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Dear Families, I am writing to share with you that we will soon begin the RSHP Education programme of Health and Well-being with Primary 1. There is a letter attached below for you to read about what your child will be learning about at school.
If you wish to find out more about how you can help at home, click the appropriate link below. In their first lesson they will be learning about their bodies. Best wishes, Miss Copeland
Hello! Our classroom is looking so beautiful with all of your work on the walls. Let’s have a look at some of our displays…
Our Learning Heroes help to remind us that we need to use our superpowers when we are learning. Through the story of the Bear and Ellie, we learn about the heroes who can help us on our learning journey. To read the story, click the link below.
As you can see from our timetable below, we have outdoor learning on Tuesdays and Outdoor PE on Wednesdays. We are not getting changed for PE at the moment so please wear suitable clothes on these days. Please bring a warm waterproof coat every day as we may take our learning outside!
We want everyone to be able to count forwards and backwards to 20. Here are 2 videos that we like to bounce along to!
Sequencing numbers. Can you count forward starting on a number that isn’t 1? try this sequencing game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering. Try sequencing > counting in ones > “1 to 10” or “10 to 1” or go up to 100 if you’re feeling brave!
Ordering numbers- Can you order the caterpillars from the fewest spots to the most spots? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots
or the numbers on the caterpillar from smallest to biggest numers? https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/countingCaterpillar/
This week we have been talking about 2D shapes. We need to know the…
Water bottles are a super fun way to take our learning outside! Making shapes and letters while squeezing and making our hands strong. Not to worry if you make a mistake as the sun will dry it all up ☀️
This week we introduced the letters n and i. We now know 6 letters s,a,t,p,i,n. With these letters we can make lots of words!
When we put letters together, they make words. This is a key piece of understanding. Often these words follow the pattern Consonant, Vowel, Consonant. Like cat, tin or sit. These are called CVC words.
Blend
Can you blend the letters together to read these words?
Game
Try making a game like this at home. Can you get all the way around the board?
Try watching the videos below without sound. Can you read the words? Watch again with the sound. Did you get it right?
We have 3 steps in our writing
We also introduced our first tricky word this week… I. We use I a lot in our Monday writing diaries. “I went to the park”, “I did some shopping”, “I helped Dad”.
I is a tricky word because it cannot be ‘sounded out’. Tricky words are sometimes called ‘sight words’. It’s just a case of learn learn learn learning them. The video below is a catchy way to learn tricky words.
Each class in the school has a set of class representatives; pupils who represent the class for different topics. The Pupil Council will meet with Mrs Jessop (Head Teacher) to make big decisions about the school. The Eco Rep will meet with Mr McPheely (P6) about recycling and looking after the planet. The HWB Rep will meet with Ms Finlayson (SFL) to talk about healthy brains and bodies (Health week) and the Art Rep will meet with Miss Kerr (P7) to talk about the yearly Art Gallery. Due to Covid, we are not yet sure how everyone will meet, but may I say a big well done to everyone who was brave and volunteered and congratulations to the pupils who were voted in!
Well done superstars! Have a lovely week, Miss Copeland
Here are some photos to see us in action…
Maths & numeracy games & counting forward and backward.
OUTDOOR excitement and basketball skills.
Literacy focus – overcoming worries & fears, reading all about ‘Silly Billy’ and making our very own worry dolls.
Technology – consolidating learning with online games.
Social Studies – learning all about Scottish islands and highlands. Making maps and learning about transport, animals, buildings and activities on islands.
Reward time fun!
Roleplay & Yoga fun.
enjoying ART – combined with maths and Social Studies.
This week in our Maths we were looking at doubling and we got to practise with some Education City games on the iPads for a short spell. We enjoyed seeing the Doubles Rap video again and we worked well to identify, match and create our own doubles this week!
In Literacy we have been looking at sounds and some of our letter formation to ensure what we write is clear. We have been working to remember to use finger spaces between words too. In our sounds, we have been working to read words in our games with our target sounds of ou and ow this week. We started to look over some tricky words too!
In our social studies topic, Our Community, we continued to look at places in our local community. We thought about the places we saw on our walk and what they are used for. We also thought about places in our neighbourhood that we didn’t see on the walk but that we know about. We are continuing to look at why we might have certain places in our local area, what they are used for and if we have been there before or not at all. Using what we knew and remembered about all these sorts of places we have started to make a super collage of these places in our classroom!
Our learning power work continues in Health and Wellbeing and we have had a real think about what
Curiosity (“I wonder…”),
Creativity (“What if I do it this different way…?”),
Collaboration (“This will be easier if we do it together!”),
Resilience (“I can get better if I keep practising!”, “Maybe it can be my go next time…”),
Reflection (“I am proud of this thing I did because...”)
and Independence (“I can get on with this myself!“)
look like over the last few weeks. We have started our display on these powerful tools for our learning and we will continue to think about, build our understanding of and reflect on these as we move on through the year.
We continue to look at our Ball Skills in P.E. this week. We have enjoyed working on our passing skills with both our feet and our hands and Mr Reid was introducing us to some tennis skills too!
We continue to look at some dance-a-longs for while we are waiting to wash our hands and Primary 2 wanted to share this one for this week!
Next week is Maths Week, so please look forward to seeing what we are up to! Please do check the blog on Tuesday that week for homework as it will be our first week of any official homework!
Language Class 1 & 2 have been talking about their “learning heroes”. These are the super hero learning qualities that help us be super learners!
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