We have been finding out more about seasons this week. We went on a ‘Signs of Spring’ walk around the school grounds and found lots of signs – buds, catkins, bees, and blossom to name a few. We brought some inside with us to have a closer look with magnifying glasses. Ms Banach has been helping us to plant beans. We have each planted 2 different types of bean and we will look after them in the coming weeks and monitor their growth. We then went outside and played ‘The Bean game’, we know it’s healthy to be active and we all really enjoyed it. We also have caterpillars in our class. We are going to look after them too and watch carefully as they begin metamorphosis.
We also began to investigate how to subtract – we sometimes call it ‘take away’ or ‘minus.’ We have been practising in lots of different ways, especially how to use objects to help us find the correct answers for our sums. We will continue with subtraction for the next few weeks. We have been continuing our work on coin recognition, we’re getting very good and Mrs Kennedy was very impressed when we were working in small groups with her, she can see we’re really getting it now 🙂
We have been learning the digraphs ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ and have been writing words with these sounds in them, as well as trying to spot them in words as we read. We liked the story on the Oxford Owl website called ‘Silver Foil Rocket’ and we spotted lots of our new digraphs in words. You can sign up to this website at home, let me know if you’d like to know more about it. In writing we were writing special invitations to you (Spoiler!) You will get more information on this in the next couple of days. We are working hard to write sentences independently – starting with a capital letter, sounding out words, remembering how to write our common words, leaving finger spaces and putting a full stop at the end. Some of us are using ‘joining words’ to make our sentences longer and more interesting too.
We enjoy music sessions in the classroom most weeks, using the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) resources. Recently we have been learning rhythm, pitch and tempo. We sing songs, play games and use our voices and instruments. It is really good fun and busy so there is usually very little time to take photos, here is one from this week.
Thank you for reading our blog, P1B and Mrs Kennedy
