This week we have been learning about the sounds ‘qu’ and ‘x’.  We are very excited as we now only have 2 sounds to learn to fill the whole alphabet sheet on our magnetic boards.  We have been working hard to sound out and glue letters to make words and Miss Stebbing is very proud of us.  We have also been finding lots of common words in our reading books and we have been practising writing the common words on our whiteboards.  We have been listening to the story Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson; we listened to it in 3 different ways and discussed our favourite.  Remember to ask us about our learning!  We also wrote our own Room on the Broom stories and got to have our photos taken on a broom.  We thought this was very funny.

In maths we have been applying our sorting skills to help the Elephants get ready for Elmer Day.  We had to sort out cutlery or straws and then explain what we did to the other boys and girls.  We also used our counting skills to put the correct number of Halloween confetti shapes in different cauldrons.  We had to use a lot of glue to make sure they stuck to the paper!

We have been learning about what makes a good friend and we made some friendship soup.  We all got a chance to put something in the pot and mix it up.  Miss Stebbing was very impressed with our answers and now she wants to see us being good friends in the classroom and the playground.

On Friday we had our Joining the Learning Day to celebrate Halloween.  We had lots of fun visiting the different classes, meeting all the staff in the infant department and working with other pupils from P2 and P3.

Next week we will be starting our new topic about Robots.  Miss Stebbing is looking forward to seeing all our Robot models on Monday!