It was a busy, busy week again in P1B. We began the week by welcoming Mrs Marshall, our lovely new student, she will be in one day a week for the next three weeks. She was in at the deep end helping us to make some orange dough for our Halloween themed play activities. It is fantastic and has been well used.
On Monday afternoon we had the Halloween Hop, organised by the PTA, it was great fun! We looked amazing in our costumes and loved the disco with dancing and games and then making our own Halloween masks. A big thank you to the PTA, parent helpers and P7 chidren who helped to make it run so smoothly.
In literacy we were learning ‘d’ and ‘o’ and we were writing some three letter words – sounding them out to hear which sounds we should write down.
We searched through lentils, spiders and ghosts to find sounds and CVC words.
We tried a challenge task – reading words to match them with the correct picture.
Play dough and writing in lentils.
We’ve been doing lots of maths this week, we started with addition – looking at two and then three sets of numbers and counting to see how many there were altogether. We tried adding in lots of different ways – putting counting kids on buses, counters on Mickey Mouse ears, frogs in ponds, sponges and people in hoops. We also have new maths books and we have been practising writing our numbers as we write our answers.
In outer maths we have been learning more about measure – using non-standard units to measure things around us. We measured each other, then went outside and had fun measuring out there too.
On Friday we played with lots of different measuring tools, including metre sticks and rulers, we really enjoyed using these and I think we’ll have some very practical handymen and handywomen in the future. In other activities we used cubes and counting kids to measure with.
In our exploration area we have a wooden marble run which has lots of small parts that require a lot of thinking and trial and error to fit the parts together to allow the marble to run along it. Matthew and Kiernan worked very hard to make this run, they were a great team and didn’t give up until they had managed it. Well done boys!
Some children worked on a Lego challenge this week with Mrs Woolsey our parent helper. They worked really well together to make a tall tower and then build houses, they each had very clear ideas on how their house should be – fantastic designs 🙂
Enjoy your weekend and have a safe bonfire night.
P1B and Mrs Kennedy
