Week 8 update 😊

What a wonderful week in P1 this week and I am delighted to see lots of the children making a big effort to follow our school values – Respect, Kindness, Safe, Inclusion, Determination and Teamwork! I even ran out of house tokens in the classroom!!

Numeracy

In Numeracy we have been focusing on making equal groups and recognizing an unequal amount. The children have mastered making equal groups with materials 😀👍

On Tuesday we were learning about measure, which helped us make some delicious pancakes!! 😋🥞 We talked about why we need the correct amount of each ingredient in a recipe and worked together to weigh, count and measure accurately.

In the afternoon we cooked our pancakes and enjoyed eating them with a variety of yummy toppings!

Literacy

This week we were consolidating the last group of sounds. The children were doing a great job of finding the sounds throughout the week. Today we had a sound hunt around the room.

Keep practising the sounds at home when you can using the sound single cards. The ai, oa, ie sounds are especially tricky to learn!

This was our last week of writing with using the Cecil the Spider text. We had a special visit from Mr Callandar yesterday who was super impressed with our story maps and enjoyed listening to us telling our own stories! 😊

We have also learnt two more tricky words, to and do. The children are doing well at learning these words and have been telling me that they’ve been practising at home. We will learn one more word next week and then have a consolidation week.

Topic

We have started our Human Body topic and this week were looking at how our bodies have changed since we were babies. We used our wonderful photos (thank you for sending these in) to sort into different age groups and then create a time line of us growing.

This led us on to talking about our different body parts. We named and located the main body parts and then worked in groups to create some life size people to show our learning.

Gym

Gym was very exciting this week as we were using the gymnastic wall bars. We had lots of fun climbing on these, developing our balance, strength, and coordination skills and building confidence! 😊💪