A very special visitor arrived in P1D this week! He is called Henry our Class Elf and he is here to help us get ready for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

As well as practising for our Nativity next week, we have been learning about the Christmas Story and then recreating the story using a knitted nativity.

We worked with our friends from another P1 class to draw a picture of our own nativity show.

In Maths we have been learning about money and  recognising  coins from 1p to £2. We played games with the coins to reinforce our learning.

We continue to learn new sounds and to use the sounds we have already learned in lots of different and interesting ways.

We had a visit from the community dental nurse who watched us brushing our teeth and then gave us a very informative talk about how to look after our teeth.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Keir’s dad who kindly sourced lots of materials for our outdoor learning areas and who delivered them (with the help of Keir) last weekend. We can’t wait to see what the children will create with them.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, as a few of our classmates have been off ill this week, I thought they might like to see what Henry has been up to!

 

We  are enjoying reading books!

We know lots of phonemes (ai, ee etc) which are helping us to read and we are getting better at reading tricky common words (was, you etc) that we have to learn and don’t sound out. Games and a variety of activities help us become more confident in our reading skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also love making up stories and are getting better at writing down our ideas. We have ‘writing targets’ to help us get better at writing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We read one of our Book Bug books together and really enjoyed it. It was titled, ‘The Princess and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears.’

We thought it would be a great idea to make our own books with different characters.  We were very inventive and creative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Christmas delivery to P1a!

Mrs Jamieson brought a parcel into P1a delivered from the North Pole! It had a special elf inside and a letter from Santa! We read the letter together and decided to give our elf a name. We offered ideas and voted on our favourite name! Twinkle is our class elf! We are excited to see him every day. We are going to write about his adventures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every day someone opens our advent calendar and can choose a Christmas challenge.  Fynn is telling a Christmas cracker joke! Ho ho ho!

We can’t wait to perform our Christmas Nativity to our families soon too!

Well done P1a!

We have began learning how to make number bonds! For example, we know you can make a variety of calculations for 3 such as 2+1, 1+2.

We timed ourselves to see how fast we can sort calculations underneath the correct number bond. Each day we do it, we get faster and faster at recalling the number bonds.

We use the computer to complete calculations!

We are using our large number line to solve what is two more than or two less than a given number.

We continue to complete addition calculations in a variety of activities.

We are exploring Data Handling! We know we can organise real objects by matching and sorting information.

We were exploring seasons of the year. Using a Venn Diagram, we sorted different clothing items into the correct heading.

We had so much fun exploring all the different items of clothing which we wear in the summer and winter. We discussed how they were different from season to season. For example, in Winter we were waterproof clothing or clothes which are warm and fluffy.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Using recycled materials we made our own Class Christmas Tree!

We arranged our Advent Calendar and decorations to display across our classroom!

We are so close to our Nativity Performance next week. We can’t wait to perform!