Last week we finished revising all of our digraphs. We revised the digraphs ‘ou’ and ‘ow’. We wrote ‘ou’ words in clouds, played ‘ou’ bingo, wrote ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ words to match pictures, made ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ words with play dough, played Roll and Read for ‘ow’ words and wrote sentences containing different digraphs in our literacy jotters. This week we practised our handwriting and letter formation. We wrote letters and words with chalk, practised writing lowercase and uppercase letters on alphabet strips, completed a handwriting activity with ‘b’ and ‘d’ and played games on our iPad and Promethean board.
In Maths and Numeracy we have been continuing to learn our subtraction facts to 10. Last week we learned subtraction facts for 7, 8 and 9. We wrote subtraction facts on our whiteboards, completed subtraction challenge cards, played Snakes and Ladders, played ‘Simple Take Away’ and ‘Lazy Lambs’ on the Promethean board and used our knowledge to complete subtraction sums in our workbooks. Last week we also continued to learn about fractions. We looked at splitting shapes into quarters. We made our own pizzas and put different toppings in each quarter, we played ‘Shape It Up’ on Education City, made the missing quarters on cakes and pizzas with our play dough and coloured in quarters of shapes with Miss Harrison. This week we have been learning subtraction facts for 10 and we have also been linking our addition and subtraction facts to 10. We played number fact games on the Promethean board, made our own number sentences and used our addition and subtraction skills to complete a pirate addition and subtraction to 10 activity.
This week we went to Springfield’s Got Talent. We really enjoyed watching all of the acts and we were a very supportive audience. Well done to the P1A girls who performed a dance to ‘A Million Dreams’. We thought you were fantastic! Miss Harrison was very proud of everyone who auditioned for Springfield’s Got Talent. We have lots of confidence and talent in P1A!
This week we have been learning how to stay safe when using the internet. We played a game where we had to sort ourselves into different groups according to certain characteristics. When Miss Harrison asked us to sort ourselves into groups with the same first and last name, we ended up being on our own. We learned that this was personal information and when you are using the internet, you shouldn’t give away any personal information. We watched an episode of Hector’s World and we learned how to keep safe when using the internet.
This week we looked at the visual elements; line, shape and colour. We looked at different lines and shapes that you can use in art and we looked at using oil pastels to blend and to make bright colours. We created our own pictures using line, shape and colour.
On Thursday this week we had a Teddy Bear’s Picnic with our P7 buddies. It was very hot so we stayed in the shade! We really enjoyed spending time with our buddies and we would like to thank them for all their support, kindness and care over our year in P1.
We hope that you have a lovely, happy and safe summer. Thank you for reading all of our blog posts throughout our year in P1.
P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂
