Author: Mrs Harrison-Zdunczyk

This week in literacy we have:

• Learned more about the magic e sound. Here is a link to a video all about the magic e.  We discovered the power of the magic e to make weak vowels strong! Here is a video telling you more about that.

This week in numeracy we have learned about:

• The greater gator
• Numbers before/after
• Smallest, smaller / bigger, biggest numbers

We also decided to change the use of our mark-making area into a ‘junk modelling / STEM area’ which Miss Harrison will keep adding materials to. If you have any ‘junk’ at home that you think would be good for our junk modelling area then please bring them in and they can be quarantined and then put out for the children to use. This could be papers, boxes, cartons, elastic bands, tubes, springs or card, etc…

This week we are still learning through our theme of farming and growing. During this short week, we have focussed on the role farmers and food producers have in growing and harvesting food. We did sensory writing pieces using our five senses to explore what we might see, smell, hear, touch, and taste on a farm.

Lots of Primary 1.2 expressed an interest in animals, farms and springtime. We have enjoyed lots of activities this week linking to these themes. We used the book ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson to help direct our learning. Listen to the story here. 

We have really enjoyed our outdoor time this week. We are building up our stamina on the Daily Mile.

After reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ we created our own farm maps for Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh to help them steal our own prize animal. We learned all about what makes a ‘fine prize cow’ and also did some listening and talking activities about different farm animals. We then used our maps to create instructions for Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh to help navigate them through the farm. Our focus was instructional writing with the use of bossy verbs and numbers to give our instructions an order. Look at our wonderful creations!

Spelling our sounds for this week using Pom Poms

Messy play, explorative play or outdoor play, it doesn’t matter, we love playing in P1.2!

Primary 1.2 are off to a busy start this week and have been enjoying lots of new learning opportunities. It has been wonderful having the learners back in the class and we are all looking forward to new adventures in our final term.

Today was Wheelie Wednesday and lots of us made our way to school in a more Eco friendly and healthy way.

What a busy week in P1.2! Lot’s of purposeful play and amazing learning has happened this week. Last week some of the learners expressed an interest in jellyfish. This week we learned about the parts of a jellyfish and created our own ‘word’ jellyfish where we had to practise writing our words onto the jellyfish oral arms and tentacles. Our tuff spot was transformed into a rock pool where we can use the rocks, shells and other materials to explore and play.

We are all looking forward to some exciting Easter activities next week!