Spelling

August 30, 2012 Mrs Stewart 2 Comments

We are trying out some new ways of doing our spelling this year. Each week we are given a spelling pre-test with the sound that we will be studying. We are then given one of two lists, depending on the score we achieve in the pre-test. Our spelling list consists of 5 spelling pattern words and 5 sight words.

We are aiming to practise our spelling words every day with class games and activities.

We also have a Spelling Menu for our homework. The spelling menu lasts for a month and we can choose two activities to complete every week. After this menu is finished we will get a new menu of activities.

This week we are learning about short /e/ words. We looked at the tricky bits to spell in the words.

Moshi Monsters

August 29, 2012 Mrs Stewart Leave a comment

This term we will be using Moshi Monsters as a context for a cross curricular project focusing on health and wellbeing, ICT and art.

Read this article from Learning and Teaching Scotland about a school in Stirling who carried out their own very successful Moshi Monsters project.

We have all adopted our own monsters online. Today we made a mind map of what out monsters would need to keep them happy and healthy. We are going to use this as basis for our learning over the coming weeks.

005 — Having a discussion in our groups.

Our mind map.

Patterns

August 25, 2012 Mrs Stewart Leave a comment

We have been learning about patterns. We have learned that an AB pattern is a repeating pattern of two things.

On Friday we tried to make ABC pattern. ABC patterns use 3 different things to make a repeating pattern. We rotated in groups to experiment making colour patterns with pegs, cubes and paint. We also tried to make shape patterns by drawing around them.

Friday Superstars

August 25, 2012 Mrs Stewart Leave a comment

Every Friday we award certificates to our Group of the Week and Star of the Week. They are all children in our class who have been trying really hard with their work and behaviour.

The group of the week have a special trophy that sits on their desk all week.

The Star of the Week gets to choose something from Mrs Stewart’s special prize box.

Each week we can can also earn raffle tickets by following our class and school rules. On Friday, Mrs Stewart picks one raffle ticket from her box to be the winner and they can also choose a prize from the special box. Of course, the more raffle tickets we earn, the more chances we have of winning!

Well done to this week’s Friday Superstars. Keep up the good work.

Safety in the Home

August 22, 2012 Mrs Stewart Leave a comment

Mrs Menmuir visited our class yesterday to talk about safety at home. We talked about accidents we had had at home and how these could have perhaps been prevented.

We worked together in groups to identify dangers around the house and garden from a special set of pictures that Mrs Menmuir had. We had to be super detectives to also find something that was safe in the picture. Each group then talked to the rest of the class about what we had found out.

The Singing Superstars

August 22, 2012 Mrs Stewart 1 Comment

Yesterday, we were singing some songs and the girls in the class wanted to share this one with you. What a class of super singers I have this year.

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The Desk Fairy

August 22, 2012 Mrs Stewart 2 Comments

Peppa checks our desks when we have gone home!

After we have gone home at night, Peppa the Desk Fairy flies around our classroom and checks if all the desks are tidy. If they are, she leaves us a little treat! We are all working hard to make sure she visits our desk.

Francis the Scaredy Cat

August 20, 2012 Mrs Stewart 2 Comments

Today we read this book. Mrs Stewart asked us to predict the title again. At first, we thought the cat looked sad but Mrs Stewart asked us to think about what else it might be feeling. We came really close with a prediction of “The Scared Cat.”

The book is about a cat who is left alone in a house and is scared by a hissing noise it hears from outside. We don’t want to spoil the story for anyone, but it is a really good book to talk about why we are sometimes scared of things that we don’t need to be.

We chatted about the things we are most scared of. Snakes were quite high on our list. If we ever meet a snake we are going to be brave, ignore it or run away!

Making Predictions

August 16, 2012 Mrs Stewart 2 Comments

We have been learning to know and use the term “prediction” when looking at story books in class. We looked at the cover of this book, but Mrs Stewart hid the title from us.

We had to predict what the title would be by looking really closely at the picture and using all the clues available to us. We agreed that Emily made the best prediction with “The Girl who wanted a Lion for a Pet.”

Afterwards, we made these lovely lions from paper plates. They make a great display outside our classroom.

New beginnings!

August 14, 2012 Mrs Stewart Leave a comment

Today was our first day back at school. We were all looking very smart in our new school uniforms.

We spoke about our goals and expectations for Primary 2. Mrs Stewart told us that we are going to work very hard this year but will be having lots of fun as well!

The walls of our classroom are a bit bare at the moment, but Mrs Stewart said that we will quickly fill it up with all our own work. Our first job was to make some “Back to School” pencil glyphs to decorate our walls.

A glyph is a way of showing information in the form of a picture. For example, if we were a packed lunch today we made our pencil with a pink rubber, the dinners chose green and the homes chose red. Here are some pictures so you can see what we did.

first day 013 — We chose a pencil colour to reflect how we were feeling.

We have more pictures of our first day which we will be posting soon. Keep checking back to see what we are doing.