Happy New Year to all the families in P2K. It was great to see the pupils back on Monday full of excitement and enthusiasm.

 

What a busy week!

Writing

This week in writing we were learning about New Year’s resolutions. To make it more fun we made guitars and set ‘Rockin’ resolutions! How cool do we look?!

Phonics

This week we were learning about the ‘ow’ sound – (owl) Help us learn these words at home:

clown

cow

crowd

crown

towel

town

bow

frown

brown

down

now

wow

VCOP

We were learning how to use connectives to make our sentences longer!

Maths – over the next few weeks, we will be learning how to tell the time. This week we were learning about o’clock and half past, using both analogue and digital times. Have a look at our fun stations.

If your child has a watch, please encourage them to wear it – the more they see the time, the easier it becomes!

 

 

Topic

On Monday the class was filled with excitement as the pupils were challenged to guess the topic! Each child was given a piece from a jigsaw, whilst the Brave movie trailer was playing and were set on their way to match all the pieces up.

 

We finally worked out that our topic was SCOTLAND and were all very enthusiastic about it. We created a WKL – stating what the pupils already knew and what they wanted to learn about. We think this is going to be a great topic!

 

We used google earth to learn about the major cities and landmarks in Scotland and created a fabulous wall display to help s remember!

Here are us making posters about Scottish landmarks.

Our display!

 

For the first few weeks of the term we will be learning about Scotland, then we will be moving onto another topic.

 

 

ICT

This term we are learning how to use powerpoint!

 

Homework

P2K completed a ‘Spelling Challenge’ at the end of term 2 which I have sent home. They were tested on all the words that have been given home as homework. This week for homework, please spend time revising unfamiliar phonic sounds/words. Please note, jotters will not be going home as nothing needs to be handed in. Build the words using cards, write them in shaving foam, type them on the computer – ask the pupils to think how they will learn them best!

 

Scotland! A wee bit o’ fun! Homework

As above, there is no requirement to hand anything in for the Scotland homework – but I would love to see any good photos/bookets etc!