Loving Literacy

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Literacy

This week the Year 1 students have been engaged in a wide variety of Literacy activities.  These ranged from writing postcards to 'Fancy Nancy', to learning how to use email.  The children were also introduced to synonyms and made some impressive 'synonym wands’.



Thun Thun and Ida enjoy sharing a book at library time.




Ida writing a postcard to a friend.


Luffy and Natacha posting their letters.

Prim and Thun Thun deliver a letter to Saoirse

Spy ready to post his letter

Prim making an envelope for her letter.

The boys work together on a letter for Fancy Nancy.


Euro working on his phonics


Torch doing some impressive handwriting.

Mr. Ned teaches Thun Thun and Thames how to write an email.

Maths 


In maths this week the children have been revising shapes.  They were given the task of finding different shapes within the classroom.  The students were also introduced to pictographs and bar graphs.

Trevi and Lunar busy working on circles.
The boys identifying pentagons.

Thun Thun fits the shape to the description of  its properties.
Jewoo fills in the birthday pictograph.
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UOI

The children are finishing off their investigation into homes.  They are compiling a booklet about what they have learned throughout this unit.



Luffy shows off his booklet.



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