Literacy

Our ability to recognise single sounds and phonemes has improved so much! We continue to develop these in order to help us improve our reading and writing skills.

Here we are working together to create a story using lots of mixed up sentences, we had to work together to read the words to decide if it made sense!

We are working together to test our knowledge of tricky words.

We have been exploring unseen texts. This is helping us to expand our vocabulary and to allow us to use what we know about our sounds to read new words.

We then shared with our friends why we chose this book and even tried reading a little bit of it to them!

We are consolidating our knowledge of phonemes! We love to read, write and draw lots of these words.

Roll and Read games also help us to test our phoneme knowledge!

Numeracy

We are building our number knowledge by using lots of different strategies for addition. We have moved from using materials like cubes and counters to using number lines!

We are also consolidating our knowledge of number bonds.

We have been revising our knowledge of 2D shape, we can identify circles, triangles, squares and rectangles and discuss their features.

We are also able to decide what shape some items are and group them according to their shape!

Other Areas

At the STEM table we have been thinking about measuring the weight of different items. We have investigated this by measuring things like tins, rulers, feathers and rocks to decide if they were heavy or light!

In the role-play we have created our own hairdressers! We have been using our writing skills to help us make appointment lists!

We continue to develop our team work skills when working as a team to build in the construction area!

Outdoor Learning

Outside, we focused on measure, specifically weight and length. We had to measure  materials and decide if they were long, or short.

We even measured our own height, ordering ourselves from the smallest person to the tallest person!

When measuring weight, we held lots of different items to decide if they were heavy, or light.

We love being creative outside too! We even set up our own shop to sell some of the ice we found in our outdoor area. Each piece of ice was different in size so we created different prices for each one!

Here, Ross is building a boat!

Myla and Joe are measuring the puddles made by the melted ice!

Well Done P1B! Keep up the great work!

Toys Workshop

As part of our new Toys topic we had a visiting workshop from a museum.  We discussed what we knew about toys from the past and looked at lots of old toys and modern toys-sorting and comparing them. We explored and played with them. Some were skills toys, puzzle toys and some were construction toys.  Some toys were over 100 years old! We were shown how to use the whip and peerie! We enjoyed listening to stories about toys from the past. We learned how glass marbles came to be a toy after they were used in  codd bottles and children wanted to play with them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy

We are continuing to work on learning to use sounds we know to read and write words. We are enjoying sharing a book together and helping each other with any tricky words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are learning to write tricky common words and like to test each other!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been sequencing pictures from our reading books to show we know what happens and using the pictures to retell the story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also have sentences which are jumbled and we have to reorder the words so that it makes sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been using reading games to sort phoneme words and read them. We think up a sentence using some of the words to tell our partner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We can use our word wall to make sentences from our reading book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numeracy and Mathematics

We have been working hard to learn our number stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are learning the number bonds to 10 off by heart.

Other learning

In gymnastics we have been balancing on different parts of our bodies and trying to balance with just 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 parts of our bodies touching the floor.  We are very imaginative thinking of different ways. We also create mirror images of our partners chosen balance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We use the benches and mats to create a sequence of movements, using different ways to travel across the bench, jumping and landing in our Y, V, T, tuck and star shapes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are more photos of us exploring and learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well done P1a!

We are so excited to be back at school! As always, we are continuing to work hard through all learning experiences.

Literacy

We are becoming much more faster at recognising phonemes (such as ai, ie, oa and ee) within tricky words. We are using our knowledge of sounds to help read these tricky words!

To help us learn, we play many different activities by using magnetic letters and roll and read games.

We are reading unseen texts to help us become faster at recognising phoneme words.

Within Writing, we are using our sounds to create sentences. We are trying to remember to use a capital letter at the start of the sentence and a full stop at the end with good finger spaces.

In the sand area, we are creating stories. Every story needs a character therefore we made some in the sand using different materials.

Common words are words which we use in all of our sentences everyday. We practice to read and write them correctly.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

In Maths, we have became so confident in our number bonds, we are now able to use this skill to add sums beyond 20.

We are using different strategies to add three numbers together. As we know our number bonds so well, we are able to complete these sums with effectively.

As number bonds are so important, we play different games and activities to ensure we can make number bonds correctly for a given number.

Numbers to 100 are super tricky! However, with practice we are becoming much more able at being able to sequence numbers to 100.

We have made numbers using blocks!

Outdoor Learning 

We were using different outdoor materials to help complete tricky addition questions.

We created a stable see-saw !

As a team, we worked together to make a den. We used our problem solving to skills to make sure it was stable, had a roof which didn’t fall and ensured it was safe.

We created a ‘water machine’. We worked together to make the water travel across different beams at different speeds.

We also mark make and create stories outdoors!

Gymnastics 

We are completing obstacles courses within Gymnastics. We are using our skills we have learned to complete the course. Such as balancing, completing different travelling movements and doing forward/backward rolls from a bench.

Welcoming a Baby

We have  just completed our topic for Welcoming a Baby! We were learning different traditions which take place in different religions.

Here we were exploring Christianity and explored churches, gowns and baptism within this religion.

We will begin our new topic of ‘Toys’ this week! We planned our topic together as everyone wrote down what we already knew about toys. Then we created questions on what we would like to learn throughout our topic.

 

Over the last week and a half we have been settling back into our classroom routines!

Literacy

We are continuing to develop our knowledge of our single sounds, phonemes and common words. This helps us lots when we are reading but also when we are writing.

We are working on decoding words further by sorting out mixed up sentences. To help us with this we look for the word with a capital letter for the start of the sentence and make sure that a full stop is at the end.

We have also been exploring new reading books which is helping us to widen our vocabulary.

We have been working on identifying, writing and making our common words. We play lots of different games to help us with this.

Letter formation is also super important!

Developing our skills of identifying single sounds has helped us lots to identify CVC words!

We are now able to read and write trickier words. Here we are reading flashcards and writing out the words.

We also enjoy playing ‘roll and read’ games to test our knowledge of our phonemes.

We did some writing all about what we did on Christmas day or during the school holidays! Our alphabet mats and common word mats help us with this.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been revisiting and building on our number knowledge.

We have been doing further work on addition using different strategies to help us such as counting with our fingers or using number lines, we also enjoy using concrete materials to give us a visual of the calculation. We also challenge ourselves by adding 3 numbers together!

We have  been focusing lots on number bonds too. This is when we are given a number and we can state which two numbers added together make this total.

Here we are ordering numbers!

Other Areas

Gym

In Gym we are continuing to work on our gymnastics skills! We have been working on our balance, our posture and have even been practising some manouvres such as forward rolls! This week we created a short obstacle course to demonstrate our skills and to show how well we can control our body movements.

Out in the MUGA we have been playing team games developing our team work skills. We also love playing racing games!

Topic

We decided as a class that our new topic would focus on toys! We shared with our friends what we already know about toys and then worked hard to decide what we would like to find out.

To introduce us to this topic we had a circle time activity which allowed everyone to share what their favourite toy was. We then asked  questions such as ‘why is it your favourite toy?’ and ‘what does it look like?’. It was lots of fun!

Great work P1B!

 

 

 

 

This week we have been enjoying sharing our holiday stories and we talked a lot about some of the new toys we got. We decided it would good to learn more about toys and are going to make it our next topic.

We started with a 3D mind map to look at what we already know and have come up with some great questions to help us learn more, such as ………

“How are toys made?” Harris

“What are toys made of?” Darcy

“What type of toys are there.” Tia

“How do toys move?” Steven

“Wind-up toys are from the olden days, what other old toys are there?” Joshua

We are looking forward to sharing the answers with you as our topic develops.

In maths we have been exploring number patterns, solving addition calculations, looking at number bonds, using mirrors and symmetry to draw the other half of a picture and exploring symmetry in nature whilst outdoors.

   

In literacy we have been writing sentences, we hear, carefully sounding out each word and creating some sentences of our own. Our increased knowledge of sounds, phonemes and common words is a great help. We have also been looking at rhyming patterns and using our reading books to find information in a text. We also wrote some fantastic stories about toys who were ill.

In the construction area a team of our finest archietects worked together to design and build a house!

In P.E we are developing our skills of object control and team work.

                                  

 

Exploring outdoors…….

“ I made pokemon cupcakes.” Sarah

“I am making a potion.” Zak

 

 

 

 

 

 

“This is how you climb down. “ Ben

“We are doing an experiment.” Subhan

“ Look at our wooden floor.” Toby

“ We made a slide.” Gaby

Here are some pictures of other things we have been enjoying this week…..