P1a have had a very busy week full of learning and fun.
Literacy
In phonics this week we have learnt 2 new sounds “p” and “n”. We played lots of games with our sounds and made the letters out of flour, sand, newspaper, popcorn and pasta…We also learned how to read a book from left to right, and what words and letters look like. We even learnt that a full stop is there to make us stop and pause when we read. Next week will will get our first reading book home and Mrs Gordon showed us the characters we will meet….Kipper, Biff, Chip and Floppy. We are very excited…
Numeracy
This week our focus was on 3, 4 and 5. These were quite tricky to write, especially the number 5, so we need lots of practice at home too. We sang the lovely “5 little ducks song” and are getting better at counting forwards and backwards. We also did some more work on 2D shape. Have a look at us making a circle, square, rectangle and triangle from people! We also then went outdoors and made those shapes with sticks, stones and leaves that we found in the outdoor classroom.
IDL/Fairyland
Our first topic was launched this week when a sad dragon sent us a letter telling us his castle had been destroyed and no one was believing in fairyland anymore. The dragon needs us to read more fairy tales and help them rebuild fairyland. We have already built a beanstalk for Jack and we will be busy doing more work next week….If anyone has any large bits of cardboard to help us make a castle we would be very grateful.
French
In French this week with Camembear we learnt about “ca va?” how are you. We were able to reply “ca va bien”, “comme ci comme ca” or “ca vas mal”. We also remembered how to count to 5.
HWB
In Health and Well being we worked on another our our school values – respect. We learnt about respecting others and belongings and also respecting ourselves. We also started to learn about the 5 point scale. Every day we will move our photo on the scale depending on how we are feeling. This lets Mrs Gordon see any children who are upset or worried about anything. We talked about different scenarios like going to the dining hall, coming to school etc and about how everyone is different. For some people those things can make them nervous and for others not, it is ok to be nervous about things and to share those feelings.
Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at meet the teacher on Tuesday.
Mrs Gordon and P1a
