Welcome back to our blog! We have been so busy and have lots of exciting new things to share with you about our learning.

Mini Mudder

We had a great time taking part in the mini mudder!

We had so much completing this outdoor challenge and were able to develop our gross motor skills.

Literacy

In literacy, we continue to become more confident in reading words with phonemes. We like to practice reading, writing and drawing pictures to match these words!

We have lots of fun reading, making and writing words.

We challenge ourselves by using this word in a sentence!

We have also been developing our knowledge of fiction and non-fiction texts. Here we are sorting books into fiction and non-fiction!

We have also been retelling stories we have read.

At the easel, we were reading lots of fairy tales. We then wrote about what happened in the story and even chose words to practice spelling that we find tricky to write.

We continue to gain experience of reading lots of books!

Every day, we continue to work on our writing skills. We love writing messages to our friends and our teacher!

We also love reading and sequencing stories together! We read ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and worked together to sequence the pictures from the story and then write about it.

Maths

In maths, we continue to work on our subtraction skills, we do this through a variety of games on our own and with a partner!

We use different strategies to help us such as counting our fingers, using a number line and even counting on in our heads.

Outdoors 

After a busy few weeks preparing for our assembly, we had so much fun showing off what we had learned about toys to our families and the whole school!

We celebrated by having lots of fun in the MUGA! We had lots of different resources with us and used them to create our own games.

We were throwing bean bags through hoops!

We practiced our hula hooping skills!

We had a challenge to see who could do it for longer!

We even received a poster from the boys and girls in Primary 4 telling us how much they loved our assembly!

Now that we have finished learning about toys we have moved on to our next topic which is senses!

To start our topic, we went on a senses walk! We went around the playground and thought about what we saw, smelled, touched, heard and what we tasted at lunch.

Then, we explored our senses inside by moving around different stations to help us develop each sense even more!

At this station there were lots of different things for us to smell, some were good but some werent very nice at all! We smelled scented candles, playdough, coffee and vinegar.

We learned to use descriptive language to describe what they smelled like.

Here, we had to use our sight to find the hidden words!

We even had a tasting station where we had the chance to taste some delicious fruit. Instead of writing what we had to eat, we thought about what they tasted of.

Lots of people said that grapes were juicy, apples were crunchy and bananas were slimy!

At this station, we were exploring touch! We had to put our hands in to the box and describe what we could feel. We felt a spiky brush, a soft sponge, cold water and rough stones.

Lastly, we had a station to focus on our hearing. We had different instruments to use and then we described their sound, the drums were very loud!

Great work P1B!