Literacy

This week P2 have been learning the ‘ou’ phoneme as in mouse and house.  They also practised their new common words your and going.

We have been reading and watching Katie Morag stories and P2 drew and labelled a picture of Katie Morag.  They also wrote a description of her during their writing lesson.

P2 also explored fiction and non-fiction texts and worked as teams to sort different text into these categories.

Maths

We have continued to focus on multiplication this week.  We have been learning about repeated addition and have  been finding equal groups and adding them together.

We have also been learning about  2D shapes, exploring how many sides and corners a shape has to help identify what shape it is.  The pupils really enjoyed playing a game of shape bingo to finish off the lesson.

 

Learning Across the Curriculum

As part of our Katie Morag topic we have been learning about its author Mairi Hedderwick.  She used to live on the Isle of Coll and used this as inspiration for the Isle of Struay in the Katie Morag stories.  P2 explored the Isle of Coll using Google Map Street View and found that Coll had a primary school, Post Office, shop, doctors, airport, ferry terminal, hotel and a war memorial.

We also used the Katie Morag story ‘Katie Morag Delivers the Mail’ to identify  different feelings and how other people might feel in different situations.  We talked about what happens when we are embarrassed and talked about times when we felt embarrassed.

In French, Camembear helped us to learn about the French and Scottish flags. We learned how to say the colours red, white and blue in French.