P1D Weekly Update

Writing

On Tuesday, we were writing a recount about what we were doing during our October break. Here is some of the things we wrote about:

Carter: “I went to lego land. I went to Dubai.”

Rojin: “I was in the swimming pool. I was in Spain.”

Luke: “I went to the shops.”

Anna: “I went on my bike.”

Carter: “me and Rojin got the golden ticket.”

Rojin: “Mrs Purdie liked our writing.”

 

Phonics

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. The sounds we learned were:

Pati: “o sound.”

Paul: “e sound.”

Shea: “the song is about the lights going off and on.”

Please see the links below for the songs.

Roma: “o is a bouncy sound.”

Carter: “they book live in the vowel house.”

Jane: “I liked learning the ‘o’ sound.”

Layla: “I liked the ‘o’ sound. It is a black sound.”

Michelle: “I liked learning the ‘e’ sound. Egg begins with an ‘e’ sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQhF8Rj9JI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvajNViVs38

Sight Words

We have been learning some new sight words this week. Your child will be given the next set of sight words when they are able to spell and read all of the sight words on their current list. Mrs Davenport checks how we get on with our sight words every 2 weeks.

This week we were also playing sight word bowling to help us read our sight words. We have some sight words written on the skittles, the skittles that we knock down, we read which sight word is on them when we pick them up again.

Olivier: “I liked bowling and reading words.”

Amelia: “I was writing sight words.”

 

Numeracy

We have started to learn about addition. We know that when you add things together, the amount gets bigger. We have also looked at the mathematical symbols and talked about the language for add and equals.

Roma: “We coloured in minnie pictures. We had to look at the board for the numbers to colour in properly.”

Shea: “find a number on the tuff table and do finger paints to show how much the number was.”

Freya: “with bowling you had to count how many you knocked over.”

Paul: “make the hopscotch all the way up to 20.”

Scott: “I liked playing with the bowling.”

Celine: “I liked played with the hopscotch.”

Igor: “I liked bowling. I knocked and counted 5.”

Logan: “I liked playing with adding bowling game on the iPads.”

We played a new game on the iPads this week, called counting and addition! In this game, you can practise adding skittles – just like in our bowling we have been doing in class. You could download this on a device at home too. This is a great free app.

 

Maths

We have been looking at data handling and collecting and interpreting bar graphs this week. We visited different classes to do our survey and find out what other people’s favourite Disney character is.

Anna: “you had to pick your favourite character in Disney and asked different classes their favourite.”

In our class, Cinderella was the favourite and Buzz Lightyear was the 2^nd favourite.

Mara: “I picked Pluto as my favourite.”

 

IDL – Topic

Luke: “we made an aeroplane and painted it.”

Lucas: “we need the aeroplane to get to Disney World.”

Carter: “you can dress up and take photos and get people to sign their name on the autograph book.”