This week we have been learning the ‘i’ and ‘s’ sounds. We have now started to build simple words using our sounds. In our challenge area we had to try and build an igloo out of sugar cubes but could not use our fingers. We had to use the tweezers. It was very tricky but we all showed our value of ‘resilience’.
In Numeracy we continued learning our numbers to 10. We worked really hard on our formation this week as we have been finding that a bit difficult. We had lots of active stations to help us get used to the shape of the numbers. We read stories about our numbers ‘7’ and ‘8’ in the number zoo and in PE we were doing lots of actions in groups of 7 and 8.
In PE we have been following our Better Movers, Better Thinkers programme to work both sides of the brain. We practised our dribbling skills and did lots of tricky sequences with the basketballs.
In IDL this week we did a little descriptive writing lesson. We looked at different pictures of dragons and came up with lots of describing words. Then we created our own friendly dragon and tried to write some words to describe it. We listened hard for the first sound in the word and all had a great attitude towards writing. We just had a go!
On Thursday we read the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and spent the afternoon working around the 4 different activities linked to the story. We talked about healthy eating and foods that are good for our bodies. We designed healthy packed lunches for the caterpillar. We also made paper plate butterflies and used collage materials to decorate them. We did some finger painting of caterpillars and practised our counting. We also worked in groups to use the story stones to sequence the events in the story. We worked very well together and showed patience and kindness.
Hoping you all have a lovely long weekend.
Mrs McAulay and P1B x
