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Mrs Sjoberg 🙂
Monthly Archives: November 2023
Numeracy Week
Numeracy Week has been a huge success at Sound School. We have enjoyed the daily ‘bell’ where the whole school stop to focus on numeracy for 10 minutes, we even had a special visitor – A Postman. He told us about how he uses numeracy and maths in his job everyday, we had lots of questions and have enjoyed having a post office role play area this week.
We have been developing our skills in using counters/loose parts to add values together, we have been revising number ordering and formation to 10/20 and exploring STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. We planned, refined and created boats using junk modelling to help the polar bear cross the ocean.
Busy, busy! Too Busy!
This term we have been working very hard to get ready for our Christmas show at the end of the term. We started by learning all the songs and then we had to learn lots of speaking parts as well! For the last few weeks we have been practicing on the stage and we are really excited to perform to our school community and our families on Tuesday 12th December.
We don’t want to give too much away but it’s going to be great!
Remembrance Day Poppies
P1A have been learning about Remembrance Day. They have made poppies using drawing, scissors, paper tearing and collage using paper and glue. I love what they have managed to make. Mrs  Burr – art lesson.
Numeracy Week Outdoor Learning
This week is ‘numeracy week’ at Sound Primary School, today for outdoor learning the adults were encouraging learners to notice number and beyond number learning in the outdoors. The class enjoyed exploring and playing in the wildlife area and for our group time Mrs Sjoberg encouraged us to use ‘positional language’ – we were pointing out our right and left, sitting ‘on’ top of something, lying ‘next’ to something, going ‘under’ something, climbing ‘over’ something.
Children’s voice:
‘This puddle is making splashing sounds, and the mud is ‘squelching’. The child then told Mrs Sjoberg how to segment these words using their phonics knowledge. ‘S-P-L-A-SH’
‘This stick is longer than his stick… My stick is shorter, if I add this stick too with cellotape then it is longer than his’.
‘I am jumping in ‘muddy’ puddles, my boots have mud on them’… ‘I can spell mud, M-U-D’.
‘I feel safe because this part was slippery on the tree so I am moved to this bit.’
‘Look this tree still has – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… leaves on it, I wonder if they will be there next week or falled off?’
‘This acorn baby looks like a ‘c’ (child then showed me the action for ‘c’ and sang the ‘c’ song).
WE LOVE OUTDOOR LEARNING! (Especially on a rainy day!)
Family Learning Grid
Please see below the optional family learning grid for our IDL Topic: Festivals and Celebrations.
