Primary 1

Phonics

This week we are learning to the sound’ck’. Encourage your child to say only one sound – not ‘c’ and ‘k’. We found lots of words that had the sound’ck’ and we used our knowledge of rime to help us. We made lists of words that ended with – ack, eck, ick, ock, uck.

Have fun at home! Can you think of any words that we did not find today?

Have a go of these games.

Reading

This week to help us understand what we read, we are learning to make a picture in our head as we read or listen to the words of a text, story or poem. We are learning that the picture must match closely to the words we read.

Handwriting

When you practise at home – say it out loud to aid pencil control.

Your pencil needs to follow the words and directions you say our loud .

Writing

This week we are writing a story based on ‘The Dream’. We are going to work hard on ‘Who’ is in the story and ‘What’ happens.

We are learning to

• put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence
• use a full stop to show the end of a sentence
• use finger spaces between words
• use our bronze/silver spelling words in our writing

Numeracy

We are learning to solve subtraction problems using materials or counting back.

We are learning place value of numbers.

Subtraction Train – click on the take away wagon to practise

Minus Mission – shoot down the correct spaceship

Flash Interactive – place value – how may dots can you see?

Always have fun!

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To round off the week we had a chat about what jobs the children would like to do when they grow up?

So many amazing talents out there-we love it!

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The lady who looks after the goats was very sad as the bridge for the goats had been washed away in the flooding! She could not see the goats so we decided that we would build a new bridge for her to let her visit the goats.

We had lots of ideas about the types of jobs that would need to be done to build a bridge and came up with these:

• designer/engineer
• builder
• truck/lorry driver
• safety officer
• decorator
• scuba diver

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Today we continued our learning about electricity with the help of some S3 students from Millburn Academy. We learned how to make a simple circuit and how to make the bulb light up. Then we learned about the symbols we use for bulbs, wires and batteries, and used them to draw our own circuits.

Thank you so much Mr Crawshaw and Millburn S3s!

This will be another exciting week. It is Careers Week where we will be working on targets for DYW (Developing the Young Workforce). In Primary 1 we are also thinking about Science this week and will be working towards our Science targets in Electricity.

Literacy

Phonics

We are learning to recognise and use the sound ‘oo’. We are learning to write words and sentences using this sound. Can you write a list or a sentence using words with ‘oo’?

Writing

We are learning how to create posters this week. We are making an Electricity Safety poster.

To be really successful we will need to:

• have a big title
• clear simple message
• big picture

Handwritng

We are going to keep practising the curly caterpillar letters. We are really trying hard to ensure the children form these letters correctly. When you practise at home ask your child to say out loud: round, up and down. Their pencil should stay on the page until the letter is complete, rather than adding bits on to the letter to finish it.

Numeracy

We are solving subtraction problems within 5/10/20 by counting the objects or counting on or back.

Try out this game at home. Choose your level.

Smoothie Maths

We are working hard at counting back to find out how many – this can be tricky and we use hops to count back to make it easy to stop on the correct answer.

Science

• We are learning to identify things around us that use electricity.
• We know that electricity can be dangerous and show how to stay safe inside and outside.
• We can say why electricity is important in our lives.
• We can investigate how to make a simple circuit.

We have Mr Crawshaw and a group of S3 visiting from Millburn to help us investigate and use the circuit equipment.

DYW – The Billy Goats Gruff

We can talk about the different jobs we would need to do to build a bridge for the goats to cross.

We know that people do different jobs in our community.

In groups we will be working cooperatively to build bridges using different materials.

Even on World Book Day we can be busy doing our IDL. We worked hard on our pulley systems to make our model castle drawbridges go up and down! Tell someone at home how a pulley works. Our key words are: load, wheel and chains (they may call it rope as we used rope in school).

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We have P4/5 working with us this afternoon. We had to choose a slip and find the matching book. Our buddies read the story to us and together we decorated a stone to create a character or image from the book. Thanks for all of your help P4/5.

WOW -What a great buzz today from all of the children. They were all ready to join in with sharing their books and said really encouraging things to the children who made story boxes. I’m just a bit sad that I could not read 21 books -apologies but we did have Sara the Librarian in from Millburn to do a bookbug session. So we did have lots of book learning and enjoyment today! There are lots of photos – sorry again! Bear with me as I need to reformat some of the photos as I took them live by accident 🙂

A busy week ahead…

Phonics

We are learning to identify and use the sound ‘ee’.

Dinosaur’s Eggs – Choose ‘ee’ sound. Click to match the word you hear with the word you read.

Reading

We are learning to read sight words and find sentences and punctuation in our reading books.

Help a Hedgehog – a great reading game. Choose phase 2 or 3 and see how you get on?

Handwriting

We are practising writing the caterpillar letters. We are thinking about the size of our letters as we write them. We have been practising writing 3 and 4 letter words using our best handwriting! Can you write a word list or write a phonic phrase e.g. a run in the sun, a bag of nuts, pots and pans or a red bed in the shed?

Writing

We are learning to write about our personal experiences. We will write sentences about what we saw at Urquhart Castle.

We have some writing targets that we have been working hard at. We are learning to:

• put a capital letter at the start of a sentence
• use a full stop at the end (to stop the words running away)
• put a finger space between each word

Numeracy

We are developing the concept of subtraction and will begin by talking about what we know about subtraction/take away.

We are learning to solve subtraction problems within 5/10/20 by counting the objects or by counting on and back.

Rabbit Take Away – click easy to take away within 10

Fruit splat Subtraction – choose level 1 to work on take away within 10 and then relaxed mode

Monster Subtraction – if you are feeling more confident and are subtracting within 20

Music

We are learning to keep a steady beat while singing simple songs, distinguish faster and slower rhythms and understand speaking and singing voice.

HWB

We are learning to throw and object for distance and accuracy and hit the ball at a moving target in a team game.

Tell someone at home what we had to do to be really successful at dodge ball. What did we do to get better?

We have been practising our handwriting and writing words and sentences using our best handwriting!

We are finishing our block on addition with a place mat activity to show our understanding. We have to make a model, explain our strategy, draw a picture and tell a story.

We sorted silly sentences to put the words in the correct order. In our teams we then put the sentences in order to tell the story.

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