P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 10.11.23

Nov 10, 2023 Staff...685

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included electrical circuits and the moon.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

l and b

and we introduced the tricky words

me and is

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

leg bin bat lot

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We are learning our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Adding 1

Adding 2

Counting random printed arrays accurately ( when you can’t move the item being counted)

Counting in tens

Counting in tens off the decade

Recognising and ordering numerals to 20

Counting forward and back within 30 ( to 100 for some)

Establishing a collection.

Counting a collection with accurate 1-1 correspondence

Identifying number families ( teens, twenties, 30s etc)

Subitising ( recognising an amount without counting )

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued to make sequences of movements and travelling with our body at different levels

Miss Nicol has been talking to us about electricity, why we need it, how we use it, and how to stay safe.

Looking ahead to next week

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around your house for things that use electricity. Discuss with an adult where the power comes from….. is it mains electricity from a plug and socket, or is it a battery? If it is a battery is it one that you can charge or one you need to replace.

When you are out and about keep your eyes open for solar panels and wind farms.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 10.11.23

Nov 10, 2023Nov 9, 2023 Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information

Loose parts on Monday 13^th
Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school. Please label all the items.

Here is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have learned the vowel diagraphs ou/ow. Here is a video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

Here is another video:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: word, world, work. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote a continuation of the story The Storm Whale. We read the beginning and we had to think about what was going to happen after.

We have started to practice cursive handwriting. This week we have practice i and l. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
Read, write and make the words: mouse, house, loud, sound, shout, south, round, count, out, ground, cow, town, powder, flower, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ou/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word has and how many sounds.
You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths

We have been working on angle, symmetry and transformation. We have been learning to use technology and other methods to describe, follow and record directions using words associated with directions and turns including, full turn, half turn, quarter turn, clockwise, anticlockwise, right turn, left turn. We have used Bee bots and the Bee Bot app on the IPads to reinforce our learning.

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/hungry-pirates/

Ideas for learning at home:

Ask your child to explain to you:

How to get from the kitchen to the toilet (and from different rooms to other rooms). You can pretend to close your eyes and your child has to give you instructions (step by step).
How to get from the school to the park.
Blindfold Game: Create a maze for your child using items like cushions, pillows, bed sheets and other items that won’t harm or hurt your child. Now blindfold your child and give them directions, like “turn left,” “walk straight,” etc., until your child comes out of the maze. Now blindfold yourself and ask your little one to give you the correct directions. This fun activity will help you to teach directions to your child easily.

Other areas

Art

We made Rangoli patterns linked to Diwali.

We have been dribbling using the basketballs.

RME

We are learning about Bible stories. This week we have learned about Jonah and the whale.

We also enjoyed being creative with a box Mrs Imrie gave us. We were to think of a way to use it which could not be its original purpose. We decided to make puppets and put on little shows.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

P1 Koalas Reflective Friday 3.11.23

Nov 3, 2023Nov 3, 2023 Staff..469

Hello everyone, we have had a busy week in school. It was lovely to see so many parents and family members at our drop in today, thank you for coming.

This is what we have been learning this week:

LITERACY

We introduced the new sounds u and f.

In small groups we were thinking about words beginning with these sounds, playing games, and identifying the letters which make these sounds. Some of us were learning how to ‘build’ and ‘blend’ three letter words with the sounds we know.

We also introduced two ‘tricky words’ to and he. Tricky words can not be sounded out but have to be learned. We will be introducing new tricky words on a weekly basis.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Hold up the letters and ask your child to tell you the sound they make. Ask them if they can think of a word beginning with that sound. Play ‘I spy’ using the sounds your child has learnt.

Use letters written on a piece of paper or card to ‘build’ a word. The adult says a three letter word and the child choses the correct sounds to make that word.

An adult makes a three letter word, and the child says the pure sounds of each letter to blend together to read the word.

Write down to and he on a piece of paper or card, hold the cards behind your back then show them to your child and ask them to read the word you have shown them. Your child could practise writing these words, forming the letters the way they have been shown in class.

(If you are unsure about correct letter formation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day).

Writing – we used some of the words we have been learning for our starter sentence this week- I went to the………………

These examples of writing will go in your child’s learning story which they will be bringing home on the 1 December.

NUMERACY AND MATHS

In numeracy we have been practising careful counting and some of us have been adding two numbers together to make amounts totalling numbers between 11-20.

In measure we were using the pan balance to predict then measuring using cubes.

We were predicting which container held the most water then checking to see if we were correct.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Practise careful counting of a group of items. Say the number out loud as you place your finger on each item. How many items can you count correctly?

We were playing running games to improve our fitness and have fun. We participated in various fitness activities at different stations around the gym hall.

HWB

As part of our Health and Wellbeing programme to help build resilience and following on from last week’s introductory assembly, we were discussing the idea of special people in our lives and how they can make us feel happy when things are not going so well. We drew pictures which showed, ‘I am happy when…………’

WALK IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY

As part of exploring and discovering the interesting features of our local environment we enjoyed our walk around Buckstone. We looked at street names, the different types of houses and local amenities such as the park. We posted a letter to Mrs Conlin at the post box, and we were very excited to find out that it arrived the very next day! Mrs Conlin was delighted with her card and message from P1K.

LOOSE PARTS

Next date for loose parts is Tuesday 7 November.

Some examples of learning taking place this week:

Early Learning & Childcare

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P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 27.10.23

Nov 3, 2023Nov 3, 2023 Staff...685

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included fish (particularly flying fish)and umbrellas.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

f and u

and we introduced the tricky words

the and he

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

fin fat tub nut fog fun

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was an umbrella

Maths and numeracy focus

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Adding 1

Adding 2

Counting random printed arrays accurately ( when you can’t move the item being counted)

Counting in tens

Counting in tens off the decade

Recognising and ordering numerals to 20

Counting forward and back within 30 ( to 100 for some)

Establishing a collection.

Counting a collection with accurate 1-1 correspondence

Identifying number families ( teens, twenties, 30s etc)

Subitising ( recognising an amount without counting )

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we had on fitness session and one on travelling movements and using different levels

Miss Nicol has been talking to us about electricity, why we need it, how we use it, and how to stay safe.

Here is a game which you might like to play and use as a discussion starter at home

We learned to follow instructions to draw a fish

We made flying fish by folding and joining paper strips. It was fun to drop them from a height and watch them fluttering.

We found a break in the weather and went for our walk in the local area. Please ask us what we saw, where we walked and what we discussed.

Looking ahead to next week

Please see email communications about arrangements for Wednesday

Loose parts play on Tuesday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look around your house for things that use electricity. Discuss with an adult where the power comes from….. is it mains electricity from a plug and socket, or is it a battery? If it is a battery is it one that you can charge or one you need to replace.

When you are out and about keep your eyes open for solar panels and wind farms.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective 3.11.23

Nov 3, 2023Nov 2, 2023 Staff..114

Dear Parents/Carers,

It was great to see so many of you today at the drop in.

Important Information

Please remember to send in a change of clothes for your child or to refill their change of clothes bag if they use their items. Please note that these do not have to be school uniform.

Here is a summary of our learning:

Literacy

We read the book Aaaarrgghh Spider! Then we did our main piece of writing around this.

Our phonics focus this week was oo and ew. Examples of words with these sounds are: book, look, few and drew.

In spelling we were introduced to 3 new words from Block 4: have, give and live. We then worked on the particular block we are focussing on (block 1, 2 or 3).

At handwriting we have practiced numbers from 3 to 9.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise the spelling block your child is working on. Here is an idea for an activity you could try. Write the words they are finding difficult on a bit of paper but with a letter missing. Write the missing letters on the opposite side of the paper but in a jumbled up order. Your child is to find the correct missing letter and draw a line to connect the two.

Here is a link with the lists of tricky words.

Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (wordpress.com)

To practise phonics have a look through books at home to find examples of oo/ew words. You could also ask your child to spell these words: few, new, drew, dew, book, look, moon and cool. Can they write a sentence using one of these words? Do they remember a capital letter and full stop?

Please go over your child’s reading book with them at home. This will help to build their fluency.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about positional language. We are more confident now in using the words above, below, under, over, between, left and right.

We have continued to work on place value. Most of us are working on tens and ones but some of us are working on hundreds, tens and ones.

In particular we have been ensuring that we have a solid grasp of the importance of the digit zero. It is very important to keep a place in a number where there are no tens or hundreds in that column. I hope that you found the drop in session useful to see some of the games we have been playing to develop our understanding of the digits in a number, their position and value.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise using left and right. Can your child give you directions from one place to another using left and right correctly?

Place Value Game

Choose 3 different single digits. For example, 2,5 and 8. Ask your child to write all the different 2 digit numbers they can make using only these digits. For each 2 digit number, they should partition the number and give the value of the digits. For example, 52 = 5 tens and 2 ones = 50 + 2. For more challenge, try this with 3 digit numbers.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about Samuel Coleridge Taylor. A British-Sierra Leonean composer and conductor.

We have learned about Diwali.

In PE we worked on our hand ball skills: we have learned how to bounce a ball with two hands, one and walking while bouncing a ball. We are loving learning pre-basketball skills.

We have been learning about anti-bullying week in assembly.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 03.11.23

Nov 3, 2023Nov 2, 2023 Staff..226

Dear Parents/Carers,

It was great to see so many of you today at the drop in.

Important Information

Please remember to send in a change of clothes for your child or to refill their change of clothes bag if they use their items. Please note that these do not have to be school uniform.

Here is a summary of our learning:

Literacy

We read the book Aaaarrgghh Spider! Then we did our main piece of writing around this.

Our phonics focus this week was oo and ew. Examples of words with these sounds are: book, look, few and drew.

In spelling we were introduced to 3 new words from Block 4: have, give and live. We then worked on the particular block we are focussing on (block 1, 2 or 3).

Ideas for learning at home:

Here is a link with the lists of tricky words.

Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (wordpress.com)

Please go over your child’s reading book with them at home. This will help to build their fluency.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about positional language. We are more confident now in using the words above, below, left and right.

We have continued to work on place value. Most of us are working on tens and ones but some of us are working on hundreds, tens and ones.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise using left and right. Can your child give you directions from one place to another using left and right correctly?

Place Value Game

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about Rishi Sunak, the current UK Prime Minister.

In PE we worked on our hockey skills: holding the stick correctly and a simple push pass.

We have been learning about anti-bullying week in assembly.

Here are some photos from the last few weeks.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McFarlane

Early Learning & Childcare

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P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 27.10.23

Oct 27, 2023 Staff...685

Please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Topics of pupil interest this week included autumn leaves, geese and octopuses /octopi ( both are correct plurals of octopus ) Ask your child to share some octopus facts with you.

Literacy focus

This week we introduced the letters

g and o

and we introduced the tricky words

I and to.

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Here are some words to read and build. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

got dot dog mop get top

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. This week our focus was “I am in the garden…..”

Maths and numeracy focus

Some pupils are still finding it tricky to count backwards from 20 – 10. Please practise this at home if necessary. Many thanks

Adding 1

Adding 2

Counting random printed arrays accurately ( when you can’t move the item being counted)

Counting in tens

Counting in tens off the decade

Recognising and ordering numerals to 20

Counting forward and back within 30 ( to 100 for some)

Establishing a collection.

Counting a collection with accurate 1-1 correspondence

Identifying number families ( teens, twenties, 30s etc)

Subitising ( recognising an amount without counting )

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we have been focusing on jumping and landing, bending our knees as we take off and again as we land, trying to land quietly on our toes and roll down to our heels with both feet together. We have jumped off and over things.

We looked in detail at autumn leaves to make our own drawings.

We had our school photographs taken

We have enjoyed playing some singing games and rhymes with Mrs Cross, developing our skill in keeping a steady beat and also exploring different ways in which we can use our voices.

Looking ahead to next week

We will be going for a walk in our local area on Thursday – more information to follow on Monday via email.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Write these sentences. An adult can read one to you and you use your knowledge of the tricky words and blending sounds to write independently. Give it a go, even if it is a challenge for you. Challenges are how we learn.

I am a cat.

I am ( insert own name).

I can hop.

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

27.10.23 P2MD Blog

Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023 Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

It has been lovely to see the children back after the holidays.

Important information

Loose Parts on Friday 3^rd November.
Drop in for Parents on Friday 3^rd November.
Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing to use them but haven’t returned them.
As usual your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school. We have a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have been working on the sounds oa/ow. Here is a wee video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: other, mother, another. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote a recount of the Owl Babies story.

Ideas for learning at home

Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
Read, write and make the words: boat, goat, road, load, toad, foal, oak, coach, soap, soak, loan, bow, row, show, mow. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the oa/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths

We have been learning about place value: the value of each digit in a number. Most of us have been working on numbers to 99.

We enjoyed making place value monsters. The tens were the monsters hair and the ones were the monsters teeth!

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Ideas for learning at home:

Can your child recognise and say the number words for numbers from 0 to 100? You can ask your child how many digits a number has, what each digit tells you.
This website will give you more information:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zncq4xs

This activity is for a challenge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/z9w3g82#z2pv9ty3

Build a Paper Cup Stack

Grab a stack of reusable paper cups. Number them from 0 to 9 on the visible edge. Then stack the cups in various configurations. Discuss place value as you stack and restack the cups.