Mrs Kane – Primary 1/2 with Mrs Kane

Class Update Week beginning 27th April

This week we have continued to look at our book The Snail and the Whale. We also practised our spelling with different activities. In Maths, we practised telling the time.

In Art, we made beautiful sunflowers using drawing and colouring techniques. We then used tissue paper to add texture to the sunflowers.

We enjoyed practising different Badminton games.

We also had lots of play opportunities inside and outside.

We ended the week with a special story time with our P6/7 buddies who had written a book for us. We got to take the books home with us, too!

Home Learning week beginning 27th April

This week we are focusing on the <sh> sound for Primary 1s and the <ay> sound for Primary 2s. Please choose an activity from your sheet to practise your spelling words at home. It may also help you to highlight your sound in your word list.

In maths, we are looking at Telling Time this week. Primary 1s will read o’clock times from analogue and digital clocks, while Primary 2s will also look at half past times.

Please play the time board game at home to practise telling the time.

As always, please return your homework packs next Monday.

Class Update Week beginning 20th April

We have had a brilliant week back at school after our Easter holidays. Our highlight this week was definitely our Cattle Show visit but we have also done lots and lots of learning.

We were lucky to have had fantastic weather for our Cattle Show visit on Wednesday. Our crafts winners are: 3rd place – Harley; 2nd place – Amber; 1st place – Niamh. Congratulations!

In Literacy, we practised our phonics, compared a sea snail and a humpback whale as part of our book study on The Snail and the Whale, wrote postcards to the snails on the rock (free writing) and labelled the body parts of a snail.

Our maths focused on finding missing numbers in subtraction calculations. We used number lines to help us. We also looked at o’clock times and explored different coins for our money topic.

We also did lots of activities linked to The Snail and the Whale but also developing our maths, art, literacy and find motor skills:

In PE we started to learn Basketball with Mrs Cunningham and Badminton with Mrs Kane. Badminton is definitely trickier but everyone did a super job.

I hope that everyone has a fantastic weekend and that you can get to enjoy the lovely weather. See you on Monday!

Home Learning Week beginning 20th April

Welcome back!

It sounds like everyone has had a relaxing and very exciting holiday. It was lovely to see everyone again yesterday and to hear all of the news.

Literacy

This week, Primary 1s are learning the <qu> phonic and Primary 2s are looking a bit more closely at <wh>, practising harder words than last year.

Please check your word jotters and do one or more activities from your activity list to practise your spelling words for our spell check next week. If you want, you can highlight your spelling sound in your word list to practise spotting the grapheme you are learning.

Maths

We are continuing to practise subtraction. Fact fluency is very helpful in subtraction (and addition) so I have given you a Roll and Race game to play at home this week.

Instructions – Each player needs a different colour of counters to mark their equations. You also need a die. Players take turns to roll the die and solve the first equation that corresponds to the number they have rolled (starting from the bottom). If they give the correct answer, they can put a counter on the equation marking it as theirs. If the answer is incorrect, they miss the turn. The game continues until a player solves the last equation in a column, making them the winner of the game.

In the example below, yellow is the winner of the game:

Class Update week beginning 30th March

We are all excited for our Easter break to start and have been doing lots of Easter activities as well as our “normal” hard work.

I hope that everyone has a lovely holiday!

But first – Here are some pictures of what we have been doing:

Class Update week of 23rd March

This week we have continued to work on our subtraction skills in maths. We looked at how to find a missing number by using cubes and number lines to help us.

We also continued to learn about 2D shapes. We looked in more detail at the properties of 2D shapes and identified sides and corners. We also used 2D shapes to create some lovely art.

We practised our phonics and spelling with different activities this week. P2s practised writing a description as part of our The Snail and the Whale book study and we have started working on a lapbook for our book study.

In our play activities we continued to develop our fine motor skills. We also explored free writing by creating a Snail and the Whale book, working with CVC words on a big sheet of paper and by finishing our information booklets. We practised our maths skills throughout the week with different games and followed instruction when working with construction materials.

It has been such a busy week, we are definitely ready for the weekend and a shorter week next week!

Home Practice 23/3/26

Spelling

Please check your spelling jotters for your new word lists. Primary 1s are looking closely at <v> and <w>, while Primary 2s are exploring <er> at the end of a word.

Remember that we will be doing a spell check next Monday.

Sumdog are doing a competition this week. If your child wishes to take part, please log into the Sumdog website with the username and password that has been issued to your child. I have included another copy of the logins in your child’s homework pack this week.

Class Update for week of 16th March

We have had such a busy week! Luckily, the weather has been nice which meant we enjoyed our 3 day visit from Archaeology Scotland even more!

We played “I Spy” to find differences and similarities between our school and the old school. We found out that the old school has a bell tower that our school doesn’t have and that the old school is made from stone, while our school is build with bricks. The next day, we went into our school pitch and did some archaeological digs in some of our many mole hills. We found lots of “treasures”, some of which were shards from a 200 year old plate! On Friday, we did some time travelling and found out that 200 years is not that old after all! We made a timeline in the playground and travelled along it.

We have started to put together a lap book of our time travel adventures. Here is what we have created so far:

In between our archaeological work, we also continued working hard on our literacy and numeracy skills. We practised subtraction, our new sounds and graphemes, and wrote super news stories on Monday morning.

We really have been busy and doing a super job! I hope that everyone will have a wonderful weekend and will be able to enjoy the lovely sunshine.

Home Practice 17/3/26

I have issued new Homework folders to all P1 and P2 pupils. Please make sure to return these folders with all of their contents on a Monday morning.

In Maths, we are practising subtraction within 10 (P1) and within 20 (P2). Please play the board game with your child, encouraging them to explain how they found the answer to the calculation. If an answer is wrong, the player has to move back 2 spaces.

I have made up new word list jotters for all pupils. Please practise reading and writing the words on the list. We will be doing a spell on a Monday.

I have included a sheet with 50 sensory activities that you could use with your child to practise the words at home. Please do not use the word list jotter for any of these activities.

I hope you have a great week!

Class Update Week of 9/3/26

We have been working hard learning all about the ocean and ocean animals as part of our book studies.

We started reading The Rainbow Fish a couple of weeks ago and are now working on Commotion in the Ocean. We are exploring non fiction writing as part of this and are working on creating a leaflet all about the ocean at our free writing table.

We have been looking at measuring length using standard and non standard unit, and have also started exploring a wider range of 2D shapes.

We have also been busy making sharks out of paper plates which will be our craft entry for the cattle show next month. Here are some pictures of our very busy activities this week.

In our maths lessons we have continued to practise subtraction within 10 / 20. We did a scavenger hunt and made up our own sums in our maths jitters.

In P.E. We are continuing to improve our gymnastics skills. We are now working with Primary 3/4 and we are leaning lots of new skills from our new P.E. Buddies.