P1A Week Beginning 14th September 2016

Hello P1A families!

Another week has flown by!  Here are the learning highlights from the Yellow Table:

Danny loved it when he was blindfolded and had to guess what I put in to his hand.  This was part of our learning about the sense of sight.  The children were able to tell me that people who cannot see are known as being ‘blind’.  We experienced a little bit of what life is like for a blind person through this game and how blind people rely on their other senses to help them.  The children touched the item with their hands, listened to any noises it made when they shook it and smelled it too.  So many guessed correctly!  We thanked God for our sense of sight.  We hope to have a visit from a real guide dog next week and hear all about how they help people who cannot see!

Vinayak and Aidhel both enjoyed cutting out a picture of a snake.  This linked with our learning about the phonic sound ‘s’ and also, patterns.  We coloured the snake in using a pattern of 2 colours.  Some children then went on to make patterns during Choosing our own Learning time using items from around the classroom.

Ellie said the best lesson for her was playing a game (a little bit like ‘Corners’) where the children danced to music and when it stopped, they had to go to a sound that we have learned so far.  If that sound was called out, or a word that started with that sound, they were out.  Ellie won one of the games!

Luke liked learning about the different parts of the eye.  Ask your child if they can remember what happens to their pupil when the light comes on and when the light goes off!  The children looked at the parts of their eyes in a mirror and coloured a template of one with their own eye colour.  We will use these templates for learning about bar graphs next week.  We discovered that most of P1A have brown eyes!

Leah said the best part of her week was PE.  She enjoyed rolling and catching balls there.

My highlight was story writing.  I was so proud of the children as they followed along as I pointed to words on the screen of a story called The Train Ride and they joined in every time ‘I, can or see’ was written.  They then went on to write what they could see from an image of a farm that had things in it starting with sounds learned so far.  We had: ‘I can see mud (for m), I can see sky (for s) and I can see cows (for c).’  I was delighted with the efforts the children made to remember not only how to use these words but also to write on the line, use finger spaces and a full stop at the end.  What a clever bunch of young people!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Luke!

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I hope to see you all on Tuesday.

Mrs Brown