This week we have been learning to identify, say and write capital letters. We also looked at when we need to use a capital letter. Some of our learning activities included painting capital letters, tracing capital letters, rainbow writing, writing capital letters on our whiteboards, playing games on the smartboard and computer and matching uppercase and lowercase letters with the magnetic boards.
For writing this week, we looked at writing instructions. We made our own instructions for washing our hands. We were able to use short sentences in our instructions and organise and order our ideas.
In numeracy and maths this week, we were learning subtraction facts to 10 and finding ‘how many more’ by subtracting. We also continued to link our addition and subtraction facts. On Thursday, we were learning to compare and describe weights. We sorted objects depending on whether they were heavy or light and compared them according to their weight. We also used cubes to weigh different objects. Ruaridh’s shoe weighed 71 cubes!
This week we started our new learning focus ‘Our Local Community’. We listened to a story called ‘The Chimpanzees of Happy Town’ and discussed features of a town. We had lots of super ideas such as doctors, schools, parks, vets, police/fire stations, houses, hotels, churches, paths and roads, banks, universities, cafes, shops, cinemas and swimming pools! ‘People Who Help Us’ will be part of our local study so we decided to turn our transport museum into a police station! It has already been very popular and we have enjoyed taking on different roles! As part of our new learning focus, Mr Fluff has been leaving school to go on some adventures. This week he has had lots of fun with Chloe and Abhinav. We will all get a turn to take Mr Fluff home with us over the next few weeks.
Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you all have a lovely weekend.
P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
