This week we learned the ‘igh’ sound. We made ‘igh’ words with sounds on lightbulbs, practised writing ‘igh’ with rainbow writing, played ‘Fright in the Night’ on Education City, drew ‘igh’ pictures and practised writing ‘igh’ in our handwriting booklets. We also revised all the vowel digraphs that we have learned so far. We played Vowel Snakes and Ladders, played Bingo with ‘ee’ words, made ‘ai’ with play dough and wrote ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ words on our whiteboards. Using our sounds, we have been reading words in our reading books and writing words and sentences in our literacy jotters.
In Numeracy and Maths, we have been learning to find two more and two less than with numbers to 20. We have also been revising comparing numbers to 20 and ordering numbers to 20. This week we have also been using ten frames to help us to talk about how we ‘see’ numbers. We have been making different numbers on our ten frames and we have been revising our number bonds on our ten frames too. Next term we will be looking at subtracting so we will be using our ten frames to help us with our subtraction facts to 10.
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade. We watched a video called ‘Pablo the Super Banana’ about how bananas are grown and how they end up in our shops. It also told us that when we see the Fairtrade mark on food, it means that the farmers that grew them got the fair amount of money for the work they did. We also played ‘Fairtrade Bingo’ to learn about different Fairtrade products. Afterwards we designed our own Fairtrade footballs for the Linlithgow Fairtrade Partnership Competition. On Thursday afternoon we went to a Fairtrade assembly and some of us were awarded a certificate for our outstanding Fairtrade football designs.
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P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
