We have had another busy learning week in Primary 1A. The children wanted to share some of their learning with you.
Literacy -Writing
This week the children have continued to develop their descriptive writing skills. The children were asked to describe a car. They started by looking at a picture with labels (labels were attached to the main parts of the toy car) they then focused on listening to simple sentences which described the car, how it was built etc. (label words are used in the sentences). Below some pictures of the big book we used and some of the children’s descriptive writing.
Phonics – Spelling
New sound this week is “s”. The children have been making it, sorting pictures by initial sounds and writing it. Some of their work below.
Numeracy
This week we have started a daily Number Talk. At this stage children are presented with a dot pattern. They are asked “how many dots do you see and how do you see them?” I record their answers and we discuss which was the most efficent strategy. The aim is to recognise groups of dots for example, in a pattern of 5 random dots a child may see a 3 and a 2 or a 4 and a 1. In time, (some are already doing this really well!!) it is hoped that this will increase their speed and accuracy and they won’t drop back to counting in 1’s when presented with larger groups.
We have also been focusing on the story of 6. The children have been writing the number 6 with different materials, they have also been gathering collections of 6 objects and making 6 in different ways. As a challenge some of the children ordered a huge 0 to 30 number line. Fantastic to see the children challenging themselves.
Health and Wellbeing
As part of our covid recovery programme we have been sharing stories of how we helped friends and family during lockdown. Some comments from the children
Katie – “I helped mummy put away my clothes in the drawer”
Scott – “I helped mum when she wan’t feeling well”
Emily- “I helped mum make a cake”
Samuel – “I helped mum make dinner”
The children have drawn some pictures of the people they helped.
I hope you all have a fantastic holiday weekend and I look forward to seeing the children on Wednesday (23rd).
