In literacy, we continue to explore a variety of texts.

We are then able to sequence a story and draw a picture of our favourite part!

We use our knowledge of single sounds, phonemes and common words every day to help us with our reading and writing. Here we are using our skills to create sentences using flashcards.

We have also been reading fairytale stories! We chose which fairytale we wanted to read, read some of it to our friends and then wrote about our favourite character from the story.

We use our alphabet mats to help us with our writing as well as common word mats.

We continue to build on our ability to segment and blend CVC words!

Here we are sorting out a mixed up sentence from our reading book!

We continue to revise our phonemes every day, here we are searching for ‘qu’ in a story. We used our special highlighter pens to highlight words with this sound and  together we wrote each word we found.

In maths, we continue to build on our number sense every day!

We have been sequencing numbers to 20 and also writing the number names.

We continue to work on number formation as it is important that we write our numbers correctly!

We continue to develop strategies for addition and subtraction, we are getting faster at solving these calculations!

We have also been revising our knowledge of shape, particularly 3D shape.

At the STEM table, we had the chance to create our own 3D shapes. We had a variety of materials in order to do this with real 3D shapes as well to help us.

It was quite tricky to make our shape stay up, but we used our problem solving skills to solve this!

As we have been learning about senses, we decided that we wanted to develop our sense of taste a little further.

We did this by making jam sandwiches!

We had to follow a recipe, ensuring that we followed each instruction in the correct order so that we made our jam sandwiches correctly.

It was lots of fun and our sandwiches were very tasty!

We then had to sequence each step and put them in the correct order, this will help us when we come to write our instructions for making a jam sandwich!

We have also been making senses posters!

We worked in groups to share what we know about our senses and gave examples of all of the things we see, smell, taste, touch and hear every day in school and outside.

Outdoor Learning

We have been so busy in our outdoor area these past few weeks.

In class, we read all about ‘The Stick Man’ so outside we made our very own stick man!

We even designed a front cover for our own stick man story!

We were also using our problem solving skills outdoors as we were working together to use the water pipe to shoot water over the rail!

We had to work together to ensure that we had enough water in the tub, we did this by filling up buckets of any water we could find from puddles and the tuff spot to keep the pump working.

We were also investigating how far or high the water could shoot out!

We also used bricks and chalk to create our own calculations! Here we are creating a ‘find the missing number’ puzzle for others to solve.

Well Done P1B!!