This week in literacy P1/2 have explored the vowel house story and have been practising putting the pictures into the right order.  The vowel sounds are black because they are tunnel sounds and you have to open your mouth really wide like a tunnel to say them properly.  Parents – please have a look in the useful documents section of the blog for details of the story so that you can join in and support your child.

We have also began to use the mouth part boards to begin to sound out some words and to spell them using the mouth parts.  Mrs Lloyd was very impressed!

In maths, we have been enjoying our number talks and are continuing to work on our hand signals and on explaining how we worked out our answers.  We have been looking at ten frames and dot patterns and are continuing to work on finger patterns and counting accurately.

In our topic work we have began to learn about harvest.  We had a look at the market garden in school and saw some of the vegetables that are growing at Bankton including carrots, parsnips and potatoes.  Next week, we are looking forward to working with Miss Campbell to get digging and to harvest some of the vegetables.