This week we had a revision week! We were practising all of the sounds we have learnt so far and doing lots of word building with these sounds. We played an initial sound game and had a box full of different items. When the music stopped, we had to pull out an object and identify the initial sound. We worked in pairs to play with the phonics dice and jigsaws. We played a memory game to match up our sounds and did lots of sensory activities to practise forming out letters. We had a graffiti wall this week and loved using all of the pens to try some writing. We also played teachers and had to use the phonics fans to test our friend. Some of the children have started to learn how to write short phrases. We learnt how to use finger spaces between our words and how to sit our letters on the line.
In Numeracy we were developing lots of different skills with our numbers to 10 and then 20. We were counting backwards, sequencing and ordering. We played lots of games to recognise our numbers to 20. We had to deliver the letters to the correct doors and played number bingo. On Wednesday we had an introduction to 3D shape and started to learn some of the names of the different shapes. We learnt the difference between 2D and 3D shapes and did lots of sorting activities.
In PE this week we decided to have some time to relax as we are all feeling very tired! We did some cosmic yoga to the story of the hungry caterpillar. We talked about how important it is to stretch our muscles and how we can use this to keep calm.
In HWB we read a story called ‘Hands are not for Hitting’. We talked about the message in the story and linked this to our school values. Mrs McAulay gave us lots of different scenarios and we had to come up with ideas of what we could do instead of using unkind hands. We then drew around our hands and came up with lots of ideas of how our hands can help us in a positive way!
Our tuff tray this week was the story of the 3 little pigs. We had some puppets and story stones to retell the story. We also had a challenge to build a house for the pigs. We had some straw, bricks and sticks. We talked about how the bricks are stronger and more sturdy.
Thank you to Mrs Philpot for helping us paint our Fairyland castle. We are hoping to have this up for the dragon next week.
Hoping you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs McAulay and P1b x
