Author: Mrs Murdoch

This week in P1 we have been learning our new sound ee and revising ch,sh and th. Thank you to everyone who presented a talk about their favourite toy, what a variety of toys!

In Maths, we have been using our playdough to help learn about halves and quarters.

As it was Science Week, we took part in a curly wurly challenge. It was great fun and very messy. We were very surprised at how long they could stretch.

You may have noticed our daffodils on the windowsills. We added food colouring to the water to show how a plant sucks water up through its stem. Look at the petals!

We look forward to meeting you next week for Parent Consultations.

This week we have been learning our new sound ‘ng’ and have been writing some descriptions. We’ve been trying really hard to remember capitals, finger spaces and full stops when writing sentences, and some of us have been using joining words too.

We are continuing to explore Our Five Senses and  have had fun playing the feely bag game . We used lots of vocabulary to describe the textures we felt e.g smooth, rough, bumpy, hard, squishy, soft. We also learned about our sense of smell and found out that some smells can act as a warning eg. food can smell off, so don’t eat it .

“If you smell smoke, that’s a warning. There could be a fire and you need to get out.” – Heather

In Maths we’ve been looking at o’clock times on analogue and digital clocks. We’ve played some bingo games and have  even made some of our own clocks.

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Even although it was a short week, we’ve had a very busy few days in P1.

We have learned our new sound ‘qu’ and have been practising our reading skills on Reading Wise. We have also been adding within ten using dominoes and ten frames for Numeracy.

We have continued to learn about toys and looked at some toys from the past. Many were made from metal, wood or cloth, unlike a lot of our plastic toys today.

We thought about which forces toys use to help them move. We found many  that use a push or pull force, in the classroom or outside.

Some of us also completed a STEAM challenge to design and make a game of our own – a marble maze using lego.

We were lucky to have a surprise judo session on Wednesday and had lots of fun learning new moves and working with partners on the mat.