Day: November 12, 2021

Primary 2!

Hooray! Primary 2 are finally up and running with the blog after some technical issues!

We have had such a busy week. In number this week, we have been focusing on place value. Some of us have been looking at tens and ones and others have been working on hundreds, tens, and ones. We have been challenging ourselves with different numbers and adding them together.

In literacy, we have been very busy working on sentence structure using our core writing targets. We are working very hard to remember a capital letter, finger spaces and full stop in all of our sentences. We have also been looking at summarising the key parts of our reading book and adding detail to our pictures.

In writing, with Mrs Lockhart and Mrs Morrison, we have been working on persuasive writing. Last week we argued why fireworks are dangerous and this week we argued that dogs are good pets.

We have also taken part in Yoga this week and are working on moving our bodies in different ways. The children enjoyed acting out different animal poses and being the teacher!

Our word boost book this week is ‘Manfred the Baddie’, which is the children’s favourite book so far. Manfred is a baddie that turns good but is still a little bit naughty! Ask your child what their favourite part of our word boost book is.

Another productive week was had by all.  The P4s have been working hard to use their subtraction skills in solving word problems.

They create a persuasive text about the use of fireworks, they learnt to use speech marks in a sentence and they created questions about their books.

For IDL, they designed and created their own chariots using paper.

 

Following the recent feedback I am going to try to increase the presence of P6/5 on the blog.

This week in maths we have done long division. During this lesson SD, AD, SU, DW and MM were leading the learning. Also KH and SJR did some awesome work on their chimney sums. We have also been working on decimals, probability, continuing our work on times tables and fractions.

In literacy we have been writing pieces of exposition work on windsurfing and other hobbies. Our reading work has focused on summarising. We have also been able to incorporate our work on climate change and COP 26 into literacy.

EC, KM, LM, SJR, AS, SU, DW and EY have all demonstrated a very good understanding of what COP 26 is about.

For STEM this week we have made and improved (bumped up) paper aeroplanes. KM made an especially good one that flew far and was the most stable (the success criteria). We also made wind turbines from cut out card.

Literacy

We continued to practise our summarising skills in group reading.

In addition we had an online lesson with Mrs Cochrane who helped us practise all of our recipricol reading skills.

Numeracy

We continued to practise our addition skills. Also as part of our learning for Angles week we drew a treasure map and used the compass and angles to describe where the treasure was.

I.C.T

We practised our computer progamming skills using coding skills. It was great fun!

Topic

This week we learnt about air raid shelters. We practised diving under our desks when the siren went off and discussed how terrifying that must have been in real life during WW2.

Bella – I enjoyed this.

On Thursday we paid tribute to those that had lost their lives in conflict by taking part in a 2 minute silence.

Bailey – We made a poster about Remberance Day.

Leo – We made poppies.

Hope – We then put all the poppies together on green backing paper to make Flanders Fields.

Eco-Learning

As part of our work with Mrs Dobbie we are learning about waste.

Kyle-Jaxson and I painted bins.

Bailey-This is so people know which bins to use for recycling.

Health and Wellbeing

Emily – We made posters to represent what Health and Wellbing means at our school.