P1B news update

 

Literacy

This week we have learned 2 news sounds, the i sound and the n sound.

We now know that

Isla “the ‘i’ sound is a black sound.”

Shay- “It is black because it comes out through the tunnel of our mouth.”

Connor- “This sound lives at the back of our mouth in the vowel house”.

Sophie- “This sound is short and bouncy.”

 

We now know that

Lily “the ‘n’ sound is dark blue.”

Liam- “It is dark blue because it is a noisy sound”.

Emilie- “This sound is a long stretchy sound.”

Lucy- “We make this sound at the tip of our tongue.”

We could use the songs to practise our new sounds at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GuPnhElJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SkJfIVSXg

 

Practise saying your sounds at home when looking into the mirror or use an iPad, camera or tablet to record a video of yourself saying the sounds and spelling the words (below) out loud. Listen back to your recordings!

We have been learning to read by blending the sounds that we know together. Here are some examples of 2 letter blends am, it, ip, ma, pa, ap, in.

Can you ask your child to spell these out at home? (You could do this with chalk, in flour, with playdough)

We have also been learning to blend 3 letters words- nap, tap, cap, mat, mit, sip, nip. Can you ask your child to spell these words at home?

 

Numeracy

This week we have been learning how to follow a simple number sequence by completing dot to dot activities.

Trex had left cupcake cases in our tuff tray, they had numbers on the base so we had to use our counting skills to count the loose parts to make Trex some dinosaur cakes.

In number talks we continued to talk about dot patterns, we have now learned lots of ways of looking at the total amount of dots and are building our computational fluency.

Spanish

We have been loving learning lots of Spanish Greetings. Paulo our class puppet was testing our Spanish by saying a greeting in English and then we had to say it back to him in Spanish.

Going round our circle we all had to say Hello everyone in Spanish (Hola a todos)   and then our friend had to say ‘Hola …’ and the persons name.

Can you practise some Spanish greetings at home?

 

Buenos días- Good Morning

Buenas tardes- Good Afternoon
Buenas noches- Good night

Hola- Hello

Adios- Goodbye

We have been building replicas of houses you might find in our local area or of our own homes to show Trex where we live. In fact some of us even built a house for Trex which he obviously loved because we are becoming expert builders and all of our constructions are highly creative. Like true builders and constructions workers we have had our safety equipment and have been using our spirit level to check that our blocks are level. Miss Boyes is sure if we had have tested our constructions against Storm Ali they would have with stood the wind.

To finish off our short week Miss Boyes asked the nursery if we could join them on Friday for milk and story.

It was lovely to share a story and sing nursery rhymes with them.

We are hoping to do this again next Friday and will be thinking of a nursery rhyme that we want to share with the nursery children.

 

Our buddy mass is on Tuesday the 25^th of September at 9.30 am, you are more than welcome to join us at St. Philips at the Lanthorn.

We will also be going to the Library on Tuesday and having a little walk around our local area so please can the children dress according to the weather (jackets, wellington boots if necessary).

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P1B!