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Literacy<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria: “the a sound is black.”<\/p>\n

Liam: “the a sound comes from the vowel house. You get to the vowel house through a black tunnel.”<\/p>\n

Mark: “we used black play-doh to make the ‘a’ sound.”<\/p>\n

Kayla: “we learned the ‘t’ sound too.”<\/p>\n

Oliver: “the ‘t’ sound is blue because it comes from our tongue, there are blue veins on the bottom of our tongue.”<\/p>\n

Eve: “we played ‘t’ sound bingo game and I won 2 times.”<\/p>\n

Maths and Numeracy<\/span><\/p>\n

Isabelle: “we made plates and put pom-poms on them. We had to write a number in the middle of the plate and put on that many pom-poms.”<\/p>\n

Seren: “I made a plate with 11 pom-poms.”<\/p>\n

Joshua: “we sorted out emojis into crying and not crying.”<\/p>\n

Mark: “I sorted shapes into squares, circles, triangles and rectangles.”<\/p>\n

Oliver: “we matched them all together.”<\/p>\n

Eve: “we made caterpillar bodies using green paint and our fingers. There was a number to tell us how many parts of the body a caterpillar needed.”<\/p>\n

Isabelle: “I made a circle using beads.”<\/p>\n

Oliver: “I made hands to show that I had 10 fingers.”<\/p>\n

Kayla: “we made potions for a witch.”<\/p>\n

Isabelle: “she wanted a full bottle and a half full bottle.”<\/p>\n

Evie: “she wanted an empty bottle too.”<\/p>\n

Evie: “I put pink stars into the potion for the witch.”<\/p>\n

RE<\/span><\/p>\n

Blake: “we went to the Lanthorn to go to mass with our buddies.”<\/p>\n

Hanna: “I sat beside my buddy.”<\/p>\n

Chloe: “we watched a video about God making the world.”<\/p>\n

Blake: “it took God 7 days to make the world. On the 7th day He had a rest because He was tired.”<\/p>\n

Victoria: “we took the ipads outside to take pictures of \u00a0what God made.”<\/p>\n

Liam: “I took a picture of plants.”<\/p>\n

Mark: “I took a picture of bugs.”<\/p>\n

Eve: “I took a picture of flowers.”<\/p>\n

Science<\/span><\/p>\n

Liam: “we played instruments and checked what were loud and what was quiet.”<\/p>\n

Oliver: “we all closed our eyes and someone had to play an instrument and then someone had to guess what instrument they played.”<\/p>\n

Mark: “I picked the guitar to play.”<\/p>\n

Blake: “I picked a beater and a sound bar to play.”<\/p>\n

Joshua: “Miss Meechan told everyone to get a quiet or a loud instrument. The loud instruments were really loud and the quiet instruments were quiet.”<\/p>\n

Remember to follow Miss Meechan on twitter for lots of photos – check your child’s learning journal for more personalised photos and comments.<\/p>\n

@missm_stnps<\/p>\n

Below are some links and ideas you can use at home this week to support learning:<\/p>\n

Write a number on a paper plate and ask your child to put that amount of grapes\/raisins\/maltesers etc. on the plate.<\/p>\n

Write a number on a small piece of paper, get some paint, a paint the correct number of finger dots beside that number.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/learning-to-count\/gingerbread-man-game<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/countusin\/games\/game15.htm<\/p>\n