In class we have all been working extremely hard by practising our single sounds, diagraphs and common words. We do lots of different activities to help us learn these.

We play common word splat to see how quickly we can find the common word.

We practise reading, tracing and writing each common word.

We complete read, write and draw activities to help us learn CVC words, CVCC words and words with digraphs.

To support our reading, we read with Mrs Agnew, read with each other and also read independently. We can record our reading on a talking tin which Mrs Agnew then listens to.

    

We also show that we understand what we have read in various ways. We have started using story maps to show our understanding. We draw a picture for each part of the story.

Thank you to all of our parents and carers who attended our open afternoons last week. We were very excited to have you in our classroom and share some of our learning with you.

   

   

Over the past few weeks we have been demonstrating more and more creativity in class. We are always keen to have our creations photographed and celebrated.

I made a purse and it opens and shuts.

I made a snowman with the playdough. It’s nose is like a carrot.

It’s a house. You can go inside it and I put bricks around it and there is a smaller house on top of it. I had some help with it too.

I made a picture with sprinkles. I out the gems on top of the buttons.

I got the animals ready to make funny faces at them.

I made my name from lots of different loose parts.

We made a tent, it was made from sticks and the crates.

I made a bridge that went from the building to the table.

It’s an exercise home for bugs.

Oh yes they can!

For the past couple of weeks we have been reading Giraffes Can’t Dance. We learned how Gerald was laughed at by his friends in the jungle for being a terrible dancer. However, Gerald quickly learned that his dancing wasn’t so bad at all and ended up believing he was a good dancer.

We have used the story to discuss what we can do In P1B and what we feel confident doing. We have also touched upon kindness and discussed how Gerald’s friends in the jungle could have supported him better instead of laughing at him.

We created a beautiful display together as a class. We painted the background, cut the grass and each wrote our ‘I can…’ statements. We then drew a giraffe and cut it out to add to the display.

We are also learning about music in class, in particular keeping the beat. As Gerald learned to dance to his own music, we decided to make our own musical shakers and had fun with them, moving to the music in any way it made us feel. We will use these during music to help with our beat keeping!