Our classroom has been a little louder than usual during maths time this week as we have been counting objects, the best way to do this is to count out loud – we are very good at it!
On Thursday we carried on with our data handling topic. This week we made our own bar charts in our maths books and practised during play time too.
We have been working on ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ as well as continuing to learn our common words. Recognising and spelling these words really helps us as we read our reading books and write in sentences.
We are continuing our transport topic and have begun to look at cars. We started by thinking about what each of us already know about cars – we drew pictures and shared our knowledge with each other, It’s amazing what you can learn from chatting with a friend 🙂
We also read the story ‘If I built a Car.’ In it the little boy imagines all the things he would add to his family car to make it much better. We designed and wrote about our cars.
On Thursday, we had a go at labeling the parts of a car – sounding out the words and writing down any sounds that we could hear. It didn’t matter if the words weren’t perfect, but we all had a good go. We also really like watching video clips of cars being made.
O is M’s big brother, Mrs Kennedy used to be his teacher at nursery and she knew how much he liked cars. She asked him if he would like to talk to the class and he came in on Wednesday and did an excellent job! We learned a lot and he put in a few quizzes to keep us on our toes! We had to listen carefully.
In preparation for Chinese New Year, the assembly on Friday was all about the story of Chinese New Yea. We were very lucky to have a visit from A and L who taught us some Chinese words. They were very confident and their talk was very interesting. Well done!
Have a lovely long weekend everyone.
P1B and Mrs Kennedy
