Author: Mrs Fowler

We have been busy this week learning how to record the weather on a chart. We use charts everyday to record who is here and what our lunch choices are. Charts are a really helpful way to organise information. We had fun designing symbols to match the type of weather.

We are learning about ‘day’ and ‘night’. We talked about the things we do during the day and the things we do at night time. We made a model to show why we have day and night.

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Phonics

We are learning to identify the sounds ‘w’ and ‘j’

We are learning to build sounds to make three letter words. Try 4 letter words if you like a challenge!

Give this a go – use bottle tops, stones, lego bricks or magnetic letters to build some words.

Numeracy

We are learning to add sets together. We have been thinking about doubles.

Writing

We are learning to listen to a video clip to learn owl facts.

Tell someone at home what you have learned about owls.

Phonics

We are learning to recognise the sounds ‘u’ and ‘h’ and we are blending sounds together to make and break 3 letter words.

Writing

We are learning to use write for different purposes e.g. signs, labels, cards, postcards, letters.

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Numeracy

We are learning to add sets together and count how many altogether.

We are learning to use and find ordinal numbers.

An Ordinal Number is a number that tells the position of something in a list, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

Try these Ordinal Number games:

Ordinal Number – click onto the correct fruit

Car Race Order – drag the cars into position

IDL

We have waved goodbye to Pudsey and welcomed in a new character called ‘Plop’. He is a baby barn owl and we met him in a lovely book called ‘The Owl Who Is Afraid Of The Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson.

We will use this story in our next learning journey called ‘The Great Outdoors’. This context will cover learning about day and night, the weather, seasons and recording information.

The children help to plan this learning as we chat about what we already know and think about things we want to make, do, write and say.

We started by creating a dark den in a tree as Plop likes to watch what is going on from the top of a tall tree.

We are learning to describe changes during seasons.

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The excitement is mounting as we plan to represent our class at the Crown Christmas Service.

The P1 children have a little Christmas Message that they would love to share with you! To do this we will sing a few songs with our biggest and best singing voices and smiles. We will split into groups to make headbands and wear coloured t-shirts (details to follow-it will just be a t-shirt rather than a costume, we think!) for our performance.

The Church Service will be on Friday the 20th December @9.30am in Crown Church. We look forward to seeing you there.

We had visitors in with a reading challenge today! It is called 4-4-2 Kick Off Your Reading. Sign up at the library and as you borrow books you can collect stamps. After you have collected 4 stamps you can exchange it for a free child’s ticket for a SPFL football match. See the reading challenge cards at your local library for details.

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We were made very welcome at the bank yesterday when we went down to deposit our money for Children in Need. We met some lovely lovely bank employees who helped us use the counting machine, deposit our money and gifted us with a bag from the bank. They really enjoyed having us visit.

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The bank are keen to have some photos of our visit. If anyone has any objections with us sharing photos with the bank, please get in touch. Many thanks for your support.

We want to say ‘Thank You’ so much to everyone for helping us raise money for Children in Need. We decided a great way to round off our learning in money would be to take all of the coins we collected down to the counting machine in the bank. We had to pour the coins in and we got a receipt to tell us the value of all of the coins. The final total for the dress down and collect the coins was…

£380.44

Phonics

We are learning to identify l, f, o and b.

We are learning to blend sounds to build words.

Try our some of these games on Topmarks to practise identifying and using sounds.

Garden Leaves

Hanging Monkeys

The Painting Game

Numeracy

We are learning to identify coins and add coins together to make a given value.

Try the Coin Game. Select the counting tab and this will let you practise adding coins together.

Take your piggy bank out and use the coins to make a shop at home. We are going to do this next week in school! What will we need to make a shop?

Handwriting

We are leaning to form letters correctly.

We are finishing the Curly Caterpillar letters this week, working hard on f and e.

One of the skills we are working on this term is ‘Representing our Class’.

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The children told me that we represent our class when we…

are kind to others, we help our friends if they fall, we go on a message for Mrs Fowler, we collect money for Children in Need, we speak up for our class, we act nicely, we behave really well if we are out of the class.

Really proud teachers! 🙂 Well done Primary 1