This week in Numeracy we have been investigating more and less in number. We had a whole class game of Play Your Cards Right!

Beyond number, we have been learning about 3D shape.

We spent a very muddy afternoon (sorry!) in the Woodland looking for signs of Spring.

We have been gifted a load of cardboard tubes. So far this week, they have been (amongst other things) listening devices, hockey sticks, measuring devices and car ramps. 

Here are some more pictures of this week’s learning including baking, sewing, metal loose parts, some phantom broken limbs, a huge cardboard box and a bubble wrap river.

We have been celebrating  St Valentine’s Day in P1a by creating hearts in the woodland, investigating symmetry using hearts, reading about the Boogie Monster falling in love and writing about what Love is…

In Numeracy, we have been revising and working with number bonds using the numicon and ping pong balls – it really challenged our communication skills when we played Number Bonds Ping Pong Match!

 

We further developed our symmetry skills by creating challenging colour block patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

In literacy, we have been matching alphabet letter names with our sounds and consolidating our digraph learning.

 

 

 

 

 

In PE we have been learning about rebound games using balls and rackets.

Here are some more pictures of this week and last week’s  learning.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and look forward to next week’s learning.

This week we completed the first of our Science Centre Learning Lab lessons investigating Camouflage. We discussed how and why animals hide in the wild and then we created our own minibeasts and designed their camouflage so that they could hide on a range of backgrounds.                           

In literacy, we completed all of the Jolly Phonics sound progression Set 7, we will now consolidate our sounds learning using the sounds we have learned in a variety of ways. We continue to enjoy reading the Big Cat books in class and have been challenging ourselves with more complex texts.

In Maths we have been using the deins materials to investigate creating numbers using our place value skills.

We have also be learning about ordinal numbers by racing cars down ramps and recording the results.

Our writing task this week was retelling the story of The Gingerbread Man focusing on the beginning, middle and end. We acted out the story to help us with this before putting pen to paper.

Here are some more pictures from this week.