P1/2 worked very hard last week as they practised both their addition and subtraction skills. They used cubes and fingers to help them work out the answers to take away sums at the teach table and continued to work indpendently on their addition sums. Well done boys and girls.
Keep a look out in the useful documents section for winter ready activities for P1 and P1/2 in the event of school closures due to extreme weather conditions. There are lots of activities to choose from but don’t feel you have to do them all!
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!
P1/2 have worked very hard this week on counting groups of objects and then adding them together. We can recognise the add and equals sign and have been learning how to write addition sums. We have been practising locking the big number in our head to help us count on to quickly find the answer e.g. 5+3 – we lock the 5 in our heads and then count on 6,7,8. We are getting better at this!
In literacy, we have been busy learning the r, l and ai sounds! Here is a little clip of us singing along to the ai song. We hope that you enjoy it!
To help us with blending our sounds to read words we have played some fun games at the teach table this week. We played a fun game called ‘Win it or Bin it!’ where we rolled three dice to make a word. We then sounded out our word and decided if it was not a real word we would bin it and if it was a real word we would win it! It was fun and we made up some funny nonsense words! We also played BOOM where we picked words out of a bag and used our blending skills to try and read the word. If someone picked out a BOOM card the game blew up and was over. The winner was the person or persons with the most cards. We have also been working on forming all of our letters correctly.
On Thursday, we all dressed up in yellow or something spotty and made a donation to help raise money for Children in Need. Well done!
Another busy week in P1/2. In literacy this week we learned some new sounds – z, ee and oo. We worked on reading and writing these sounds and on forming our sounds correctly in handwriting. We are getting better at blending the sounds to read and make words and will continue to work on this next week.
We have been practising transferring our phonics skills to our writing work and have produced some super stories related to the story ‘Shark in the Park’. We imagined that we were in the park with a telescope and wrote about what we could see. We have been trying hard to include a capital letter, full stop and clear finger spaces and we managed lots of sounding out on our own this week. Get ready to be impressed!
Last week the children learned the sound ‘g’. To help us remember the sound all of the children designed their own pair of glasses and modelled them as they left school today. Looking good P1/2!!
In maths we have been practising counting groups carefully so that we can work out how many there are all together. We have also been trying very very hard to form our numbers correctly and the right way round.
We also took part in some outdoor maths where we collected and then recorded how many different coloured leaves we found in the playground. We were able to lay out the leaves in a graph and talk about the most popular and least popular leaf colour. We found that there were fewest red leaves and that the brown leaves were very popular!
In our topic work we have had some in-depth conversations about toys. We sorted a basket of items under the headings toys and not toys and we disagreed politely over the iPad as some people thought it was a toy because you can play games on it, while others thought it was not a toy because you had to pay for apps and type in a password to use it. Great ideas and discussion which we have recorded in our class floorbook.
Finally, thank you to all the parents who have already been working hard to help the children learn their lines for the nativity. We were so impressed this afternoon to hear quite a few children say their words without any help! Keep up the good work boys and girls and parents – please leave us some feedback! We would love to hear what you think about our work!
As it was Halloween at the start of the week, we were very lucky to have Mrs Stewart come in for a visit to read ‘Potion Commotion’. P1/2 were a super audience and enjoyed joining in with the rhymes in the story.
In maths this week we have practising our addition again and have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We were very lucky when our parent helper, Miss Graham, took us on a shape hunt around the school. We spotted lots of different 2D and 3D shapes. During activity time, Chloe made a super rectangle using the peg board.
In literacy we learned the g, v and x sounds. We enjoyed designing vests and glasses and made some friendly foxes at the craft table. We are getting better at blending our sounds to help us read words and also at listening to words and building them on our velcro boards.
P1/2 worked really hard last week. In maths we worked on counting groups of objects accurately and then worked out how many objects there were altogether.
In literacy we learned two new sounds ‘u’ and ‘d’. We practised writing the sounds and using all of the set 1 sounds to read and make words. We loved working at the craft table where we made umbrellas and dinosaurs.
We watched a live authors event and were a very attentive audience as the author read her book ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’. It was a very funny story and we enjoyed listening to it. The illustrator of the book showed us step by step how to draw one of the main characters from the book. It was great fun and we all did really well. What do you think of our art work? Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Stewart were very impressed!
P1/2 have been using their sounds this week to try to sound out words. They have been repeating the word a few times before trying to work out the first, middle then end sound. They are getting really good at it!
In maths, we have been working on forming and sequencing our numbers correctly and have been practising estimating how many objects we can see. We managed some good estimates and could spot when our estimates were much too high or much too low!
We were also very lucky to have a MoneySense workshop this week where a member of staff from the Royal Bank of Scotland came to work with us. Miss Graham also kindly helped us out as we moved round three different activities and explored how we use money.
We finished off our busy week with some fun in the structured play area. We enjoyed lots of activities including dressing up, building with construction materials, being creative at the art table and playing a healthy foods game with Miss Campbell.
Enjoy the holiday boys and girls, you deserve a break after all your hard work this term. I look forward to seeing you all again next term for more fun filled learning!
Huge thanks go to Miss Campbell who showed off her cooking skills today when she worked with some children from P1a and P1/2 to prepare the vegetables that we harvested last week to make a delicious pot of soup. The children did really well chopping and grating the vegetables and thoroughly enjoyed tasting the delicious soup. One pupil did describe the soup as being better than gran’s carrot soup however we did advise her not to say that to gran!! Well done boys and girls – great work!
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This week we enjoyed some good weather and went outside for our daily mile. The children walked well and showed good stamina.
In maths we have learned lots of different things. We have been working on recognising and sorting the coins to £2.
We have been revising 2D shapes and have been thinking about their properties.
We have also been working hard on forming our numbers correctly and on sequencing the numbers in the right order. We are getting better at this!
We are also working on reading and writing the number names and are beginning to be able to sound out some of the words.
As well as all this maths we were also working on our sounds. We have begun using the colourful consonants mouth parts to spell out words and are continuing to practise forming our sounds correctly.
Keep up the good work Primary 1/2 and keep up the good growth mindset – keep thinking I can’t do it …….yet!!
