In literacy this week we have been learning the letters ‘p’ and ‘n’. On Monday we began by sorting items in a ‘feely’ bag – does the item begin with ‘p’? We had a ‘yes’ hoop and a ‘no’ hoop, listening to initial sounds as well as developing some data handling skills. We did it together as a class just to see how to do it, then had a go in small groups.
Here we are practising the sounds ‘p’ and ‘n’:
The ‘n’ song and action are about an aeroplane, we have enjoyed flying around the room.
In numeracy we have been working with numbers 4 and 5. We have been singing number songs, counting objects and working on number formation. 5 is quite tricky so we had two days of lots of different activities out to allow us to practise.
We have been reading some stories about being kind to each other and how we can help each other. We looked at lots of pictures of different behaviours and decided if behaving in a particular way is a ‘green’ choice or a ‘red’ choice. We were very good at deciding where each picture should go and we worked really well together to make these posters for our classroom.
On Thursday we were learning about 2D shape. We were remembering the names of the shapes we already knew as well as learning some new ones – pentagon, hexagon and octagon. We have been describing the shapes using their properties, discussing how many sides and corners they have, we also used lots of good maths describing words like, curved, straight, edge, point. We played with the shapes to create pictures in many different ways, looking at the shapes and working out hpw they can be put together.
We were delighted on Friday when we were told that we were the winners of the ‘peg challenge’ – ask your child to tell you all about it! Mrs Kennedy is very proud of us and we got to go outside to play early for break time today and we had the playground to ourselves for a while.
As we had our sports clothes on already we went to the hall for some Zumba with our buddies. We have also done some yogo in the classroom this week, using the ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ story and doing some yoga poses to go along with it. Mrs Kennedy did it too so she wasn’t able to take pictures!
Have a lovely relaxing long weekend. Love P1B and Mrs Kennedy
