Another busy week again with lots of super learning. Well done to everyone for their focus and enthusiasm this week – you’ve all been super stars 🤩 Take a look at what we’ve been up to.
Monday
Lots of different activities for soft start this morning.
Massive Jenga fun.
Creating numeracy sums and working out the answer. 
Finding missing numbers.
Learning new card games.
Using our sounds to spell out 3 letter words.
Tuesday
Look at how well were getting on with our Number Talk. Lots of number chat and ideas shared 💡 
We have been learning about different 2D shapes. Jaxon cut out different shapes and stuck them to this box.
These boys were doing super sums and using fab strategies in Number Talk 😍
Some of the girls were showing great 1:1 correspondence (pointing) when counting the animals under the sea.
Justin from Active Schools came to visit St Pius this week. We were working on our core movement skills. Some skills we were developing were balancing, running and hopping. We had GREAT fun! 
Wednesday
More super sums in Number Talk. Arlo worked out using arrays that 4 lots of 4 (4×4) is 16. Then you add 1 to make 17. How amazing!
Thursday
In Big Noise we were showing brilliant listening skills. Kirsty and Stacey were so impressed! We have been working on tempo through different stories and movements. 
We were also practising our number formation in glitter✨ What fun! 
Friday
Jaxon worked out lots of subtraction sums which make the answer 12. Super perseverance, Jaxon! ⭐️
We were drawing different 2D and 3D shapes outside with chalk and also using our counting sticks to make shapes. 
🌟The P1/2 Star Pupil this week was Arlo. He showed excellent focus in Number Talk this week: persevering when things got tricky. Super effort, Arlo. 🌟
Such a super week. Well done for all your hard work P1/2. Have a great weekend – I can’t believe next week is our last week of Term 1!
Miss Mackay
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