This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘igh’, ‘-y’, ‘oa’ and ‘ow’. We used our sounds to write words to match pictures, created ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words using light bulbs, used magnifying glasses to spot ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words, played Roll and Read, played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ bingo and played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ Snakes and Ladders. 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 continued to revise our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders and played a common words game on our IPad.
For writing this week we created our own stories which included our meerkats, Sergei or Bogdan and Mr Fluff. Miss Harrison read us ‘Castle Adventure’ and we discussed the adventure Gran took in the story. Then we looked at photographs of Sergei’s adventures in our local area. He went to Linlithgow Palace, Igloo, Tesco, the Union Canal, Linlithgow Leisure Centre and Taste! With our learning partner, we talked about what adventures Sergei might have in each setting. We invented our own story and took our chosen character on an adventure in our local area. We worked really hard on our stories and Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie loved reading all the stories!
In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning ‘one less than’ and ‘two less than’, as well as revising subtracting all or none to 10. We played ‘Two Less Than’ on our Promethean board, worked out ‘one less than’ or ‘two less than’ on whiteboards, completed a space themed subtraction activity sheet and completed a subtraction page in our subtraction workbook.
On Thursday we also finished our money topic. We revised coin recognition and looked at using our coins to buy items and work out what change we would get. We played coin throw with hoops to practise our addition and subtraction skills, we used coins to buy items in a shop and get change, played ‘Coin Game’ on our Promethean board and completed a coin addition and subtraction activity in our money workbooks.
This week we have been learning about people who help us at school. We looked at who the different people that help us at school are and talked about some of their roles and responsibilities. We learned about teachers, pupil support workers, cooks, playground supervisors, office people, lollipop people, janitors and cleaners. With our learning partners, we selected someone who helps us at school and we used actions, gestures and movement to act out their responsibilities. The rest of the class had to guess who we were acting out!
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P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 😊
