Primary One have been busy this week, revising their vowel house sounds and we impressed Miss Rodford with our knowledge of the sounds.  In maths, we have been learning our number facts to 9 and we have been working out different ways to partition 9.  We have also been learning about one more and one less of numbers to 20.

On Thursday, we went out into the structured play area and we loved dressing up as Pirates and playing in the role play area!

As part of our values program, we went to an assembly which was all about co-operation.  We have been taking part in activities which promote co-operation and we continue to work on this skill in the classroom.

Miss Rodford loved the Pirate pictures we created and she also enjoy reading all the Pirate names which were part of the homework!

Well done Primary One

P1/2 enjoyed some pirate fun in the structured play area this week.  The boys and girls enjoyed dressing up as pirates, building pirate ships with the duplo, completing pirate jigsaws, drawing pirate pictures and playing with the toy pirate ships!  It was great fun and everyone worked hard to practise the skills of listening, turn taking and sharing.  Well done!

In maths, we have been working on linking lots of our maths skills together to work out lots of different word problems.  It was a bit tricky at first but we are getting better at it!  We also practised sequencing numbers to 20, sharing objects equally, working out the missing numbers in sums by using the strategy of counting on and working out the different number stories of 9.

In literacy, we revised our knowledge of the vowel house sounds.  We practised some of the tricky sounds and thought about some ways to help us remember them.  We used Mrs Lloyd’s post it notes to write the sounds and match them with the pictures.

As part of our values program, Darren from the Lanthorn church came to speak to us about co-operation.  He left lots of activities for us to have a go at so that we could practise our co-operation skills.

Another hard working week P1/2.  Well done and keep it up!

Primary 1/2 had a super busy week last week.  We discovered something very interesting in the playground.  It was a treasure chest that was full of pirate treasure and a treasure map.  We had a think and thought that maybe some pirates had visited Bankton and left it for us.  We are very excited about our new pirate topic!

In maths, we were thinking about different ways to make 8.  We tried adding two and three numbers together and used cubes to help us.

We also practised sharing out objects equally between two and four groups.  We had to make sure that our sharing was fair!

In Literacy, we impressed Mrs Lloyd with our reading and sounding out skills and also practised the vowel house sounds.

In Science, we thought about animals which lay eggs and worked in groups to share our thoughts on which animals lay eggs.  We then watched a video clip to see if we were right!

It was great to catch up with everyone again after the holidays and P1/2 settled right back into working hard as we are now practising P2’s and P3’s.  Well done!