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.
Joyeux Halloween, Primary 2/1.
Mrs Meikle
