge we have been finding the best strategies to make a total.

Can you find different ways to make 3?

Can you find different ways to make 4?

Can you find different ways to make 5?

Can you find different ways to make 6?

 

We used our bunny ears (fingers) to show Miss Boyes different ways of making an amount.

 

We have started practising for our nativity, this week we have been learning about the nativity story. We have been learning who was in the story, where it took place and what happened.

In music  we have started practising our nativity songs. We are loving our songs and are going to practise lots.

 

 

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P1B

This week we learned the f and b sound.

Connor- “I know how to form this sound because you draw around the flamingos neck then draw a line down to the flamingos feet and lastly a line across his body.”

 

Emilie- “F is pink because it is a quiet lip sound.”

Adam- “The b sound is a lip sound but it is not pick it is red.”

Lucy- “It is red because it is a loud sound.”

Liam- “The p hangs under the line and the b sound sits on the line.”

Khlya- “f is curved at the top but t has a curve at the bottom.”

We have been learning how to write words with our sounds and have been identifying the which sound is at the beginning, middle and end.

Here are the songs which we have been listening to this week to help us learn our sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxa_zfeB0w4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNT6gFNnmcI

 

We were excited to start word boost this week. We were introduced to 4 new boost words and their meaning. We have been completing activities which help us remember the meaning of the words. Can you listen for the words in the story?

We enjoyed learning our words at home too with our parent postcards.

We have been learning how to count on when adding. During number talks we have been sharing strategies for adding numbers together and have been finding out the quickest and easiest ways to add. We are trying to hold the  number in our heads and count on.

 

We have enjoyed playing different types of games in our plenaries to show what we know.

Try this game at home.

https://www.arcademics.com/games/alien

In Art this week we learned about different types of lines- long, thick, thin, wavy and broken.

We used lines to draw pictures of the train station near our school. We wanted to include other features of our local environment so we decided to draw the river Almond and hills.

Isla- “You pass some hills when on the train.”

Miss Boyes was impressed by how good our drawings were and all of the different types of lines which we used.

We have used google maps this week to show Trex different places he could visit in Livingston. We said that he could visit the train station to see what the train looks like, this discussion led us to the idea of  Trex  getting the train to Edinburgh. We used google maps to show Trex Edinburgh Castle, The Zoo and The Royal Botanic garden. We think Trex would learn lots if he visited these places and we thought about what he would learn when there.

We ended this lesson by asking Miss Boyes how Trex would find out the price of the train so we visited the Scotrail website.

Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P1B