The children have had a wonderful Festival day yesterday! We decorated biscuits, played with our P7 buddies, got some tattoos, had a shot on the bouncy castle with disco, watched a film with popcorn and snacks, spent the afternoon outside and had an ice lollie and finally got to watch the P7s have a water fight. It was certainly a day to remember!
I just wanted to jump on and wish everyone wonderful summer holidays when they (finally) come. I have enjoyed teaching this class so much and will miss my Primary 2s next year. I know they will do a brilliant job in Primary 3 and I can’t wait to see all the wonderful things my new Primary 2s will learn and achieve.
If you would like to practise some reading over the summer, please access boost learning (our Rocket Phonics or Reading Planet website) for some additional reading books for all pupils in this class. I have scheduled these for the 17th August but please don’t feel like you have to work your way through the list, I have shared lots of books for choice!
Topmarks.co.uk is a great website for maths games. Children should know how to navigate it as we have been using it frequently throughout the school year. Coolmathgames.com is another good website but children have not had any experience with this website this year.
I hope you all have a wonderful summer holiday! I can’t wait to hear all about it from my Primary 2s next year and I’m hoping to see our new Primary 3s next year so you can tell me about your holidays, too.
Lots of love from Mrs Kane
We have had a fantastic time at the Science Centre today! The highlight for most of the class was our visit to the Planetarium where we not only saw the night sky but looked at the moon and the other planets in our solar system. Here are some photos from today:
Here are some pictures of our fun Friday afternoon. A big thank you to the parents who organised our obstacles course and the slip and slide. We all had a blast!
I apologise for the late post. We have been so busy getting ready for the end of term that I forgot to post our homework for this week.
As we are still working hard and also beginning to practise for our summer celebration, there will be no more homework issued this school year. Your next homework will be when you are in Primary 2 and Primary 3 respectively.
Enjoy your last 3 weeks of term and the most of the (hopefully) nice weather!
We will have two more weeks of spelling homework before the summer holidays. I will also add some maths games that your child could do for revision if he/she wants.
Primary 1
Our sound this week is <oo>. Please practise the words below using your Bingo sheet. Don’t forget to highlight the activities that you have already done!
You could play the following online games for some maths revision:
Primary 2
Our sound this week is <aw>.
Here are some online maths games you can play to revise what we have been learning this term:
We have really enjoyed the wonderful weather this week and have done lots of learning outside but also inside. Here is what we have been up to:
We did some science experiments to find out more about forces such as push, pull and twist. We also discovered gravity and friction during our hoop experiments outside. We will learn more about friction next week. We made Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, with play dough using pushes, pulls, and twists. We then recorded which forces we used to each part of Nessie.
We had lots of fun doing our learning activities in class this week. We made shapes on our geoboards, practised division with pom poms and finished our subtraction topic in P1. We also practised our spelling words.
We have been enjoying lots of play activities in our play base. Children have been able to develop their creativity and cooperation skills. We have had lots of great creations at our art table where we made our own toys.
We are looking for card and other materials for our art area in our play base. Can your child bring in any empty cereal boxes or other packaging, cardboard tubes from paper towels, lids, small (clean) tubs etc as and when you have them? Thank you!
Primary 1
This week we are looking at <ee> which we often find in the middle of a word but also at the end. Please continue to practise your words using the Bingo sheet. You can keep your homework folder at home if you want and check the blog for the weekly spelling words.
In maths, we are now looking at numbers to 20. You can practise ordering and sequencing numbers to 20 by playing Caterpillar Ordering.
Primary 2
We are looking at another silent letter sound this week; <kn>. Please practise your words using the activities from your Bingo sheet.
In maths, we have started to look at grouping and sharing as part of our work on division. You can play Doggy Division Dinners to practise a bit more.
We have been as busy as ever these last two weeks despite the amazing weather. We have of course made the best of the weather and have taken a lot of our learning outside, too.
We have been practising our maths a lot this week. P1s have started to explore numbers to 20. P2s are now looking at dividing but we are also consolidating everything we have learned this year.
We have done a lot of learning outside over the last two weeks. I apologise for not remembering to take pictures of everything we have done. Our art this week focused on using the sun to create shadow drawings. We used different toys to make our pictures and coloured them using different chalk techniques. It was great fun being able to experiment with how we can use shadows and chalk to create our pictures.
We have explored the most common forces over the last two weeks, starting with push and pull. We looked at toys and decided which toys use pushing and pulling forces. We found out that some of them even do both! We used our STEM room to carry out our investigations.
Last week’s art activity was linked to our topic. We explored toys in motion and how they can make different prints on paper. We had great fun creating our art pieces.
We have also been enjoying our play time in our play base. We have been particularly keen on working in our art station and we have had great fun in our home corner. We have also been choosing some literacy and numeracy activities in our classroom during our choice time.
I apologise for the late homework post!
First some important information:
Please note that our P.E. days are still on a Tuesday and a Thursday.
We are spending time outside almost daily to make the best use of the good weather. Your child can bring a hat to protect themselves from the sun. Please apply sunscreen in the morning. If your child brings sunscreen to school, they can apply it themselves and are not allowed to share it with others due to potential allergies. I hope the good weather will last for us to enjoy!
Primary 1
We are looking at <th> this week. Please practise your words using the Bingo sheet. You do not have to bring your homework folders to school and can just check the blog for the new words:
Primary 2
We are looking at <mb> this week. These words are a bit tricky so there are less to practise this week:
