This week our phonics sound is ‘ie’. Please support your child to remember this sound and action, by clicking on the following link:

The tricky word we are revising is ‘said’. Please support your child to recall this by thinking of sentences which contain this word, and by clicking on the following link:

We are continuing to learn how to identify our British coins and their value. Click on the following link to practice this at home, by completing the following task:

British money (liveworksheets.com)

We are also learning about addition using real life resources in class. Click on the following links to practice addition:

Addition To 10 (topmarks.co.uk)

Robot Addition (topmarks.co.uk)

 

P2/1 listened to the story of Tiddler by Julia Donaldson and shared their likes and dislikes about the story. The class discussed how the story was familiar to the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The children discussed the impact of telling tall tales and fibs. During Writing time, the children made up their own excuse for Tiddler to tell his teacher the next time he is late! You can see these excuses below and also listen to the story below!

PHONICS GAME: CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO PLAY!

 

Today we started our new topic called ‘Hot and Cold’. We discussed what we knew:

”Antarctic is very cold.” Laya

”A hurricane is cold.” Theo

”Ice cream is cold.” Poppie

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We then discussed what we wanted to find out:

”How is fire made?”

”How hot are jungles?”

“What animals live in hot and cold places?”

”Why are some places hot and some places cold?”

”can a desert have snow?”

We can’t wait to start learning!

This week we shall be learning the phonics sound ‘ai’ and ‘oa’. Please revise this with your child at home, and discuss words which contain these sounds.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_0lNTYRpNqU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IdvHYI2Vhb0

We are blending our phonics sounds to form cvc (consonant vowel consonant) words. Click on the following link to support your child to practice:

Our tricky word this week is ‘come’. Please click on the following link to practice this:

 

This week we are also exploring addition and number bonds. Click on the following link to listen to Mrs Cheshire explain this, and to enable you to practice this at home:

We are also familiarising ourselves with British coins, by identifying and sequencing them. Click on the following link to practice:

Please support your child to revise their tricky words, by clicking on the following links:

 

Happy New Year! We do hope all children and families had an enjoyable break. The P1 team were so pleased to see the children return to school. To begin 2022, we are revising all the sounds we have learned to date from s-qu. It is important children do this, as it will help them to blend these sounds and read words. Please support them to revise the following sounds and blend the CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VmMoFbhpFk4

Click on the following link to play a cvc word game

Short Vowel Word Machines (starfall.com)

We are also revising our knowledge of pictograms! Please click on the following links to support your child to play the games, and to understand the charts.

Fishing Pictograph Game | 2nd Grade Math Games | Toy Theater

Fruit Fall Pictograph Game | 2nd Grade Math Games | Toy Theater

The class drew their own Nativity scene and used the ChatterPix app to bring their pictures to life!

 

All the staff at Williamsburgh Primary School and P1 team wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and New Year. We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year 2022! Take care!

 

We hope you enjoy watching our P1 Christmas performance this year. All the children thoroughly enjoyed participating in it, have had an active role throughout, and engaged with digital technology to give it an extra special sparkle! Please feel free to leave a comment, we love to hear your feedback. Click on the link below to view: