P1 Update

Phonics

Kian: we learned the ‘t’ sound.

Harry: it’s blue because it’s like ‘s’ and comes from your tongue.

Reka: ‘t’ for tam.

Riyah: we learned the ‘a’ sound.

Mason: it comes from the tunnel. The tunnel goes to a house. The ‘a’ sound lives in the basement of the house.

Lucy: the ‘a’ sound is black.

Carly: the song is about an ant crawling on your arm.

We’ve also been blending sounds together to make words. We know that a black sound needs to go in the middle of the word (most of the time) so that it makes sense. Practise layering up your sound cards in your sounds folder to spell and read words e.g. cat, sat.

Can you listen out for the sounds we have learned in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4l4u9YaIfQ

 

Numeracy

This week we have been working on what numbers represent and showing our understanding that the numeral has a value with it.

Our first task was gluing pom-poms onto a piece of paper. We had to be careful to use the correct number of pom-poms. Did you spot these on our numeracy working wall last night?

Sophie F: we had to get pom-poms into glue and stick it on the paper. There was a number in the middle and you had to have that many pom-poms.

We completed a task where we listened carefully to an instruction e.g. draw 6 flowers, and add that detail onto our drawing.

Kian: you had to draw a number of things. You had to draw 4 clouds.

On Wednesday, we had different boxes with lots of dinosaurs in them but we only had to colour in a certain number of dinosaurs. We had to keep checking how many we had coloured in and how many still needed to be coloured.

Amelie: we had to colour the number of dinosaurs that the paper said.

We also completed a counting and recording activity.

Harry: we counted dinosaurs then wrote the number in a circle.

You could try some of these things at home using your whiteboard and pen from your maths bag.

Those who didn’t attend the meet the family event last night will be given the maths bag home on Wednesday in your child’s homework folder.

 

Our Highlights

Lennox: playing with the bricks. I built a taxi.

Amelie: playing with Carly.

Anna: playing with the blocks. I built a house.

Anaiya: playing with the house corner.

Carly: playing with Amelie because she is my best friend.

Lucy G: playing with Sophie because she is my best friend.

Sylvia: playing with Kian because he is my best friend.

Sophie F: playing in the house corner because it is my favourite bit.

Chloe: playing with the house corner.

Grace: I liked watching numberjacks.

Kian: I liked playing with the bricks. I built a Disney castle.

Mason: playing with Grace because she is my best friend.

Joanna: playing with the baby dolly.

Max: playing with the train track.

Zaki: playing with the train track with Max.

Harry: playing with the bricks and building a school.

Parker: playing with Kian because he went with each other.

Myron: playing with the blocks.

Sophie J: playing with Lucy because she is my best friend.

Riyah: playing with the bricks. I built a tower.

Reka: playing with Sylvia because she is my friend.