A huge welcome to the Primary 1/2 blog! The new Primary 1’s have all settled brilliantly into their new school surroundings and have already established routines and friendships within their new class!!
It was wonderful to see the “new” Primary 2’s again and I cannot believe how much they have all grown! They too have settled into their new classroom and are acting as wonderful role models for their new P1 class mates!!
We have had a lovely start to the term getting to know one another and our new class routines but we are most definitely poised and ready to LEARN!!!
Primary 2 – Term 1
Literacy
Phonics
In literacy we are word building using the letter sounds that we were taught last year as well as the new ones being introduced. This term we will be introduced to the first joint phonemes (2 letter sounds, for example sh, ch, th).
Reading
We have been reading our class text of “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” and have already completed prediction and visualisation tasks associated with the book.
We will continue to work on our comprehension and decoding skills within our reading groups as we re-start our Bug Club texts.
Writing
This term our writing will focus on describing items and people. We will be including size, colour, shape, number and texture in our descriptions, while remembering to use our writing targets of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
We will be adding to our bank of common words (look and say words) and we will be working really hard to ensure we can spell these words correctly. This will help us greatly in our independent writing, as will our increasing knowledge of word building with our letter sounds.
Numeracy
This term will consist of deepening all of the number processes we have learned so far! We will be counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s as well as reinforcing our subtraction skills. We will then be looking at how our addition and subtraction calculations are linked, creating “fact families”.
The sequencing of our numbers will be a focus as always as we count forwards and backwards, thinking of the numbers before, after and between.
Health & Wellbeing
Primary 2 have been delighted to see the return of their friends – the PATHS puppets! Twiggle and his chums have already made their appearance, reinforcing that everyone has feelings and that’s OK!! We will be exploring each emotion in detail and relating these to our personal experiences.
We will also be discussing friendship through our PATHS programme as well as during our class circle times, highlighting the qualities of a “good friend”.
In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.
RE
This term we remind ourselves of God’s love for us all. We thank God for all those we love and for those who take care of us. We also thank God for our talents and for the special things that make each and every one of us so unique.
IDL
We will be using “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” as a basis for our interdisciplinary learning. Through the text we will be completing prediction, visualisation and sequencing tasks as well as identifying rhyming words. Our topic will also be providing the stimulus for our art work this term.
Primary 1 – Term 1
Literacy
During literacy times, P1 have been developing their phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). We are doing this by focusing on the rhythm and rhyme of language through clapping syllables and working on our nursery rhymes.
We are also working on our fine motor control to get ready for writing! Name writing is a focus too so we can always sign off on our masterpieces!
Listening and talking is a huge part of our day. We are learning to follow our “carpet rules” to ensure we do our best listening while the teacher or our peers are talking. We are also taking turns at communicating our thoughts and feelings.
Numeracy
We know numbers are all around us and have had a chance to talk about numbers which are “special” to us, for example, our age, door number etc.
Number times will consist of lots and lots of counting! We will be developing our “number sense” by counting out and comparing quantities and becoming familiar with the language of mathematics.
We will be reciting our number sequences forwards and backwards, understanding that each number we say represents a quantity.
As our pencil control improves we will be learning how to form our digits correctly.
Pattern and shape will also be a focus this term. We will link this to outdoor learning by looking for natural patterns and shape in the environment as well as artificial ones indoors.
Health & Well-being (HWB)
Our PATHS programme will feature heavily during our HWB time. The children have already met our PATHS puppets, Twiggle and friends! Our puppet friends will be helping us to explore our feelings, looking at each emotion in detail. They will also help us to consider friendships and the qualities we look for in a “good friend”.
In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.
RE
The children have been introduced to our RE times and have learned about God’s love for us all. We will continue to explore this unconditional love by considering the gifts God has given us, including people who care for us and the qualities which make each and every one of us so special and unique.
IDL
We will be using “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” as a basis for our interdisciplinary learning. Through the text we will be completing prediction, visualisation and sequencing tasks as well as identifying rhyming words. Our topic will also be providing the stimulus for our art work this term.
Mrs Duff
