What a fantastic first full week in Primary 1/2!
This week has been very busy and full of lots of new learning. We have been focussing on developing our fine motor skills through lots of hands on activities. We have been practising our pre-writing shapes and lots of us have been working hard to improve our pencil control. We read lots of stories this week, a firm favourite being ‘Oi Frog!’ which has lots of rhyming words. We worked on identifying rhyme and lots of us were very successful when matching rhyming pairs. We also used our name boards to practise writing our names.
Some of us were introduced to the ‘ng’ sound. We learned about diacritical marking and were able to diacritically mark lots of ‘ng words’
In reading, Felix the Firefly introduced us to the strategy ‘Prior Knowledge’. Ask us about the ‘Prior Knowledge’ strategy at home!
We also began to look at descriptive writing. We took part in an activity where we had to describe a monster for our partner to draw. We realised how important it is to include lots of detail in our description. The monsters turned out great and will be on display in our classroom.
In Numeracy, we worked on counting and formation of numbers. We used the ‘tickled pink’ and ‘green for growth’ strategy to improve our numbers. We used the numicon and tens trains to represent numbers.
Some of us have started to learn about place value. We know that the position of a digit can change its value. We are learning to read and recognise two digit numbers.
We took part in an activity called ‘I think, I see, I wonder’. Lots of us had very interesting ‘wonders’ about the woods and woodland animals. Mrs Hasson is going to help us explore our ‘wonders’ during our topic. Some of us worked as a team to mix paint, draw and then paint some ‘big art’ trees.
We also took part in an interesting activity using a portrait of ourselves. We used watercolour paint to transform our portraits, talking about each of our features as we did so. This will help us when we begin to make detailed drawings in ‘Foundations of Writing’.
