P1/2 enjoyed some pirate fun in the structured play area this week.  The boys and girls enjoyed dressing up as pirates, building pirate ships with the duplo, completing pirate jigsaws, drawing pirate pictures and playing with the toy pirate ships!  It was great fun and everyone worked hard to practise the skills of listening, turn taking and sharing.  Well done!

In maths, we have been working on linking lots of our maths skills together to work out lots of different word problems.  It was a bit tricky at first but we are getting better at it!  We also practised sequencing numbers to 20, sharing objects equally, working out the missing numbers in sums by using the strategy of counting on and working out the different number stories of 9.

In literacy, we revised our knowledge of the vowel house sounds.  We practised some of the tricky sounds and thought about some ways to help us remember them.  We used Mrs Lloyd’s post it notes to write the sounds and match them with the pictures.

As part of our values program, Darren from the Lanthorn church came to speak to us about co-operation.  He left lots of activities for us to have a go at so that we could practise our co-operation skills.

Another hard working week P1/2.  Well done and keep it up!

Primary 1/2 had a super busy week last week.  We discovered something very interesting in the playground.  It was a treasure chest that was full of pirate treasure and a treasure map.  We had a think and thought that maybe some pirates had visited Bankton and left it for us.  We are very excited about our new pirate topic!

In maths, we were thinking about different ways to make 8.  We tried adding two and three numbers together and used cubes to help us.

We also practised sharing out objects equally between two and four groups.  We had to make sure that our sharing was fair!

In Literacy, we impressed Mrs Lloyd with our reading and sounding out skills and also practised the vowel house sounds.

In Science, we thought about animals which lay eggs and worked in groups to share our thoughts on which animals lay eggs.  We then watched a video clip to see if we were right!

It was great to catch up with everyone again after the holidays and P1/2 settled right back into working hard as we are now practising P2’s and P3’s.  Well done!

What a lovely maths session we had today learning all about symmetry.  P1/2 worked very hard and enjoyed a variety of activities including colouring symmetrical butterflies, making symmetrical patterns with numicon and lego, colouring and making symmetrical easter eggs, completing symmetrical patterns on the smartboard and using counters to make symmetrical patterns.  Everyone worked really hard and enjoyed our very practical maths session today!  Good work everyone!

A big well done to P1/2 for winning the Goblet of Good Manners trophy this week.  We collected an impressive 32 post its!

Happy Easter from P1/2!

This last week before the easter holidays has been very busy for P1/2.  In maths, we have worked on subtraction and using a number line to subtract.  We have been working hard to think about our learning intention and to agree the steps to success.  We enjoyed working at our new working wall table and commenting and discussing on our learning, focussing on what we are good at and our next steps in learning.  To help us we have drawn our own number lines and used these to help us work out subtraction sums.

We have trialled some relaxation activities this week to help us focus better.  We have enjoyed listening carefully and following the instructions.

We were very lucky again to have Olivia’s gran give up her time to come in and read us stories.  We love having some of our grandparents in the class reading to us and hope that we will have more volunteers next term!  Thank you so much to all our helpers this term.

As we are heading towards the easter holidays we practised our cutting skills to make these cute chicks.  We had to concentrate hard to cut carefully and really impressed Mrs Lloyd!

Happy Easter to everyone!

This week P1/2 have been revising all of the sounds we have learned and we have also been working on the vowel house, sorting the pictures into the correct places and practising writing the sounds for each section of the vowel house.  We have also been looking at ordering the letters of the alphabet, rolling sound dice and working out if it makes a real word or not (win it or bin it) and we made sentences using our velcro word mats.

In maths, we have continued to practise our adding and subtraction.  We also learned about fractions this week and know that to cut something in half you need to cut it into two equals pieces and to cut something into quarters you need to cut it into four equal pieces.  We made our own paper cookies and chose to cut them into either halves or quarters, we did a good job!

We even used lolly sticks to make tally marks to make different numbers.  Conor and Chloe took on the tricky challenge and chose numbers up to 20 to make!  Well done!

This week, P1/2 have been practising reading o’clock times on both analogue and digital clocks.  We are getting really good at it!

We have also been practising our subtraction sums this week. We know that the bigger number has to go first in a take away sum.  Look at how clever we are!

We enjoyed practising ordering our numbers and revising our number stories of 7.

In our sounds work we have been using our sounds to make and spell words, practising saying and ordering the letters of the alphabet and have been working on generating words that rhyme with ‘at’.

Part of our homework choices this week was to help someone at home with a bit of gardening and to plant some flowers.  Amy brought in some super pictures of her busy in the garden which she enjoyed sharing with the rest of the class.  Great job!  Also, Feliks brought in a photo of him with the beanstalk which he planted in class.  He has obviously been looking after it really well as it is growing really tall now.  Well done!

Great work Primary 1/2.  Well done!

This morning we took a bit of time to reflect on our learning from last week and to think about what we are looking forward to learning about this week.

Ryan enjoyed starting to learn about Roman houses last week and Alexander is looking forward to finding out more about the Romans and their houses this week.

Sandee was pleased with her work on adding 2 digit numbers last week and is going to build on those skills this week.

Chloe and Jodie are both looking forward to their learning in maths this week.

Niamh was pleased with her ability in gymnastics last week as she thought she was doing things better.

Paul is enjoying the challenge of thinking of different strategies in number talks to help him add 19 to different numbers.

We are all looking forward to a busy week of learning!

This week P1/2 have enjoyed revising their number stories of 6 and 7.  The boys and girls have been practising working independently and have been impressing Mrs Lloyd!

We also planned out a science experiment to explore seeds being grown in different conditions.  We planted five seeds and predicted which seeds will grow and which ones wont.  We have some of the seeds in the dark in the cupboard and some of the seeds are on the window ledge – some will be watered and some will not be watered.  We are going to keep an eye on these to see which of our predictions are correct.

Finally, thank you again to Chloe Snape’s gran who kindly gave up her time to come and read to some of the boys and girls in P1/2.  The children throughly enjoy hearing stories and learning new vocabulary from the stories and we really appreciate you coming in to work with us.

P2/3 had great fun yesterday for World Book Day.  It was fantastic to see so many different book characters in the classroom.

At assembly we had chosen a group to perform a drama based on The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.  They performed confidently and we were very proud of them.

In class we developed our team work skills when we completed the World Book Day Quiz.  Mrs Thomson was impressed with our knowledge of different books and we found some new books that we would like to read.  We assessed our team working skills at the end and decided that we still need to work on this.  We hope to develop our skills further over the next few weeks.

We created book covers for our favourite books after reading Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book and enjoyed it when P7 came to visit and read with us.  All this and having to be prepared for the reading alarms that kept sounding during the day kept us busy!