Hello, the end of another very busy week! On Monday we had a lot of cardboard (packaging from our new easel). The children decided to turn it into a pirate ship – complete with a plank! I was very impressed with their ideas and at how well they worked together on it.
We have been doing some work on number formation this week, beginning with 0, 1 and 2. The children have tried forming the numbers through different activities. This has also been very good practise for working independently.
Gregor and Roslyn had a great chat about which ‘2’ Gregor had written best, it was a lovely conversation and Roslyn was very encouraging and positive 🙂
For the time being we will concentrate on number work from Monday to Wednesday and on Thursdays we will look at ‘outer maths’ – shape, measure, data handling, etc. This week we explored 3D shape, beginning to learn their names and their properties – corners, edges, faces. Can they roll? Why? Why not? As well as working out how best to fit them together. We also looked at these shapes in our environment, identifying many as common objects – balls, oranges, tin food cans, cereal boxes, etc.
We have also been doing a lot of listening this week, identifying sounds in the environment and then sequences of these sounds as we prepare to learn the sounds of the alphabet and begin to make simple words. We have also had music with Mrs Bain and PE with Mrs Kennedy in the hall. At the moment we are just changing shoes and taking jumpers off as we build up to changing into our complete PE kit! Yesterday we created a list of rules for our classroom. We thought about why rules are important, what it might be like with no rules and what rules would be best to help our class to be a nice place and to help us to learn. We had lots of good suggestions.
As always, we have a lot of play in the different areas around the classroom and outside. These are set up with specific learning intentions in mind. This helps greatly with social skills, problem solving, decision making and many other important areas of development.
Matthew was helping me to work out how to fix the shelf that keeps falling down. He had some great suggestions and was exactly right in working out what we needed to do to stop it happening again. Thank you!
I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the curriculum evening on Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend. P1B and Mrs Kennedy
