We have been getting stuck into our Handa’s Surprise topic this week. Thank you very much for all the fruit on Tuesday, we made our bar chart and apples were the clear favourite, followed closely by strawberries. We all helped to make the chart by drawing our favourite fruit and sticking it on. We then had a good look at what the chart told us and learned to read it.
We enjoyed eating our fruit together while we had our milk or water and listened to a story. We also tasted some of the fruit from Handa’s Surprise, the mango and papaya were popular.
We have had lots of other fruit activities this week, we investigated floating and sinking with real fruit in the water tray, playing with fruit in the role play area, making fruit from play dough and looking at books about fruit and healthy eating in the library.
On Tuesday we went outside for PE, we are focusing on ‘Better Movers and Thinkers’ at the moment. This week we were concentrating on moving our bodies well, controlling it and using and sharing space. We also practised some throwing and catching ball skills, whilst standing still and moving.
On Thursday we were outside again, writing number 8. We used chalk and stones to write with and skipping ropes to practise the formation of an 8 – which can be quite tricky!
Then we gathered leaves and took them back inside to make 8s using them. There was super counting going on whilst we were collecting the leaves too 🙂
We worked hard to make our 8s and there was good discussion and thinking about the shape of an 8 and how it is formed when writing.
We also won the peg challenge again! Extra breaktime on Friday was good fun! Have a good weekend everyone.
P1B and Mrs Kennedy
