A new adventure starts here…

Welcome to the P1a blog!

I have been super impressed with how well the children have settled and are embracing and learning the new routines of our class. We are working together to develop the environment based on interests as the children play and are learning more and more about each other.

This week we have been developing our listening skills through stories and by listening to the environment around us. We went on a listening walk around the school grounds and recorded our findings when we returned.

We enjoyed some warm up games of tig before taking part in relay races and practised throwing and catching a ball with a partner.

We have been counting forwards this week all the way to 100 and practising crossing the decades (29, 30…. 39, 40 etc).

We have explored number using playdough to practise number formation and numicon (the colourful resource with different number of holes in each) to build castles and talk about what numbers we used, how many of the same numbers we used, who had a taller/wider castle etc.

We explored directional language specifically forwards, left and right turns to programme the indi cars using the colourful mats within our instructions.

Creativity was flowing as the children drew self portraits of themselves for our class charter, which promotes their rights as well as other child led art and craft opportunities throughout the week.

The block area has been busy with children creating car garages and caves for dinosaurs to live in. Our babies have been well looked after in the home corner and lots of stories have been shared together.