Welcome to Primary 1

Our class is a place where friendship, curiosity and a love for learning begins. As your child settles in to school, we will spend time getting to know them and their interests, building routines to help them feel confident, happy and ready to learn.

During our Literacy lessons this month, we will focus on the story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. 

Your child will be supported to:

 - join in with the repetition of the story

 - make predictions about what might happen next

 - learn and use vocabulary linked to Autumn, nature and the world around them

 - draw pictures inspired by the book to communicate meaning

 - practice oral story-telling inspired by what they have learned

This story will also offer your child lots of cross-curricular learning opportunities, as we notice the change in seasons and explore the outdoors during our daily outdoor play sessions. 

We will begin to develop our phonological awareness

 - playing blending and segmenting games

 - learn their first initial sounds 

 - learn how to form the corresponding letter shapes

Children will be supported to continue developing their fine and gross motor skills as well as pre-writing shapes at our 'Finger Gym' and through Squiggle While you Wiggle sessions. 

In Numeracy, we are beginning to focus on children's ability to sort, compare and classify. Our learning will be supported through stories including Button Box by Margarette Reid

Your child will be supported to:

 - sort and classify different sizes, colours and shapes

 - notice the role that number plays in our environment 

 - practice subsisting (seeing numbers) up to 3

 - learn ordinal number rhymes for counting forwards (1,2,3,4,5 and 1 potato 2 potato)

 - counting backwards (5 little speckled frogs and 10 green bottles).

In our classroom, children will be introduced to our monthly calendar and countdown to important events. They will use 5-frames to self-register and help us notice who is in school each day! They will also be introduced to our daily schedule that help us learn some words associated with time including 'next' and 'after'. 

I look forward to sharing our learning with you here on our class page. If you have any questions, please do approach us at pick-up time or you can send me an email: cmcconville594@c2kni.net. 

I am looking forward to working with you all this year!

Mrs McConville

November:

This half term, our Primary One children will learn through the topic “What Makes Something Special?” 

In Literacy, children will begin to explore persuasive language, using stories and shared writing to express why people, places and things are special to them. The texts we will cover include 'The Smartest Giant in Town' by Julia Donaldson and 'My Map Book' by Sara Fanelli. In Phonics, we’ll continue learning our initial sounds, practicing letter formation, and starting to blend and segment sounds to read and spell simple words.

Our Numeracy work will focus on numbers 1–5, including counting, composing, and representing numbers. We will start to learn about 2D shapes and positional language through our map work.

In our World Around Us lessons we will discuss special people and events (family, friends, birthdays, Christmas) and explore what makes places or objects special to us. Children will be creating maps of places that matter to them.

In Art, we’ll be junk modelling—transforming everyday materials into something special—while developing creativity and fine motor skills.

In ICT, children will begin using the Just2Easy app to record and share their learning digitally.

We are looking forward to another busy few weeks!