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The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground.

Literacy

This week we learned two more sounds: ‘m’ and ‘h’.

We had lots of fun watching Geraldine the Giraffe, playing lots of games about our new sounds and singing the Jolly Phonic’s songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74kIrFdOaPw

We also continued with our reading this week and read a new book together. . We are learning how to make predictions about a text with the information we have in the text and in the illustrations, we are using the words that are on our books to make sentences. We are working very hard on developing all our reading skills.

Literacy Home Learning:

Numeracy

This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.

The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and spatial awareness when running around the playground. We also have been learning about different ways to move around the playground such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping etc. This week we had lots of fun practising the different ways we can move our bodies. Why not practice some of these at home for fun?

This week we also continued our outdoor learning autumn topic. We went on a scavenger hunt in the playground for signs of autumn and we were so excited to find a pumpkin there! We had lots of discussions about how it got there and where the children thought it had come from. We also got messy painting and painted autumn leaves using our hands to create them and then used a black pen to add detail.

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We also continued to practice our funky fingers. This helps with holding pens and pencils to get ready for writing, we started using playdough to help make our hands and fingers stronger. We have been having lots of fun following, the videos below. If you have any playdough at home why not practice at home!

We had a lovely end to the week and the term by getting muddy and having fun playing with the loose parts outdoors. The children played and explored the different types of equipment. It was so lovely to see the children experimenting with water, making slides, bridges and even digging for treasure!

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We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

• Play Three for me, one for you . The adult says three numbers in a sequence, either forwards or backwards, the child says the next number in the sequence. e.g. 6,7,8………9  or 14,13, 12…….11. You can choose the level of challenge by staying within 10, or going up to 20.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• Count items using 1-1 correspondence. Put down a quantity of small items, for example raisins, buttons, counters, small stones or lego bricks. Ask your child to count them carefully, pointing to, or moving each one in turn. can they count the total accurately? Increase the level of challenge by using a larger collection
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘s’ ‘r’ ‘d’, ‘o’ ‘m’ ‘h’ and ‘n’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?
• Could you find out any interesting facts about autumn? Look outside for signs of autumn, can you take a photo of them or draw them?

Happy Holidays!

• A reminder that next week it is the October break. Children are back to school on Tuesday 27th October (Staff will be working on Monday 26th October).
• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Tuesday 27th of October. We will have P.E on the Tuesday this week.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.
• The children are taking home today the bag with the spare clothes. This will give you an opportunity to check the items needed for next term.
• Please remember to label all items with your child’s name. We still have items that haven’t been claimed since August. Remember to label hats and gloves too!

This term has been very exciting and full of lots of lovely learning, new friendships and fun. It was so lovely to have your children for their first day of school and see their development over the last 10 weeks! I am really excited about working with the class for the rest of the year and can’t wait to hear all about your holiday adventures! Please take photos and bring them in when we are back at school as I would love to hear about all the fun things you get up to!

Have a lovely holiday, stay safe and I will see you on the 27th.

From Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground.

Literacy

This week we learned two more sounds: ‘d’ and ‘o’.

When we learn a new sound, we love watching Geraldine the Giraffe to help introduce the new learning. You could watch these again at home. (video below) We also learn the jolly phonics song for each sound. This week we even pretended to be noisy aeroplanes flying around the classroom. The full list of jolly phonics songs is linked below, find the sounds we know and have a practice at home!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74kIrFdOaPw

Literacy Home Learning:

Numeracy

This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.

The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and spatial awareness when running around the playground. We also have been learning about different ways to move around the playground such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping etc. This week we had lots of fun races which made us work as a team and work together as a group.

This week we also started our new outdoor learning autumn topic. This week we talked about autumn and what it looks like. We looked outside for signs of autumn and had fun drawing them. We also got messy painting and painted autumn trees using our hands to create the tree branches and corks/paint brushes to make the leaves. These turned out so lovely – here are some of the trees.

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We also started something new this week. To help us with holding pens and pencils to get ready for writing, we started using playdough to help make our hands and fingers stronger. We have been having lots of fun following, the videos below. If you have any playdough at home why not practice at home!

We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

• It would be lovely if all P1s could practice recognising and writing their own name. This is something which will help with the daily routines in P1 and a vital skill to assist their learning. You could practice making your name out of materials found in your garden, creating it out of playdough, writing it in sand or colouring it in.
• Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• Ask and adult to clap their hands so many times, can you count how many times they clapped? For an extra tricky challenge try clapping your hands at different speeds, for example 2 slow and 3 quick. Can your child count the number of claps?
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘i’, ‘e’, ‘s’ ‘r’ ‘d’, ‘o’ and ‘n’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?
• Could you find out any interesting facts about autumn? Look outside for signs of autumn, can you take a photo of them or draw them?

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed playing in the castle with Georgie and Alistair.” – Islay C

“I liked playing in the book corner with Sofie, Isla B and Abigail.” – Chloe

“I enjoyed playing in the brick corner with Kieran.” – Logan

“I liked doing my autumn tree painting.” – Maisie

“I enjoyed painting my autumn tree.” – Georgie

“I liked playing in the brick corner with Archie and Alistair.” – Maximos

Happy Weekend!

• Thank you for understanding the technical difficulties of parents evening this term. I hope I managed to answer any questions you had and gave you enough information of how your child has been settling into school. As i said, if you have any further questions please get in touch with the office to arrange another phone call or meeting.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E. (only on Thursday next week)
• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday.

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning and time in school, it is greatly appreciated. I hope you have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

From Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground. Sorry there won’t be any lovely pictures on the blog this week but we will have lots to share with you next week.

Thank you with your support of only bringing in your child’s purple book bag to school this week, the cloakroom has been so much tidier and we can get access to our coats much easier.

Literacy

• This week we learned two more sounds: ‘r’ and ‘e’.
• The P1s are becoming much more confident with blending sounds together to create words. It is so lovely to see their development.
• In writing we did ‘this is me.’ We each had a photo of ourselves to help imagine a story. We could be anywhere we wanted as long as we drew ourselves. Some P1s told a story about going to the zoo, walking in a garden with pretty flowers, going to the moon, being on the sun. Lots of lovely ideas! We also have been continuing to practice making our drawings very detailed and taking out time to do them.
• We also continued to talk about the ORT reading characters in preparation for starting reading next week. We have been trying to recognise their names and read them confidently.

Numeracy

• This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.
• We also started our first non-number maths topic of 2D shapes. We looked at different types of shapes and their properties (corners/sides) and went on a shape hunt around the classroom. We then drew what we found and talked about the different types of shapes that are around us on a daily basis. For example – buses are rectangles.
• The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and throwing skills. This week we were practising throwing bean bags into hoops from a distance and working together as a team in our exciting races.

We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

Things to Try at Home

• Practice reading the ORT character names on the blue sheet that was sent home on Tuesday. See if you can read them confidently.
• Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• Ask and adult to clap their hands so many times, can you count how many times they clapped? For an extra tricky challenge try clapping your hands at different speeds, for example 2 slow and 3 quick. Can your child count the number of claps?
• Can you recognise dice patterns within different shapes?
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘n’ ‘s’ ‘r’ ‘e’ and ‘i’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?

Happy Weekend!

• I will be teaching the class Mon-Fri next week.
• I look forward to meeting with you via the parents booking app for parents evening on Thursday night and Friday afternoon. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have about your child’s learning and time in school.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.
• This was emailed home last week regarding reading in P1. Here is another copy in case you didn’t see it.

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning and time in school, it is greatly appreciated. I hope you have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

From Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground.

Each P1 pupil were given a purple book bag today. Although at the moment reading books are not being sent home, we would like the children to bring the purple bag to school each day. It will be used to send home any paper communications which are required, and for the return of any forms. If the children have drawings or worksheets which they have completed in school then they will bring them home in the purple bags too. The children’s snack can also be popped in the bag, negating the need to bring a bulky schoolbag. Lunch bags and water bottles can be carried separately. If your child has a Tupperware type lunch box rather than one with a handle, it can be brought in a lightweight carrier bag such as one from a supermarket. We appreciate that the children love the novelty of having a special schoolbag, but current covid related restrictions on cloakrooms and storage of bags make it tricky to store the large quantity of rucksacks appropriately. 

Please check and empty your child’s book bag daily to avoid a large build up of contents which may hide important communications. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Literacy

This week we learned two more sounds: ‘s’ and ‘i’.

We are still loving to watch Geraldine the Giraffe to help introduce the new learning. There is a video for every letter so you could watch the sounds we have learned at school again at home. (video below) We also learn the jolly phonics song for each sound. This week we even took our snakes on a walk around the classroom and pretended to be mice covered in sticky ink. This helps us learn the sounds as it brings the stories about the sounds to life. We also enjoyed trying to blend the sounds together to start making words. We used magnetic letters on whiteboards to do this.The full list of jolly phonics songs is linked below, find the sounds we know and have a practice at home! It would be good if you could practice the sounds we have learned with your child by recognising the letter, saying the sound and blending sounds together to make words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc

We also did another piece of writing this week. We talked about what it looks like to fasten up a coat or jacket. We practised putting on our coats with a partner and looked at what their hands and body were doing. This helped us draw a story of a time when we have had to put on our coats ourselves. We then told our story in a picture where we had to draw a very detailed and colourful picture. Well done P1 for completing your another piece of writing!

Here is our literacy home learning:

Numeracy

This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.

We also have continued to practise writing numbers with the help of our number animal friends. Each number has a story which helps the children to remember what the number looks like. This week we learned about Naughty Nine and Tiger Ten. The children have loved learning how to write the numbers with the help of the animals! I asked each child to choose 3 numbers they find the trickiest to write to practice at home. They can practice writing them, making them out of sticks or leaves. Writing them in sad. Drawing them on somebodies back or if you can think of a fun and exciting way to practice drawing numbers, I would love to see their work!

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The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and throwing skills. This week we were practising throwing bean bags into hoops from a distance and working together as a team in our exciting races.

This week we also continued our castles topic. Thank you so much for bringing in the materials so that we could build our castles. The children loved building them and getting messy painting. This allowed for the children to be creative and explore different materials to build their very own castle!

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We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

• Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• Ask and adult to clap their hands so many times, can you count how many times they clapped? For an extra tricky challenge try clapping your hands at different speeds, for example 2 slow and 3 quick. Can your child count the number of claps?
• Can you recognise dice patterns within different shapes?
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘n’ ‘s’ and ‘i’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed doing maths this week.” – Sofie

“I liked making my castle.” – Isla

“I liked playing in the castle.” – Chloe

“I liked playing outside with my friends.” – Alex

“I liked jumping on the number squares.” – Haniya

“I enjoyed building my castle.” – Abigail

Happy Weekend!

• Ms Leach is teaching the class on Monday.
• Parents evening times can be booked from Monday via the email sent home.
• Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you could drop off and collect your child from the top of the steps in the upper playground. The small courtyard outside the classroom sometimes becomes too busy, especially now with 3 classes dismissing in this area.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.
• This was emailed home last week regarding reading in P1. Here is another copy in case you didn’t see it.

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning and time in school, it is greatly appreciated. I hope you have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

From Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground.

Literacy

This week we learned two more sounds: ‘p’ and ‘n’.

When we learn a new sound, we love watching Geraldine the Giraffe to help introduce the new learning. You could watch these again at home. (video below) We also learn the jolly phonics song for each sound. This week we even pretended to be noisy aeroplanes flying around the classroom. The full list of jolly phonics songs is linked below, find the sounds we know and have a practice at home!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc

We enjoyed painting pink pigs and noisy aeroplanes to help us learn the new sounds. We also enjoyed practising all the sounds we know so far outside. We drew the letters with chalk, made the letters out of leaves, sticks and rocks and also practised writing them in the sand pit. Some P1s also wrote words using the sounds we had learned so far. Here is what we did.

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We also did our first piece of writing this week. We talked about a time when they had to reach up high for something. We walked around the classroom pretending to reach up high for something, imagining what it was and why we wanted it. We also thought about if there was anyone else around to help us reach it and where exactly it was, for example, up high in the sky, on a big tree, on top of a tall shelf etc. We then told our story in a picture where we had to draw a very detailed and colourful picture. Well done P1 for completing your first piece of writing!

Here is our literacy home learning:

Numeracy

This week we continued the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting claps, recognising dice patterns and random dot patterns and counting in sequences. The children are already showing that they are retaining the knowledge they are learning, which is showing greatly in our small group time.

We also have continued to practise writing numbers with the help of our number animal friends. Each number has a story which helps the children to remember what the number looks like. This week we learned about Six, Seven and Eight. The children have loved learning how to write the numbers with the help of the animals!

The video below is also great for practising the skills we are currently learning in numeracy. Have a go at home and challenge someone in your family to have a go with you.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we have been working on our fitness and spatial awareness when running around the playground. We also have been learning about different ways to move around the playground such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping etc.

This week we also started our castles topic. This is our first child-led topic in P1 and we have had such a fun week! Last week the children had been writing letters to Kings and Queens, building castles in the brick corner and playing pretend games in the house corner. This was the perfect stimulus for the topic and on Tuesday we planned what we would like to learn about. We talked about what we knew already about castles, what we would like to learn and how we would like to learn about castles. We then learned all about the different parts of a castle, went on a virtual tour of Edinburgh Castle and watched some videos about what castles were like a long time ago. We also learned about the different people who lived in castles and created our own Coat of Arms/Royal Crests. We also designed our own castles we would like to live in. To finish the week off, we created a giant castle together which has transformed our house corner into a great big lovely castle! Thank you to everyone who has provided materials for next week’s learning where each child will be building their own mini castle.

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This week we also tried something new. After lunch time and playing outside, we sometimes were a little bit too energetic. So everyday we have been coming inside from lunch and doing a very brief mindfulness meditation. This allows us to relax and calm down after having lots of fun outside and settle us before continuing learning. The children are becoming experts and meditating and finding ways to relax and calm themselves. Have a practise at home, if you have time!

We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

• It would be lovely if all P1s could practice recognising and writing their own name. This is something which will help with the daily routines in P1 and a vital skill to assist their learning. You could practice making your name out of materials found in your garden, creating it out of playdough, writing it in sand or colouring it in.
• Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.
• Practice using your ‘bunny ears’. Ask your child to show you a number on their fingers using the bunny ears method. They should practice holding up the number of fingers straight away without needing to count each finger. They then look at their fingers to check if they are correct. This is great for numeracy development.
• Ask and adult to clap their hands so many times, can you count how many times they clapped? For an extra tricky challenge try clapping your hands at different speeds, for example 2 slow and 3 quick. Can your child count the number of claps?
• Practice making words out of the sounds we have learned so far – ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ and ‘n’ – for an extra challenge can you write and sound out the words you have made?
• Could you find out any interesting facts about castles by talking to someone in your family? This would be great for both our castles topic and talking and listening skills.

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed playing in the castle with Islay.” – Georgie

“I enjoyed learning about castles.” – Maximos

“I enjoyed drawing at the craft table.” – Alistair

“I enjoyed making cakes with the numicon with Joe.” – Jack

“I enjoyed learning all about the castles.” – Barney

“I enjoyed making chocolate factories and hotels in the brick corner.” – Murray

Happy Weekend!

• Some parents have been asking about parents evening. We still do not know what format this will take place in yet but they will be the week of 5.10.20. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
• Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you could drop off and collect your child from the top of the steps in the upper playground. The small courtyard outside the classroom sometimes becomes too busy, especially now with 3 classes dismissing in this area.
• P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E. (only on Thursday next week)
• This was emailed home regarding reading in P1. Here is another copy in case you didn’t see it.

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning and time in school, it is greatly appreciated. I hope you have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

From Miss McGillivray

For the next couple of weeks in P1L we will be doing a mini Castle topic. Last week I observed many of the children writing letters to Kings and Queens, building castles with the bricks and pretending to be royal in the house corner. So I’m hoping this topic will be exciting and engaging for our learning.

Next week we will be building our own castles out of different materials, so if possible could your child bring in any cardboard boxes, shoe boxes, plastic containers etc, they would like to use by Friday. This is so that all items can be stored in the classroom cupboard and quarantined over the weekend.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another great week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends both inside the classroom and outside in the playground. Please ensure that all children have a waterproof jacket, so we can go outside to play in all weathers.

Literacy

This week we learned our first two sounds! ‘a’ and ‘t’

We talked about words which we knew that began with the sounds and practised writing the letters. We also learned the jolly phonics songs for both sounds and had lots of fun singing them together. You could practice the songs and actions at home with your child!

Numeracy

This week we started the SEAL maths programme which teaches children the foundation skills in maths. We practised counting forwards and backwards to 10 and beyond together, counting out collections and trying to show finger patterns without counting/looking at our hands. These are all things you could practice at home.

We also have been practising writing numbers with the help of our number animal friends. Each number has a story which helps the children to remember what the number looks like. This week we learned about Greedy Zero the Gorilla, Penguin One, Ticklish Two the Swan, Butterfly Three, Feathery Four the Bird and Frisky Five the Kangaroo. The children have loved learning how to write the numbers with the help of the animals!

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we practised listening to instructions by playing games, getting into groups of a particular number and working on our spatial awareness when running around the playground. We also worked on our fitness by warming up and doing a mini fitness routine together.

This week we also did a mini topic all about friendship! We learned why it is important to be a good friend, how we can be a good friend and how we can be kind to people in our class. We also learned about why it is important to have kind hands whilst at school and at home. With a partner we traced our hands and decorated them with lots of lovely feathers and pompoms. This is to remind us that are hands are to be kind to everyone around us. Here are our kind hands.

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In outdoor learning this week our art focus was to create a picture using natural resources found in the playground with a partner. Lots of the pairs decided to make a fire, which many of us pretended to roast marshmallows on and warm are hands on. Some pairs also decided to make types of food such as a Pizza. The P1s had lots of fun working with a new friend. In relation to our friendship topic, we also played a fun and exciting pretending/challenge game. Each child was given either an orange or green piece of paper. Each new challenge we had to find someone who had the opposite colour of card to work with. For each challenge the pair had to decide and imagine how they would overcome it. Some of the challenges were, crossing a river, climbing a really tall tree, cooking their favourite food and creating a silly dance. We had lots of fun playing this game!

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We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. There is always lots of fun things to do in the classroom to support our learning and play.

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Things to Try at Home

We would love it if the P1s could continue to practice their independence skills. These have improved greatly over the week but could still be quicker and smoother. Try and practice: Changing shoes (fastening buckles and Velcro themselves, making sure they are on the right foot), putting on, zipping up jackets (and turning sleeves the correct way round), opening snacks themselves and tidying up after play.

Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.

Practice recognising their name and practice writing their name with playdough, sand and other natural materials you can find. They could also use these materials to practice writing numbers.

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed playing outside during P.E.” – Barney

“I enjoyed playing with the bricks. I built a big castle.” – Islay C

“I enjoyed drawing at the craft table.” – Abigail

“I enjoyed learning and playing with the numicon with Barney and Joe.” – Jack

“I enjoyed playing in the house corner.” – Chloe

Happy Weekend!

You should now be able to view your child’s learning targets on the E-Journals, if you are having any problems with this please do not hesitate to get in touch!

Next week Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday.

P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

From Miss McGillivray

Welcome to the Primary 1 Lion’s blog!

The Lion’s have had another fantastic week in Primary 1! We have had lots of fun playing with our friends and exploring new areas of the playground. Please ensure that all children have a waterproof jacket, so we can go outside to play in all weathers.

The Primary 1s have done so well at learning our daily routines and they are beginning to do more without support. I am so proud of them for trying and working really hard in school!

Literacy

This week we continued to read some of the Oxford Reading Tree stories. We learned more about the main characters and continued to answer questions which connected the stories to our own lives.

We also finished hearing about everyone’s memory boxes! This has been such a lovely way to get to know a little bit more about the other pupils in the class! Well done to all the Lions for being brave and sharing their favourite and special things with the class!

This week we have also been practising our sounds with Miss McGillivray and Ms Leach! We are very excited to start teaching the sounds from next week.

Numeracy

This week we have continued to use our number fans to help us with our counting. We have been playing lots of maths games as a class on the smart board, which have helped us to develop our number recognition and counting skills up to 10 and beyond. We also have been practising our knowledge of ordering numbers by using a washing line to sort the numbers into the correct order.

Other Areas

P1 has also been having lots of fun playing outside in the playground. In P.E we practised listening to instructions by playing games, getting into groups of a particular number and working on our spatial awareness when running around the playground.

This week we also did a mini Bear topic! We learned about Brown Bears, Black Bears, Polar Bears and Panda Bears! We also linked the topic into our Outdoor Learning! In pairs the children had to look in the playground and find natural materials to create a picture. We also had lots of fun drawing Pandas! Here is our artwork from this week!

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We have had lots of fun developing our social skills by playing with our peers in the classroom. We have lots of fun drawing pictures and making crafts, playing in the home corner and reading in the book corner. We also have lots of fun building castles and towers with the construction blocks. Every Friday we draw our favourite moment from the week in our Reflective Friday Journals and an adult will scribe what their drawing is about.

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Things to Try at Home

We would love it if the P1s could continue to practice their independence skills. These have improved greatly over the week but could still be quicker and smoother. Try and practice: Changing shoes (fastening buckles and Velcro themselves, making sure they are on the right foot), putting on, zipping up jackets (and turning sleeves the correct way round), opening snacks themselves and tidying up after play.

Ask your child to give you X amount of various things. For example sticks, leaves, stones. Whatever you can find. This will help with our counting skills.

Practice recognising their name and practice writing their name with playdough, sand and other natural materials you can find. They could also use these materials to practice writing numbers.

P1 Lion’s Favourite Things of the Week!

“I enjoyed playing in the brick corner.” – Kieran

“I enjoyed playing Police station in the home corner.” – Logan

“I enjoyed playing with my friends and having fun.” – Isla

“I enjoyed learning about different types of bears.” – Alex

“I enjoyed drawing my Panda.” – Georgie

Happy Weekend!

Next week Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday.

P.E will be on Mondays and Thursdays – please come dressed and ready for P.E.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

From Miss McGillivray