This week we have been busy setting up our new role play area. This term we are learning about our local area. We read the book ‘The Chimpanzees of Happytown’ and started to think about what a town needs for the people that live in it. We talked about the different modes of transport and different facilities. We then had a vote on what we would like to have in our own little Linlithgow. We have made our reading corner into Linlithgow Palace and created a Union Canal going through our classroom. We worked hard to create a doctors surgery in our role play corner.
In the story the chimpanzees are all sad because their town is called ‘Drabsville’ and it is a very glum place. Chutney the Chimp made lots of changes for the community and turned it into Happytown. In P1/2 we designed our own ‘dream’ towns. Some towns had chocolate roads, beds for cars, space hoppers, magical fairy houses. We used our imagination and enjoyed sharing our ideas with each other. Last week we had a visit from ‘Burgh Beautiful’ and we thought about how they try to make our town beautiful and happy. We designed posters to remind people to pick up their litter and to help keep our local area clean and pretty.
In Maths we have been telling the time. We have looked at o’clock and half past times and linked these times to our daily routines. We have also converted times from analogue to digital. Some children have been consolidating their understanding of multiplication. They used the Numicon to set out multiplication sums. We have revised a lot of our number fact families to help us link addition and subtraction.
We have some new members of the class – our caterpillars! They have grown so much since we got them and we have enjoyed watching them wriggle about in their pot. We are looking after them well so hopefully they will turn into beautiful butterflies soon.
We have been practising our digraphs this week by reading alien words. Miss Mudd made up some crazy words to check we could sound out and blend our sounds together. We have used our digraphs in sentences.
Paddington left us some new challenges in our challenge area this week. He wants to get healthy so we are helping him learn about our bodies. We had to use tape measures to measure different parts of our bodies. Liam even has a bigger head than Miss Mudd! He also set us a ‘balance challenge’ where we had to hold a balance and use a stopwatch to time how long we could do it. We have used pedometers to count our steps and see how active we are. We have been printing with skeletons and trying to name some of our body parts.
Daniel G used his choose time to make a thermometer for our surgery. He thought about hot and cold colours and used these in his model.
Wishing you all a very lovely weekend.
Miss Mudd and P1/2
