Month: October 2020

Primary 2/1 have been working very hard since returning from our October break.  Here are examples of a few things they’ve been up to.

Literacy                                                                                                                                                 Primary 1 have started their third set of sounds and learned ‘g’ and ‘o’ this week (‘o’ is sounded as in ‘on and off’).  Primary 1s are enjoying using their bank of sounds to create words too and we had a lot of fun doing this together. Primary 2 have been learning the sounds ‘ai   ay   a_e’ this week and worked hard on their activities around this including making a table of words for each sound.  They are also enjoying their twice weekly reading group sessions where they have the opportunity to think about prediction as well as fluency. 

P2 Spelling ai and ay 26th October 2020

These are the words we used for this week’s sounds.  These can be practised at home too.

French                                                                                                                                              Primary 2/1 have enjoyed being introduced/reintroduced to French and we’ve touched on/revised Greetings this week.  We have the help of a French puppet called Tibo to liven up the lessons!

Numeracy                                                                                                                                        Primary 1 and Primary 2 have enjoyed their separate Number Talks activities in the mornings.  This is a warm-up numeracy activity which follows a set of rules to encourage mental maths strategy thinking and uses discreet hand signals in order that students are not distracted by others putting their hands up.  We also discuss any mistakes in a positive manner as we can use these to deepen our understanding of numbers.  Primary 2s are also learning about addition strategies and understanding number sequences where we practised counting in 10s.

Science                                                                                                                                                This term with Mrs. Beattie P2/1 have started to learn about Water and how this can change from one form to another.  On Thursday the children had an outdoor lesson using a nature walk around the school playground to look for examples of where water is found and any examples of this changing form.

Health and Wellbeing                                                                                                                      We are learning more about our new toolkit for managing our emotions.  This is called Zones of Regulation and the children can choose from four coloured zones to put their name in.  We have Green for happy/calm, Yellow for worried/frustrated, Blue for sad/sick/bored and Red for anger/being out of control.  We will continue to work more on our understanding of this and what strategies we can use to self-regulate should we need to feel calm.

P2 Homework Grid                                                                                                                                This has been also been posted in SeeSaw at the beginning of the week.    All children should now have access to Seesaw to see the homework grid. If not, please can you get in contact as soon as possible to resolve this.   Homework will run on a two week basis from Monday 26th October to Friday 6th November.  Further information on Sumdog and Reading Diaries next week.

P2 Homework 26Oct20

 

Joyeux Halloween, Primary 2/1.

Mrs Meikle

 

Primary 2/1 have been working very hard this term.

Literacy                                                                                                                                                       Primary 1 have completed their second set of sounds and have last week completed ‘m’ and ‘d’.  Some children are beginning to blend three lettered words out of these sets.  Primary 1s are also learning to write their name and some already can do this.

Primary 2 have also been completing their digraphs from their set and working on ‘oi’ and ‘oa’ last week.  Primary 2 are also working hard on their Fry’s Sight Words and some have moved onto #26-50 with the others very close to starting these too.  They have also been learning to uplevel their sentences using adjectives (describing words) and the children have had opportunities to create and talk about sentences they could write using pictures as a stimulus.

Numeracy                                                                                                                                               Primary 1 have completed learning All About Number 10 and have been using associated activities to consolidate this.  Primary 2s are learning about numbers up to 100 and doing activities to consolidate their learning in numbers before, after and within this range.

Science                                                                                                                                                       With Mrs. Beattie, P2/1 have been learning about Forces this term and made kites to learn about the power of the wind.

Health and Wellbeing                                                                                                                         P2/1 took part in the London Mini-Marathon Challenge of 2.6 miles  (4,184metres) and took great pride in running around the upper years’ playground for up to 5 laps each which was a total of 500 metres.  Multiplied by 21 children that day that adds up to 10,500 metres.  P2/1 you did a fantastic job in cracking the challenge!

 

Have a great holiday P2/1

Mrs. Meikle