Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Hello P2B,

We has a fantastic time last week doing our Halloween activities. Unfortunately we did not have time for our jokes on the Friday as we were so busy enjoying our activities. We are going to tell our jokes on Wednesday afternoon so make sure you remember them. On Monday we practiced our Spanish as we learned about the Spanish holiday Dia de los muertos. We will learn about Guy Fawkes this week and make big poppies for our class window on Friday. Make sure to look out for them on Friday after school. The class have got poppies home to decorate and put in your window at home (similar to the rainbows during lockdown) to remember those that fought in the war.

We have been looking at the phonemes “ph” and “n” this week. Here are some words to practice at home. Along with your common words that need to be learned to aid reading and writing.

Red/green – Phil,  graph,  phone,  photo,  dolphin

out,  now,  new

Blue –  pin,  nap,  net,  sand,  hand

can,  we,  into

As of next week reading books will be given out on different days. Try to read the book every night and discuss what the story is about. Please ensure reading books and the home learning pack that p2 were given are in their bags everyday as we use them in class and I will be swapping some things in the home learning pack from time to time. Biff will get their new book on Monday, Floppy will get their new book on Tuesday and Kipper will get their new book on Wednesday.

Home learning task – last week we looked at symmetry and used a mirror to make symmetrical pumpkins. Use any resources you have (for example, sticks, stones, building blocks etc) to make symmetrical pictures. Remember for it to be symmetrical it needs to be exactly the same on both sides. Here are some pictures to inspire your creations.

We had a busy week last week with lots of Halloween things happening in the classroom. On Friday it was fantastic to see everyone in their costumes – some people looked very scary!

This week we will be starting to look at Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies.

In numeracy we were practising the bridging strategy last week, and this week we are looking at counting on. A good way of checking that you have mastered a strategy is to teach it to someone else so let’s hope there are a lot of adult volunteers ready to learn.

Keep practising your reading and your spelling words. Here is the link for this week’s

Primary 3 Week beginning 2.11.20

I have also set you some maths homework on Education City.  We looked at it in class and you should all have your log ins.

Have a great week,

Mrs McMillan 🙂

Hello primary 2b,

Hope you all had a lovely holiday and got up to lots of nice things. We have been working so hard already since starting the new term. We will be finishing our weather topic this week, looking at the weather in Spain and comparing it to Scotland. I think we will see some big differences in the types of weather. Thank you to everyone who managed to make a rain gauge to measure the rain fall (an optional task from the last post) we talked about this in class and I was very impressed.  We have also been working on a very tricky sound this week – ng. Ask us what to tell/show you the sound and action.

Please watch this video of the jolly phonics sounds. Skip to 8:35 to practice our joined phonemes we have been working on sh, ch, th and ng.

red/green groups phoneme words and common words

string  strong  bring  thing  bang

Old  do  going

blue groups phoneme words and common words

song  bang  ping  sing  ring

Am  me  my

Please practice these words and encourage other words that have the “ng” sound. A fantastic one said in class today was “annoying.”

On the last day before the holidays we were doing all sorts of experiments about weather. We tested material to check if they waterproof, we made a rain cloud in a jar to help understand why it rains (ask us why) and we looked at how tornadoes are formed and made them in a bottle. We even tried to make lightning however, the class was too bright to see the lightning as it needs to be very very dark. We tried our best but could not get it dark enough so I promised the class I would put it on here for you to try at home if you want to.

You will need Styrofoam, an aluminium tin, a pencil with a rubber on the end, a pin, a fork and something woollen.

1. Pierce the pin through the tin and onto the rubber of the pencil so that the pencil is sticking up.

2. Use the wool to rub the styrofoam for 1 minute, longer if it doesn’t work, might take a few tries.

3. Using the pencil place the tin on top of the styrofoam.

4. Slowly use your finger or the fork to touch the tin and hopefully you will see some lightning.

We unfortunately couldn’t see it but Miss Baillie did get 2 electric shocks and we heard some crackling when putting the fork on the tin. Hopefully you are able to see it. Good luck. And if you give it a try, make sure you let the class know all about it.

Have a fabulous week,

Miss Baillie