This week we have been reading a story about a dog called Rory.  Rory the puppet came to see us in our class.  The story about Rory was a little bit sad because his owner forgot to feed him, walk him and take care of him.  We are learning the importance of taking good care of Rory.  We took him out for a walk, he did our daily mile with us.  This made him happy. Here are some pictures of Rory!!

Whooosh…………..another week has just zoomed past!!

In numeracy we have been learning the subtraction facts for 4 and 5.

In literacy we have been writing a personal diary entry about what we had for dinner.  Our task was to use a wow word to describe our dinner.  Some really interesting words were used like ‘tasty’, ‘delicious’, ‘scrumptious’.

Some of the reading groups started non-fiction books this week. We have been learning what non-fiction means.  In our literacy skills jotter we wrote sentences about what information or facts we learned from our books.

We have been exploring shadows and what they are.  We watched a shadow puppet show and then designed and made our own shadow puppet.  Next week we will be making our own shadow puppet theatre.

We have already had some superb puppets brought in for our homework task, Mrs Wedlock and Mrs Williams are looking forward to seeing more next week.  Please remember the due date for this challenge is WED 18th MAY 🙂

On Friday the teachers surprised the children by dressing up as Superheroes, this was a little reminder to children that we are looking to build resilience and superheroes come across challenges in life that they find tough but they don’t let it knock them down, they get right back up and try again.  Mrs Wedlock was Super Lightning McQueenie and Mrs Williams was Bat Girl!

Have a super week end P1!!

What a fun filled week in P1W!!!  A little visitor arrived in our class on Tuesday afternoon, it was so mysterious!! His name is Patch and he is a Puppet.  His sister Poppy arrived in the P1S classroom.  They haven’t told us much about where they have come from or why they are here.  They did tell us that they are twins and they asked us to tell them about ourselves.  We wrote a letter back to Patch and told him our name, age and if we had any brothers or sisters.  We can’t wait to have more fun with Patch next week!!

Here are some of the things we have been learning in Numeracy and Literacy!

Numeracy

• Learning to take away 1 and take away 2
• Learning to take away 0
• Smartboard games for take away

Literacy

• New sound ‘oi’ – it’s a black sound that lives in the vowel house.
• Reading skills – discussion about characters in our story? Who is your favourite? Why?
• Writing – we are practising to write a diary entry to tell Mrs Wedlock some of the things that we have been doing at home.

Well done P1W!! You all arrived on Monday morning with lovely smiles on your faces and lots of stories to tell. What a great first day we all had catching up and sharing stories from our holidays. Since then we have been busy getting back in to it.  Mrs Williams has joined our class and will be working with us for the next few weeks, we have already enjoyed a story time with her reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’.

Numeracy:

• we used our number bonds for 8, 9 and 10 to colour in leaves the right colour.
• we used numicon shapes to help us find the numbers to make 10.

Literacy:

• learning new sounds sh/ch
• writing a personal story about our Easter holidays
• During Play, Think, Learn we explored lots of tricky word games! This time everyone decided to twist at the end of our 15 minutes!!!
• we practiced writing capital B and lower case b in our handwriting.

This week we have been reading the bible to learn all about the Story of Easter.  We have read a little bit each day and have had fun writing the story in our own words in our Easter booklet.  We have also watched the Easter story and been singing ‘Hosanna’ in our class.

We have had a crafty week, we have been busy making chicks and bunny ears. Today we made our own little Easter baskets , Mrs Wedlock filled them with some goodies 🙂

We took part in an egg hunt today in the classroom, it was such good fun! Well done to Alicia who found the very special egg and won a little Easter surprise!

Here are some pictures of our crafty creations!

Another busy week in P1W and P1S.

Literacy –

We created our own character using our imagination and used WOW! words to describe them.  We then wrote an imaginative story about this character.

Numeracy –

• number stories for 7, 8 and 9 using numicon, dot patterns and counters.
• counting on and back within 20.
• recalling our doubles and near doubles within 10. Some people have even been trying doubles up to 20.

Here is some of our maths work on display, we used pacman to help us learn our doubles facts!

This week we have been working hard to practice our 1980’s assembly.  It went very well and Mrs Wedlock is extremely proud of us for doing a super job.  Mrs Bruce told us that she loved our assembly. So a big well done to all P1W!!!

In maths we have been learning to add doubles and near doubles.  We have learned a song to help us and we used little pacman characters to show our double facts. Mrs Wedlock is going to put them on the wall!

We have also being playing some board games from the 1980’s.

Mason – I liked kerplunk!

Leah – I loved playing Fibber!

Courtney – I had fun playing with an 80’s magic set.

Jase – I had fun playing with William and McKenzii at a game of Matching Pairs!