This week we have been learning the ‘au’ sound. We drew pictures with the ‘au’ sound, looked for pictures with the ‘au’ sound, used ‘au’ words to find the missing words in sentences and practised reading and writing ‘au’ words. We also revised all of our common words.
At the start of this week we concluded our subtraction focus and finished looking at missing number equations. We looked at subtraction sums such as ? – 2 = 8 and we used different strategies to work out the number at the start. In maths we have also been learning about symmetry. We were able to create symmetrical pictures and used finger painting to make our own symmetrical butterflies (just like the ones that we have in class). During free play, Thomas and Daniel built a fantastic symmetrical castle!
What a busy week we have had in maths! We also learned about fractions this week! Miss Harrison was very impressed as we were able to find halves and quarters of shapes. We could even find three quarters of a shape! Our learning activities included using our playdough to make halves and quarters of objects, colouring in different fractions of shapes, playing fractions games on the smartboard and laptop and making our own pizzas!
On Monday morning we had some very special visitors in our classroom. Chloe’s Auntie Heather and two of her colleagues, Leo and Liam came to talk to us about being in the Police. They told us about all the things that they do to help people and keep them safe and we asked them LOTS of questions! We got to see the police kit and try on the hats and jackets. Heather, Leo and Liam also told us about the different police transport. They brought a police bike and a police van which we were very excited to see! We got to go in the police van and turn on the siren. We really enjoyed going in the back of the police van!
For our writing this week, we wrote thank you letters to Heather, Leo & Liam. Miss Harrison couldn’t believe how hard we worked! Our handwriting was fantastic and we drew detailed pictures of our favourite part of the visit. We used our sounds to write words and we created our own word bank with tricky words that we might need. Miss Harrison gave our letters to Mrs Lee to pass on to Heather, Leo & Liam. We loved having visitors in our class. Thank you!
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about the life cycle of butterflies. We had our own caterpillars to look after and once they went into their chrysalis, we put them into a butterfly pavilion. At the start of this week, some of our butterflies started to hatch! We have done an excellent job of looking after them, but today we released them into their natural habitat.
Thank you for reading our blog post. Have a lovely weekend,
P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
