Term 2 in P1 has been a busy one!

We have been learning lots of new sounds each with Inky. Each week he continues to bring us 2 new sounds that come with actions and songs to help us remember. This term we have managed to complete our alphabet and now know all of our initial sounds. We have also been working really hard to learn our common words and be able to read and spell these. Miss Muir is very impressed with our handwriting too, we always try our best!

In maths we have been continuing to learn our numbers to 20. We have started to learn how to add numbers within 10 using lots of different concrete materials to help us.  We have also been learning about money, we have had lots of fun playing in our class post office to help us recognise coins and begin to add amounts.

Our topic this term has been ‘How Things Work?’ and we have been so busy learning lots about forces. We have had lots of opportunities through play to try pushing, pulling, rolling and even looking at magnets! We now have a big focus on Christmas and our Nativity which we cannot wait to show you!

We have been going outdoors most Fridays with the EYC and have braved some cold weather! However, this did not stop us from having fun. We have been making our own paint brushes to create wonderful pictures and we made cereal bird feeders.

Next term we will begin to learn trickier sounds and continue to work hard with all aspects of our learning. We will also have a big focus on Burns and lots of poetry.

We started our Talk for Writing unit by listening to the story ‘Staying Out’ in the woods. We imagined how the characters were feeling and what they could see and hear. In the story the characters are camping so we  set up our own campsite. This has made us excited about our story writing!

In maths we have been learning about place value and shape using concrete materials, games and play based challenges.

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Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays. This term we will be focusing on our fitness and tennis skills.

Our topic for this term is the Egyptians and in science we will be learning about germs.

This week Primary 5/4 have been learning about Remembrance Day. We went a walk to the war memorial to talk about the significance of it in our village.

We have also been learning about plurals and we wrote our spelling words out in the playground.