Welcome back to our blog!

We are making lots of great progress and are continuing to work so hard in all areas of our learning.

Literacy

This week it was Book Week! We have had so much fun exploring lots of different books and stories, we worked with a partner to share with them what we liked about different books and took turns to try reading some of them.

Last week we were so lucky to have a visit from June who works at Mearns Library, she brought us all our very own Book Bug Bag which we were so excited to take home!

We have been reading the books in class and making posters to show our own versions of the front cover.

Also, we read the story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. Some of us had read this before and were excited to tell the others what it was about. This inspired us to go on our very own bear hunt!

It was lots of fun exploring the woodland to see what bears we could find, we then discussed their colour, size and how we thought they would feel. We  used this experience to help us to write our own bear hunt story.

We are continuing to work through our sounds, using what we have learned to help us to blend words.  We do this by stretching out the words to help us listen closely to the sounds.  We love using our reading books to help us to explore new vocabulary and are continuing to improve in reading and writing CVC words.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about doubling numbers. We did this through adding spots to ladybirds, it was lots of fun! We had to use our skills in counting to help us with this. We then worked out how to do adding using the body of the ladybirds too.

We are also continuing to learn about addition calculations, working out the total when we add two numbers together. We decided to make it a little trickier by adding three numbers together!

We love playing the dice addition game, we can do this on our own or with a partner.

We are now so fast at making a number line to 10!

This week we have also been working hard to prepare for the school Christmas Fayre!

We have been working together to prepare the teddy bears and cuddly toys for our stall. We chose which bear we wanted to write a lovely gift tag for and also decorate with some tinsel.

It was so much fun preparing them for their new home!

We will update you soon on more of our learning adventures in P1B!