Everyday Primary 1 chooses how they want to be welcomed into the classroom. Which one would you choose?
Our Class Teddy
As voted by our class, our Everywhere Bear is called Rainbow. Rainbow looks after our class during the week and then the Star of the Week gets to take Rainbow home for the weekend! The Everywhere Bear is a story by Julia Donaldson. You can hear the story below.
Below is an example Miss Copeland did with a previous class when the teddy was named, Ted!
Please note – you do not need to print photos for the diary. Drawing photos or just writing is absolutely fine. You are welcome to email photos to the school and I can show them to the class.
Writing letters
At the beginning, you may find that your child can draw the letters but in a different way. An a, for example, can be drawn as a circle with a tail. Although it may have the same outcome, forming the letters as we ask is very important as it will help your child when they come to joining letters together.
Try making your letters in lots of different ways; Outside with sticks and flowers, with Lego, with salt, shaving foam, sprinkles, rice, Playdough, sand…
Reading Books
Primary 1 will start with wordless picture books. We learn that stories have characters and that they have a beginning, middle and end. Here are some of the characters we will see in our stories.
You can read more stories together at home by signing up to a free Oxford Owl account.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
It is important that when you are reading together, you feel that you can talk in whichever language you and your child feels most comfortable in.
Click Here to find out more about reading wordless books
Reading Folders
Primary 1 will read in class on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They take these home on Thursdays. Inside the plastic folder is a book, sheet of letters (not letter ring) and reading record. The reading record is for adults to write in to comment or ask questions.
Reading folders should be returned on Mondays. This gives us chance to change the book over ready for Tuesday’s reading.
Phonics
We are learning how to build words with the letters s,a,t,i,p and n. We start by singing the Jolly Phonics songs, making sure that we make the pure sounds (mmm, not muh) then move on to forming the letters. We use Fred Fingers for spelling then we make the words on white boards and magnetic boards. Have a go at home with these online magnetic letters.
Thank you for taking the time to look at what Primary 1 has been learning. You are welcome to reply to this post with questions or messages to say Hello!
Many thanks, Miss Copeland
Royal Mile Primary School 