This has been our final week learning about Jack and the Beanstalk and with the help of Mrs Smith we have planted our own magic beans! We have been looking at some information books to find out what plants need but now we will just have to be patient and watch our little seeds carefully to see if they grow.

As you may have seen on Twitter we enjoyed a visit from Mrs Vorster who brought along her Scottish harps.  We particularly enjoyed clapping, singing and even dancing along to the music as you can you see on these short video clips!

 

We are continuing to learn our Jolly Phonics sounds and are making good progress in blending these using the magnetic boards and letters.  This week our new sounds were “e” and “h”.  We read lots of Elmer the elephant stories and created a lovely display of our work outside our classroom .

The team challenge was all about “h” as we had to make hedgehog houses – outdoors of course!

Mr Ross and Mr Fagin our school janitors also popped into P1a this week to tell us all about the jobs that they do in the school.  They also asked if we could help them by not dropping litter in the playground and by not filling the sinks in the toilets up with water and letting them overflow!

Exciting week next week – our first show and tell! Please remember to check the letter and try hard to make sure children bring item on correct day.  Please speak to me (or Mrs Smith)  if your child is worried or upset about this at all – it should be a nice fun way for us to end our first term in P1!