We had a lot of fun this week with our book focus on Handa’s surprise. After our fantastic puppet/drama performances last Friday where we retold the story of Handa we had our first ever school trip…We went to Tesco to find out all about where fruit and vegetables come from. Emily was a wonderful guide and she showed us lots of different fruits from Africa to link in with our topic. We were then very lucky to get to go to the storeroom and then upstairs to do a fruit tasting of different fruits from Africa. We all loved the nectarine, strawberries and blueberries. Lots of children tried the pink grapefruit and apricots but were not so sure of those. It was lovely to see them try new things including dried mango which Mrs Gordon really enjoyed. We got a wee treat on the way out when we go to go in the freezer…
In literacy our new sounds this week were “j” and “v” and we had new common words his, put and was. We enjoyed making and tasting some “j” for jelly!
In numeracy we continued our addition journey by looking at all the different ways to make 9 and 10. We realised this is quite tricky, but luckily we have 10 fingers which can really help us work things out. We enjoyed lots of fun ways to work out our number bonds.
Happy weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a
