Good Afternoon,

I cannot believe how fast the time has disappeared and the fun that we have all had throughout the year and that we are racing towards the end of the year. Sadly this will be our last blog update of P1/2 and what a busy time we have had since our last one.

We have been busy over the last few weeks with lots of activities: Our Jubilee lunch  celebrations, our visit to Blair Drummond and Sport Day as well as all our learning in the classroom.

We have been continuing with all our literacy and numeracy activities.

We have been learning to give directions, forwards and backwards to follow a simple route. We also explored programming the bee-bots to move across a grid.

We continue to practice our addition and subtraction facts and how quickly we can recall these.

In literacy we continue to develop and apply our spelling  and reading strategies through our tasks, with a focus on letter formation and handwriting presentation.

Below are a few snaps of what we have been up to.

Jubilee Celebrations:

We dressed up in all our finery and and made crowns:

Here are just a few of our amazing visit to Blair Drummond!

In PE we had been practicing our throwing , jumping, running, balancing skills  and skipping skills. Some of which we put to very good use during Sports Day. 

Today’s special treat and a huge thank you to the Parent Council for organising for us all to have an ice-cream. It was the best end to this week.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and hard work with your young learners.  I am so proud of all of them and all that they have achieved throughout this year.  I wish you all a fabulous and restful Summer and hope the sun shines for us all.

Thank  you

Mrs Mooney and P1/2

Welcome to our latest update and once again we have been busy at school.

They had great fun during walk to school week and it was lovely seeing them take part.

Literacy and numeracy continue to progress and we have been exploring different types of measure: length, weight and volume, and exploring these using non-standard units/standard units and different instruments of measure.

We have explored fractions, finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts. P1 have also been developing addition and subtraction skills within 10 and doubles facts to 20.

P2’s have been practicing using commas in lists.

Through our topic and science work we have been learning about what things need to grow, (light, heat and water). We have explored the water cycle and carried out experiments to show what happens when water is heated and cooled, and how changes using the appropraite vocabulary, evaporation/condensing/freezing/melting.

We have made grass heads and are looking after them and observing their changes as they grow and ensuring they have what they need to grow.

We have explore sources of energy and had fun building a simple circuit.

We have made salt dough ( measuring out the ingredients) and then used it to make plaques of the planet which we have painted and experimented mixing primary colours.

The finished plagues.

 Our grass heads after just a few days..

  This morning…… look how they have grown.

We are looking forward to the Jubilee celebrations,  practicing our skills for Sports Day, and the visit to Blair Drummond.  Another busy few weeks ahead.

Have a great weekend and Jubilee holiday when it comes.

From P1/2 and Mrs Mooney

P12 newsletter term 4

Please find the link above to our termly newsletter that will let you know what we will be learning this term.

P1/2 and Mrs Mooney

Good Afternoon and welcome to our latest update for P1/2.

We have been busy, busy over the last few weeks.

We completed our Toys themed topic, where we planned, designed and made finger puppets. They had great fun creating some wonderful characters.

I would like to thank you for your help and support during our home Toys Challenge. The ideas that were presented were fantastic and each person presented, talked clearly and answered questions about the Toys they made. They then all had the opportunity to play with the Toys having a great time, co-operating, sharing and explaining.

In numeracy we continue to develop and apply our skills and strategies.

We have been exploring money recognizing and counting  coins, and applying number facts knowledge in giving change.

We have also been exploring measuring length using non-standard units and comparing lengths using the mathematical vocabulary.

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In Art we have been exploring mixing colour, we made stained glass windows using cellophane and found that by putting different colours together a different colour. We have then extended this into mixing primary colours, blue and yellow chalks to create maps of the planet.

I hope you have enjoyed our update.

From Mrs Mooney and P1/2

Welcome to our latest update.

Another busy and fun 2 weeks has past.

Last Friday we marked Red Nose Day, by dressing in red and we took advantage of the good weather and had our own Red Nose Day Nose and Spoon Race. The class worked well together developing their teamwork skills, supporting and encouraging each other and taking turns. Great fun was had.

We took our number work outside too this week, drawing clocks and using objects found to make the hands and then challenging each other to make and read the time.

IDL: Toys

We have explored placing toys in a timeline working together in partners, looking at sequencing the years and learning about when some toys were invented.  We have explored forces and how much force needs to be used to move objects and investigated objects that sink and float. We have explored the forces of magnets.

I hope you are enjoying the Toy challenge and I look forward to seeing them and hearing all about them next Thursday 31st March.

Have a great weekend.

P1/2 and Mrs Mooney

Good afternoon, and welcome to our latest update.

We have had another very busy fortnight, with lots of fun and learning happening.  See a selelection of photos below as to what we have been up to.

In  literacy we have been learning to write instructions and working on our sounds and using the find it strategy to answer questions about the text read. We have also had a go at writing our own books as well. Designing a cover, illustrating it and most importantly writing the story.

We had a fabulous day for World Book Day and a huge thank you to you all for the fabulous costumes.  We took part in an authors live broadcast, listening to a story read by the author ( TomPercival – The River).  We have learned about the differences between fiction and non- fiction books and been able to sort books into their correct categories.

In numeracy we have been ordering and learning, days, of the week and months of the years.  We have been exploring calendars and learning how they work.

We are really enjoying our Toys topic and have been sorting old and new toys, exploring how toys move and the forces used to move them. We also were exploring objects that will sink and float and thinking about why they do. We are also exploring the materials that Toys are made from to.

A special thank you to Mr Murray who provided an opportunity for the children to plant trees, and learn why it was important to do this. The children had a fabulous time…. and the parents too……

Have a lovely weekend and check in soon for our next update.

From all in P1/2

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our update.

We hope you all had a lovely February holiday.

On Tuesday this week, we marked the two’s day   with a whole school dance in the playground.  22/2/22 @ 2.22pm.

We had great fun with this activity.  It was so lovely to all be together for the whole school dance.

We are back into our learning, and continue to work on our number, reading and spelling.  We are focusing on making our written work neater by concentrating on our number and letter formation.

 We have completed our Scottish topic and this is a picture of our wall display, showing some the things we have done. Also a couple of pictures of us researching information about Scottish animals.

We are now researching our new topic and you maybe asked some questions, I hope you will be able to support the children with this. Our topic is exploring  Toys Past and Present.

We have also seen some excellent team work, with the children working together and problem solving to see how to build their tower taller.

We are super excited for World Book Day next Thursday 3rd March.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and tune in again in a couple of weeks.

P1/2 and Mrs Mooney

Good Afternoon everyone and welcome to our fortnightly update.

You will see from the photographs below we have had  another busy fortnight.

We have continued on our Scottish theme and you wil see below our tartan kilts, where we were using pattern and colour to create out own tartan. We alos looked at Bruns cottage photos and then using fabrics, of different colours and textures created our own Burns cottage.

We have also enjoyed the story about Nessie and chatted about whether we though he was real or not. We then created our pictures of Nessie, by mixing blue and white to create shades of blue.

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In PE, we have been continuing with gymnastics this week we were practising our jumping and landing. We had great fun.

In HWB, with Miss Corrigan we are exploring friendship again and how to manage our feelings and the kind words we use to our friends.  We have created people outlines and written kind words in each that we would use.

We have also been talking about Change and Loss with Mrs Mooney, how we feel when things change or we lose something and how we manage those feelings.

A selection of photos below show a variety of the numeracy and literacy activities that we have been using to develop our knowledge and learning, ordering daysof the week, find the letters and make the words,  using  playdough to form letters.

We hope that you are enjoying our updates.

Have a very lovely and restful February holiday weekend.

Mrs Mooney and P1/2

Term 3 202122 Newsletter Kilmaurs

Hi, please find our new Termly Newsletter which will let you know what we will be learning this term.

Good afternoon and welcome to our update about our learning.

We have been very busy, learning our Scots Poem, and thank for all your support to help them learn this at home to. I have been super impressed with their performances and loving the actions.

As part of our Scotland theme, we have been learning about who Robert Burns was and why he was famous, this week. We carried out a reading task using our reading strategies to help us learn some more facts about Robert Burns, we also learned how to make notes from watching a clip about Robert Burns too.

We have tried some foods (for those of us who wished too), and learnt a Scots song using our body as the percussion.

We have continued to learn about Scotland, finding out about the main cities and some of the famous landmarks.  We even designed Rabbie a new kilt.

In Literacy we continue to learn our new phonemes, and are using our say, make break, write strategy. We have been reading books to develop our fluency and answer questions to show our understanding.

In Numeracy

P1 have started to  explore number families up to 5 and what two numbers add together to make 5.

We have also been using a number line to add or take away 1 or 2 more within 20 .

P2 have been exploring and learning number families(bonds) for 11 & 12 and we have been rounding off our learning about place value, building and breaking (partitioning) the numbers into tens and units.

We hope you have enjoyed our wee update, we have been very busy and having lots of fun.

Mrs Mooney and P1/2