What a quick week!

This week in P2/1 we’ve been doing lots of reading. We’re enjoying reading in our groups and talking about the characters in the stories. On Monday we looked at -in words and came up with a huge number of rhyming words, including longer words like robin and dolphin. In writing this week we looked at recount writing and wrote about the time a robin came into our classroom. We looked at the verbs (doing words) we would need to build our sentences.

We’re practising correct letter formation and ensuring our letters are a similar size and all sitting on the line. In our handwriting lessons we start by working on our core, then our shoulders, then a ‘crossing the midline’ activity and finally work with playdough to help make our fingers strong. Then we practise our letter formation. This week we’ve looked at r and n.

In numeracy we’re continuing with our addition to twenty. We’ve been adding three numbers and also used our subtraction and problem solving skills with missing number addition. We also set up a Kingsland Shop to help our adding and subtracting, working out how many items we could buy with our money.

On Wednesday we watched an assembly with Mrs Hope, who told us all about St Andrew’s day and read a lovely poem. There was also a quiz and we found out about some of the other patron saints in the UK.

We’re continuing to talk about filling our buckets. In circle time we drew little pictures and talked about what had filled our buckets this week.