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Primary 1 Blog – 27.8.24

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Everyday Primary 1 chooses how they want to be welcomed into the classroom. Which one would you choose?

Our Class Teddy

As voted by our class, our Everywhere Bear is called Rainbow. Rainbow looks after our class during the week and then the Star of the Week gets to take Rainbow home for the weekend! The Everywhere Bear is a story by Julia Donaldson. You can hear the story below.

Below is an example Miss Copeland did with a previous class when the teddy was named, Ted!

Please note – you do not need to print photos for the diary. Drawing photos or just writing is absolutely fine. You are welcome to email photos to the school and I can show them to the class.

Writing letters

At the beginning, you may find that your child can draw the letters but in a different way. An a, for example, can be drawn as a circle with a tail. Although it may have the same outcome, forming the letters as we ask is very important as it will help your child when they come to joining letters together.

Try making your letters in lots of different ways; Outside with sticks and flowers, with Lego, with salt, shaving foam, sprinkles, rice, Playdough, sand…

Reading Books

Primary 1 will start with wordless picture books. We learn that stories have characters and that they have a beginning, middle and end. Here are some of the characters we will see in our stories.

Monday 7th September – Royal Mile Primary School

You can read more stories together at home by signing up to a free Oxford Owl account.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

It is important that when you are reading together, you feel that you can talk in whichever language you and your child feels most comfortable in.

Click Here to find out more about reading wordless books

Reading Folders

Primary 1 will read in class on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They take these home on Thursdays. Inside the plastic folder is a book, sheet of letters (not letter ring) and reading record. The reading record is for adults to write in to comment or ask questions.

Reading folders should be returned on Mondays. This gives us chance to change the book over ready for Tuesday’s reading.

Phonics

We are learning how to build words with the letters s,a,t,i,p and n. We start by singing the Jolly Phonics songs, making sure that we make the pure sounds (mmm, not muh) then move on to forming the letters. We use Fred Fingers for spelling then we make the words on white boards and magnetic boards. Have a go at home with these online magnetic letters.

Thank you for taking the time to look at what Primary 1 has been learning. You are welcome to reply to this post with questions or messages to say Hello!
Many thanks, Miss Copeland

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P1 – Monday 25th October

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Hello, I hope you all had a lovely holiday and enjoy your day off today. We have 8 weeks until Christmas holidays and lots of fun experiences coming up!

Dress Down Day

This FRIDAY is our dress down day. You may dress up for Halloween or wear non-school uniform. Sometimes Halloween costumes can be scary. Costumes from films or games should be suitable for the age of the pupil. If you would like some support with a Halloween outfit, please let P1 staff know so we can help. We are very excited!

National Poetry Day

7th October was National Poetry Day. We enjoyed hearing a few poems and playing the game taught to us by author Simon Mole below! Inspired by Simon Mole, we created our own class poem called Dream Day. We then each had a go at writing our own ones. Being creative and imaginative in our writing can help us develop a joy of writing!

Maths – Time Topic

This week we had two focusses. We were developing our knowledge of the days of the week further by using the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and sorting the days and the food he ate. We also learnt about how you can see time passing through looking at the trees. This helped us learn about the 4 seasons.

Colour

We have enjoyed reading the book The Colour Monster throughout our first term. At the beginning, the colour monster is ‘all mixed up’ so we sort his feelings into 6 different jars. Listen to the story below.

https://youtu.be/Ih0iu80u04Y

We ‘check in’ our feelings every morning and can move our peg throughout the day to share how we are feeling.

Check out our Colour display below

Community classrooms

We loved having the Primary 7s come visit us and teach us all about place value. Well done to the P7s for teaching us such a tricky topic and well done to Primary 1 who listened so intently!

Thank you for taking the time to look at our blog.

Feel free to reply to this post!

Have a super week.

Miss Copeland, Miss Black and Mrs McGlashan

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P1 – Monday 11th October

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Colour

We have been learning about primary colours and secondary colours.

Practise at home: Play this fun game and paint the picture by mixing colours.

Time

This week we have been busy drawing and making clocks. We have been learning about o’clock times.

song 1 – www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOcqZ86USNk

song 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmg914-9xY

Interactive clock – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Game – https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Number

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 numbers? https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/countingCaterpillar/

Phonics

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.

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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

  1. Think about what it is you want to write down. “I went to the park”. It has 5 words.
  2. Write down the words or sounds you know. Leave a space in between words and put a full stop at the end.
  3. 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

Well done to those who have completed their EducationCity.com homework. Your password has also been stuck on the inside page of your reading folders. Please contact the school if you require your login details again. There will be new tasks scheduled every Monday.

Feel free to comment on this post with a message to say Hello that we can read to the class.
keep up the great work, superstars!

Miss Copeland and Miss Black

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Primary 1 Homework

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Celebration - Balloons

We have finished learning all of our block 1 sounds.  Yay us!

 

We are spending the next few weeks consolidated our learning and practising our handwriting of these sounds.

 

For the next few weeks there will be no new sounds.

However, I ask that practise can be continued on identifying the single sounds and, if suitable, creating and blending some short CVC (3 letter) words.

 

Thank you,

Mr Madine