Class 1 began Term 2 with a treasure hunt for the last missing letters of the alphabet - the vowels!  These important letters that make our words sing were hidden around the school.  The children had to work hard to solve the riddles and find where they were hidden.  Finding and learning the vowels wrapped up our Alphabet main lesson that we began last term.=

In Week 2 we moved into our Quality of Numbers main lesson, starting with a focus on the Roman and Arabic symbols we use for the numbers 1-12.  Our stories have been exploring Number Land and the Kingdom of Counting with King Counting and Queen Equals.  The children finished making their gem bags for the gemstones that we use for our counting and number games.  We have also been skip counting with movement, rhythm and actions in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. 

In Week 3, the children were excited to meet the Number Gnomes: Portly Plus, Merry Minus, Tommy Times and Davy Divide.  The Number Gnomes are helping to tell our number stories and guide our learning of the processes used in problem solving.  We've been using the gnomes to help us solve Maths problems in our classroom - such as sharing the strawberry guavas as you can see in the photos! 

We are moving into the next Maths main lesson this week, with the Number Gnomes accompanying us as we delve deeper into counting, patterns and grouping. 

In other exciting Class 1 news, the children received their recorders at the start of the term.  It has been fun to learn the first 3 notes and we have been learning to play some simple songs.

On Tuesday mornings we have been having some special visitors to our classroom.  See if you can guess who from the photos!  The Class 1 children have enjoyed meeting and learning about each other's pets from home.  It is a lovely way to strengthen our connections between home and school.