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Learning to Read

In P1 we have been putting our sounds together to make words. We use our fingers to help us, each time we say/hear a sound we put up a finger. We have been talking  about words with the same sounds rhyming. Mrs Collins helped us to build a sentence,  using finger spaces between each word. We then pointed to each word as we read back what we had written.

 

O is for Octopus 🐙

In P1 today our new sound was “o”. We listened to a story about Ollie the Octopus who wanted a party with his friends Ostrich and Oscar! We talked about different words with the “o” sound and then made an octopus to take home to help us learn our new sound. We made our octopus’s tentacles by wrapping them round a pen to make curls.

Autumn Leaves

In P1 we have been talking about the changes that are beginning  to happen around us. Changes  in the weather and to the trees that are signs of autumn. We painted these autumn trees by applying a wash for the background with watery paint, then we used our brush to paint the trunk and branches of the trees. Finally we painted the leaves using our fingers.