I am very excited to have returned to school and I have received a very warm welcome from P4K.  We’ve spent some time getting to know each other but we’ve wasted no time in getting down to some hard work for the end of term.

Literacy

We started our new class novel “Fantastic Mr Fox” by Roald Dahl.  We chose the book as a class and we love the characters so much already.  We worked hard at picking some amazing adjectives to describe Bogus, Bunce and Bean (the horrid farmers!).  We also learned about similes and wrote some about the characters in the book.  We’ve had lots of opportunities to answer questions about the novel, and lots of discussion time in our groups.  We can’t wait to keep reading!

Maths

This week we started our maths topic of shape.  We have been looking at the properties of 2D shape .  We know how to describe a shape using the correct mathematical language, although we are going to keep practising the words regular, irregular and quadrilateral.  We played lots of games and activities to help our learning.  Here are some links to games to try at home!

Virtual Pinboard

Kangaroo Hop

Shape Lab

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been learning to dodge.  We had all played dodgeball before but we took the time this week to think about what skills we needed to be effective and successful in the game.  We worked in small groups to practise dodging, ducking and jumping and we improved our skills so we could be more effective during the game.

Art

During art we looked at the artist Gustav Klimt.  We enjoyed talking about his painting “The Tree of Life” and we are creating our own trees inspired by his work.  Keep tuned to the blog as we will share some pictures when the trees are complete.

We had a lovely sounds activity this afternoon. One of our pupils brought in a bingo game which his mummy made to share. We looked at the bingo boards and decided that it might be tricky to get all of the letters covered as we have not learned them all yet, but we could give it a go! We looked at the objects on our sounds table and tried to remember what they begin with. If we saw the letter shape on the board we could earn a cat or a bat or a pumpkin. The children loved this and our bingo caller tried very hard with the signal from the tambourine to keep order in a very excited classroom! Thank you from Primary 1!

We have been discussing what a “title” is. We know it is the name of something we are going to read. One of the pupils suggested this as our title to share our learning with you. We have started using Jolly Phonics and that is why we think we have done some jolly good learning!

This is the news from Primary 1!

Jordan – I read Mr Men Mr Strong and it was hard to read a full page. I read the front of it.

Archie – I found it tricky to paint people and animals.

Sophie – I found it really easy to draw a snail for the “s” sound. We have been cutting out carefully.

Cassie – I know that giraffes have long necks. The dentist checked our teeth.

Esther – I found the “s” sound easy.

Fynlay – We were learning French colours with Mrs Grenfell.

Shane – We have been learning Frere Jacques and Doe a Deer with Mr Hewitt.

Logan – We wanted to do jobs in the class and we had to tell Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Frater why we would be good at them.

Lillie – We chose our ideas for Friday reward time and some of us are going to Mrs McKay’s class to play games, play with the Peppa Pig set and dancing.

As you can see, we are very busy in Primary 1. We are learning lots of different things! Mrs Sutherland is very happy with us!

With their library books today,the children in P1S were giving a Reading Passport. Hopefully they will be able to talk about this with you and be able to start keeping a note of the books they are bringing home to share with you. Some of the children were able to tell the rest of the class why they had chosen their library books today. Now we know what the words “Title” and “Author” mean. I am happy for the children to keep their passports in their book bags to be shared in class.

There is some information for parents and carers here:

https://www.readingchallenge.scot/about/parents

The Scottish Book Trust also has some good ideas to support early reading:

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading/book-lists/kids

In the words of Dr Seuss, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

Happy reading!