When we arrived to school last week there was a very exciting box waiting for us. We opened it together and it was an Elf! He had brought some Christmas decorations for us to decorate our classroom and even a Santa Cam so that Santa can see us working hard from the North Pole! We had lots of fun deciding on a name for our Elf, we had lots of suggestions but we decided his name would be Jingle!

Then, we found Jingle reading one of our Book Bug books!

Numeracy and Maths

We have been so busy developing our skills in maths. We have been exploring lots of different concepts such as time, money, and fractions as well as continuing to develop our number skills!

We learned a song to help us remember the days of the week and the months of the year.

Here we are working as a team to put them in order!

We have been exploring different coins and their amounts. We learned what these coins look like and have been trying hard to identify their worth.

We have also been working hard to sort them!

For our introduction to fractions we learned all about equal sharing. We worked with a partner to distribute the items into a lunch box equally. We had to count the items at the start and again at the end to make sure that we both had the same number! It was lots of fun.

In doing this we used language such as ‘half’ and ‘whole’ to work out the total of a group of items and how many there were once they had been split between 2.

We also worked in groups of 3’s to distribute cubes equally, this was a little trickier but helped us to develop this skill further.

Literacy

Our ability to sound out and decode words has improved so much over the past few weeks! We are continuing to read tricky words and sentences, we play lots of games to help us with this and enjoy fixing mixed up sentences!

We have been exploring CVC words further and have been using our sounds to help us with these. We love playing matching games in which we have to match the CVC word to the correct picture!

For our writing, Jingle gave each of us an ‘Elf Diary’ this is what we use to write all about Jingle and his adventures around our classroom.  Learning our common words has helped us lots in our writing as we are learning to include words such as,  the, we, I and lots more!

Not only have we been writing about Jingle but we also wrote a letter to Santa! We had to sound out the things we wanted. It was very exciting to hear what some of our friends have asked for!

ICT

In ICT we have been developing our skills of using a computer or laptop.  We have been exploring the different software and functions of the mouse and this week we worked hard to make a Christmas picture!

Well Done P1B!