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!

Miss Rodford has been very impressed this week with Primary One’s adding and blending skills!

In maths, we have been busy learning about the addition and equals symbol. We have been using dice to create our own addition sums! On Thursday, we enjoying going outdoors for a maths lesson on data handling. We created a super pictogram using colours of leaves. We discovered that the playground has mostly brown leaves in it!

In Literacy, we have been working hard on our blending and spelling of three letter words. Miss Rodford thinks we are getting much better!  In writing we read the story called ‘ Shark in the Park and we had to pretend that we were Timothy Pope and say what we could see in the park.  We thought of and wrote some super sentences using  captial letters, full stops and finger spaces!

We have started to practise for our Nativity performance and songs! If you have any words please remember to practise them at home! Well done Primary One!

If you have any comments about our learning please feel free to leave one!

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The highlight of our week was the multi-sports festival at James Young High School. We tried badminton, rugby, basketball, football and a mini assault course and we loved all of the activities. It was great to try so many new skills!

Star of the Week

Joseph – for confidently talking about the strategy he used to work out an answer during ‘Number Talks’

Class Dojo Champions

Maths

We have been working on place value and we enjoyed the cone matching activity.

In the first week of this term, we got a special chance to do some amazing artwork about Tradition Tales after watching a Pantomime in school.   We got to do:

• Pumpkin Carriages
• Giant Art
• Princess And The Pea
• Knobbly Knees art
• A 3D Scene

Here are some pictures of Princess And The Pea artwork

People said they really enjoyed it. They got to use chalk pastels to make their masterpieces.

Here are some pictures of Pumpkin Carriages…

People also said they enjoyed this. They got to use crayons and paints to stick glitter on. People enjoyed putting the glitter on the pumkin. The p7s really enjoyed this one!

Here are some pictures of Knobbly knee art…

People said they enjoyed this. They got to use tissue paper to make their character come to life.

Here are some pictures of Giant Art…

Miss Lovett enjoyed this one a lot!

Here are some pictures of the 3D scenes…

People got to use their art skills to make a normal picture into a magical 3D scene.

P7 Bloggers: Beth McGregor and Sophie Dalziel