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14.1.19 P1a

Welcome back and Happy New Year! Last week we settled quickly back into our routines and everyone has been working very hard. Mrs Cook was very proud of every single one of us last week because we were so well behaved and tried hard at everything.

During Buddy Time this term our buddies will be helping us with our laptop skills, helping us to practise spelling words and playing games with us such as French colour bingo and subtraction noughts and crosses.

We loved Reward Time on Friday because we got to play in the other p1 classrooms with our friends from all 3 P1 classes.

Our new topic is Transport and we are interested in lots of different aspects of this. Four of us wanted to know all about trucks and roads so we looked at photographs and video clips to see what we could learn from those. Three of us had the idea of inviting a truck into school to visit us so Mrs Strachan in the office kindly arranged her husband to bring in his truck on Friday. This was very exciting because we all got to go inside it. We also took metre sticks out to measure different parts of the truck. The wheels were 1 metre tall, nearly as big as us!

This is what we learnt last week:

I learnt ‘ch’. Cody

Chicks has a ‘ch’ sound. Eryn

Trucks have wheels nearly the same size as me. Rebecca

Trucks have a bed to sleep in at night because they work so much. Konstancja

You can take away numbers. Five take away two is three. Frankie

Ten take away one is nine. Euan

Truck drivers can be away for a week then they get to go back home. Luke

Trucks have engines that are so big. Makinley

The truck wheels are bigger than me! Ethan

Ten take away five makes five. Olivia

The truck was very big and tall. It had steps to get in. Ella-Rose

The truck had a bed in it. Hope

The engine makes the truck’s wheels move. Kyle

Choo choo has a ‘ch’ sound. Nola

The truck was grey inside. Ayleigh.

P1a 17.12.18

In Literacy we now know all of the single sounds and we are currently learning about the sounds sh and th. We learnt that we had to stick our tongue out a little bit to make a th sound and discovered that it was very easy to muddle up f and th! We have also been learning to blend sounds to write words and we all wrote our own stories about why Santa got stuck in the chimney! After that we enjoyed listening to each other’s stories because they were funny.

Last week we were sad to say goodbye to Mrs Lawson, a post graduate teacher student, who had taught us many exciting lessons with lots of fun learning activities over the last 6 weeks. We especially enjoyed our own Christmas Fair where we had turns at manning the stalls, taking money and paying for turns of the games. This brought together many of the money skills that we had been learning with Mrs Lawson such as coin recognition, addition and budgeting.

In numeracy we have been continuing to practise addition by finding out about different strategies we can use such as starting with the biggest number and counting on. After the holidays we will be leaning to subtract so any practise with counting backwards from 20 would be helpful.

Over the last two weeks we have investigated Christmas traditions through play. Some of our ideas included creating a Christmas house, making snow globes, writing letters, making envelopes, wrapping parcels, making cards, decorating a tree and making a post box. There was lots of great problem solving and teamwork as we helped each other with these activities.

Last week’s highlights, of course, were our wonderful performances of The Sleepy Shepherds. Our teachers were so proud of us for working hard to learn our parts and for showing such confidence in front of the audiences.

Have a lovely break everyone!

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