As part of our Transport focus, this week we compared trains today and trains in the past. We looked at steam trains and we looked at trains in other countries such as the ‘Bullet’ train in Japan. We listened to a story called ‘Magic Train Ride’ and we discussed where we would go if we could go anywhere on a magic train ride (real or imaginary). In our literacy jotters, we wrote about our own magical train rides. We have been working hard to use our sounds to spell words and use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We also made our own ‘Magic Train’ pictures using oil pastels and by drawing different 2D shapes. Don’t they look great!
This week our new sounds were ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. We played a pairs game with ‘ai’ words, made an ‘ai’ graffiti wall, made ‘ai’ with play dough and practised writing ‘ai’ in a spelling activity. When learning the ‘ay’ sound, we practised writing ‘ay’ words on our whiteboards, made ‘ay’ with loose parts, wrote ‘ay’ sentences and looked for ‘ay’ words using a magnifying glass.
This week our common words were ‘are’ and ‘they’. On Friday, we revised some of the common words that we have learned over the past few weeks. We made common words graffiti walls, practised writing our common words on our whiteboards, made sentences by cutting out words, played a common words Snakes & Ladders game and played ‘Ready or Not’ on Education City.
On Thursday afternoon we went to the Community Wing hall to continue to practise and develop our motor skills. We were jumping, kicking, dribbling, running, throwing, catching and balancing.
In Numeracy and Maths we have continued to learn about pictograms. We made our own pictograms on Thursday and we answered questions about different pictograms. This week we have also been counting objects to 20 and beyond using one-to-one correspondence. We had to make sure that we didn’t miss out any objects or count any twice! We completed a transport counting activity, worked with a partner to give them different amounts to count out, counted out different amounts using loose parts and played different counting games on the smartboard.
We hope that everyone has a lovely long weekend. Thank you for reading our blog post.
P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
