This week in maths, Primary 1/2 have been practising their adding skills independently whilst learning about subtraction at the teach table.  The boys and girls know that subtract means to take away and have even learned another word for subtract – minus.  We made minus monsters out of the subtract sign and are trying not to get muddled up between add, subtract and equals signs!  We have been using cubes to help us to take away and are getting quite good at it!

In sounds, we have been learning the ‘oa’, ‘ng’ and ‘w’ sounds – ‘oa’ lives in the vowel house and you need a tunnel mouth to say it properly, ‘ng’ is an orange sound made at the back of your mouth and ‘w’ is a loud red sound made with your lips.  We have been working on our blending skills by playing bingo and sounding out words using the racing car tracks and stretchy snake to help us blend the sounds together and read the words.

In topic work we looked at some different toys and thought about what materials they were made of.  We felt the toys and discussed how they felt and what we thought they were made of.  We spotted these materials – wood, plastic, metal, foam and fabric.  Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who were able to make it along on Friday to receive their Book Bug Bags and to see the children working on different literacy and numeracy activities related to the books for Scottish book week.  We really enjoyed having you there to help and to be able to share our favourite stories from the bags with you.  I hope you all enjoy reading the stories and using your magnetic numbers at home.

Looking forward to more fun next week Primary 1/2.  Well done everyone!