Primary 1

Our favourite part of the day is when we listen to a story together. This helps children learn lots of reading skills which develop as as they learn to rhyme, clap syllables, retell a story using picture clues, recognise and use sounds and read words.

In our big learning each week we will also focus on being successful readers. We are all working at individual reading targets. Here are some ways that you can support this learning at home.

To be really successful I can:

• hold the book the right way (Mrs Fowler always tries to trick us by holding the book upside down!)
• turn the pages of the book – one page at a time!
• retell the story in my own words using the picture clues
• point to the title, the picture and the author
• understand that I read from left to right
• point to the words as I read them and find words and sounds when I am asked
• match a spoken word to one in print
• recognise some sight words

A really good game to play with your books at home is ‘retelling’ the story (whether you have a wordless book or one with words). Have fun as your child thinks about what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. Take turns to say a sentence each to make up the story. when one person is finished a sentence then the other person says what happens next until the story is finished.

Have fun with books – love them! Read, Read, Read 🙂

We are learning to count and clap syllables in words.

Give it a go at home.  How many syllables in each word?

We are working really hard in school to develop all of the skills we need to have before we learn to read.  These skills develop in children at different stages and you can help at home by having fun with books and language. Here are some ideas of things you can do at home.

Just wait for it…

Look how tidily we can get changed for PE! Thought you would be impressed.

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We have been learning to be active and healthy! We have been jumping in style and hitting and stopping the ball for Shinty Skills (twice in one day for some: ) )

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We are learning to identify and say the numbers in order to 10, 20 and even as far as 100! 🙂

We have been learning to count/draw to match an amount.

We have been working hard at forming our numerals correctly.

Here are some games to try at home. Find the level that suits your child and have fun!

Balloon Pop to 10 https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonCount10.htm

Balloon Pop to 20 https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonCount20.htm

Give the dog a bone – number to 100 https://www.interactive-resources.co.uk. In interactive resources use the Username: crownprimary and Password: crownprimary to access the folders. Scroll down to Mrs Fowler and Ms MacMillan and find the game ‘Give the dog a bone’. Launch to play.

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We will be learning the sounds ‘s’ and ‘I’ this week. We have been learning to identify the sound, say the sound, draw something beginning with that sound and we have started to practise writing the sound! Phew – busy week.

Here are some of the songs and actions we have been using to help us learn.

Play I spy at home! Can you find the objects beginning with…?

Rights Respecting Russel (AKA Humpty Dumpty) helped us this week with our skills. We are developing a really important skill – ‘working together cooperatively with others’.

The challenge was to build Humpty Dumpty a new wall! To be really successful working together we can:

• talk and listen together

• build one model (not one each! :-))

• stay with our team

• take turns and share

Phonics – We are learning to identify and say the sound.

This week we started our phonics learning with the sound ‘a’. We played I spy and did lots of listening to the word as we said it out loud to match sounds and letters. We made apples for the wall and had to draw pictures beginning with ‘a’.

Maths –

We are learning to count to match.

We are learning to form our numbers correctly.

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PE

The children made a great job of getting changed into PE clothes this week and we have been both inside moving rhythmically to music following a beat and outside practising our ball skills.

We are learning a new action rhyme.

Five little monkeys sitting in a tree,

Teasing Mr Crocodile, ‘You can’t catch me!’

Along came Mr Crocodile as quiet as can be…

SNAP…

Ask the children what happens next!!

We are learning to use the ‘snappy crocodile’ pencil grip to help with our handwriting skills and build on our fine motor skills. Great effort everyone 😉

Success goes to P1 and P1/2 this week as they are the classes that have been chosen as ‘best class’ for the weekl We celebrated at assembly as all of the children have settled into school life with ease. So proud of our little learners. 🙂