Category: Primary 1 Blog

Homework

• Education City – Please take some time to play the games that have been set for you.
• Tricky words – See if you can watch this video and shout out the word when Miss Copeland shows them to you slowly or if you want a challenge, see if you can do it quickly!
• Sounds – Try using these flashcards to check your vowel digraphs (ee, igh, oo) and consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th). Do you know them all?
• Maths – Try playing this money game at home and count/add up the coins

This week is HEALTH WEEK!

We will be learning about keeping our minds and bodies healthy, sun safety and completing lots of fun activities. Make sure to wear a waterproof coat and study shoes every day.

We will be revising the SHANARRI calamari!

Gymnastics

• Shapes – Straight, star and tuck
• Jumps – Straight jump and star jump
• Rolls – Pencil roll (straight) and egg roll (tuck)
• Using our creativity to travel in different ways
• Being responsible while spotting our partners
• Performed and videoed our ‘routines’ so we could watch them back in slow motion and set our targets for next week.

Sowing seeds for the big playground planters

If the dinosaurs came back…

Our once quiet city has now been overrun with dinosaurs! We loved the story If the dinosaurs came back and it inspired some brilliant writing. Listen to the story by clicking here

We made salt dough dinosaur bones and fossils

We excavated chocolate chip cookies to practise our archaeology skills!

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Tuesday!
Miss Copeland, Mrs McGlashan and Mrs B

Homework

• Education City – This week your homework is to revise the aw/au digraph which is the colour orange on our Edinburgh Sound Chart.
• Tricky words – See if you can watch this video and shout out the word when Miss Copeland shows them to you slowly or if you want a challenge, see if you can do it quickly!
• Reading – Reading books will go home on Thursday. Please return them on Tuesday when you come back to school (bank holiday on Monday). You can read a range of stage books for free on the Oxford Old eBook Library.
• Maths – Pupils, have a go at playing some of the Natwest MoneySense games here and there’s a parent area too.

To view this week’s learning, click below.

Gymnastics

Gymnastics has risks, and we are learning to reduce and manage these risks. We all know that Miss Copeland’s instructions keep us safe and when we prove that we can be safe, we can add more challenge! This week, we learned how to ‘spot’ for each other. A spotters job is to make sure the equipment is ready and to watch and catch them if needed. We also learned how to land safely (knees bent and arms straight out in front. We can all perform a straight jump!

You may wish to wear trousers or shorts under your skirts/dresses on Wednesdays and Fridays

Worry Monsters

A Worry Monster likes to eat worries. You can draw your worry, write it down or ask an adult to write it down. Feed it to your monster and it will gobble it up! We enjoyed getting super creative (and very messy) decorating our worry monsters. Thank you to the Equalities Group for the challenge!

Dinosaurs

We had a live session with Lizzy from Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham. She showed us Roary, their allosaurus, along with fossilised poo, footprints, the backplate of a Stegosaurus, a sabertoothed tiger and a maiasaura skull!

*We had a few technical issues during our session, so Lizzy wants to try and join us again on another day!* You can also check our their YouTube page

You can check out some of the artefacts on this virtual 3d platform https://sketchfab.com/LapworthMuseum

We enjoyed being archaeologists and brushing off hidden bones

Wow! Our dinosaurs went on so many different adventures over the weekend. I can see some of you researched all about your dinosaurs and some have used your imagination and creativity to look after them! Super job P1!

Money

This week we were matching the correct coin to the price of the item. We also learnt the names of all of the coins. We have to be careful with our 1p and £1 coins. Some pupils know that £1 is the same as 100p.

We also set up a shop where you pay with dot cards. Some pupils noticed that you could combine the dot cards to pay for an item e.g. 1+2+2 = 5.
Next week we will be replacing these dot cards with 1p, 2p and 5p coins, aiming to add the coins together to pay for an item.

On Thursday and Friday we were revising Greater Alligator. Would he rather eat four lots of 1p coins or one 5p coin? Watch the video below to remind yourself about what he likes to eat…

Another plant update

Theodora has also been taking super care of her plant! Remember to send your photos to admin if you want to share them on the blog.

Have a great week!
Miss Copeland, Mrs B and Mrs McGlashan

Your Pet Dinosaur

We have been learning how to care for animals. We learnt about puppies and how they are baby dogs. They need lots of looking after. They need to go to the vet, have food bowls, water bowls, you need to pick up their poo, they need lots of walks etc.
Today everyone has taken home a pet dinosaur to care for. Remember: 3 house points for returning the dinosaur and 3 house points for returning a diary on Monday.
The video shows what you could put in the jotter. Don’t worry, it does not have to be totally filled! It was the smallest jotter we had available.

Be creative, be imaginative, be researchers, be palaeontologists but have fun 🦖 😃

Next week, we will be beginning our learning about pregnancy and looking after a baby. CLICK HERE to see the RSHP learning we follow.

Phonics

Here are the words from this week. There is a new task on Education City to help you revise the /ow/ for brown sound. (Apologies – the oi/oy work is now on Education City too – It hadn’t scheduled properly)

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is in the hall on Wednesdays and outside on Fridays.
Girls may wish to wear trousers on these days or shorts underneath skirts/dresses.

There are 4 components to gymnastics: Jumping, rolling, travelling and balancing.

This week we have been working on travelling and balancing. We found lots of different ways to travel, inspired by animals. We can balance if we have 1 body part touching the floor, or 3 or 4 or 5!

Plant update

Leon has emailed in some photos of the plant he took home before Easter that he has been caring for. WOW! This is a sunflower. It is growing very tall! If you would like to share an update on your plant, email your photos to admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk

Have a great weekend!

Miss Copeland