Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week our focus has been on using our organisation skills to plan our school assembly performance. We have lots of good ideas and we are making sure that everyone has something they want to do.
We are working hard to learn our songs and to use our communication skills when speaking to an audience.
Our topic is about local community. We have been thinking about the needs and wants of ourselves and the community. We are linking these to our rights. We thought about who helps us in our school community and we interviewed Rory the janitor and Sheila the cleaning lady this week. We learned how to write and ask open questions. We also asked how we could make a difference and help them. We are litter picking and collecting leaves in the school playground.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been sharing lots of stories together for Book Week Scotland. We have enjoyed writing about the different characters too.
In numeracy the P2s are adding within 20 with number lines and the P3s are adding two digits within 100 mentally.
We were all learning about maths in the world with Miss Goode.
We did Loose Parts Play with the P1s and fitness and the daily mile too.
In writing we learnt how to make a cup of tea and wrote a set of instructions.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we enjoyed joining p1 for Loose Parts Play and the daily mile.
We wrote instructions and also practised the skills for delivering individual talks.
We used puppets and the puppet theatres in drama to create short improvisations about including others. We filmed them in the iPads and gave each other feedback.
In numeracy the P2s are beginning to add within 20 and the P3s within 100.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

It has been so nice to see everyone after the holidays.
We have all had a great time in our Skills Academies- Lego, animation, games and printing.
We went out in the sunshine for Loose Parts Play with the p1 class and showed great cooperation and creativity with our builds.
We tried hard at the daily mile and also in PE with our fitness challenges.
In writing we are learning to write a good set of instructions. We did dooking for apples and wrote about it!
Our new spelling rules are ‘zz’ in p2 and ‘ea’ in p3. The p3s have started to learn the first joins in handwriting.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have been playing lots of spelling games to revise the taught rules from this term. We have also tested our common words again and made individual spelling lists to practise words we find tricky.
We have enjoyed ‘Wild ERIC’ this week, where we are all reading in class, choosing from the class library. We are allowed to read anywhere in the room. On pillows, under desks, on the teacher’s chair!
In numeracy we have been ordering and sequencing numbers to 100 for p2 and 1000 for p3  and working on mental addition strategies.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we continued exploring the animation apps on the iPads together. We can now all add characters, backgrounds, text, sounds and movement.
We have been enjoying singing our harvest songs and getting ready for our harvest assembly.
We are practising dictations with our new spelling rules. P2s are learning ‘ss’ and P3s are learning ‘ey’.

In numeracy we have been sequencing and ordering numbers to 100 for p2 and to 1000 for p3.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we had fun exploring the animation app ‘Scratch Junior’. We were able add characters, backgrounds and make our characters move and speak. We gave each other feedback when watching them together. We all really enjoyed this and we plan to do more.
In numeracy we were rounding and estimating.
In literacy we worked with a partner to make a poster about Julia Donaldson. We then did a paired talk to the class, using our poster as an aid. We all put in lots of effort.
We assessed our spelling of common words this week and this will allow us to make personal spelling lists to see which words we still need to work on. Please continue practising at home also.
We had a lovely sunny day for Loose Parts Play with the p1 class. We also liked bench ball this week in PE.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we were learning about a growth mindset and also the learning pit. We worked together in groups to create our own mini plays showing what to do to get out of the learning pit. We had lots of fun and then used our ICT skills to film them. Finally we watched them all on the smartboard like a cinema and gave each other feedback.

In numeracy we are working on estimation and rounding. P2s have been using number lines to see if a number is closer to 0,10 or 20. P3s are rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. We are all learning how to count a collection of objects systematically in groups of 2, 5 and 10.

In spelling we have been working on new spelling rules. P2s are learning ‘ll’ and P3s are learning ‘ay’. We have been doing dictations on the whiteboards and making up our own silly sentences.

Our book of the week was ‘The Cook and the King’ by Julia Donaldson. We practised our grammar and phonics through shared texts and wrote descriptions of the king. P2s were trying to use the connective ‘and’. P3s were using adjectives and a variety of conjunctions. Some were trying similes.

We look forward to seeing some of you at the School Fayre on Saturday.

Hello 👋 families,

We have enjoyed our Author Study of Julia Donaldson this week. Our main book was ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’. Our character descriptions were fabulous and we also used the iPads to airdrop our wonderful pictures from the ‘Sketch’ App. We liked giving each other feedback by sharing good examples on the smartboard.

In reading we have been working on fluency and expression. We are working with a range of reading partners and practising our key vocabulary together.
For spelling we have continued to practise common words. Please keep this going at home throughout the year. Next week we shall have a short assessment on these words.

In numeracy we have been looking at place value within 100 for our P2s and 1000 for our P3s. We have been working in groups to order numbers and to create the highest and lowest numbers with digit cards.

We joined P1 again for Loose Parts and demonstrated our School Values well.

This week we have also been talking about the importance of persevering and a growth  mindset. We shared the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and have been nominating people in the class who represent our Learner Characteristics.

 

This week we have enjoyed working on different skills in PE again. We took part in hockey, bowling, throwing and catching with scoops, ring toss and tennis. We also had fun playing games and taking turns with the parachute.

 

In outdoor learning we discussed lots of different feelings and what facial expressions they miht have. We created different emotion faces using natural materials. We had feelings such as surprised, worried, excited, calm…

 

In maths we have been exploring 2D shapes, counting sides and corners. We have also been exploring chance and probability.

 

In Health and Wellbeing we have been discussing growth mindset and he power of ‘yet’ through the story The Magical Yet.

 

Finally, in science we have started learning about body systems and cells. We started this topic off by learning about the human skeleton. We thought about what it does how it move and what it protects. We managed to build life size skeletons on the floor.