It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in P1A! The children are so excited.
Digital Learning
This week the children were given the opportunity to take part in the creation of a festive Stop Frame Animation. It is animation that is captured one frame at time, with physical objects (in this case Mary, Joseph etc.) that are moved between frames. When you play back the sequence of images rapidly, it creates the illusion of movement. Each class is contributing to the retelling of the Christmas story (when complied it will be available for you to view), Some pictures of the children demonstrating their skills.
The children are also learning a Christmas poem “Peppermint Sticks” which will be recorded and available to view during the last week of term. We have also began making Christmas decorations (a sneak peak below!)
Literacy – Writing
We have started our Christmas writing and this week they were asked to write “what they like about Christmas”. As you would expect all enjoyed getting presents, some said they liked putting up decorations and all wanted to play in the snow (at least one wish has been granted!). Some examples below
Our sounds this week have been “d” and “u”. We now have all the vowel sounds and the children have been working hard to blend the sound to make words and write short sentences. We have also been working extremely hard on reading and writing common words. Any help you could give them would really support the development of their reading and writing skills.
We are continuing to focus daily on teen numbers however, it important to consolidate numbers and number bonds within 10 so I created a fun challenge for them. I split them into 3 teams and gave them mats with dot patterns and cups with the answer on top. They had to quickly count and place the correct cup on top of the dot pattern. This went well so I changed it slightly. The children were then given mats with addition sums on it and cups with answers on top. They found this challenging but great fun. They can be very competitive!
Health and Wellbeing
This week we looked at friendship. How to make new friends and something they could offer a new friend. The children came up with a number of suggestions –
Robbie – “I would ask them to join a game”
Katie – “treat them nicely and if they got hurt I would help them”
Emily – “play games with them”
They made some lovely friendship tokens.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more news from P1A.
