Hello, and a warm welcome back to P1’s blog!

We have continued this week to revise all our sounds and have been trying to blend and use our sound knowledge to make words. We have had “sounds” stations in our classrooms. we have been using the flip charts on the interactive white board, sorting sounds, playing sound games and playing “making word” games.

  

In number this week we have re-capped on time, we have been looking at o’clock again. We discussed the routines of the day and played sequencing card games. We have also discussed the months of the year, looked at which months our birthdays’ fall in and what things happen in certain months, e.g., Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc.

              

We have been continuing with our water topic and did another experiment. This time we looked at dissolving and not dissolving. We all had a tub each and put sand in some of the  tubs, salt in some of the tubs and sugar in the rest. We then put water in them and gave them a good stir. We looked to see which of the substances dissolved in water and which did not. We recorded our findings in our experiment booklets.

  

In our art time we looked at the artist Georges Seurat. We looked at several of his paintings and we noticed they all looked dotty! We found out that this type of painting, using dots, is called “pointalism.” We painted our own sea scape pictures in the style of Seurat. We used cotton buds to make the dots.

              

Wow! We have completed 100 full days at school and we had our party on Friday! We read the book “How big is a Million” and we talked about “100” and how much is “100”. We all then went to the hall and one class laid out 100 pennies. Another class laid out 100 bricks and the other class laid out 100 straws and we looked to see which made the longest line. Which do you think?

  

   

We then made party hats with 100 on them and we made a centipede cake with 100 legs. We had 100 candles made into the shape of the number 100!

  

  

In the afternoon we had our party. We hopped 100 hops to music, we skipped 100 skips to music and we jumped 100 jumps to music. We clapped 100 claps and to cool down we walked 100 steps around the school. After all that exercise we sat down and ate a piece of the centipede cake we made. We are all very pleased we have been at school full time for 100 days!

  

  

Notices for parents:

Gym – P1A –Wednesday & Friday, P1B – Thursday and Friday, P1C – Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has a full gym kit in school. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Open Doors – Every Thursday 3.00pm – 3.15pm. Please come in to school and see all the hard work your child has been doing.