This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. We highlighted ‘ee’ words in a comic strip, read and drew ‘ee’ captions and used magnifying glasses to spot ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ words. When revising ‘ai’ and ‘ay’, we made ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ words with play dough and used our sounds to write words to match pictures. We also played games to revise our digraphs on our Promethean board and wrote sentences containing our sounds in our literacy jotters. This week we have also been revising our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders game and played a common words game on our IPad.
For writing this week we made posters for the Transition Linlithgow competition. Transition Linlithgow are running a campaign to remove plastic straws from Linlithgow. We watched a clip from Blue Planet II on plastic pollution in the oceans and talked about how the plastic could have ended up in the water. We learned that the plastic was dangerous for animals that live in the ocean. We revised features of a poster and made sure that our posters included a title and a picture and that our posters were eye-catching. We worked really hard on our posters and were able to convey the message of the importance of not using straws in our posters too.
In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning to link our addition and subtraction facts to 5. We used our addition and subtraction facts to colour a Space picture, we played ‘Mummy Sheep’ on Education City, created our own addition and subtraction sums on our whiteboards and completed an addition and subtraction cut and stick activity. We also completed some pages in our subtraction workbooks on linking addition and subtraction facts.
We also used our addition skills this week to add money amounts. We matched money amounts to coins, counted up coins and money totals in piggy banks, played a ‘Pick and Mix’ money game on our Promethean board and used our money fans to make different amounts.
This week we have continued to develop our mapping skills. We used our maps of our classroom that we made last week to find hidden objects in the classroom. We were able to read our maps and locate the objects. Next we looked at our playground and worked with a partner to make a map of our playground. We included all of the main features and even included more detail than Miss Harrison’s playground map!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂
