Good Afternoon. I can’t believe that is another week over already. We have been very busy this week.

In Literacy P1 have this week learned the sounds ‘t’ and ‘i’ and the tricky word the. We have made the letters with playdough, looked for them in a book, made a tiger mask, iced a biscuit and taught ted. We also made words on our magnetic boards using the letters learned so far. P2 have been revising the oi and oy sounds. We have looked for words in a word search, taught ted words with these sounds, played roll and read and searched for sounds in a story.

In Numeracy P1 have been learning about the numbers 6 and 7 We have made 6 and 7out of playdough, made families of 6 using our counting bears, completed an activity sheet all about 7 and drew a story of 7 in our jotters. P2 have been focusing on one to one correspondence and have been introduced to the greater than, less than and equals symbols. We have played higher or lower using playing cards, compared groups of objects depending on whether groups where greater than or less than and used to dice to compare numbers using the correct symbol.

In Health and Wellbeing this week we looked at resilience and spoke about how we have up moments and down moments. We then drew pictures of the things that make us feel happy and treasured. This week we have also been discussing and planning what we would like to learn about for our interdisciplinary topic. We have decided on the theme of animals and worked together to create a mind map of what we want to learn.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I really enjoyed drawing things that make me happy.”

“I liked learning about the numbers 6 and 7.”

“I learned about Skipper in assembly today.”

“I liked learning about Skipper and his tools to help him be resilient.”

“I liked our learning of the oi and oy sounds.”

“I enjoyed learning our set 3 sounds this week.”

“I learned about Skipper too.”

“I enjoyed learning the sounds ‘t’ and ‘i’.”