This week we learned the sound ‘oi’ and wrote many words containing that sound, including ‘koi’, which children told us is a fish they have eaten! We made a ‘foil coil’, a snake with colourful patterns on it. We are practising linking addition and subtraction facts to 10, and used cubes and counters on ten frames to check our subtractions. We are using a big book to capture our learning from ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’, and have described what the tricky words mean.

This week we are grateful for

‘school and teachers’

‘for all my friends’

‘for my teacher’

‘I’m going to a birthday party’

‘my Nana and Grandad’

Another week has flown!

This week we’ve continued with our double phonics, learning oi as in oil, coin, foil and coil.  We’ve also made a great start with our independent writing, looking at building descriptive sentences from a labelled picture of the Stickman.

In numeracy we’re continuing to focus on numbers to 20, for some revisiting formation as well as well as some addition and subtraction. We’ve been taking our learning outside, today going on a number hunt!

Also for our Stickman topic, we’ve been looking at the landscape in the book and using lots of different materials to create our own landscape scene. We also looked at the view from outside the classroom and talked about how the colours and detail fade the further away they are. We then painted our background, gradually going from dark to light, and drew and cut out trees – one that is here, one that is near and one that is far – and added leaves and branches with oil pastels. The next plan is to add stick frames.

In other news, in our bread experiment we are excited to see mould growing on the bread we touched with our dirty hands! We’ll continue to watch and share more next week. We’ve also had a robin visiting the table outside the classroom, and on Wednesday he decided to come into the classroom while the children were at lunch!

Following on from Mrs Wilson’s Skipper assembly encouraging us to ‘look on the bright side’, we’ve been sharing our experiences of being at home the last few months and talking about different ways of seeing things. In circle time this week we talked about some of the things that we’re grateful for.

It’s been another busy week in Primary 2/1. We are continuing our Stickman topic – we finished our stick children, made a story map of all the places Stickman visited and wrote postcards from his adventures. We then developed our sequencing skills to give our friends instructions to get the stickman safely home to the family tree, avoiding all the obstacles!

As well as The Stickman we’ve been reading lots of stories, including It’s Not a Stick. We then worked together to be imaginative with our sticks, which are not sticks but a boat, a fire, noughts and crosses, a snowflake, a house for a mouse, a ladder, a gate, Peebles and many more!

We’re also continuing with phonics, looking at the double sound ‘ou’ in mouse, house, cloud and bounce. In numeracy we’re consolidating our numbers to 20 and have been focusing on language such as before, after and in between.

We’re also having lots of chats about germs and the importance of handwashing. We’ve discussed how germs are spread and how they get into our bodies. We also carried out an experiment to see which bread goes mouldy first – the one we touched with clean hands and the one we touched with dirty hands. Watch this space!

At our online assembly today P2 listened to Skipper’s message ‘look on the bright side’. We are going to think more about the good things that we are grateful for. Today we heard what some of us are grateful for.

I’m grateful for my family.

I’m grateful because my cousins are coming.

I’m grateful for my dog.

I’m grateful for my friends.

I’m grateful because I always get treated nicely.

I’m grateful because people in my class listen to what I say.

I’m grateful for my teddy bear.

I’m grateful for my hamster.

I’m grateful for my puppy-teddy.

I’m grateful for my toys.

It has been lovely to welcome the new P2s back to school. We have had such a fun and busy week.

We have been doing lots of learning inside and outside the classroom. For our Stick Man topic we’ve been looking at lots of stories, collecting sticks and leaves, making model stick men and acting out the story. We have also been drawing detailed Stick Man pictures with black pens.

We have also been working on our numbers to 20, and have worked really well in our groups to make number lines, and use our addition skills with the Cuisenaire rods.

We’ve also had lots of chats about how we’re feeling being back in school, and using plasticine to make our faces to show how we’re feeling.

The P2s have been fantastic role models for the new P1s, well done boys!

Welcome back Primary 2! We’ve had a fantastic first week back, settling in and learning together. Primary 2 have enjoyed seeing their friends again and playing outside. We have been learning to write and sequence numbers to 20 and have made our own number cards. Using cubes, we have shown that teens numbers are made from a ten and some ones. Our book study will be ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ by Ronda and David Armitage, so this week we have shared what we already know about lighthouses and what we want to know. We have drawn and painted lighthouses so that we can describe the parts. We have revised the sounds and learned a new sound ‘ou’ so that we can write ‘lighthouse’.

Here are some of the things P2 said about this week;

‘I liked writing on whiteboards.’

‘I like learning about lighthouses.’

‘I love lunch and going outside.’

I learned how to draw a lighthouse.’