Well, we have had our first full week in school and we’ve had a fantastic time! Working very hard and learning lots of new things.

We learned another 4 sounds this week. They were ‘d’, ‘g’, ‘o’ and ‘u’. Our favourite action this week was ‘d’. We had to pretend we were playing a drum and say “ddddddd.”

We have been playing lots of sounds games and trying to put our sounds together so we can hear, say and write some simple CVC words.

We completed all our numbers to 10 this week and we have been doing lots of number activities. We have been playing number games on the interactive white board, using counters to count out numbers and putting the numbers in order from 0 to 10.

We have also been singing ‘10 Green Bottles’ and taking a bottle away when it…’accidentally fell!’  We’re getting better and better at counting!

We also drew a pencil drawing of ourselves wearing our school uniform. These have gone onto our corridor wall along side our portrait paintings. The only part of our pencil drawing we coloured in was our tie and we had to make sure we only used the school colours and we used a pattern. We will be talking more about pattern next week, but for our first attempt we tried very hard.

In topic work this week we all chose which of the fairy tales/traditional tales was our favourite. 1A chose Peter Pan. 1B chose Sleeping Beauty and 1C chose Rapunzel. We had been given a box filled with all sorts of clues and we had to try and think which story they belonged to. We  looked at pictures on the white board and we had to decide if we liked castles, princes, wicked witches etc., in stories and we then used active expressions to vote on our favourite. We are really looking forward to start reading all our stories and learning more about our chosen tales.

In music this week we learned that there are special words to tell musicians when to play softly and when to play loudly. Piano means soft. Pianissimo means very soft. Forte means loud and fortissimo means very loud. We had to clap and stamp our feet either softly or loudly when our teacher said the special words. We really enjoyed it when she called out fortissimo!!

We had our open afternoon on Friday. We invited our family and friends to come into our classrooms and look around to see all the hard work we have been doing. We showed them our learning walls, learning activities and the completed pieces of work in our folios.

Our parents/carers thought we had all been working very hard indeed!

Notices for parents:

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Thursday.  Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.