P1a really impressed Mrs Lloyd today with their fabulous vowel house work.  The children worked independently at a number of different stations while Mrs Lloyd worked with small groups to play the Swap vowel house game.  The independent activities included playing vowel house bingo, reading tricky words, playing vowel sounds games on the laptops, using the big interactive vowel house on the wall, matching sounds and words to the correct positions on the vowel house and drawing the vowel house on the big paper (as suggested by Josh).  Try asking your child to tell you all the sounds in the vowel house and the vowel house story – I bet you will be impressed!  These sounds are helping us with our reading and writing work.  Here are some pictures of us in action!

This week, the children in P1a have again been using their teamwork skills.  The children worked in groups after we all read a text about butterflies.  They then had to work together in their groups to form a question which would help them to better understand the text.  We discussed question words and the children really impressed me with their fantastic questions, examples of which included:

• What do butterflies like to eat?
• Where can you find butterflies?
• How do butterflies hatch?
• Who nurtures the butterflies?

Here are some photos of the children co-operating in their groups.  Well done P1a, you worked hard together to think of quality questions!