As usual, we have had a very busy and interesting week in P2b.

We are very lucky to have Miss Geddes in with us for 6 weeks until the 2nd of December, she has really enjoyed getting to know the children and teaching them all about friendships!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for supporting their children to complete homework. I have been really impressed with the effort and standard and the regular practise of Sumdog and Storyworld Common words is making a huge difference to pupils recall and accuracy across Literacy and Numeracy.

I am really looking forward to speaking to you all next week- we hope you enjoy this week’s blog!

 

Literacy

This week we have focused on the diagraph sounds ‘ow’ and ‘oi.’

‘I made a sentence about a rocket.’-Kayla

‘Oil has oi.’-Amelia

‘Ow’-Harley

We peer assessed each other’s writing from last week.

Archie had good finger spaces.-Myles

‘I thought Alexander’s work was good because he didn’t really do anything wrong.’-Zack

We have been thinking about how to extend our sentence and add in interesting words to create exciting Firework poems!

‘I liked my firework writing because it was beautiful.’- Matthew

‘I had lots of good stuff because I said the bonfire was shaped like a triangle. I was a star writer.’ Oliver

 

Numeracy

This week in Numeracy we have been working on missing number calculations. We used a number line to count on and split numbers into part, part, whole. The boys and girls were excellent at writing their calculations neatly in their jotters!

‘You used your jotters and you write the calculation and then you leave a wee box. You figure out the missing number.’-Willow

‘You can use your head or a whiteboard or a number line or hundred square.’-Harry

 

HWB

Miss Geddes has been helping us to learn more about Friendships and what makes a kind friend. This week she read the story of Maisie Me.

The boys and girls then made an example of a ‘kind friend’ and wrote what they would do on a life size cut out. (Thank you Josh!)

‘Being kind to other people is a friendship builder.’-Ibrahim

‘A friendship blocker is if you are mean to someone.’-Eva

 

IDL Dinosaurs

This week pupils voted on a new IDL topic and have chosen Dinosaurs! We thought about what we already know, and what we would like to learn over the course of our topic. Everyone enjoyed sharing their existing knowledge and reading our new Dinosaur books.

‘I was drawing a dinosaur it had feathery arms.’-Miller

‘I am over the moon because dinosaur are so fun and there are so many facts about them. Some of them are nice and some of them are not nice.’-Sofia

‘I like dinosaurs because they are cool.’-Ethan

Outdoor Learning/ Mini Mudder

‘We were making a den for hiding in,’-Archie

‘Sofia got stuck!’-Rayna

‘I was climbing the tree. I could see people running past me.’-Myles

‘We were making a cross over the mud to make it to a tree and you walked on tyres and sticks.’-Josh

Mini Mudder

Mini mudder was a huge hit today with lots of mud, sliding, laughs and fun!

 

‘Mini mudder was good, I liked the course. The web part was my favourite.’-Aaron

‘The tyres were really easy to get through.’-Rayna

‘It was really good because we had a mud bath.’-Harley

‘I was on the grass and I am screaming.’-Alexander