P1/2 loved STEM fortnight and engaging in explorative play with P2/3.  We enjoyed the water tray, using syringes and funnels, the big blocks where we built a movie theatre, magformers to create different ideas and spending time with Mr Singleton to use the tools.  This was a favourite!

We have been exploring fractions in maths and have been using lots of different resources to find halves and quarters of a quantity.  We like to use the small world animals and share them into equal groups with a friend.

We continue to love our daily phonics practice and remembering all the songs and actions.  Recently we have been learning the ‘air’ and ‘ear’ sound and working hard to include words with this sound in our daily sentences.

We are very interested in the oceans and the animals that live there.  There is lots of plastics in the ocean and we are currently discussing ways to encourage people to recycle to help protect our planet and the animals.

Primary 1/2 love learning about the ocean, so we decided to turn out film study of Finding Nemo into our Talk for Writing focus.  We wrote warning tales of Marlin telling Nemo not to touch the boat and had fun changing the characters and setting.  We have just recently started a Defeating the Monster tale and created actions to go along with our story map.

We have been learning lots of phonemes and Primary 1 are working so hard to write their own words and sentences independently.  Ask us about ‘qu, ve, wh and le’ and we will be able to tell you a word.  Primary 2 focused on ‘y, ow, ou and ew’ and enjoyed singing the songs to match.

In maths, we have done lots of addition and subtraction using the Part-Part-Whole method and linking fact families together.  We are now focusing on time and can identify o’clock and half past.

In IDL , we have started a new Scotland topic, and our focus is animals.  We drew and pained our own highland cows and gave them a name.  We are very interested in Nessie and drew a picture of her too.  During French week we learned how to say some colours in French and used these names as we were painting and drawing.

In PE we were learning Scottish dances and joined up with P2/3 to perform for one another.  Our favourite dance was the Canadian Barn Dance! 1, 2, 3 kick!