Literacy
This week we learned how to use magic e with words with the e vowel sound. Our writing this week was inspired by a short film called ‘Bubbles’ where the children told the story of this animation. Our reading tasks this week focused on the characters and sequencing of our books. We continued with our word boost words this week: jiggled, fortress, abbey, particularly, fiddlesticks and fainted.
Numeracy
This week P2 were introduced to the Esti – Mysteries and had to estimate a number after listening to some clues to help them. We continued to use bundles of tens to help us to subtract numbers to 50 and we practised counting through the decades. We played time bingo to help us to recognise the times on the clock faces.
HWB
Each day this week we completed an activity to promote awareness of Children’s Mental Health Week. We focused upon growth as we develop our skills mentally and physically over time. We thought about the changes we had already encountered in life and changes that may happen to us in the future. We decided upon possible jobs for the future based upon our skills and talents.
Linlithgow Palace
This week we thought about life in the past at the Palace and security to keep the Royal Family safe. We practised writing our own signature with a quill and the signatures of the Royals. We discovered that secret codes were often used to keep the Royals safe at the Palace so we tried to write an important message backwards! We used construction materials to try to make a model of the Palace with a drawbridge and a fountain. We used the internet to access a 3D model of a statue from the fountain and used this artefact to make a detailed sketch.
Linlithgow Palace by Historic Environment Scotland on Sketchfab
RERC
This week we spoke about the liturgical calendar and the colours linked to the holy events. We looked very closely at the objects on our class altar and discussed the meaning behind them.
Winter Olympics
We discussed some of the events at the current Winter Olympics in China and the possibility that we may be a competitor one day as we may have a hidden talent that we have not discovered yet! We tried to make the Olympic Rings using materials in our classroom and we drew a picture of the cute mascot called Bing Dwen Dwen.
