Author: Mrs Fowler

Can we please ask that any outstanding money (£3 for the bus) is handed in to school so we can pass it on the our lovely ladies in the office? Many thanks.

Phonics

This week we have been working on identifying and using the sound ‘ng’. We noticed that this sound was most often found at the end of words. Can you think of any new words at home?

Have a go at this game. Click on ‘ng’ and practise some word building.

Forest Phonics

Spelling

We have been learning to spell bronze or silver words.

Handwriting

We have been working hard on our robot letters!

Writing

This week we have been naming different types of writing we know. The children came up with a great list. There was story writing, letter writing, card writing, recipe writing, label writing, song writing (great idea Stanley :-)), sentence writing, word writing.

We wrote labels today for our castle wall and then explored book making and story mapping. A great day.

Numeracy

We are learning to draw pictures to match addition problems. Mrs Fowler read out an adding story and the children had to draw to match. You all worked so hard – well done.

To demonstrate our adding skills we also played dice addition, bingo dabber adding and a numicon game.

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HWB

We had a go at teddy bear rolls and talked about the parts of our body that owe used to make shapes, hold balances and move over the mat. I think we’ll practise this one again next week as it was not as easy as it seems. 🙂

We are talking all the time about respect and what this means. We have chatted about the kinds of words we would say to one another if we are giving feedback or comments about the work we/others have done. We made a list of ‘pick me up’ phrases.

Over the next few weeks we will be looking out for children using lovely manners, especially please and thank you and tidying our classroom to make it beautiful.

French

We have been learning the colours in French.

Next week we are hoping to start making our own model castles with a moving drawbridge. We are looking for some junk for modelling with! If you have any shoe box sized boxes at home that you are finished with, that would be a great help and any kitchen roll tubes would also be appreciated.

What a great week!

Phonics

This week we have been using the ‘th’ sound to make and break words. We are trying hard to make sure we do not say t and h for the sound ‘th’ but stick your tongue out at the teacher and say ‘th’. The only time you get to stick your tongue out at the teacher!! 🙂

Can you make a word list at home with words that begin and end with ‘th’?

Phonics Game

Spelling

We are all making great progress in spelling the bronze and silver words and it was a great week as some children moved on to their next spelling steps.

Here is a Bronze and Silver spelling list.

Try out the Spelling Tennis game or the Anagrams game.

Writing

Writing was a great success this week as the children are really starting to get the hang of using sentence starters to create their own sentences. Our sentences this week were about castle characters. The dragon is…, The knight is…, The Prince is…, The Princess…

We are learning to…

~say a sentence out loud to make sure it makes sense and write the words down and put a full stop at the end

~use our bronze and silver words to spell words correctly

~use finger spaces

~ have a go at sounding out new words

Handwriting

We are learning to write the one armed robot letters correctly.

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Numeracy

We are learning to say the tens and ones in numbers up to 20 and beyond.

Fuel the Brain – choose your level

Can you tell someone at home about tens and ones?

We are learning to write the numerals correctly.

We have been trying to check our work using the numbers on the wall to see if they are the right way around. Super checking Primary 1.

PE – Health and Wellbeing

We are learning to use our bodies in a controlled way.

We had a go at a variety of different rolls this week. The pencil roll, the egg roll and the dish roll. We balanced along the bench and jumped off safely and used a bench to practise hopping from side to side.

IDL

We were learning how a pulley works. A pulley is used to lift something that is really heavy! To make a pulley lift the load, we used string/rope and a wheel. The drawbridge in our class castle needs a pulley to lift it just in case there are enemies! We are now thinking about modifying our drawbridge to have two ropes

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A big thanks to Ossian for telling us about his Australian animal adventure. Great knowledge and enthusiasm Ossian!

January 29, 2020m1ssearnshaw

We are really excited for World Book Day here at Crown. We will be celebrating the day with fancy dress, a competition, visitors, class buddying activities and other literacy related work within classes.

Fancy Dress

• Our fancy dress theme is simple this year – come dressed as your favourite book or film character. We would love to see some creative homemade costumes – there is no pressure to go out and buy anything for this.

Story Box Competition

• Get creative and use a shoe box to create a scene from a book (fiction or non-fiction). It could be from your favourite book or from one of the books you are reading at school. Alongside your box, give a short summary or review of your book which will inspire others to read it. Entries will be judged on effort and creativity and winners will be chosen from each class and announced in our World Book Day assembly. There will be certificates and prizes for our winners. (Please bring your story box into school on World Book Day.)
• These will be judged in 3 categories – P1 & P2; P3 & P4 and P5-7. There will be one prize for the most creative story box in each category.

Sharing our Favourite Books

• Pupils are encouraged to bring in their favourite book, comic or magazine for World Book Day. This will be used during independent reading time and in some of our class activities. 

We can’t wait for a great fun-filled book themed day!

January 23, 2020msmac27

Friday 31st January- come dressed in yellow and black and see how long a Conga we can “Bee” in support of Ms MacDonald’s Strictly efforts.

Bobby the Bee will be looking to lead us all in a merry dance. The only sting (sorry) is that we would invite you to bring a donation towards the Hospice. No set amount, just what you can manage. Thank you.

Over the next few weeks we are hoping to make some woking pulleys to create a drawbridge for our castles that lifts up and goes down! If you have any cotton reels or wooden bobbins at home that you are finished with we could put them to good use. Just send them into school. Thanks in advance 🙂

Phonics

I am learning to identify, match and write words with the sound ‘ch’.

Try out this game – watch out as it does have th and wh which we have not yet introduced!

Missing Sounds

Give this dice game a go!

Spelling

I am leaning to spell the bronze words.

Spelling has started! We are working towards the bronze medal certificate and to do this we have to learn to spell the bronze words. It is a little different to phonics work as not all of the words can be sounded out phonetically and some of them just have to be learned.

We have been using some games to practise saying the sounds and letters in order to spell the words.

Spelling Tennis – sit opposite a partner with your legs apart and your feet touching. Use a ball to take turns to roll it and say a sound e.g. and – the first person would say ‘a’ and roll to their partner, their partner would say ‘n’ and roll the ball back and this would be finished with another roll and a shout out of ‘d’, the – roll the ball with a ‘t’, then back again with a ‘h’ and finish with an ‘e’.

Anagrams – on a white board, black board or piece of paper, ask someone at home to choose a bronze spelling word and write the letters down in the wrong order. Can you put the letters in the correct order to make the correct word.

Writing

We are learning to say sentences aloud.

We are learning to use new vocabulary to write about the features of a castle.

We are learning to use our bronze words in sentences.

We had a go at writing about the castle today using the new vocabulary that we learned when we were naming the features of the castle last week. Our sentence starter was:

The castle has…

Numeracy

We are learning the value of numbers.

We have been chatting about numbers and the number system. Some numbers have 1 digit and some have 2. Others have 3 digits and some have 4. The numbers get bigger and bigger. Place value is the value of each digit in a number. We have been looking at what happens to numbers after 10 and what this means when we explain our understanding of numbers. We are learning to use the words tens and ones.

Place Value Basketball – choose the level that suits for you

We are leaning to tell the time using an analogue and digital clock.

Chat at home about your daily routine. What time is breakfast? When does school start/finish? What happens before and after? When is tea time? Is it bath time yet? When is story time? What time do things happen in your home?

IDL

We are learning about places of interest inside the castle.

We are making our play area into a castle.

Expressive arts

We are looking for shapes in artwork. Photos from last week of Inverness at Night 🙂

We are drawing shapes using curved lines.

We are cutting circles and choosing complementary colours to make a ‘Kandinsky’ inspired Art Attack.

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… to check snacks and lunch boxes to ensure that there are no nuts as an ingredient in items that children bring to school, this includes bars, nut butters and Nutella.

Many thanks for your support with this 🙂