Author: P Carmichael

Week Beginning 11/11/24



Happy Thursday!
We have had a busy week in P1/2.
PE- We all enjoyed taking part in the mile. We also enjoyed doing exercises to music. We are all getting fitter.
Art- We carefully sketched pictures of Orcas. We also made a special leaving card for Claire in the kitchen.
Music- We have been learning a song called ‘Polar lands’.
Outdoor learning – We enjoyed using the loose parts to create something to explore the Polar Lands with. We also collected natural materials to make our own boats . We got to try them out in our water tray.
Maths/Numeracy- We enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog. We have also been working on our addition to 10/20/100 learning . We have also been working on our time learning .
Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books this week. P1 – We were learning the sounds z,y and x .
P2 – We were practising our new spelling words .
We did a piece of imaginative writing this week. This was fun .
We enjoyed having our special adults into our class to work with us.
Our Northern Lights art work looks great .
Have a lovely weekend .
Have fun .
Take care.
Love Mrs Carmichael and Primary 1/2:)

Week beginning 4/11/24

Happy Friday !
We have had another hard working week in Primary 1/2.
Inspired by a firework display we printed a picture of our own firework displays. We also created a poem about fireworks . We had to think about shapes, colours and sounds. We also discussed how important it is to be safe when near fireworks . We made our own safety posters .

Miss Allan worked with us on Wednesday .
We loved our school trip to The Discovery on Thursday . We loved looking around the ship and the museum . We liked dressing up as Artic Explorers.
Thank you to all our helpers .
Literacy- We all enjoyed our reading books. P1 new sounds were j, v and w.

P2 had new spelling words to practise.
Maths/Numeracy – We have been working on our addition to 10/20and 100. We all enjoyed some time playing Sum Dog.

PE- We loved doing different exercises to music. We all tried hard to run the mile.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week beginning 28/10/24

Happy Friday !
We have had another fun week in P1/2.
We all enjoyed our last Skills Academies. Lots of new skills learned and developed .
Art – We used chalk and oil pastels to draw our own polar bears. They look super. We have been learning about polar bears as part of our topic .
PE- We enjoyed doing different exercises to music. We also enjoyed doing some Halloween Yoga.
We all loved running the whole school mile.
Science – We discussed water and the different states it can be in. We made our own ice gardens.
Literacy- We all loved our reading books this week.
We did a piece of imaginative writing about making a witches potion .
P1 – Our new sounds were f, b and l.

We were practising blending 3 letter words.

P2- We practised our new spelling words.
We were also working on putting words into alphabetical order .

Numeracy/Maths- We have been learning o clock and half past on an analogue clock. We continued on our numbers to 10/20/100 and 1000 learning . We all enjoyed some time on Sum Dog.

Drama- We were role playing being polar bears in the Artic. This was fun.

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

Week Beginning 21/10/24


Happy Friday !
We have had a busy and settled first week back.

Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books this week . We have been practising our key words. We did a piece of writing about our holiday news.
P1- We were learning our new sounds – g, on and u.
P2- We were practising our new spelling words .
Numeracy/Maths -We made our own clocks for helping us learn the time.
We were continuing with our numbers to 10/20/100 and 1000 learning .
We enjoyed some time on Sum Dog.
Our new topic is Polar Lands .
Art-We painted very cool penguins .
P2- We all enjoyed our Skills Academies this week.
P1- We enjoyed working with all the Primary 1’s. We were singing lots of songs.
PE-We are working on our fitness. We loved doing different exercises to music .
Have a lovely weekend .
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 30/9/24


Happy Friday!
We have had another busy and fun week in Primary 1/2.
Outdoor learning – We enjoyed collecting leaves to complete our Autumn sun catchers .
PE- We enjoyed running the mile. We also enjoyed playing different playground games.

We all enjoyed our Pupil Committees this week. Lots of fun learning.
Topic – We loved making our shoe box farms. They look fantastic .

Literacy – P1- We were working on our new sounds – d, m and r.
P2- We were working on our new spelling words .
Health- We discussed all the strategies we could use if we needed help in class or outside . We drew and labelled 4 strategies.

Art- We finished our special Christmas cards.

Music- We have been practising our Harvest songs.
Have a lovely holiday.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 23/9/24

Happy Friday !
Outdoor learning – We loved making our own apple juice using apples from the trees in our playground.
We collected apples , washed , chopped and mashed them before they went into the apple press . The apple juice was so yummy.
PE- We loved playing different playground games. We also enjoyed running the mile.
Maths/Numeracy- We have been continuing with our 3D shape learning. We have also been working on our numbers to 10/20/100/500 learning .

Literacy- We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We made farm animal posters during our writing time . P2 – We worked on our new spelling words. P1-We learned our new sounds – c,k,e and h.
Art-We made handprint chickens . We also started making special Christmas cards for our special adults to buy.

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.

Take care .

Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael😀

 

 

Week beginning 16/9/24


Happy Friday!

Outdoor learning – We enjoyed working in small groups with our loose parts to make a piece of farm machinery .
We also collected sticks and tried to build the highest tower we could.

PE-We enjoyed running the mile. We played lots of fun games in PE.
Literacy- P1 -We have been learning our new sounds – p, i and n.
P2- We have been learning our new spelling words .
We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We have been practising our key words.
We all made Wanted posters this week. This was fun !
Maths/Numeracy- We have been working on our numbers to 10/20/100 learning . We have also been counting our work on 2D/3D shapes .
We all loved playing Sum Dog on our iPads .

Art- We printed pink pigs 🐷 They look perfect !
Science- We did an investigation to find out if materials were waterproof or non waterproof.

Have a lovely weekend .
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 9/9/24


Happy Friday !
We have had another hard working and fun week in P1/2.

PE- We enjoyed playing different games. We loved using the parachute. We enjoyed running the mile.
Outdoor learning- We enjoyed working in small groups to make a home for a small animal.
Maths/Numeracy – We have been working on 2D and 3D shapes.
We have been continuing our work on numbers to 10/20/100/500 learning .

Topic- We were learning about male and female farm animals and their babies. We had a matching job to do.
Health – We read the story ‘Beautiful Oops’. We had to turn a few mistakes into something beautiful. We appreciate that it’s ok to make mistakes and we can learn from our mistakes.
Drama- We loved playing different games and role playing different animals you find on the farm.
Literacy – We did a piece of writing about when we feel excited. We drew detailed pictures and made sure we punctuated our sentences correctly.

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

 

Week Beginning 2/9/24

Happy Friday !
We have had a lovely week in P1/2.

Literacy – P2 -We have been working on our new spelling words. We have also been practising our key reading words. We enjoyed our reading books this week.
P1- We did lots of rhyming activities . We also practised writing our names. We enjoyed our cutting job.
We did a little bit of personal writing about things that make us feel sad. We had to do detailed drawings. We had to remember how to punctuate our sentences correctly.

Numeracy-We all enjoyed time playing Sum Dog on our class iPads . We were working on our numbers to 10/20/100 learning.
We were working on 2D and 3D shapes. We have been playing lots of fun games.

PE-We enjoyed running the mile. We also had fun playing different playground games.
Science- We were sorting objects into natural and human-made.
Outdoor learning – We collected natural materials to make an emotion face.
Loose Parts – We worked in groups to make a home for a farm animal.
Topic- We designed our own farms.

Health- We discussed the things we are good at and the things we would like to be good at. It is important to keep practising.

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

Week Beginning 26/8/24


Happy Friday !
We have had a fun and hardworking week in P1/2.

P1 have been working on different rhyming activities. We have also been working on writing our names.
P2 have had a spelling assessment to do. We have been working on writing our first names and surnames making sure we take our time with our letter formations .
We have also been practising our key words.
We did a piece of personal writing this week. We were thinking about things that make us happy.

We loved exploring the loose parts . We also enjoyed outdoor learning activities . P1 worked with P1 and P2 worked with P2.

PE- We all enjoyed playing different playground games. We also enjoyed taking part in the mile.

Numeracy /Maths- We have been working on our number 10/20 and 100 learning. We enjoyed playing Sum Dog. We also worked on our 2D and 3D shape learning .

Art- We created very cool sheep as part of our farm topic.

Topic – We discussed what we knew about farms and what we would like to learn about farms.

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