Author: Mrs Davenport

Phonics

Carter: we learned the ‘g’ sound. It is an orange sound.

Roma: it was a loud sound. It comes from the back of our mouth.

Luke: we learned the ‘d’ sound.

Anna: it is a dark blue sound.

Luke: it means it is a noisy or loud sound.

Shea: we were using cubes to make words. I made the word ‘gut’.

Carter: Your gut is in your tummy.

Mara: we made ‘d’ for dog. I coloured the dog in dark blue because ‘d’ is a loud sound.

We have been playing this game this week to help us listen carefully for the end sounds in a word:

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

Here are the songs we have been listening to too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo_-AKxWD7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOp5PHU8Q1M

Numeracy

Celine: we were using 10 frames.

Scott: we all had a partner for number talks.

Paul: when the teacher asks you to do something with the 10 frame you try to copy the teacher.

Shea: we were making numbers with numicon. I made 5 with a 2 and a 3 to make 5.

Layla: roll the dice and move the play-doh tub at snakes and ladders. I landed on 3 and 4 and 7 and up to 10.

Freya: we were playing with building bricks with numbers on them and what you needed to do was find 0, 1 then 2 and me and Shea made a big tower.

We have been playing this game in numeracy this week:

http://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/index.html

 

Cinema Trip

Anna: we watched Flying the Nest

Roma: the little bird got stolen.

Carter: a bad bird came along and fox tried to eat them. It was nice ending.

 

Our highlights of the week

Michelle: I liked learning new sounds. I know the ‘g’ sound. It is an orange sound.

Lucas: I liked playing snakes and ladders.

Amelia: I liked writing sight words. ‘Was’ is one of the sight words.

Rojin: I liked learning new sounds. I know the ‘g’ sound. A word that begins with ‘g’ is a goat.

Logan: I liked doing number work. I liked doing bunny ears.

Igor: I liked using rekenreks. I can make 3.

Pati: I liked counting the cubes. I put them in adding machines. I done 5 + 10.

Olivier: I liked playing snakes and ladders.

Jane: I liked going to the cinemas because it a good movie.

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.

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.

Writing

On Tuesday, we were writing a recount about what we were doing during our October break. Here is some of the things we wrote about:

Carter: “I went to lego land. I went to Dubai.”

Rojin: “I was in the swimming pool. I was in Spain.”

Luke: “I went to the shops.”

Anna: “I went on my bike.”

Carter: “me and Rojin got the golden ticket.”

Rojin: “Mrs Purdie liked our writing.”

 

Phonics

We have learned 2 new sounds this week. The sounds we learned were:

Pati: “o sound.”

Paul: “e sound.”

Shea: “the song is about the lights going off and on.”

Please see the links below for the songs.

Roma: “o is a bouncy sound.”

Carter: “they book live in the vowel house.”

Jane: “I liked learning the ‘o’ sound.”

Layla: “I liked the ‘o’ sound. It is a black sound.”

Michelle: “I liked learning the ‘e’ sound. Egg begins with an ‘e’ sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQhF8Rj9JI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvajNViVs38

Sight Words

We have been learning some new sight words this week. Your child will be given the next set of sight words when they are able to spell and read all of the sight words on their current list. Mrs Davenport checks how we get on with our sight words every 2 weeks.

This week we were also playing sight word bowling to help us read our sight words. We have some sight words written on the skittles, the skittles that we knock down, we read which sight word is on them when we pick them up again.

Olivier: “I liked bowling and reading words.”

Amelia: “I was writing sight words.”

 

Numeracy

We have started to learn about addition. We know that when you add things together, the amount gets bigger. We have also looked at the mathematical symbols and talked about the language for add and equals.

Roma: “We coloured in minnie pictures. We had to look at the board for the numbers to colour in properly.”

Shea: “find a number on the tuff table and do finger paints to show how much the number was.”

Freya: “with bowling you had to count how many you knocked over.”

Paul: “make the hopscotch all the way up to 20.”

Scott: “I liked playing with the bowling.”

Celine: “I liked played with the hopscotch.”

Igor: “I liked bowling. I knocked and counted 5.”

Logan: “I liked playing with adding bowling game on the iPads.”

We played a new game on the iPads this week, called counting and addition! In this game, you can practise adding skittles – just like in our bowling we have been doing in class. You could download this on a device at home too. This is a great free app.

 

Maths

We have been looking at data handling and collecting and interpreting bar graphs this week. We visited different classes to do our survey and find out what other people’s favourite Disney character is.

Anna: “you had to pick your favourite character in Disney and asked different classes their favourite.”

In our class, Cinderella was the favourite and Buzz Lightyear was the 2^nd favourite.

Mara: “I picked Pluto as my favourite.”

 

IDL – Topic

Luke: “we made an aeroplane and painted it.”

Lucas: “we need the aeroplane to get to Disney World.”

Carter: “you can dress up and take photos and get people to sign their name on the autograph book.”

We haven’t been learning any new sounds this week in our phonics. We are spending 2 weeks consolidating our knowledge of the sounds we have been taught and taking part in different activities to develop our blending, spelling and reading ability using these sounds as well as our listening skills to hear the sounds in a word.

Here are some of the different activities we have been doing:

One of the activities we have particularly enjoyed has been the race car blending game. We have a word on a piece of paper e.g. cat. We drive a car over the word, saying each sound as we go. We make the car drive faster and faster to help us read the word. You could try this at home too.

Carter: “when the cars cross the letters we read them”

Shea: “we have a phonics phone we say the sounds and they go into our hear so you can hear the sounds coming from your mouth.”

Pati has also being practising writing her “name”.

Carter:  “there is shaving foam on the tuff table.”

Luke: “we look at the cards and we write letters on the tuff table like n and a and p and k.”

Home Learning: What can you use at home to practise writing your sounds and sight words.

 

We have loved number talks this week. We have been using bunny ears to show our understanding of how the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 are made.

Home Learning: Ask your child to show you bunny ears for 2, for 3, for 4 and for 5. Ask your child to show you the game we have been playing with bunny ears.

Anna: “we have been counting bunny ears.”

Freya: “try and copy what Mrs Davenport is doing and get the right number.”

 

In our numeracy lessons this week we have been talking about 1 more, 2 more and numbers that come before or after other numbers. Here are some of the activities we have been doing:

Olivier: “counting” with numicon

Paul: “playing hopscotch. I needed to set it up myself and I had to put down the number 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 and all the way to 11.”

Layla: “in the tuff tray I was using a paintbrush to write numbers.”

Carter: “I was fixing the number line and putting the numbers in the right order.”

Home Learning: Ask your child what is 1 more or 2 more than a certain number. E.g. what is 1 more than 6? What is 2 more than 3? What number is before 7? What number is after 9?

 

We have developing our reasoning skills. This week, Mrs Davenport and Mrs Docherty have been asking us lots of ‘why’ questions in lots of different lessons.

A dinosaur egg had appeared in our classroom:

Anna: “a dinosaur egg came into our classroom.”

Roma: “it has hatched now.”

We had to think about why it was here.

Rojin: “the mummy dinosaur and daddy dinosaur aren’t looking after the egg.”

For our writing lesson we had to think about why the dinosaur parents weren’t looking after the egg anymore.

Roma: “I think they were on holiday.”

Luke: “I think they are at the beach.”

Carter: “I think they are shopping getting food for the little dinosaur.”

We found out that dinosaurs eat different food. We wanted to make sure that the baby dinosaur had lots of food for when it hatched out the egg.

Rojin: “we collected food for the baby dinosaur.”

Olivier: “we got leaves.”

Scott: “and grass.”

Carter: “some dinosaurs don’t eat meat.”

Roma: “it would make it sick.”

 

 

We had a wonderful trip to the library on Tuesday.

Michelle: “we took books”

Shea: “I picked a book about a spider.”

Logan: “I picked a book about a rocket.”

Jane: “we took our books to the park and we played.”

Carter: “we read our books in the park too.”

We have also been using our reading books in class lots too. Here are the titles of our books this week:

Carter: “A New Dog.”

Amelia: Six in a Bed.”

Phonics

We learned 2 new sounds this week. Use the link below to listen to the song for the ‘k’ sound.

Roma: “we learned the k sound.”

Olivier: “it is a yellow sound.”

Anna: “it comes from the back of your mouth.”

Anna: “we learned the ‘ck’ sound too.”

Carter: “you use this sound at the end of a word.”

Freya: “I made the word cat.”

Home Learning: Can you spell words at home where the ‘ck’ sound comes at the end of a word. Remember the rule!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gyLJOpCzQ

Maths

We have been learning about measure this week. We having been using the words: big/small, heavy/light, empty/fully, tall/short in class to talk about objects. We have taken part in lots of different activities and we look forward to sharing some of these with you at our stay and play event coming soon.

We were using balance scales to weigh objects and Shea told us the scales need “to be the same.”

We were playing with water and sand to help us develop our understanding of capacity and we were trying to use the language of full and empty. At the sink Scott told us that we were “filling up cups.”

When learning about height we had to order our dinosaurs.

Celine: “line up the dinosaurs and you had to put the biggest first and all the way to the smallest.”

We try to measure different objects using things we can find in the classroom. We used pom-poms and Roma told us that we were “checking what size things were.”

Home Learning: Use this language at home when measuring different things. Challenge: we also spoke about the 2^nd smallest or 2^nd biggest thing; the cups which were half full or half empty etc.

 

Number Talks

Shea: “we had to make numbers using rekenreks.”

Carter: “we made numbers with rekenreks and we had to guess how Mrs Davenport made the number.”

Home Learning: Adults draw a dot pattern at home but keep number in 2 lines like this:

 

Tell your child that you have 4 dots and they have to try and copy your pattern. They may make the dots a number of different ways before the guess your way. Try this with different numbers.

 

Music

We enjoyed music with Mrs Steele. Here is what we were doing this week:

Pati: “singing”

Rojin: “playing some musical instruments.”

 

Mass

We went to mass on Tuesday at St Philips.

Lucas: “we went with our buddies to mass.”

Luke: “we walked to mass.”

Anna: “we sing songs at mass.”

Freya: “we listened to Father Kenneth.”

Michelle: “we prayed to God.”

 

Topic

Logan: “we got a letter from Trex.”

Jane: “the letter said that he was long and had a tail and sharp teeth.”

Roma: “I was really happy when Trex came.”

Trex is a dinosaur (a T-Rex) who has joined our class. Trex doesn’t know much about school or about the local area. We are going to help Trex settle in at school and teach him about our local area.

 

Assembly

We had a special assembly on Thursday to say goodbye to someone special.

Freya: “it was sad because John the Janny is going away.”

Jane: “it is called retiring.”

 

Outdoor Learning

Outdoor learning was so much fun this week. Here are our highlights:

Shea: “we had to make dens.”

Amelia: “we played with the leaves that had fallen on the floor.”

Roma: “we picked berries and then painted with them in the classroom.”

Freya: “that was yucky.”

Luke: “we picked up sticks and leaves and we were measuring what size they were.”

Carter: “a tree had fallen down and we had to climb over it.”

Freya: “Roma showed us a fairy house.”

Roma: “it was a fairy door in a tree.”

It has only been a short week for us but we have managed to squeeze in so much learning!

Phonics

In phonics we have been learning the ‘i’ and ‘n’ sound. The ‘i’ sound is another sound that comes from the vowel house. It is a black sound and our mouth makes a tunnel shape when we say this sound. We now know 2 sounds from the vowel house – ‘a’ and ‘i’. We have been learning that the sounds from the vowel house usually come in the middle of a word. We have been thinking really hard about where we hear a sound coming from – the beginning, middle or end.

The ‘n’ sound is a blue sound which comes from our tongue. We noticed that the ‘n’ sound is dark blue and ‘s’ and ‘t’ are light blue. We were learning that this means loud and quiet sounds. The lighter the colour, the quieter the sound. So ‘n’ is dark blue because it is a loud sound.

Here are the songs we have been using this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GuPnhElJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SkJfIVSXg

Home Learning: ask your child to spell these words (write them down somewhere, use play-doh to make the letters or be creative)

as

it

is

an

nap

nip

Numeracy

In numeracy we have been talking about numbers that come before, after and in between. We were using little number lines to help us with this.

Home Learning: ask your child what number comes after 4, after 7 etc.  Ask your child what number comes before 9, 3 etc. Ask your child what number comes in between 3 and 5, 6 and 8 etc. Challenge: go beyond 10!

We have also been working on our counting skills. We have been using these songs to help us:

Topic

We made our own dinosaur masks this week as part of our topic. We had lots of fun using different materials as part of the masks. Glitter was definitely the favourite material to use! We had lots of fun during ‘fun 31 (golden time)’ playing with our masks and making stories. We had stories about mummy and big sister and little sister dinosaurs. Did you see our class photo on twitter? @mrsd_stnps

Spanish

We have been learning to say hello (hola), goodbye (adios), good morning (buenos dias) and good night (buenas noches) in Spanish. We played some fun games and listened to this song too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKw5IldE9Y

Another busy week in P1D.

Next week:

Tuesday is our buddy mass. We would love if you could come to St Philips at the Lanthorn to join us celebrate liturgy with our peers.

Wednesday afternoon we are going a walk in our local area. Please ensure children have a warm jacket (weather depending) and you may wish to provide your child with a pair of trainers in their bag for this walk.

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you to the children for helping to write the blog post this week and letting you know what we’ve been up to.

What sounds have we been learning?

Roma: ‘a’ and ‘t’ sounds this week.

Anna: ‘a’ is a black sound.

Shea: it comes from the tunnel in your mouth.

Freya: it lives in a house at the end of the tunnel.

Carter: it is called the vowel house.

Luke: ‘t’ it is a blue sound.

Paul: the sound comes from your tongue.

Shea: the tip of your tongue.

Roma: I spelled the word ‘cat’ using the letter mats and letter cubes.

Freya: We played bingo and we had put coins on the pictures that begin with the sound. I won the game.

Here are the links for our songs for the sounds this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVER0qQ6Q0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_KvU5oc9Q

We also really enjoyed maths week too. Here are some of our highlights of the activities we took part in:

Scott: I played with the cars and playing on the road. We had to drive the cars on the numbers.

Jane: you had to start driving the car at zero.

Celine: in the sand you had to get the correct number onto the circle shape.

Rojin: it is like being a pirate looking for treasure.

Paul: you had to play on the pond and try not to fall into the crocodiles. You had to roll the dice and find the number to stand on.

We were also experimenting with sound this week in a science lesson.

Luke: we picked musical instruments to make loud sounds and tiny sounds.

Freya: a drum could make a loud sound but if you tap it very gently it can also make a quiet sound.

In our writing lesson we watched a story called ‘Partly Cloudy’ (link below). We then wrote about our own creations using describing words. Have a look at some of these fantastic descriptions:

Rojin: a rainbow dog.

Anna: a rainbow cat.

Carter: a funny dog.

Shea: a rainbow dog.

Michelle: a colourful unicorn.

Roma: a rainbow and glittery dog.

Amelia: a rainbow cat.

We had lots of fun in PE with Mr McCurdy this week.

Luke: we were running, skipping, bear crawls and duck walks.

Layla: I can do crab walking.

Don’t forget to check twitter too for lots of photos from the week: https://twitter.com/mrsd_stnps OR @mrsd_stnps

We have had another busy week in P1D. On Thursday we had to look after Ninian the Minion for the day because Mrs Purdie wasn’t in her office and we were worried that he might get lonely. He had a very busy day in our class.

First of all, Ninian had to order his lunch. He wanted the blue tray for his lunch.

During our soft start he was playing in the office.

He joined in with our circle time and he was very impressed with all of the describing words we were using to describe our dinosaurs. He heard super words like ‘dangerous’ ‘colourful’ ‘spotty’ ‘stripey’ ‘spikey’ ‘lovely’ ‘happy’ ‘nice’.

Ninian then helped Mara to write her story about a dinosaur using some of the super describing words.

After we all had finished our writing, Ninian wanted to listen to everyone read their stories to the class. He loved listening to the super describing words in our stories.

This week we have been looking at different dot patterns in numeracy and talking about how we can see the dots. You could try this at home too using dots, stickers, grapes etc. Arrange them out in a random order and ask your child how many they can see? Then ask how do you see them? If you lay out 4 dots, they may be laid out with 1 at the top and 3 at the bottom. This game also helps us with this:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

We have been learning the ‘s’ and ‘p’ sounds this week. Here are the songs we have used to help us enhance our learning of these sounds. S is a blue sound and p is a pink sound. Ask your child why these sounds are these particular colours?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlPKm1Hbl8

Next week we will be learning the ‘a’ and ‘t’ sounds. We’ve already had a sneak peak at the songs!

Finally, we would like to share with you our favourite parts of the week.

Carter: I liked PE and playing the big ball game and we were in groups and we had to try and score a goal at the bench and the game was over.

Rojin: I liked yoga

Lucas: I liked PE and playing tig

Anna: I liked listening to stories

Roma: I liked making dinosaurs and then a video

Amelia: I liked PE and playing tig

Freya: I liked playing turtle tig

Shea: I liked writing my story

Michelle: I liked learning new sounds

Pati: I liked learning the ‘p’ sound.

Logan: I liked PE

Luke: I liked playing outside

Scott: I liked playing in the office with the telephone

Celine:  I liked writing and playing in the office

Layla: I liked playing outside

Mara: I liked playing with cars

Jane: I liked playing

Olivier: I liked playing outside

Igor: I liked playing outside

Paul: I liked playing on the smart board

Have a lovely weekend.

We have had another busy week in P1D. Here are some of our highlights:

In literacy we have been learning some sounds. We were learning the ‘m’ and ‘c’ sounds. We were learning about the name of these letters, what sound they make and where about in our mouth we make these sounds from. The m sound comes from our lips. We put jam on our lips and made the ‘mmmm’ sound because the jam was tasty! It turned our lips red. This helped us to learn that sounds that come from the lips are red sounds. The ‘c’ sound is a yellow sound. It comes from the back of our mouth. We had to shine a torch in our mouths to see all the way to the back. The torch turned the back of our mouth yellow. We also learned some songs to help us remember these sounds. You could practise these at home too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUhr2LToBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-g13UbDxu0

We also started our book study topic ‘Harry and the Dinosaurs’. We have enjoyed listening to 2 of the Harry and the Dinosaur stories so far. In one of the stories there is a boy called Jack-osaurus. We thought that this was a good name so we decided to draw and paint our own dinosaurs and give them names too. Here are some of  our names:

Shea’s dinosuar is called ‘Shea-osaurus’

Pati’s dinosaur is called ‘Pati dinosaur’

Roma’s dinosaur is called ‘Love Heart-osaurus’

Freya’s dinosaur is called ‘Mummy-osaurus’

In one of the Harry and the Dinosaur books, Harry starts school. Some of his friends are feeling excited, others are feeling sad, nervous and shy. We spoke about how we were feeling starting school and if we were feeling nervous and sad what we could do to make ourselves feel better.

In numeracy we were learning the correct formation for numbers 5, 6 and 7. Here are the rhymes and sayings we used to help us.

5 – “the neck, the tummy and the hat”

6 – “bend to low to pick up sticks, now I’ve made the number 6.”

7 – “across the sky and down from heave, now I’ve made the number 7.”

We also started ‘number talks’ this week. We were looking at different patterns of dots and talking about how many spots we could see and how we saw them.

When we saw 6 spots Carter told us:”3 dots at the top and 3 dots at the bottom is 6.”

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.