P1D News

Phonics

In phonics we have been learning the ‘wh’ sound and the ‘j’ sound. We have been listening really carefully to the difference between the wh and w sounds in words. The wh sound is a digraph. That means it is 2 letters which make 1 sound. We have been working on some activities this week to help us differentiate between the j and i sounds when we write them as this can be a bit tricky. The j sound is a green sound. This means that it comes from more than 1 part of our mouth.

Numeracy

We have been continuing to learn about subtraction. We are also beginning to look at the differences between addition and subtraction and how we can use our knowledge of addition to help us with subtraction and vice versa. We know how important it is to look for the plus or minus symbols in a number story sentence.

Maths

We have been continuing to look at symmetry in our environment and make symmetrical pictures. Look for some symmetry homework next week so we can show you how much we have learned with this topic.

Topic

We are loving our new topic of space so far. We helped Miss Lydon to create a topic plan where we shared our ideas of what we want to learn during this topic. We have already helped to build a space station in our classroom and we have been having lots of fun playing in it already!

Our Classroom

Today in class, Mrs Davenport told us about the exciting plans to change our classroom a bit. On Monday, we won’t have our own chair anymore! There will only be 1 teaching table and lots of areas in the classroom for us to explore and extend our learning  and imaginations further through play. We are very excited for this change. On Monday, we also welcome a new classmate into our class. Her name is Cordelle and we got to meet her on Thursday. We look forward to seeing Cordelle again on Monday.

Miss Lydon

Today was Miss Lydon’s last day in our class. We have loved having Miss Lydon in our class and we all think she will be a fantastic teacher! We are going to miss having her in our room but we are very pleased we will still see her when she is working with P6/7 and Mrs Roy after the holidays. P6/7 are very lucky.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Davenport and P1D