We’ve had a busy week in P1b returning to our usual routine after Book Week last week.

Last Friday we were all excited to take our book bags home. We hope you enjoyed sharing the stories. We voted in class which was our favourite and Inch and Grub was the resounding winner!

This week we’ve learned two new sounds – w and v. We’ve been lots of writing – building words and starting to write short sentences.  We’ve also been reading each day. Thank you for reading and practising the key words at home. In class we had great fun playing a memory game with the key words.

In numeracy we’ve been continuing our focus on addition and this week incomplete addition or ‘danger sums’ e.g. 2 + _ = 3. This is a little more challenging and we are using lots of concrete materials to help us.

In our outdoor learning we went on a scavenger hunt looking for different animal habitats in the school grounds. We spotted holes in the ground and the trees and thought of the different animals that might live in them.

Also this week, we’ve been using oil pastels to add colour to our frogs that we drew last week. We took our time and talked about how oil pastels are different to other materials and how we can layer the different colours.

We have also had a rearrange of our classroom this week and have some lovely new toys. We had lots of discussions about being respectful to property and how we all need to look after our class. One of these new toys was a Code-a-pillar. Like the Beebot, we programme the Code-a-pillar to follow a simple set of instructions. We had great fun at the end of the day yesterday racing the Beebot and the Code-a-pillar!

Enjoy the long weekend and see you on Tuesday.