Hello everyone!
This week we have been consolidating all of the sound which we have learned so far.
We have been singing our Jolly phonics songs and completing activities which help us to develop our ability to say, read, write and recognise the colour of each sound and which mouth part makes it.
We have also been completing blending activities and decoding activities.
We have been decoding words and then making words with the phonics cubes, log slices, play dough or writing the words on a whiteboard to match a picture.
We have loved using our blending ladder again this week and our new car race track to blend to read cvc words.
On the blending car race track we have to move the car along the track and say each sound, we then bring it back to the start and read the word as we move along the track. Miss Boyes asks us if we can identify the beginning, middle and end sound of the word.
Joshua- “The car race track is lots of fun, I like learning to read.”
Well, writing was rather exciting this week because on Wednesday night our class had some visitors (DINOSAURS!!) and they were caught on our class iPad which recorded them learning in different areas of the classroom.
The Dinosaurs left us a dinosaur egg too in Harry’s Bucket!
We decided to use our imagination and write down how we thought they got into our classroom and what could be inside the egg.
We wrote lots of interesting ideas and Miss Boyes was impressed with how we sounded out our words.
We are learning all about capital letters, full stops and finger spaces too as these are very important!
Lucy- “The egg has now cracked, I think there is a dinosaur in the egg.”
Numeracy-
In numeracy we have been learning the language of more and less. This will also be continued next week.
We have started to look at amounts using objects and identifying which group has more or less by using our counting skills.
We have also been looking at numbers and working out how we can identify 1 more or 1 less.
We have enjoyed singing along to these songs.
We have gone shopping in the loose parts tray, each shopping bag has a number or dot pattern and we have to put the correct amount in each bag. Our peer will then ask us to add 1 more or make it 1 less then they will ask us, how many items do you have now?
This is a game which could be played when out shopping with an adult but having the adult’s permission to add and take items out of the basket/trolley of course!
We have continued to look at dot patterns and we have been picking up a dot pattern card and then writing the number of dots in the sand, this has also helped us to practise our number formation.
Emilie- “I liked using the sand to write my numbers.”
Outdoor learning-
As you might have seen on Miss Boyes’ twitter page we went on an outdoor learning walk.
On our walk we talked to Trex about road safety. We crossed busy roads by walking safely over the bridge! We told Trex to always stop, look and listen while holding an adults hand.
We have been showing Trex and Harry’s bucketful of dinosaurs our local area on our outdoor learning walk. This has sparked a great idea to draw him a map of our local area so that he knows where everything is.
Our GIRFEC theme this month is healthy. So we thought instead of finding out what the dinosaurs eat, why don’t we show them what we eat! We took Trex and the dinosaurs to our local shop and showed Trex which food is healthy and which food is not.
While at the shop to show Trex and the dinosaurs healthy and unhealthy food we also showed them how to use the digital technology to pay for healthy snacks. When we got back to class after our outdoor learning walk we ate our cheese and crackers! We loved them!
We also went out into our school garden this week and completed lots of Autumn themed activities. We have been learning about the wonder and awe in God’s world and this led us to talk about the wonderful season of Autumn and how things change.
We took photos with the iPads, made Bird’s nests and counted twigs and leaves.
Mrs Heather came in to do watch us do a number talks this week and she was blown away by our ability to talk about numbers. She also loved how we recorded our strategies. Miss Boyes is very proud of us for sharing our strategies and explaining them and showing them in detail!
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
What an interesting week 👍🏻 Liam and Connor have enjoyed it, especially getting outdoors. Thank you.
Wow what a busy week. I can see how all the children are enjoying your class and khylas confidence is growing and growing. She is even asking to do homework, if only her big brother in p6 was the same 🤞. Thank you for all you do 💚