We began the week learning the ‘ew’ sound. We wrote the words on plastic pockets and made words on our magnet boards, working in small groups to do these tasks.
We have begun to read number names up to twenty. This was tricky to start with, but we have practised every day and we are getting pretty good. We will keep going with this next week too. In outer maths on Thursday we started to work on coin recognition. There are some really good computer games for this and we played coin bingo and worked in small groups with Mrs Kennedy to complete our worksheets. We have been putting on shows in our role play corner this week, we also have a ticket office with money so we can practise using the coins to pay for things and give change.
We began our mini topic on life cycles. We learned about the life cycle of a frog and then human life cycles. The baby photos were great – thank you! It was lots of fun trying to guess who each baby was. We also had great discussions about what we couldn’t do as a baby but we can do now. We really enjoyed thinking about what we will be like as teenagers and what we’d like to do when we are adults.
We have now completed our ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ wall display, with the addition of our ‘Rainbow Fish.’ We used celery and rainbow coloured paints to print colourful scales on our fish. It’s looking really good and we have tried lots of different art techniques as we built up the display.
A last the weather has cottoned on to the fact that it is Spring! We had a great time playing outside with P1A on Thursday.
Let’s hope the weather stays for the weekend and we can all get outside and enjoy it.
P1B and Mrs Kennedy
