Hello, welcome back after the October break. P1B have settled in well again and have had another busy week. In numeracy we have been learning ‘one more’ and ‘one less.’ We were using number lines and objects like cubes and camels to work out the answers.
On Thursday, we began some measuring. We had a chat about when and why we would measure. The children came up with super reasons – to make sure we get the right size of clothes and shoes and to make sure the tables are the right size for our classroom. We discussed words that we use to describe size. We used our bodies as we showed our understanding of wide, narrow, tall, short, thick and thin. Then we went outside and found sticks and leaves, using our size words to describe them.
In literacy we have been consolidating all the sounds we have learned so far – a, t, i, s, p, n, m, e, h, r. We have been practising word building and sounding out CVC words to read and write them.
We have had a few Halloween activites around the classroom. We have been making potions in the green sparkly water, drawing and painting Halloween pictures and reading spooky books in our library.
We’ve also had cardboard boxes to play with and we had a lot of fun with them – making spaceships and pirate boats. Euan and Matthew drew monster pictures on pieces of cardboard but they wanted their pictures to stand up so they worked hard to find out how they could do this – they stuck boxes to the back of their cardboard to allow it to stand up – good problem solving boys!
Euan won the Enjoy-a-ball trophy at his class this week. His teacher was really pleased with how he was dribbling the football. Well done Euan.
We’re all really looking forward to the Halloween Hop on Monday afternoon. Have a good weekend.
P1B and Mrs Kennedy
