We have had a very busy week in Primary 1/2.  We have started getting ready for our Christmas Fayre and have been working hard to learn our parts for the Christmas Nativity Show. Here’s what the children have enjoyed this week…

“I have enjoyed doing the finger printing for our Christmas Cards that we’re making.” – Jaymee-Leigh

“I have enjoyed doing the play. I’m looking forward to the adults coming to watch us.” – Alex

“I liked making the sweeties for our display with Mr Henry” – Alesha

“I’ve done my maths very good.  I’ve learned all the ways to make 10 and I can say them very fast.” – Darryl

“I have enjoyed the codebreakers in Vowel House. I know my ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds.” – Carla

“I have been learning my ‘oa’ and ‘ai’ sounds in Vowel House.” – Michael

“I have finished all my codebreakers in Vowel House and know my sounds really well.” – Jack

“I have been learning lots of new sounds this week.” – Jordan

“I thought about things I do well in my writing and what I need to work on.” – Jay

Primary 1/2 have been very busy over the last few weeks learning lots of new sounds and developing their skills in numeracy.

Everyone has been working hard in Vowel House with their Literacy work.  P1 have been learning to say, recognise, write and use the letters ‘m’, ‘c’, ‘s’ and ‘p’.  P2’s have been learning about the ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ sound and another group in P2 have been introduced to the trickier ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds.  Well done everyone.

Number work has been very exciting.  P1 have been working hard to learn numbers to 10 and have been doing lots of different activities with Mrs Gardinier.

P2’s have been working with numbers to 20 and have had to order these numbers forwards and backwards, carry out addition and subtraction sums and recognise these numbers in various games.

We have also been out collecting mini-beasts and recording the information we found in various ways, e.g. tally marks, dot patterns, pictures.  We then used the information gathered to learn about and create our own bar graphs.

At the beginning of the week we learned about the different parts of a castle.  We learned about towers, battlements, turrets, drawbridges, moats and the portcullis.  We built and drew castles and Carla did a mini-project at home about her visit to Niddry Castle.  She brought in lots of photographs and told us all about them.

Later on in the week, we wrote a personal story about ‘When I was little’.  We had to think back to when we were a baby and think of something we did then that we don’t do now.  We had some very funny stories.  We had stories about nappies, dummies and rubber ducks in the bath!

Michael also brought in a magnifying glass for his news time.  He told us all about it and what it can be used for.  We decided we would like to go outside and go ‘mini-beast hunting’.  We found lots of insects including earwigs, ladybirds, worms and beetles.  They looked much bigger when we looked at them through the magnifying glass.

Written by P1/2