Happy Wednesday and Happy Holidays!!

We finished making our Christmas cards ready to bring home .
We made lovely calendars. They look beautiful.
We loved our Christmas party. Lots of dancing and party games. We got a surprise visit from Santa.

We enjoyed the Christmas cinema – we watched ‘The Nativity’.
We loved the Newport Primary Schools Top Ten Christmas songs! Lots of singing.

We made our own igloos using marshmallows.
This was lots of fun.

We learned a little about how French children celebrate Christmas.

Merry Christmas to you all.
Have a great holiday.
Have fun.
Take care.
Lots of love
Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael xx

 

Just a little message to say thank you for all your love and support . Take care . Mrs C xx

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Happy Festive Friday from P1/2!

We have had another great week.

We loved making Christmas cards and gift bags for members of our local community. We know how much it will make them smile.

We all enjoyed our pupil committees this week.

P1 are working hard on practising their Christmas show. Primary 2 have enjoyed learning with all the Primary 2’s. They have been experimenting with loose parts, doing some art and singing.

Literacy- We loved writing imaginative story about going to a Polar land and meeting an animal. We had to think about the animal we met, how we felt and what adventure we went on. Mrs Carmichael says that we are all star writers.
We all enjoyed our reading books this week .
P1 have been learning the sounds oa and ie.
P2 have been working hard on their spelling words.

Numeracy/Maths- We have been working hard on our addition to 10/20/100 learning. We have also been working hard on our money learning.

French- We have been learning numbers to 10 in French and the days of the week.

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

Happy Festive Friday!

We have had a very busy and fun week in P1/2.

We loved all of our Festive Friday celebrations. We made lovely Christmas baubles. They look great on our display board around the hall.
P1 decorated the school Christmas tree with their P7 buddy. P2 decorated our class Christmas tree. They look beautiful.

Maths/Numeracy- We have been working hard on our money work. Drawing coins we would use to buy different items.
We have been continuing our addition to 10/20/100 work.

Literacy- P1 have been learning their new sounds- th and ai.
Primary 2 were writing sentences using their spelling words. They also were learning when to us ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before a word. If the word begins with a vowel we write ‘an’.
We all enjoyed our reading books this week.
We created a factfile for our chosen Polarland animal. We had to write what they ate, where they lived, interesting facts about them and what their babies were called.

Miss Allan was working with us on Wednesday.

PE- We have been continuing to work hard on improving our fitness by doing different exercise to music. We enjoyed taking part in the whole school mile.

Outdoor Learning- We enjoyed exploring the school garden. This was fun but very cold.

We have been practising their Christmas songs for the church and our Christmas show ‘A Wriggly Nativity’.

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

Happy Friday!

We have had another busy and fun week in P1/2.

Our favourite day was our trip to ‘The Discovery’. We loved all the activities .
Lots of new learning for us.

Maths/Numeracy – We have been working hard on our addition to 10/20 learning.
We enjoyed some time on Sum dog this week .
We have been continuing with our money work. We have been practising counting the value of coins.

Literacy – We have enjoyed our reading books this week.
P1 have been learning the sounds ch and sh.
P2 had their spelling words to practise . They were also learning about dictionaries and putting letters into alphabetical order.

PE- We have continued to work on our fitness by doing different exercises to music . We also took part in the daily mile.

We all enjoyed our committees learning this week.

We enjoyed making a machine to be used in the Polar Lands. We worked together in a group and used lots of loose parts .

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

Happy Friday from Primary 1/2!

We have enjoyed celebrating book week this week.
We have enjoyed reading stories in our special Book bags. We have designed front covers for our favourite books and made book reviews. We loved meeting an author called Robert Tregoning. He read us one of his stories called ‘The Dress in the Window’. We had a dance to do and a drawing. This was so much fun.

Numeracy/Maths- We have been working on our coin recognition, counting coins and laying out coins to buy different items from the shop.
We have been working hard on our addition to 10/20 learning. We love playing different games.

Art- We sketched amazing pictures of Orcas. They look great on our classroom wall.

Drama- We were role playing being polar bears. This was so much fun.

PE-We loved working on our fitness by doing different exercises to music.

P1- We have started listening to the songs for our Nativity called ‘Wriggly Nativity’.

We all enjoyed doing different activities at our committees this week.

Literacy- We had to write instructions on how to wash our hands. We used key words to help us- First, Next, Then and Finally.
We all enjoyed our reading books this week.

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

Happy Thursday!

We have had a great week in P1/2.
We have Miss Latif working with us for 4 weeks.

PE- We are enjoying doing different exercises to music. It is fun working with a partner.
We enjoyed taking part in the mile .

Art- We painted very cool penguins. They look great in our classroom .

Drama – We role played being different Artic animals .

Literacy – We had to write instructions on how to clean our teeth.
We all enjoyed our reading books .
P1 – Have been working on blending 3 letter words .
P2 – Have been working on their spelling words. They loved writing them in the playground with chalk.

Numeracy – We all enjoyed playing Sum Dog.
We have been identifying coins to £2.
We have been using coins to make different amounts . We have been planning a class toy shop .

We have been learning about Diwali – the festival of light. We made paper plate Diva lamps . They look wonderful .

Outdoor Learning – We made Rangoli patterns with chalk and filled them with natural materials .

Topic- We learned about different Artic animals and their babies. We had a matching job to do.

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

Happy Friday!

We have had a fun and hard working week in P1/2.
We have enjoyed lots of Halloween activities. We loved listening to Halloween stories. Our favourite was Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. We loved making pumpkin soup and then writing instructions on how we made the soup. Some of us thought it tasted delicious 🙂

PE- We have been working on our fitness by doing different exercises to music. This was lots of fun. We enjoyed taking part in the mile with the whole school.

We took part in a nature scavenger hunt and planted a very special plant to look after as part of our Green Flag day celebrations.

Miss Allan worked with us on Wednesday.

Numeracy- We enjoyed having time playing Sum Dog. We also have been working on our numbers to 10/20/100 and 1000.

Literacy- We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We have been working hard on our key words.
P1 have been working on blending 2 and 3 letter words.
P2 have been working on their spelling words.

We discussed ways to keep safe on Bonfire Night. We made safety posters .
We also printed some fantastic firework pictures .

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Stay safe.
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Happy Friday!
We have had another great week in P1/2.

Literacy- We loved making jam sandwiches. We then had the task of writing instructions. We used key words like First, Next, Then and Finally.
P1 sequenced pictures.
We all enjoyed our reading books. We have been practising our key words.
P1 have been practising blending 2/3 letter words.
P2 have been practising their spelling words .

Numeracy – we have been working hard on our numbers to 10/20/100 and 1000 learning. We loved playing Sum dog.

Topic- Our new topic is ‘The Polar Lands ‘.
We found them on a map. It is very very cold there !
Art- We made very cool polar bear pictures . They look great in our classroom.

We loved doing the daily mile with the whole school.

We enjoyed celebrating green flag day. We have a very special plant to plant next week and look after.

PE- We loved trying out different exercises to music ! This was so much fun!

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

Happy Friday!

We have had a great week in P1/2.
We have enjoyed practising for our school Harvest Assembly. I hope you liked our special song- I am a Little Hedgehog’.

Primary 1 have been working hard on their new sounds- w, v, y and x.
P2 did a little bit of farm writing. They had to write what they saw in each farm picture. They remembered capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
We loved reading a story called ‘Josh’s Shop’ with a partner. We then sequenced the story.

Shape- We worked together in small groups to build a model using 2D and 3D shapes. We made castles and houses. We had to count each of the shapes we used and name them. We also counted the edges and vertices.

Art- We made clay hedgehogs. They look great and we are excited to bring them home.

Topic- We loved making our shoe box farms. This was a messy but very fun job 🙂

We have been working on our Learning Logs- These special folders will come home on the first Monday back after the holidays. We can’t wait to share them with you.

Happy Holidays!
Have a great time.
Take care.
Love Primary 1/2 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂