We’ve had a great week doing lots of reading in P2/1 looking at the books for the Bookbug Picturebook Prize.

On Monday we started reading My First Book of Birds. We talked about our favourite birds and birds we have seen in our gardens and on walks. Later in the week we went for a bird watching walk around the school grounds. We learned how we have to be still and very quiet when we’re looking for birds. Around the school we saw a robin and crows and on the hill we could see some birds in the distance in the trees at Hay Lodge Park and seagulls over the parish church.

On Wednesday we read Brenda is a Sheep. In the story Brenda pretends she is a sheep but secretly plans to eat her sheep friends with mint sauce! We all enjoyed the story and were not fooled by Brenda’s antics. We did black pen pictures of Brenda, taking our time on the detail of her jumper, and wrote about the story, focusing on the who and what and using finger spaces and full stops in our writing.

On Thursday we read This is a Dog! We made our own dog masks and while they were drying we did some drama, acting out the different animals in the story and thinking how the different animals might eat, drink and play.

This morning we voted for our favourite picturebook, watch here for the winner…

Also this week we’ve been doing some more rhyming. We’re reading Scat, Cat! and are looking at the rhyme patterns. We’re making up real and nonsense words and writing sentences with lots of rhymes in them.

We’re doing lots of reading, with our partners and with Mrs McGilp and Mrs Ward. Finlay and Rowan have been reading a book about magic tricks and today showed us all a magic trick with a spoon!

On Tuesday afternoons Mrs Thomson is teaching us all about time. This week we made some fantastic clocks to take home. Also in numeracy this week we’ve been looking at how to show numbers to 100, odd and even numbers and are trying to use strategies to add up in our head (for example. for 7+8 you could do a double 7 and add 1).