Homework

• Education City – This week your homework is the Money – Week 1. I have cleared everyone’s pages and made revision folders. Complete these in your own time.
• Tricky words – have a go at playing this game at home to help with your tricky word spelling. Tricky words are the words that cannot be sounded out (c-a-t = cat) such as i-z = is or m-ee = me or th-uh = the. https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/tricky-words.html (Note: There is a 10 second advert before you can play)
• Reading – Reading books and homework will go home on Thursday as per normal. Please return the folder on Wednesday when we are back to school. You can read a range of stage books for free on the Oxford Old eBook Library.

To view this week’s learning, click below.

To view this term’s overview, click below

Earth Day

This week we were learning about what we can do to look after our planet, Earth.

Try a Simple Act of Green

We each made a poster…

…and we even marked it ourselves

We made bug hotels to earn our Me and My World JASS award.

If you enjoyed this, Backyard Nature have lots of fun activities on their website and YouTube page .

Block Play Reward

Primary 1 were chosen to use the block play this week for walking sensibly and quietly through the school. We had so much fun making aeroplanes, the floor is lava, houses and Godzilla! We also have to take care lifting it out of the cupboards and sort it before putting it back. Super team work!

Money

We are starting our new topic of money. This topic is very big! Your child may know that we use money to pay for things but not that coins are worth different amounts. Your child may be able to give you change but not know where we keep money. Below are some questions to think about as a family.

• Where is a safe place to keep money? (In banks, under beds, in pockets, in purses/wallets, in bags)
• Where do we get money? How do we get money?
• Where can we buy things from? (in shops using self check-out, check outs, online)
• What ways can we pay? (coins, notes, cards, phones)
• What colour are the coins?
• Does a bigger size mean more money?
• What is a pound sign? (£) and what does that mean? How much is £1 in pence?
• Do we have to give the exact amount of money? (we are given back change)
• Can you give me the 1p/10p/£1 coin?
• Can you count out 4p/9p/25p/£1.25?
• If I buy something that is 10p and I give you 20p how much change will I get?

Best wishes,
Miss Copeland, Mrs B and Mrs McGlashan

Hello, I’m so excited to have you all back!
Let’s have a quick flick through what we were looking at in the last week of term 2.

Water topic – plants

We were encouraged to break the flowers that Miss Copeland brought in! We used our curiosity skills to inspect all of the different parts of the flowers. We then compared flowers to see if they had the same parts.

We know that all plants need: air, soil, light and water. We have been taking care of our seeds and took them home on the last day of term to nurture over the Easter Holidays.

House Corner Fun

Miss Copeland had received many many hand written invitations in the final week inviting her to watch a show in the house corner. She finally managed to find time on the last day to sit and be entertained by the amazing skills and talents of Primary 1! Bravo!

Easter

We designed and created 3 beautiful Easter cards to be given away to friends and family. Inside you may have noticed the fantastic handwriting Primary 1 have been putting into practise. We had to be super careful and resilient, especially when doing the card below, where we used pens to add detail to our finger prints!

Health and Well-being: Feelings – Proud

Proud: It is a good feeling that you can have when you or someone else has tried very very hard and has achieved something. We enjoy celebrating our own and others’ successes in Primary 1! Take a look below at some of the answers the class offered when we discussed this word.

March Monthly Page

Here is our monthly class newsletter. You can see that we have a new universal format. Check out the other class pages to see what they have been learning.

I wonder what you will achieve this term to make you feel
⭐proud⭐

Week Beginning 19.4.21

Homework

• Education City – Please take some time this week to look at the homework and classwork sections on Educationcity.com to check you are up to date.
• Reading – Reading books and homework will go home on Thursday as per normal. Please return the folder on Monday. You can read a range of stage books for free on the Oxford Old eBook Library.

To view this week’s learning, click below.

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