Another busy and productive week in P1M. Here are our highlights:
Monday was ‘European Day of Languages’. We learned how to say ‘hello’ in a few different languages. Polish “cześć”: pronounced “cheh-sh-ch”. French “bonjour”. Irish Gaelic “Dia dhuit” Pronounced “gee-ah-ditch”. Spanish “Hola”. We have been really enjoying learning more and more Spanish in class. Pedro our Spanish Parrot is very impressed. He even joined us on the daily mile on ‘European Day of Languages’. We also made Spanish flags to celebrate this day.
We have been learning all about God’s world as part of our RE lessons. We have watched and responded to the Creation Story. This is the link we watched:
This week we explored the school garden to look for evidence of God’s creation. We loved finding some animals, there were lots of bees in the garden and Patryk told us that the bees were collecting nectar. We found some plants which we loved the smell of, Miss Meechan told us that this plant was called lavendar. Trex enjoyed watching the bees too!
On Tuesday we went to the library. We were very excited to take Trex with us because this was part of our topic plan. We found out about how to behave properly in the library and all of the different things the library can help us with. We listened to a story called ‘The Library Lion’. We even got our own class library card and we all chose a book to take back to the classroom. We will return to the library in a few weeks time to return our books and choose a new one.
We have now learned all of our set 1 sounds and we are busy completing lots of different activities to consolidate our knowledge of these sounds. Ask your child to tell you about some of the activities from this week.
On Thursday when we came into our classroom we were very happy to find an office area! In the office area we have been very busy answering phone calls and writing out important notes and filing them away. It has been a very busy office! Trex sent us a new letter this week. He told us that his baby brother was going to be joining our class. He asked us to write his brother a letter to tell him all about our classroom. We can’t wait until Trex’s baby brother joins us! Watch this space…
Trex also wanted us to take some photographs so he could send them to his Mum and Dad. We have made a book for Trex with lots of photographs; all of our names in the book and some drawings too. Have a look for this next time you are in our classroom.
This week we have been continuing to order numbers to 10 as part of our numeracy lessons and we have also been learning about number names. We completed some dot-to-dots but instead of numbers, it was number names. This was quite tricky but we all tried our very best. We have been using a resource called numicon and ordering these from smallest to largest. One of our favourite games in our class is bingo and this week we played number name bingo. Miss Meechan has been so impressed with how well we are learning number names.
Pupil voice. Our favourite parts of the week:
Casper: “I liked getting dojo points.”
Kyle: “I like when everyone gets dojo points.”
MacKenzie: “I liked play time.”
Kaitlyn: “I liked handwriting.”
Jakub: “I like saying my prayers.”
Kerr: “I liked playing in the office.”
Kaimee: “I liked playing with Sophie.”
Jarred: “I liked going to the library. I like the book I picked from the library.”
Adam: “I liked taking pictures of Trex around the school.”
Oliver: “I liked playing with toys.”
Sophie: “I liked going to assembly.”
Sounds like a fun week!
Well, Sophie, I like you coming to assembly too! You were all super listeners today.
What a lovely post and wonderful to hear about your fun week in P1M.
I am so glad you enjoyed using the school garden. The ladies who look after the garden will be so happy that you took your learning outdoors.
Your library visit sounds great too. I’ll pop along next week to hear your story.
Mrs Black will be delighted that you are learning about the office! She has the busiest job in the whole school !!