This week we have been revising some of our digraphs. We revised the ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’ and ‘wh’ digraphs. We made ‘ch’ with play dough, used shells to make ‘sh’, played Roll and Read for ‘th’ and made ‘wh’ with play dough. We also unscrambled sentences and wrote our own sentences containing these digraphs. Finally, we played games on Education City to revise these sounds.
For writing this week, we wrote ‘thank you’ letters to Doctor Steve. We revised the features of a letter and wrote letters to convey a message. We were able to include an address, the date, a greeting and a closing farewell. We told Doctor Steve what we liked about his visit and he really enjoyed reading our letters.
In Numeracy and Maths this week, we have been learning how to use a number line to help us to solve our subtraction facts. We were confident with using this strategy to accurately solve subtraction sums to 5. This week we also used our subtraction skills to take away with coins and give change from values to 10p. Next week we will begin to look at linking our addition and subtraction facts.
This week we have been continuing with our People Who Help Us and Local Area learning focus. We have been using our observing and recording skills to draw and create different people who help us for our classroom display. We worked really well in our groups and we were able to take turns, build on each other’s strengths and share resources. On Thursday, we looked at mapping. We spoke about who might use a map and why we use maps with our learning partner. We then worked with a partner to make a map of our classroom. We were able to include all of the main features of our classroom on our maps. We will be continuing to look at mapping next week.
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely, sunny weekend!
P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂
