After learning about 2D and 3D shapes, this week were learning about symmetry. We looked at symmetrical pictures with one line of symmetry. We used mirrors to find pictures with one line of symmetry, made symmetrical monster pictures, designed our own symmetrical butterflies and played symmetry games on the smartboard.
 
This week we also learned how to write the number 6 and revised writing the numbers 0-5. We made the number 6 with tin foil, painted the number 6 with our fingers and practised writing our numbers in different ways. Using dice, we revised writing the numbers 0-5.
  
  
This week we revised the sounds that we have learned so far and used these sounds to build words. We made our sounds with play dough, made words in hula hoops, built words on the magnetic boards, played a pairs game with word pictures and sounds and used cut out letters to make words.
When we came back to school after the long weekend, there was an African Surprise in our tuff tray. There was a giraffe, an elephant, a zebra, a gazelle and a monkey playing in the sand! Miss Harrison read us a story called ‘Handa’s Surprise’. We looked at the different animals in the story and we realised that the same animals were in our tuff tray! We made a list of animals that we would find in Scotland and compared it to the animals in our story. Over the next few weeks, we are going to be comparing aspects of Scotland with those in Kenya. Look out for our African Surprise display which we have just started working on this week!
We hope that you have a lovely weekend. Thank you for reading our blog post.
P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
P.S. We won the Peg Challenge again this week!
