It may have been the last week of term 1 but P1R still managed to squeeze in lots of learning and fun! It was lovely having one of the St Margaret’s pupils in our class this week for their work experience placement – a big thank you to Billy for all his help!
On Monday the children noticed a new play area in their classroom – their very own office! This has been popular this week and lots of mark making and writing has been happening here. Every week there will be 2 new challenges at this area for everyone to try out or children can be creative and make up their own writing tasks. Dawid and Klaudia have enjoyed ‘answering the phone and taking messages’, ‘Abigail has ‘enjoyed leaving messages for others on the coloured post-it notes’. In phonics we had our final week of assessments and spent time practising writing all the sounds, blending all the sounds and reading and spelling our tricky words. After the holidays we will move onto set 2 sounds and some new tricky words. The children’s efforts with their tricky words have been rewarded with lots of dojo points! Congratulations to James and Brooke who were our star writers this week and got a dojo picture message sent home!
In maths we have been learning about addition – we learned some new mathematical language – how many altogether, add, plus, totals. We did lots of practical activities in our maths carousels to help us practise the skill of adding 2 groups of objects or numbers together. Everyone did really well with their tasks and many children completed some extension activities to challenge themselves.
Our IDL and HWB lessons this week have often overlapped as we have been learning about our local area and the jobs people do. We learned that there are lots of different types of jobs and that many people have a part to play in keeping us all safe. In PE we had our final lesson of the block which was great fun, we can’t wait to find out what skills we’ll be developing next term with Mr McCurdy. We had Ninian’s Natter on Thursday and enjoyed looking at each other’s online learning journals and reflecting on our goals for term 1.
To end the week we had a visit from ‘Miss McGuire’ who will be joining our class after the holidays to work alongside Mrs Roy, she is really excited to join our class! Calder and Glasserton had a lovely movie morning and Whithorn and Galloway made a lovely new display for our P1 area. And finally, congratulations to James who was our class achiever of the month at our whole school achievements assembly.
Have a great holiday everyone!
