Dalrymple P1 21-22

This week we were learning about different coins and using money in our class cafe. We started doing athletics and running races when the sun was shining.

Term 4 overview 21-22 (P1) 2

We did our final design challenge task this week …. making somewhere we would like to live using junk, doing the 3D challenge using Kapla and making a musical instrument. We also used our new football skills to play games and score goals.

This week we tried the second of our three design challenges …. making somewhere we would like to live using junk, doing the 3D challenge with Kapla or making a musical instrument.

This week we worked more on counting and matching quantities to 20 and addition stories. We did more work on our sounds and looked at rhyming words in stories. We started learning about Spring and went on a walk to the community garden looking for signs of the season. We collected lots of litter when we were there to help our community stay clean and beautiful. We spent Thursday making our brains work hard on challenges in building and making. We also had fun doing another yoga adventure.

This week we have been busy writing, reading and learning new sounds. We have been working on our addition number stories. We made Valentine Day cards.

We all enjoyed learning the Scots poem ‘Mince and Tatties’ by J.K. Annand. Our best two performances were from Savanna and Harper. Well done everyone.

This week we enjoyed exploring the properties and texture of dry sand and the difference between that and wet sand. We did lots of drawing adding more detail. We tried making words with the magnetic letters. We working together to do jigsaws. We started writing our news more independently.

This week we enjoyed building and creating things with different construction materials. We wrote letters to Santa to give him some compliments. We tried different Christmas art and craft activities.

This week we have started to get ready for Christmas. We put the tree up in the house corner and tried to make models of Christmas trees and sleighs. We also tried writing short phrases independently.