On Monday morning some of us made new play dough. We followed the recipe, using cups and a table spoons to measure the ingredients. We put lavender from Mrs Kennedy’s garden in it to make it smell nice and it worked! We have had lovely squashy, nice smelling dough all week. I wonder what other smells we could try?
We began the week learning the ‘a’ sound. We are very good at the ‘Ants on my Arm’ song and action. I’m sure we could sing it if you ask us. We practised writing ‘a’ in lots of different multi-sensory ways.
On Wednesday we introduced the ‘t’ sound and started using magnetic letters to help us to build and read words. We made ‘at’ by listening for the sounds, counting how many sounds we needed and then finding the right letters. We also practised reading the word, sounding out and then blending the sounds together.
On Tuesday we had PE in the hall. We have been learning how to move around the hall safely, sharing the space and making sure our ‘bubbles’ don’t pop if we go too close to another person. We traveled in lots of different ways – walking, running, hopping, skipping and galloping. We also practised basic moves too – throwing bean bags and balls, balancing on a beam and jumping over hurdles.
We have been working with number 3 this week, singing number songs to begin to think about counting up and down and one more, one less. 3 is quite a tricky number to write so we have been practising in lots of different ways and went outside to write 3s all over the playground with chalk.
On Friday we had our first visit to the library. Mrs Manlove gave us a very warm welcome and we enjoyed choosing and reading our books. We are looking forward to visiting each week.
As always we have been busing playing this week. Here are a selection of pictures of what we have been up to:
Enjoy your weekend.
From Mrs Kennedy and P1B x
