It has been a busy week in P1A preparing an oscar worthy performance for our parents and the pupils in P1, 2 and 3. The children took responsibility for planning the assembly and gave the teachers great ideas about what they wanted to include in the show. Here are the children’s favourite parts:

Joshua, Zeno, Finn, Alfie, Sophie, Ella and Harry enjoyed the story of Rosa Rabbit.

Aria, Ruby, Matthew, Daisy, Madison, Sadie, Alex and Thomas enjoyed singing the Responsibility song.

Ben, Isla, Rory and Bobby enjoyed watching the video of pupils and staff sharing their examples of when they had been responsible.

McKenzie enjoyed using the microphone.

Thank you to everyone who came and watched us.

In Numeracy this week we have been practising our counting skills and even counting in 2s! This is helping us to learn about odd and even numbers. We have also enjoyed learning to sort objects by colour, shape and size.

In Literacy this week we have learnt how to blend s with other sounds and have been making words beginning with st, sp, sl, sm, sn, sk and sc. We love playing games when our teachers give us a letter, muddle us up and then see if we can use our sounding out skills to make a given word eg spot, stop. Perhaps this is a game you could play with the sounds in our sound tubs this weekend?

This week we learnt about our sense of smell. We had to guess what was in the cups just by smelling it. Some of the smells were nicer than others….we really didn’t like the vinegar!

We have enjoyed opportunities to celebrate Burns day at the poetry competition and singalong. We were so proud of Daniel, Eli, Erin, Joshua, Rory and Sophie for reciting their poems in front of an audience.

Happy New Year to all our families. After a lovely long holiday our brains are ready to start learning again and we have had such a busy week! Here are some of the things we have enjoyed learning this week:

Zeno enjoyed learning about our sense of hearing. Bobby and Finn liked learning about how our nerves take messages to our brains.

Joshua enjoyed looking for rhyming words in our Dr Seuss story.

Thomas, Sadie and Sophie have enjoyed learning to tell the time.

Matthew enjoyed our assembly about equality. Alex and McKenzie liked the new songs we learned.

Jamie enjoyed learning about how water changes to ice in Science.

Isla, Ella, Daisy, Aria and Madison are excited about our new Fairyland topic and are looking forward to building Fairyland in the classroom. Rory and Alfie enjoyed writing descriptions of what they thought the Fairyland dragon would be like. Harry and Alexis are wondering what the dragon actually looks like.

We have been so busy practising our nativity this week and are looking forward to performing for you. Many thanks for all your help at home to learn our words.

This week we have been learning about 3D objects. Perhaps you could look around your house and see if you can find examples of cylinders, cubes, cones, cuboids and spheres.

Our new sound this week was wh and our tricky words were you and your. Please continue to practise word building at home.

Please could we remind everyone that, although readingbooks are only collected in on a Monday, it is important that the children have their reading book at school every day so that they can participate in group reading and independent reading activities.

Many thanks for your continued support.