P1 Weekly News

Teacher Voice

Our literacy highlights this week have been:

• Listening to the difference between the v and f sounds. These sound really similar – we sorted out pictures of things with the v and f sounds at the beginning. We repeated this activity with the z and s sounds as these sound familiar too.
• We created a wanted poster for the missing three little pigs. We had to ensure our sentence had a capital letter; full stop; finger space; included the word ‘and’ and had a describing word or phrase.

Our numeracy highlights this week have been:

• Learning about doubles to help with our mental addition skills.
• Creating a bar graph on our outdoor learning morning. We then using our adding skills and use the information we gathered to add different transport types together.
• Developing the strategy of putting a number in our head and counting on (see our example video on twitter so you can use this strategy at home too).

Pupil Voice

Harry: the red rainbow learning was a train numbers game. You add 2 numbers, put a number in your head and then count on numbers.

Sophie F: the green rainbow learning was for a competition, you had to draw your favourite part of school. The winner will get their picture painted on the wall in the hall.

Chloe: you need to cut out the ‘b’ and ‘d’ and then stick them in the right place. All of the b was on one side and the d on the other side.

Ethan: you had to put the colour dots into the 10 frame. I made 8, 3 red and 5 yellow.

Kian: we learned the v and z sounds. The z sound starts for zebra for zoo.

Parker: v is for van.

Carly: we made a wanted poster for the three little pigs. I wrote the pig had yellow trousers.

Sophie J: we have been learning about doubles. If you double a number you add the same number, double 2 is 2+2 and the answer is 4.

Amelie: You could put number 6 in your head and show 4 fingers and count on.

Max: we were looking for vehicles for a traffic survey – we saw vans, aeroplanes and buses.

Mason: we got our little bookbug bags with 3 books inside it and pencils. My favourite book was The Unicorn Expert book.

Parker: we had an assembly 5 sisters zoo. They told us that bears are dangerous and they told us about their job.

Parent Ideas

• Use the whiteboard and pen in the bookbug bag. Adult to say either f/v or s/z sound and children to write down what they hear.
• Use this song to help with your doubles

• Use this link to play an addition game – try to put a number in your head and count on. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Have a lovely weekend,

P1 and Mrs Davenport