P1D Weekly News

Phonics

We learned new sounds this week.

Celine: ‘u’ sound.

Anna: it comes from the vowel house.

Freya: your mouth makes the same shape for ‘u’ and ‘o’ – a long tunnel.

Carter: ‘u’ is black sound.

Amelia: ‘h’ sound.

Anna: it is a yellow sound.

Pati: it is a quiet sound.

Shea: we were writing the ‘h’ sound in the tuff tray.

One of the activities we were doing this week was to listen for the beginning sound in a word and sort objects into groups based on the beginning sound of the word.

Roma: we needed to put hat and hangers in the yellow tray because ‘h’ for hat and ‘h’ is a yellow sound. The bear went in the red tray because ‘b’ for bear and ‘b’ is a red sound.

We played this game too to help us read 3 letter words:

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

Here are the songs we have listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbikhe0uyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwK7yz5hjM

Numeracy

In number talks we used:

Olivier: bunny ears

Scott: 2 and 2 make 4.

Lucas: 4 and 1 make 5.

Shea: 5 and 1 make 6.

We were playing lots of games this week to help develop our addition skills.

Roma: in jenga you needed to grab one bit out and you needed to read the sum.

Mara: count the ladybirds to make 5 spots. 1 bit of the ladybird at 3 and the other had 2. That makes 5.

Freya: you needed to roll 2 dice and add the spots. It made the number bigger.

Paul: on snakes and ladders you started at 1 and if ou get to 100 you won. You go up the ladders and down the snakes.

Jane: I liked the game on the smartboard.

Here is a link to play this game at home too:

http://www.snappymaths.com/addition/addw5/interactive/addw5s/addw5s.htm

We have been listening to the big numbers song too to count past 20!

Nativity

Our nativity is called ‘Stargazers’.

Rojin: we started to practise our nativity.

Carter: I am King Herod.

Celine: I’m going to the party.

Shea: I’m going to tell the party what to do.

Roma: I’m a star.

Freya: I’m Mary.

Jane: I’m Herod’s girlfriend.

Carter: She’s my wife.

 

Writing

We have been writing about fireworks in our writing lesson.

Anna: my story said “the fireworks are pink and red. They go bang.”

Roma: “the fireworks were gold. They go boom.”

Lucas: we were drawing pictures of the fireworks in the tuff tray.

Mara: paint was in the bag and we made fireworks pictures. Fireworks are loud.

 

Outdoor Learning Walk

We created a bar graph to show what transport we saw whilst on our walk. We also spoke about transport that wasn’t on our graph. We saw a mobility scotter, prams, bicycles, cars and taxis.

Michelle: we needed to find aeroplanes and buses. When we found them we drew a tick.

Luke: I saw an aeroplane.

Shea: I saw vans.

Carter: I saw 8 buses. I filled the whole column up.

Roma: I saw 1 aeroplane. Just 1 and that’s it.

Pati: we went to the park too.

Michelle: I liked going on the big silde.

Rojin: I liked sliding down the slide with Roma.

Paul: I liked swinging on the wheel.

 

Our highlights of the week

Igor: I liked number work. I can make 3 bunny ears.

Luke: I liked bunny ears. I can make 5. 3 and 2 is 5.

Layla: I liked bunny ears too. 6 is with 5 and 1 it makes 6.

Logan: I liked number work. I made 6 with 5 on one side and 1 on the other.