Another busy week in P1/2.  This week we have been working on our growth mindset and have been talking about our brains and how they grow when we are learning.  We know that making ‘marvellous mistakes’ is good as mistakes help us to learn.

In maths this week we have been practising adding money and buying items in Mrs Lloyd’s shop – ‘Lloyd’s Local!’.  We have also been learning the addition and subtraction number stories of 2 and 3 e.g. 2+1 =3, 3-2 =1. We have been thinking about different strategies and have been using these to complete our work e.g. using number lines, our fingers and cubes.

In literacy, we gave out reading books and the boys and girls have been very excited about taking these home to read with their families! P1/2 are really looking forward to their families coming in to see our reading work on Tuesday!! We also started our reading routes work this week where we work in groups to complete different reading tasks.  We predicted what a story might be about using the illustration on the front cover as a clue.  Some of the children managed to predict correctly and everyone worked well in their groups.  In sounds we have been building sentences on our velcro boards and have been practising blending our sounds together to read and find words.  We have also been working on generating rhyming words from some stories that we have read.  How many words can you think of that rhyme with _og?

After finding a letter and footprints in our class last week we wrote a letter to Sir Helpalot to tell him that we want to help him rebuild Fairyland and his castle and have worked hard to make leaves to help build a beanstalk for Jack.  The beanstalk is up but we are hoping the giant does not make any surprise appearances in our classroom!

Finally, P1/2 were the winners of the Goblet of Good Manners trophy today and were so proud of themselves for showing everyone their good manners all week.

Keep up the good work boys and girls and remember to persevere and not give up when you are finding things a little bit tricky!