Week Beginning 22/4/24

Happy Friday !
Another fun and busy week in Primary 1/2!
We enjoyed taking part in different athletics stations in the sun.  We enjoyed taking part in the daily mile .
Numeracy/Maths – We have been working on our measure learning. We have also been working on our numbers to 20 and 100. P2 have been working on their multiplication learning .
Literacy – P2 had spelling words to work on . P1 were working on initial blends. We all enjoyed our reading books this week . We have also been continuing to work hard in our letter formations.
Art- We painted beautiful blossom trees. They look lovely in our classroom.
Health – We have been discussing change. We read a book called ‘ Little Tree’ by Lauren Long.

Have a lovely weekend .
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Mrs Carmichael and Primary 1/2 🙂

Week Beginning 15/4/2024

Happy Friday !
We have had a great first week back to school 🙂

PE- We enjoyed running the mile in the sunshine. We also enjoyed taking part in different athletics stations.

Outdoor learning – We enjoyed time exploring the loose parts in small groups. We made Kinbrae Park and the fish and  chip shop.

Numeracy – P2 have started to work on multiplication . P1 have been working on their numbers to 20 and 100.  We all enjoyed some time on Sum Dog. We also have been doing some measure activities.

Literacy- We have been working on our letter formations. We all enjoyed our reading books this week.  Primary 1 have been practising reading and writing words beginning with cr, dr and br. Primary 2 had spelling words to practise.

Art – We carefully sketched beautiful pictures of daffodils . We used oil pastels to colour them in .
We also made two symmetrical butterflies.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael:)

Week beginning 25/3/24


Happy Thursday and Happy holidays from us all !
We have been practising our songs for our Easter Together Time .

Numeracy – We enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog. We love getting extra coins from Mrs Carmichael 🙂 We have been continuing with our subtraction  learning .
Literacy- We wrote and illustrated a poem about Spring. We had to think about that we see, hear, taste, smell and touch in Spring. We were working on our cutting skills. We also had to practise our handwriting to make sure our letter formations are correct.
We made Easter cards and Easter baskets.

We all loved making a Victoria Sponge. Queen Victoria liked eating this cake with her cup of tea.
Have a lovely holiday.
Have fun.
Take care.

Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

 

Week Beginning 18/9/2024


Happy Friday !

We all enjoyed our committees this week.
PE- We enjoyed running the daily mile. We also enjoyed our gymnastics activities.

We have been practising our Easter songs.
Art- We made very cool Easter bunny pictures. We painted a bright background , created our bunnies and cut them out.

Literacy- We have been working on personal writing . We have been trying hard to write independently and remembering our capital letters, full stops and fingers spaces in the correct places. We also have been using WOW words and joining words.
We all enjoyed our reading books this week.
We had a group discussion about our favourite book. We had to think about the reasons why it was our favourite.

Numeracy – We were working on our subtraction learning. We loved having a little time on Sum Dog. We got extra coins from Mrs Carmichael for working so hard.

Outdoor learning – We looked for signs of Spring and took photos with our class iPads. We then made a Pic Collage.
Loose Parts – We enjoyed some exploring time.

Have a lovely weekend .
Have fun .
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 11/3/24


Happy Friday from Primary1/2.

We all enjoyed our pupil committees this week.

PE- We enjoyed running the mile. We also enjoyed playing different games and our gymnastics work.

Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books this week . Please keep practising key words at home.
Our writing was a personal piece about our weekends. We used check lists to make sure we had remembered our capital letters , full stops, finger spaces and joining words.
P1 have been revisiting some of their sounds.

Numeracy/Maths- We have been continuing our work on subtraction to 10/20/100.
We loved some time playing a Sum Dog.

Art – We made Easter headbands to wear at our Easter Together Time.
Music- We have been singing lots of Easter songs.

We loved taking part in the Red Nose Day challenge.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 4/3/24


Happy Friday from P1/2.
We loved taking part in all our World Book Day celebrations on Thursday . We made book marks , wrote book reviews , drew pictures of our costumes and did outdoor learning activities.
Numeracy / Maths – We loved playing Sum Dog. We continued with our subtraction learning . P2 were using timetables as part on their time learning this week.
Literacy – We enjoyed our reading books. We have been working on personal writing . We drew detailed pictures and wrote sentences about our weekend.
PE-We were working in small groups to create sequences – we had to include 6 balances or rolls. We loved sharing them with each other .  P1 enjoyed working with the other P1’s to take part in different games .  We enjoyed taking part in the daily mile .
Health – P2 were talking about the steps to follow in an emergency .
Art -We used straws to print beautiful Spring pictures. They look lovely in our classroom .
We all enjoyed our committee activities this week.

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael:)

Week Beginning 26/2/2024


Happy Friday !

Loose parts – We enjoyed working in groups to create Victorian inventions . We created an ice cream maker , a boat , a bike and a cannon.

Art – We made beautiful pictures of spring tulips. We used a printing technique using forks , corks and our fingers .

PE-We loved our gymnastic sessions this week . We also enjoyed running the daily  mile .

Numeracy /Maths – We continued working on our subtraction learning. We enjoyed time playing Sum Dog too.

Literacy – We were writing and drawing about her weekend news . We had to remember our capital letters , full stops , finger spaces , joining words and WOW words . We all enjoyed reading our reading books this week.
P1- We have been using our sounds to write words and sentences .
P2- We have been working on our new spelling words . We also have had a reading comprehension job to work on.

We all enjoyed our Committee activities this week .

Miss Allan worked with us on Wednesday.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun .
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

 

Week Beginning 19/2/24


Happy Friday!

We hope you all had a lovely break last week.

Art-We were learning about Victorian houses. We drew a picture of one using our special black pens.

Outdoor learning- We did a little bit of bird watching and noted some of the birds that we spotted in the school garden using tally marks .
Loose parts – We enjoyed exploring all the loose parts in groups .

Numeracy/Maths- We have been continuing our time learning. We have also been working on our subtraction to 10/20 learning. We enjoyed playing Sum Dog on the iPads.
We were writing the digital time for half past and quarter to.

Literacy- Our writing focus was personal writing . We drew detailed pictures of our weekend news and tired hard to punctuate our sentences correctly .
We all enjoyed our reading books this week.
P1-We have been using their sounds to write different sentences .
P2 -We had spelling words to practise. We also had a reading comprehension job to do.

Topic – We were learning about inventions that happened during the Victorian times . We drew 4 inventions and labelled them.

PE-We are continuing to enjoy our gymnastics learning. We also enjoyed running the daily mile.

P2 were learning the steps to take in an emergency.
*Look for danger .
*Check for a response.
*Call for help – 999.
We all enjoyed role playing this.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 12/2/23

Happy Tuesday !
A very short week this week.

Literacy – We did a piece of personal writing about our weekend . We drew detailed pictures and had to punctuate our sentences correctly .
P2 worked on their spelling words and P1 worked on their blending activities.

Numeracy – We had some time playing Sum Dog. We also worked on our subtraction activities .

Art- We made lovely Valentines Day cards ❤️.

PE-We enjoyed running the mile . We also enjoyed our Gymnastics.

Have a lovely holiday.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 5/2/24


Happy Friday!

Another lovely week in P1/2.

Maths/Numeracy- We have been working on our subtraction to 10/20 learning. We have also been working on telling the time on analogue and digital clocks- o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. We enjoyed a little time playing Sum Dog.

Literacy- P2- We have been working on our new spelling words. P1 – We have been working on our blending. We had to write a story about a Chinese dragon. We did detailed drawings and had to remember how to punctuate our sentences correctly. We all enjoyed our reading books this week.

PE-We enjoyed the daily mile. We have loved our gymnastics time this week. We have been working on rolling, jumping and balancing.

Art- We had a special drawing to do for our mums. It is a top secret surprise.

Outdoor learning- We did a playground clean up. We picked up litter and tidied up leaves.

We loved doing a little bit of Chinese New Year learning with our special adults.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂