What a busy week and a half we have had in P1A!
Last week we looked at uppercase letters. We learned the sounds and names of uppercase letters and we talked about when we use capital letters. We matched lowercase and uppercase letters, played ‘Going Spare’ and ‘Hatching Eggs’ on Education City, traced capital letters, wrote uppercase letters beside lowercase letters on a car track, used stencils to make uppercase letters and used loose parts to make capital letters.
This week our new sounds were ‘au’ and ‘aw’. When learning the ‘au’ sound, we made ‘au’ with shaving foam, made ‘au’ with play dough, played ‘au’ Roll and Read, practised writing ‘au’ words on our whiteboards and practised reading ‘au’ words in our pairs game. When learning the ‘aw’ sound we made ‘aw’ words in the hoops, played an ‘aw’ words pairs game, played ‘White Paw’ on Education City and wrote ‘aw’ sentences in our literacy jotters.
Over the last week and a half we have been continuing to learn our subtraction facts to 10. We looked at subtraction facts for 4 and 5 and we also learned to solve subtraction word problems. We played Subtraction Smash and Subtraction Bowling, practised our subtraction facts for 4 and 5 on our whiteboards, completed a flower subtraction activity, played Subtraction Snakes & Ladders and played a subtraction game on our Promethean board.
In Numeracy and Maths, we have also been continuing to learn to use 1p, 2p and 5p coins to make money totals. We counted up coins in money jars, ordered coins according to their value, played money bingo and played ‘Pick and Mix’ on the Promethean board.
This week we released our butterflies! We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly and we made our own butterfly life cycle diagrams. We also designed our own butterflies, completed a butterfly life cycle cut and stick activity and played Roll, Say, Colour Life Cycle of a Butterfly. We enjoyed releasing our butterflies on Thursday afternoon although we were a little sad to see them go since we have had them from caterpillars!
Last week we started our new learning focus on our Local Area and People Who Help Us in our Community. We talked about places that we had been in our local area, looked at them on Google maps and we drew pictures of them in our Talking Floor book. We also talked about people who help us and ways that these people help in the community. We set up our role play area as a police station and a doctor’s surgery and we have been enjoying taking on different roles during our imaginative play.
On Friday last week we learned what the police do to help us. For writing this week, we wrote letters to Miss Harrison’s brother who is a policeman to find out more about his job. We looked at the features of a letter and we made sure that we included our school address, the date, a greeting and a closing farewell in our letters. Our letters are currently in the post and we will be getting a reply soon.
On Wednesday this week we had a very special visitor. Mr Foster came in to talk to us about his job as a paediatrician. He told us all about how he helps people and we asked him questions. He showed us some of the equipment that he uses in his job and we looked at x-rays. We really enjoyed listening to Mr Foster and we would like to thank him very much for coming in to visit us.
Over the last week and a half we have also had a couple of visits from children from the nursery. They have been coming up to experience the Primary 1 environment, learn and have fun! We have been very welcoming and caring to the nursery children and we have done a fantastic job of showing them what it is like in Primary 1.
Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂
