Category: Primary 1 Blog

Time

Check your Education City homework page for your Days of the Week revision!

We have been learning about the days of the week.

We know that we come to school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but not the two S days, Saturday or Sunday! Saturday and Sunday are called the weekend because it is the end of the week! The very Hungry Caterpillar eats lots of different food on different days of the week. We can sort the days in the right order and sort the food on to the correct days.

If you’ve finished your Education City tasks, have a go at the games below to practise your days of the week knowledge.

BBC Bitesize – Days of the Week

Bonfire Night

The 5th of November is Bonfire Night. On this day some people have bonfires, fireworks and sparklers. We each created a piece of art with chalk pastels, glue and glitter.

Why do people wear poppies?

We watched this video and talked about how the music changes, how it gets darker and how it is a little bit scary. It shows that there have been some sad and scary times in the past. World War I was a very scary time. A war is like a big fight. This fight lasted for a very long time and lots of people sadly died. Poppies are the red flowers which grew on the fields when the fighting ended. Some people wear poppies because it helps them to remember people who have died. Sadness is a feeling and it is okay to feel sad sometimes.

Primary 1 helped the school to make lots of poppies which we used for our River of Poppies art work. First, we drew a poppy shape on the red foam and cut it out. Next, we cut a little circle out of black cotton. Miss Copeland then helped push in the split pin in and we bent the metal at the back to hold it together. Can you spot ours in the photo below?

P.E – Ball Skills

Are you a ninja at throwing and catching? Can you try the challenge below?

How many different things of different shapes and sizes can you throw and catch? A toilet roll, , a pillow, a pair of socks, a banana, a rubber, a tissue, a grain of rice? Make sure you check with an adult that what you’re using doesn’t have any sharp edges. Have some fun!

Happy November everyone! Last week was a 4 day week and Friday was our Halloween Party Day!

Time

Our new maths topic is time. This week we have looked at:

• Day and night
• Yesterday, today and tomorrow
• How the time effects what we eat: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

We have been using some of our resources in our P.E lessons

• Doing a different warm up activity each time we turn the sand timer over
• Timing how long it takes us to run to the wall and back
• Counting how many times we can throw and catch the ball in 30 seconds
• We finished off by playing the game What’s the time Mr Wolf 🕒🐺

In our painting area some children chose to have a go at painting an analogue clock face

CVC words

We have been making and reading lots of words this week using magnetic letters, white boards and pencils

Halloween Party Day

• After looking at a few designs, we each created our own pumpkin decorations [planning, fine motor skills]
• We played Toss the hoop on the witches hat [gross motor skills]
• We played Pin the tail on the cat [gross motor skills]
• We played Musical Statues [listening skills, gross motor skills, dance, big deal/little deal]
• We had lots of yummy treats thanks to the Parent Council!

Black History Month

This week we learnt about a woman named Rosa Parks. We think she was really cool because she helped to change a law which meant that if you had dark skin you had to sit at the back of the bus. We each drew ourselves on the bus wherever we wanted to sit!

Homework

P1 read at school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On Thursday, they take their reading folders home to read with you and to complete their homework sheet over the weekend. The reading folder with record, book and completed homework sheet must be returned to school on Monday or Tuesday at the latest so the books can be quarantined.

There is space in the reading record to tick ✓ that they have read, and space to write a comment. You can write any questions you have, any news that you think may effect your child (unwell relative, period of bad dreams or reason they were unable to complete the homework tasks) or simply a happy comment.

Education City

Remember to check the tasks set for you in the homework area!

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