As usual P1a  have been very  busy learning, playing and developing skills!

Mini Mudder

We had a fantastic time completing the Mini Mudder challenge and used our gross motor skills to navigate the course.  Most of us loved the chance to get all muddy! We also helped to raise funds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also been  exploring outdoors developing our Maths skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We gathered objects and used them to make subtraction calculations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also explored capacity and which containers hold more/less/the same.

We have been working hard to learn our number bonds. We are learning a rhyme which helps us remember the adding stories to 10 and play lots of games to help us memorise the different stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are creating our own number lines and practise writing the numbers in order.  We counted out loose parts to match to the number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have continued to learn about Toys comparing toys in the past to modern toys, describing the differences and similarities. We can sort toys and we noticed some toys from long ago are still enjoyed by children nowadays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are also discussing Friendship and how to be a good friend. We wrote about a friend and have drawn detailed pictures of us having fun with our friends.  We made a class recipe for how to  make a good friend. We have also started a kindness board where we write about anyone who has been kind to us for everyone to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Literacy we continue to become more confident reading words and sentences using our knowledge of sounds and tricky words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are making great progress in your learning P1a.

Fantastic!

 

In literacy, we continue to build on our knowledge of sounds to help us improve our writing skills.

We have been practising this so much that we even made our own books! We enjoy using what we know about our sounds to help us to write. We try our best to keep our writing targets in mind such as remembering finger spaces and using capital letters and full stops correctly.

We have been sorting words into their phonemes!

For example, we know that words such as bee, free and three have the ‘ee’ sound and words such as pain, brain and gain have the ‘ai’ sound!

Roll + read games help us to improve our knowledge of phonemes.

We continue to revise our common words through a variety of games.

We have even started to think about non-fiction texts.

We have been exploring different texts to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction. We then tried to record the non-fiction facts we found within these texts!

In numeracy and maths, we continue to consolidate our number knowledge. We are becoming much faster at recalling number bonds as well as building on our stragies for addition. We are able to count on and back successfully and continue to think about numbers before and after.

We have began to learn all about subtraction! We know that by subtracting we are moving back down the number line and that our answer is going to be smaller than the other numbers.

We worked with a partner to make a tower using cubes, we then had to pick a subtraction card and take away the number of cubes to find the answer.

We were also learning how to set out these types of calculations on whiteboards by learning about the subtraction sign.

We are also consolidating our knowledge of adding 3 numbers, we enjoy using dice to help us with this!

In ICT, we have been creating images and using different features to add a variety of colours and shapes to them! We have even been learning how to add text to an image, we learned how to use the space bar to help us to include finger spaces.

Outdoors we continue to use our imaginations to take part in different role-play activities and games as well as applying what we learn in the classroom to our outdoor area.

We also enjoy working on our counting and number formation outside!

We used the palettes and pieces of wood to create a pirate ship and a stage!

We have so much fun building our teamwork skills!

Other Areas

Through our learning areas, we continue to apply a variety of different skills.

At the STEM table, we became inventors! We used a variety of resources to create/make different things.

We work on our teamwork skills by working together to complete a huge floor puzzle!

Great work P1B!

Welcome back to our blog! Our blog is starting off by showing you all our learning that  has taken place through our topic of Toys!

We created our favourite toy using different materials. We used junk modelling, plastic, metal and cardboard. Most materials we used were recycled as we realise the importance of reusing diferent things!

Using digital technology, we then created our favourite toy using different tools on the computer. We are becoming more confident in being able to access different tools on the computer to make our work far more intricate.

One of our questions we wanted to learn about was how are toys made?

We then studied how toys are made. We know old toys were made out of wood and metal and new toys are made out of plastic. Here is an example of posters we made about how a toy is made.

We were so lucky to have a visitor come to see us who knew everything about toys in the past! We had the opportunity to explore toys which dated all the way from the 1920’s.

One of our favourite stories in class is ‘Toy Story’. As this book and film is all about toys we wrote a film review on it! We are becoming more confident in using our sounds to write tricky words.

Here we are sorting out old toys and new toys using our knowledge we had learnt from our visitor and non-fiction books about toys!

Within toys, we have also learnt about forces. We know that toys can either be pushed or pulled.

Other Areas:

In Numeracy, we have spent time linking our knowledge of addition and subtraction within Money. We are practising to make different amounts using coins.

Number bonds are so important! We are so fast at recalling number bonds extremely quickly. We were beating the timer to sort the number bonds under the correct number.

Numbers beyond 20 is what we are all continuing to practice too! We are practising to ensure we write the number correct way!

We are also beating the timer to sort the number bonds under the correct number!

When we are outdoors, we also practice completing addition questions!

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Also Outdoors, as a team we were creating a huge tent!

Within our tent, we wanted water to travel within the the middle of it. We worked hard to find different resources that would work to travel water from the top to the bottom!

We used bamboo shoots that were held between the fences and were secure. This allowed for water to travel all the way to the middle and we used a white tub to collect the water that was pouring down. The crates were used to help us reach the bamboo shoots!

Stay tuned to see what learning takes place in our class next time :)!

We have been investigating forces to look at what makes toys work, move or go. We have discovered that some toys work by the force of being pushed or pulled. Some toys use more than one force and are powered by winding up, batteries or electricity. We have enjoyed sharing our ideas about our own toys and sorting a range of different toys.

In maths we have been working on subtraction, number bonds and number sequences. We have been using an interesting range of materials and resources to allow us to develop further our concept of number.

In literacy we are improving our writing and enjoy using our skills to write for a range of different purposes such as creating books, lists, sentences, cards and stories. We have also been sorting words by sounds and finding information in non fiction texts.

In drama and dance we have been using movement and mime to explore how we can create a range of different shapes with our bodies and tell a story through movement. We have been icicles, dinosaurs, puppets and stars. We have created a range of sequences working in pairs, small groups and as a whole class.

 

 

 

 

 

In P.E, through gymnastics we have been looking at developing our understanding of different types of rolls, jumping, using apparatus and controlling our bodies.

We hope you have enjoyed sharing our learning.