This week our new sounds were ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. When learning ‘oi’, we wrote ‘oi’ words with chalk, made ‘oi’ words with loose parts and play dough, built ‘oi’ words in hoops and looked for ‘oi’ words in the books in our class library. When learning the ‘oy’ sound, we wrote ‘oy’ words in toys, used magnifying glasses to find ‘oy’ words and highlighted ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words in a story called ‘The Lost Toy’. We also wrote ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sentences in our literacy jotters.
This week we started to learn our subtraction facts to 10. We started to look at subtraction by using objects and pictures and ‘taking away’. We played Subtraction Bowling and Subtraction Smash and we practised our subtraction facts on our whiteboards. We also played ‘Hop Off’ on Education City and started our new subtraction workbook.
On Thursday we looked at using 1p, 2p and 5p coins. We used our adding to add coins up to 10p. We played money bingo, used coins to buy items in a toy shop, played a game called ‘Money Match’ on our Promethean board and added coins up to 10p in our money workbooks.
In writing this week, we were looking at invitations. We looked at party invitations and spoke about the different features. In our invitations, we needed to include a picture, give information and make our invitations colourful. Our parents will find out why we were making invitations soon!
This week we have also been practising for our class assembly. Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie have been so impressed with how well we already know our speaking parts. We are a little nervous about next Friday but our teachers think that we will be great!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂
