P1 Koalas 1.3.24

This week in P1 Koalas:

Literacy

Sounds and Tricky Words

We were blending and building words with the sounds ‘nt’ as in ‘went‘ and ‘sp’ as in ‘spot’ or ‘gasp‘.

Our tricky words this week were ‘some’ and ‘come’. We were looking at how these words both had ‘ome‘ saying ‘um‘ and we only needed to change the fist sound when we wrote them.

Things to try at home:

Look for words with the sounds ‘nt’ or ‘sp’ in them when you are out or in some of the books you may have at home / in the library.

Ask someone to write down some words that you can use your skills to sound out using the new sounds we have been learning or to read some words for you to write down.

For example: gasp, spent, spark, clasp, spot, spin, spend, spoon, tent, rent, sent, hint,

Practise reading and writing our new tricky words or spell them out loud. Don’t forget to keep practising the tricky words we have previously learnt too.

So far we have learnt: I, too, saw, was, the, put,, his, is, my, no, go, he, she, we, be, me, they, all, want, are. We have talked about some of the patterns we can see in some of these words (e.g. he, she, we, be, me all ending the same way with ‘e’ saying ‘ee’.)

Writing

Our writing this week began with ‘I / we / they all went to……..’ and we came up with our own ideas to finish the sentence.

At home:

If you have been out and about, you might wish to try drawing a picture and writing about where you went. For example, ‘I went to the shop,’ or ‘We all went to see _______ ‘. Have a go at spelling harder words using the sounds you know. You might want to write the first sound you hear and ask someone at home to write the rest.

Reading Books

We took reading books home to share for the first time this week. We will continue to send reading books home on Tuesdays and ask they are returned to school on Fridays so that they can be used for other reading groups.

We have been working on new reading books in school this week and will continue working on these into next week.

Things to try at home:

Share your reading book with someone at home. Retell the story in your own words and talk about what is happening as you read the pages. You might want to take turns reading a page with someone at home or you may even want someone at home to read the book to you whilst you point to the words.

Numeracy

We have been working on our core numeracy skills including ordering numbers, saying forwards and backwards number sequences, counting and adding amounts, describing equal groups and saying numbers before and after a given number. We also tried counting in tens as a whole class.

Things to try at home:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

With someone at home, practise sequencing and ordering numerals. You could do this using pieces of paper or card with numerals written on them or you could play the Caterpillar Ordering game on Topmarks.

Other Areas of the Curriculum

Health and Wellbeing

We were working on the Building Resilience unit ‘Respect Yourself’ and drew pictures beside our names to help show the things we each like to do.

In PE, we continued to work on different balances.

Topic

We discussed some of the outstanding questions we had about penguins from the beginning of our topic and found out about how penguins lose their feathers. We discussed why penguins wouldn’t go into the water while they are moulting and were able to use our knowledge about how penguins make their feathers waterproof to help us answer this.