P1 Red April/May News
Hello and thank you for visiting our page and reading our class news this month.
Everyone has settled back into school and we have been excited about learning lots of new things in our class.
Take a peek at what we have been learning in the past few weeks!
Maths
When we returned from our holidays, we got busy learning about measure.
We have learned about length. We had so much fun measuring the length of different things using non-standard units of measure. We loved going outside to measure the garden and playground when the sun was shining.
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We also measured how heavy and light different objects were, using the balance scales in our classroom. We learned what it means if two objects balance.
And finally. . . . capacity. We used non-standard units of measure to see how many cups/jugs/bottles of water it would take to fill different containers. It was fun and wet!
This week we have started learning about money. The children will be learning to identify different coins and talk about their value.
Project
Our project this term is Toys.
The children had a very special visitor in the garden recently! Paddybear, our classroom teddy, appeared in the garden after lunch one day! He had a letter for the children. We don`t know how he got there but we were very excited to go to the garden and read the letter he wrote especially for our class!
Paddybear asked us to write about our favourite toys and draw a picture. He also wants us to take care of him. The children have been writing letters to Paddybear and placing them beside him. I am sure he loves reading them.
Religion
We love reading Bible Stories. We read the story “The Ten Lepers”
The children liked the leper who went back to thank Jesus for helping him. We talked about people who help us and then we made a puppet of the Leper who went back to thank Jesus.
In the coming weeks…..
Maths
We will continue to learn about money.
The children will continue to learn to identify different coins and talk about their value. They will also learn to find totals within 20p and will learn to select coins to pay for items. The boys and girls will have a shop in the classroom where they can be customer and shopkeeper.
Phonics and Tricky words
Phonics: oo, ck, ai and oy
Tricky words:
play, no, look
make, like made
said, big, could
Please continue to practise reading and saying your tricky words at home. You can do lots of exciting things with tricky words at home.
- Play bingo,
- Rainbow write them,
- Stick them on your bedroom wall and shine a light on a word
- You can even hide them in a room for your child to find!
Have fun learning at home!
Project
The children will be learning about old and new toys. The will compare old and new toys and will even learn how to make some of our own toys.
Miss Lynch