Welcome back to our blog! It has been another busy week in P1C.

We continue to explore new sounds. We are working hard to identify sounds in words and we are beginning to use our sounds to help us to read words such as hat, car and log.

Here we are sorting picture cards and objects by their initial sounds.

Practising letter formation to ensure we write our letters correctly,

Sounding out and writing CVC words and some tricky common words!

Playing roll and read with a partner! We work hard to sound out the words.

Finding the sounds we have learned in our story books!

During Numeracy and Maths, we continue to identify, count and sequence numbers.

Here we are working with a partner to order numbers.

Finding numbers to 20!

We have also been exploring money this week. We went on a coin hunt around the classroom to see what coins we could find.

We have also been identifying coins, sorting them and learning about the value of coins.

We even started using coins to make different amounts!

We explored data and analysis this week. We were doing some sorting and we had to identify which groups had the most/least. We sorted cubes by colour and we sorted animals based on where they live, the sea or land.

We continue to explore our classroom areas, working collaboratively with our friends.

We are so excited about our new topic which is Space! Our Halloween writing task generated lots of questions around day and night, the moon and stars so this led us to choosing Space as our new topic. Some of the things we want to learn about are the sun, the moon, the planets, aliens and astronauts!

This week we learned all about the sun! We know that the sun is a star that gives energy to earth. This also allowed us to chat about sun safety and how to keep ourselves safe when it is really hot.

We investigated how the sun shines on earth and how it shines on the moon to give us light at night time.

On Thursday we created some amazing pictures based on Bonfire Night. The children loved exploring various colours and sharing stories of firework displays they had seen.

We were lucky enough to be gifted some sand from our new family centre for our outdoor area. It was so exciting! We had lots of fun helping to empty the bags. We worked together to build sand castles and we even played the floor is lava using the bags!

It was super muddy which made the mud kitchen even more fun! We were splashing in the puddles, making mud soup and mud pies!

We created a smoothie maker again this week through our imaginative play. This week the flavour was banana! We had to mix a few of the paint colours to get the yellow just right.

Mini Mudder!!

The children had a great time doing the mini mudder this morning. It was very muddy and messy but so much fun!!

Before the muddy madness!

During!

After!

Well done boys and girls you did an amazing job of completing the mini mudder!!

The children are so excited to be bringing home their take home folders today. We hope you enjoy having a look through just some of the activities they have completed so far during their time in Primary 1.