Week 8

In Art lessons today Ms Brustolin taught the class how to create all types of small lines, swirls and circles to create an abstact artwork to celebrate St Patrick's Day.  She called it a Scene of Green.

 In Maths we have been revising reading and ordering number words to ten.

We use number ladders to order numbers.  The class are getting much better at forming the numbers correctly although some are still facing the wrong way.

Week 6 and 7

For the past two weeks in Maths we have been using counters and apps on the IPads to learn about the teen numbers.  The children are able to count a collection of objects, show a visual representation of a teen number, write the numbers in numerals and words, reorder the numbers, put in missing numbers, find the numbers on a number line and show the number on a tens frame.  Below are some photos of the tens frames.  This important to understand that a given teen number e.g. 14 is made up of one ten and four ones. Tomorrow we will be working on a number ladder for the first time.  Check back for the photos of what we do with a number ladder.

 The class are becoming very independent during Literacy Groups.  Today two groups practised their sight words using magnets on white boards and play doh.  The play doh activity helps their fine motor skills as well - rolling the sausages to form the letters.  Using a multi-sensory approach is a lot more fun than just trying to read them off the keyring.  Another group used the Literacy apps on the IPads to consolidate initial sounds, learn sight words and do rhyming activities.  Some of the Apps we use are
Squiggles, Art Maker, Bugs and Bubbles, Bugs and Buttons, Phonics Awareness, Eggy Words and Sentence Maker. The final group worked with the teacher on handwriting and phonics activities.