I hope you have all had a lovely break and a great first week back.

We have had a great week.

On Tuesday it was the ‘twosday’ so we had lots of fun exploring the number 2 and 22, and engaging with related challenges. We balanced for 22 seconds, we recorded how many of a task we could do in 22 seconds, we found things that always came in 2’s and had lots of laughter and fun in the process.

In numeracy we have continued exploring subtraction. We have used tens and units, counting on and back, breaking up the numbers and our knowledge of doubles to support us.

In maths we have began to explore money. We can identify coins, recognise prices from 1 to 50p, we can make a given amount with the correct coins and add money together.

In writing we recapped the key aspects of narrative writing; the orientation, the complication and the resolution. We shall be planning and writing our own narrative over the next few weeks.

We have started practising some joined handwriting beginning with a followed by another letter.

In spelling we investigated the sound nk with real and nonsense words, writing outside and completing swirl challenge.

Topic

Our topic this term is water. We have learnt about it’s importance for our bodies, health and our environment. We investigated  how water comes in 3 states solid, liquid and gas.

Health and Wellbeing

We are learning about SHANARRI and it’s importance for our wellbeing. This weeks focus was responsible and included. We will be learning what to do to help when we face challenges within theses indicators. This week we made posters about responsible choices and not responsible choices.

In French we looked at weather.

Signing we have explored family this week.

Art – We have made winter pictures with varied media.

Another week come and gone, with lots of learning.

Reading

Each PM reading group had a task tying in with their book.
One group’s book explored different houses and homes; they then built their own den home.

Another group’s book explored homes and the layouts and designs; they then designed their own homes.

The next group used iPads and notes to recreate their book Look at Me.

Maths

We continued exploring symmetry, making symmetrical pictures and exploring lines of symmetry.

Numeracy
We recapped using bridging and number lines with addition and subtraction

Scotland

This week we further explored Scot’s language, landmarks of Scotland and facts of Scotland. We rounded this off making tartan using card and thread.

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Writing

We are continuing with narrative and learnt how to plan a narrative text piece.

Wishing you a happy and fun filled weekend.

What an exciting week we have had.  It has been lovely to hear about  the holidays and see all the smiles.

We explored New Year traditions, making resolutions, reviewing the previous year and re-enacted the bells.

Maths

We explored shape and symmetry this week.

Numeracy

We revisited addition with missing numbers, we used counters, played daily 10 and engaged with problem solving. We also reviewed  the two times table.

Reading

We practised finding the main idea from our books. We then undertook challenges related to the main idea of our books.

Scots

This month we are exploring Scots. We have explored poems, Scots words and stories.  We have been  very enthusiastic with this topic and have been laughing a lot.

Have a safe and happy weekend. 🙂👍🏼

December is going by so fast, but what fun we have been having.

The children decided upon some acts of kindness they would like to undertake for their advent countdown to Christmas. They have been incredibly thoughtful and have enjoyed bringing a smile to others.

We have undertaken a litter pick, gifted a tree decoration to each class, gifted flowers, made cards for our community, told jokes, given compliments and much more. The energy, positivity and gratitude the class have shown has been amazing.
They have created a gratitude tree on our window with baubles identifying what they are grateful for and another window display of gifts we give that can’t be bought from the shop e.g. friendship and working together.

We really enjoyed our Christmas party and our gift from the parent council.

We have continued to recap our learning through Christmas themed activities, crafts and Christmas mysteries we had to solve with clues.

We look forward to what next week shall bring.
Stay safe and have a lovely weekend.

Literacy

In writing we continued exploring recount. We recounted a trip to Grandpa’s farm and playing by the big tree.

Grammar: we revisited nouns, identifying them in sentences, making sentence from a given noun and using them in blether stations.

Reading: ORT we developed skills of making connections between the book and our own experiences.  PM reading we developed the skills of reading for information.

Rhyme and analogy this week we focused on rhyming sounds op and ay.

Weekly phonic: or.

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy we explored odd and even numbers and the numbers before and after, and in between given numbers.

In maths we explored 2D shapes.

Topic

We explored how day and night changes with the seasons and how this comes about

French

We explored colours and seasons this week in French.

Novel study:

We explored the 3 little pigs story and recreated their houses.

Remembrance
Learners immersed themselves in remembrance this week and had great maturity towards it.

We explored poppies, made poppy fields and made a split pin poppy.
We explored medals in the military and designed our own.

We have been having great fun this week exploring book week.

We  brought in our favourite books to share from home. Can you guess the readers display on our classroom window has created lots of discussion.

Learners redesigned the front cover for their book and created a character description. It was lovely reading a bit of our favourite books to Mrs Smith.

Have fun exploring your book bug bags and reading your favourite tales.

Literacy

In literacy we have explored character descriptions and increased fluency in our reading.  Our phonic this week was oo and we were very creative in our search for words with oo.

Our recount writing this week was on the book Dad and I went shopping.  We are learning how to structure a recount text.

We further explored verbs this week acting them out and changing tenses.

Numeracy

We have explored 100 squares. Talking about numbers, before, after and in between. We played games and built 100 square jigsaws. We continued 2x table playing bingo, creating groups and singing songs.

Maths

We used problem solving skills with volume.

After COP26 the class developed a great interest in reducing our carbon footprint and looking after our world.  We chose 3 class goals to reduce our carbon footprint, and we created poster to share with others.

Topic

This week we explored the sun and influence of shadows on day and night. We explored through light, and drawing shadows.

Literacy

This week we had lots of fun in reading making predictions for our reading books and using a contents page in PM reading. In writing we recounted our Halloween day and all the great fun and costumes we wore.

In grammar we explore verbs, acting these out and finding verbs for different scenarios and characters.

Maths and numeracy.

We began making groups of to support us moving on to times tables next week. We also explored bridging to support us problem solving in addition and subtraction.

Topic

This week we explored how we get day and night, and how it is experienced across the world and creates time differences. We really enjoyed exploring this with the globe, torches and mirrors.

Seasonal

This week we had a focus on Bonfire night and staying safe. We read Fireman Fred’s safety story, completed a bonfire listen and colour picture and made fireworks with paint and straws.

We also explore COP26 and it’s importance for our world. The children have shown a great interest in climate change and  our carbon footprint.  They had very interesting ideas and stories to share.

What a fast week it has been.
P2 have been very busy

Literacy
We have started exploring our new Pm reading programme exploring a non fiction book and  what a contents page is.

In writing we have started to explore the text type recount. We recounted an activity we all do, the process of brushing our teeth.

Numeracy and Maths

This week we began exploring the 2 times table, we investigated our knowledge of doubles and counting in two’s to support our understanding. We found  some very catchy songs to help 🎶

In maths  volume was a great hit, filling different containers with water beads. We discussed full, half full and empty alongside how the quantity of ‘cups’ represented the volume of the container.

Topic
This term we are exploring day and night. We started discussing what we know about day and night, alongside the differences we see and experience from day and night. Next week we shall begin investigating the process of how day and night happens.

Halloween

The class had great fun today for Halloween, playing literacy and numeracy game with a Halloween theme, dancing, selfies and crafts. There were amazing costumes today and lots of excitement. I hope you all have an amazing Halloween weekend. Stay safe and have fun.

Numeracy and Maths

This week we have been continuing our addition and subtraction problem solving, with the additional challenge of emoji code cracking to get our sums.

In maths we began exploring weighing, heavier and lighter and non standard units of weighing.

Literacy

We enjoyed reading with a focus of key words this week and exploring our stories through questions.

We designed our own dragons and wrote a descriptive piece of text on them. Great imagination was shown in creating their own dragons.

Health and well-being

We have continued to explore friendships, what makes a good friend, having lots of different friends and why it’s important. The children then created some of their own rules for good friendships.