We’ve been learning about sharing parts equally and the terms whole, half and quarter. Today we used real cupcakes to create halves and quarters and of course we ate them!!
Balloon Phonics Fun
Our new diagraph sound is ‘wh’ today we had a fantastic time reading wh words by having a balloon party and then reading our balloon when the music stopped. 🎶
Sewing and Electricity
Some children asked to do sewing, they learned how to thread the needles and to join 2 pieces of felt together and add ribbons. There have been a mixture of creations from jelly fish, to snails to dinosaurs.
We’ve been exploring circuits in our play provision. Learning to create a circuit which powers a light. 💡
‘it needs a battery to make it work, like electricity in our switches!’
‘I managed to add a switch too so I can turn my light on and off!’
Dough Challenges!
We love playing with dough in Primary 1!
Dough play is so beneficial to our fine motor, finger and hand strength and our imaginations and creativity.
Today, after a dough disco the class wanted to make ‘s’ with our playdough as it is our first phonics sound. We used our fingers to roll the dough long before creating the shape of a ‘s’, the class began suggesting words that have the ‘s’ sound in them.
We ended our dough time with a dough challenge, to make an item or a character and to create a story around them. We had a super hero snail, a snowman from the North Pole who was confused when it was Christmas, a unicorn in search of a chocolate factory and even a Mrs Sjoberg who was looking for her lost class. Lots of positive listening and talking skills as well as a whole lot of fun.
