Our Learning Blog
We are all feeling Christmassy! Many thanks to all the children in Primary 1 for an outstanding performance. You dit it! You represented our class beautifully.
A very big ‘thank you’ for all of the kind and thoughtful gifts. They are much appreciated as is the help and support offered by you throughout the year. I hope Santa is good to you all. Wishing you all a safe and wonderful holiday. See you in the New Year. 🙂
Phonics
We have been learning to identify ‘z’, ‘qu’ and ‘x’.
We have been learning to form letters correctly.
We are still working hard at forming the caterpillar letters correctly. It would be great if you could have a go at home. Work on the big actions that are needed to embed the movements which will aid letter formation. Practise with paint on big pieces of paper, use your playdough to roll out the dough and make letters, write in the air with your finger or have a go with a stick if you visit the beach. 🙂 The children will bring home a copy of the caterpillar letters so that you can see the correct formation.
To be successful we:
~start at the top
-come round and down and back up
~say the action out loud as lots of children can form the letters correctly if they say it aloud but do not use correct formation at other times.
~correct or assist your child to make the correct movements. If they keep doing it the wrong way this will become learned and ‘practise makes permanent’ so children must be supported to make the correct movements at this early stage.
Numeracy
We are learning to count backwards.
Just a wee reminder that we are heading to the Church for a dress rehearsal at 9.30am tomorrow so it would be great if all t-shirts for our P1 Christmas Message performance could be taken in then.
Big thanks for the extra white t-shirts that have been handed in for use at the Church 🙂 Much appreciated.
Elves – Cody, Gregor, Antos, Leo, Conor, Lucas, Finlay, Alex, Krishang, Jack, Finn, Elsie, Rory, AJ – Red or green t-shirt
Stars – Martha, Isla, Zoe, Cara, Stanley, Callum, Tom, Elspeth, Abby, Sarah, Jake, Jude, Jules, Lucy, Reka – White t-shirt
Donkeys – Cory, Nadia, Hasanain, Jonah, Daniel, Lena, Katie, Ishbel, Rishik, Arrianna, Sophie, Hibbah – brown, grey, black or dark t-shirt
Big apologies for the lack of information about the Donkeys. This section was deleted accidentally!
Hope to see you all on Friday as the children are really excited to perform.
This week we have introduced the initial sound: ‘v’ and ‘y’. Keep practising identifying sounds and spotting them in the books you share at home. Have a game of I spy. This is a great way to practise sounds.
Numeracy
We are learning to count back from 10 and 20. We are trying hard to say the teen words clearly sometimes we get muddled and say twenty, ninety, eighty, seventy, sixty so please help us make sure that we say the ‘teen’ words rather than the ‘ty’ words.
Try this game
Handwriting
We have been learning to form the ladder letters correctly.
To be successful in writing these sounds we:
-practise with our fingers in the air
-start at the top and move our finger or pencil down
hold our pencil correctly
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.
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.
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.
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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