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 enviornment 

 - practice subisiting (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