{"id":1811,"date":"2020-09-11T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/p12021\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2020-09-11T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:55:21","slug":"looking-at-trees-and-leaves-in-p2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/p12021\/2020\/09\/11\/looking-at-trees-and-leaves-in-p2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at trees and leaves in P2\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we started looking more closely at the trees around the school. We learned the words deciduous and evergreen and looked at which trees were starting to change colour and might shortly lose their leaves. We started to identify different types of trees by looking at the shape of their leaves. Our favourite leaves were from sycamore and oak trees. We also saw birch and lime trees around the school but we couldn\u2019t find a holly tree \u2013 the children have been asked to keep an eye out when they are walking around Peebles! On Tuesday we did some bark and leaf rubbings \u2013 we were all amazed at the detail in the leaves, and also how hard we needed to press!<\/p>\n

In phonics this week we learned the double sound \u2018er\u2019 in flower<\/em><\/strong>, driver<\/em><\/strong> and (for the Pok\u00e9mon obsessed) Charmander!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>We\u2019re doing a lot of sentence building \u2013 looking at what a sentence needs and adding description. The children are reading well in class, thank you for practising the key words at home. In numeracy this week we\u2019re continuing with subtraction and have been counting in twos and talking about odd and even numbers.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been chatting a lot about being worried recently. We made \u2018helping thinking hats\u2019 to help us think about whether our thoughts are true and whether our thoughts are helpful. In circle time we also talked about what a good friend is and what a good friend does.<\/p>\n