Thank you for all your efforts in your homework to date! No spelling or maths homework will be assigned this week. Do feel free to explore Education City and Active Learn at your leisure.
If you are still working on your Building Resilience poster, or didn’t have a chance to send this in, please do try to send this in by Thursday.
Request: For our Castles work we are looking to gather in some spare cardboard. Please continue send in clean cardboard boxes, such as cereal boxes, or cardboard tubes as you can spare them. Thank you for those items we have already received!
Reading – Reading books should be returning today. No new books will go out on Thursday as we will be on holiday next week.
As you know, we are going to the Georgian House today, so as we would then have only 3 days to practise our spelling patterns, we shall only have numeracy homework this week. This you can find on Education City as usual, with a focus on the times tables we have revised far: 2, 3, 4, 5. Please also take some time to practise the tables verbally throughout the week.
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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?
Writing
We have 3 steps in our writing
Think about what it is you want to write down. “I went to the park”. It has 5 words.
Write down the words or sounds you know. Leave a space in between words and put a full stop at the end.
Now we need to read what has been written Then… repeat!
Red Words
Red words are also know as tricky words because they cannot be ‘sounded out’. It’s just a case of learn learn learn learning them. The video below is a catchy way to learn red words. We often learn new red words when writing about our weekends, “I went to the park.” , “I went to the swimming pool.”
Choosing
Primary 1 are given lots of independent time called ‘choosing’, where they can choose which area of our classroom to explore. Our ice-cream shop was a huge hit this week. As you can see, pupils were very engaged, practising their fine motor skills, communication and space sharing, making lots of delicious ice creams of many flavours to sell. Our construction area is always popular and P1 are showing some fantastic creativity, planning and problem solving.
Education City
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This week we continued to look at number bonds, adding skills and ‘number of the day’ in our Maths and Numeracy work. The children enjoyed the Ten Pin game on Education City for number bonds as well as some of the other games available to them.
We continue to work well with our sounds and tricky words, beginning to look more at our tricky words and practising these in different ways such as through Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check (LSCWC). The Year 1 – Tricky Words selection in this game is a good way to practise some tricky words using LSCWC.
In our topic work we wrote about the sort of job we would like to have in a castle such as a knight, cook or prince! After our trip last Friday to Dunbar’s Close, we used leaves as material in our art work which went home this week – we really did use a lot of different materials and tools for that piece of art!
Lastly, congratulations to our
Bryce
for being a Confident Individual with his super contributions in class, helping others and being sensible as well as always working to use his manners.
Royal Mile Primary School 