P1D Weekly News

Word Boost

We started word boost this week. Most weeks we will be learning 4 new boost words. Some weeks we will have revision weeks where we don’t learn new boost words. On a Tuesday, children will bring a ‘parent postcard’ home with details of the words we are learning that week in class.

Scott: we read a book.

Jane: it was called ‘the lamb who came to dinner’.

Lucas: the wolf wanted to eat the lamb.

We learned 4 boost words. Here are our boost words:

Scott: gobble is one of our boost words it means you eat quickly.

Anna: trudge means that you walk all sad.

Rojin: delicious means something that is tasty.

Luke: howl is a noise that would be sad.

Here is our word boost story. Can you listen carefully for the boost words:

Phonics

Roma: we learned the ‘b’ sound. It is a red sound that comes from lips.

Amelia: ‘b’ is a loud sound.

Shea: we learned the ‘f’ sound. It is a pink sound that means it is a quiet sound.

Here are the videos for you to use at home too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxa_zfeB0w4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtv7o0iA6tI

We also played this game in class this week:

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/hanging_monkeys_US.swf

Number

We are continuing to learn about addition and numbers within 10. All of our numeracy activities this week were Halloween based activities.

Olivier: I played bowling on the ipads and had to count the skittles.

Carter: we played a game with a partner and we had to count spiders.

Carter: we made potions at the tuff table.

Roma: we had to tick how many colours we used but you couldn’t have the same twice.

Paul: we had to roll a dice and if it was 6 then you had to put 6 arms on the legs. If you rolled again and got 5 you would have to put another 5 on. It looked funny.

 

Number Talks

Freya: we tried to copy Mrs Davenport’s rekenrek. For 5 you could do 2 at the bottom and 3 at the top.

Celine: for 6 you could make 3 and 3.

Amelia: for 4 you could make 3 and 1.

Rojin: you could also do 2 at the top and 2 at the bottom for 4.

 

Writing

We used a picture of a haunted house as our writing stimulus this week. We were thinking about who lives in the haunted house. We were learning that ‘imaginative’ means stories don’t need to be real. It can be pretend and silly!

Shea: I wrote about a zombie.

Roma: I wrote about a horrible witch.

Luke: I wrote about a vampire.

Paul: I wrote about a mummy.

We used story stones to develop our ability to tell stories orally. We also use apps on the ipads to help with this too. You could download some of these at home too to make stories. We really like the apps puppet pals, morfo and sock puppets.

Shea: Me and Lucas made a big story using the story stones. It was about a frog that turned into a wizard.

Roma: Me and Pati done a big story using the story stones too.

 

Topic

We are really enjoying learning about airports and we have turned parts of our classroom into an airport. We have a check-in desk, baggage weighing, first aid, café and even a runway and an aeroplane!

Carter: we could pack our suitcases and go on the aeroplane. I was going to legoland.

Luke: you needed a ticket and a passport to get on the aeroplane

Carter: we had a café in the airport.

Roma: we needed to measure our suitcases to check they were light enough to get on the aeroplane. It couldn’t be heavier than 10. I wonder what would happen if it was 10?

Layla: there are big suitcases and small suitcases.

Freya: at the airport we were pretending to be at doctors in case you hurt yourself.

 

Spanish

Pati: we learned about flamenco dancing. I was twirling.

Shea: There was a boy dancing too.

Carter: escucha means to listen.

Anna: si means yes.

Mara: no means no, that is an easy one to remember!

 

Our Favourite Parts  of the Week

Igor: I was bowling on the ipads.

Michelle: I liked learning new sounds. I learned the ‘f’ sound. It is a pink sound.

Logan: I was playing Spanish games on the ipads.

Lucas: I liked PE, we were doing yoga.

Mara: I liked writing my ticket at the airport.