This year our teacher is Miss McFarlane.  We have 23 children in our class and we are always busy.  We really good at showing we are ready to learn in class by getting organised on our own for all our different activities.  We are also learning to be respectful to our friends and the adults in our school as well as staying safe.

We love the exploring the outdoors and we don’t mind a little bit of rain.  Getting to run around in the fresh air helps us to keep active and healthy.

We are learning lots of news skills in Primary 1/2.  We are becoming increasingly independent following the routines in class and are working hard to challenge ourselves and improve our skills:

• In literacy we are learning sounds help us develop our reading and spelling skills. We are becoming familiar with the language of blending (to read) and segmenting (to spell.)
• Our book study is ‘The Proudest Blue’ where we will explore our differences and similarities, and exploring different faiths and belief systems.
• Our writing will focus on the story of ‘Quackling’. We will innovate and create our own stories based on this story.
• In maths we are exploring addition and subtraction calculations. We will also learn about position and movement. Our class will continue to develop our understanding of numbers, counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s as well as ordinal numbers.
• Our topic focus is on the Celts and Scotland during this period. We will explore what life in Scotland was like during the period of the Celts looking at their houses, clothes and what they would eat.

We will continue to learn through lots of different play opportunities and written tasks.  We are a very creative bunch and have been using some of the resources in really interesting ways as we learn and play.