We continue to look at money and measuring in maths. We have started to look more at fractions and learn about halves and quarters. In writing we began looking at procedure texts last week so we created our own cat sock puppets following the steps of the procedure. We love practising our handwriting on the tables to help us with the formation of our letters. As it has been World Book Day this week we took part in a draw along with the author Emily Mackenzie who write ‘There’s broccoli in my ice cream!’. We have also enjoyed our big, cosy read today in our pyjamas.
Tag: Class Learning
This week in P2
We have continued to work on our Scotland topic and looked at the Loch Ness Monster this week. We created drawings of what we thought she looked like and started storyboards to create an imaginative story about what would happen if Nessie ended up in our school playground. We continue to look at money in numeracy and have started to look at fractions. We have started our new genre of writing this week and we are looking at procedure texts. We have enjoyed our music sessions with Dave and the music project where we were playing instruments this week.
Also a big congratulations to Mia who used her learning in class to create her own castle to bring in to school. Great job!
This week in P2
We have had a busy week this week in P2. We continued learning about money in our numeracy lessons where we created coin caterpillars and added the amounts to make a total. We also looked at making the same amount but using different coins. We finished looking at information reports in writing and we are moving on to looking at procedures from next week. We created castles from a range of materials and made sure it had some of the parts of a castle that we had been learning about. We are enjoying looking at the history of Scotland and look forward to learning more about the Loch Ness Monster next week.
P3 Learning
Lots of fun learning in Primary 3 this week. We have continued to learn to use arrays to help us divide. We were trying harder calculations and working out the family sums that go with each array.
we are learning to write an explanation. This week’s title was ‘How to look after a dog. We planned our writing on Wednesday and then used our plan to write our full explanation on Thursday. We are getting much better at writing interesting sentences and some of us have started learning to write in paragraphs.
In Maths we have continued to learn about fractions. This week we used 8 cubes in two colours to make creatures and then had to record it on squared paper and come up with a fraction sentence about it ie My creature is half green and half pink. We also learned about how many cubes one quarter and three quarters are.
In topic we were learning about Roman houses. We found out about how the rich and poor Romans lived. We learned that very rich Romans had massive villas with lots of rooms, they even had slaves to look after them. We found out that some villas had a room called a ‘vomitarium’? Ask your children what that was used for!!!!!!
P3 Scot’s Week
This week we took part in lots of different learning. We engaged with Fischy Music Scot’s concert and even got a ‘shout out’ from the presenters. We listened to some short stories in Scot’s, including The Boy in the Bunnet, and thought about all the Scot’s words we knew. We thought about and drew what the Loch Ness Monster might look like. We learned and recited a Scot’s poem to the class. We learned about Scot’s words for different parts of the body and sang Heid, shoulders, knaps & taes.
This week in P2
We have been continuing to look at a new sound in phonics and this week we focused on the ‘use’ sound. We are still working on division in numeracy and are looking at symmetry and measuring in maths. We enjoy using Epic on the IPads to read a variety of books. It has been great learning more about our Space topic and learning about stars and galaxies as this was what the pupils wanted to learn. We also worked on what doubles we knew in our Number talk this week. We got a lot of interesting numbers.
This week in P2
It has been a busy week back in P2 after the holidays. We had a lovely chat all about our holidays and got straight back into our learning again. Pupils were very keen to get back to learning about our Space project and we were looking at the International Space Station this week. We have continued looking at division in numeracy and begun looking at symmetry and measuring in maths. We enjoyed working with random partners to talk about our writing on information reports.
This week in P2
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in P2 with lots of activities going on. We have been looking at division through sharing using playdoh to help us. We have had a visit from an author to read some of his books to us as well. We started looking at measuring and measured the elves using a ruler and then put them into height order. We have also been learning how to say a festive phrase in different languages as well. We all very much enjoyed our Christmas party and had lots of fun and snacks.We hope you all have a lovely holiday and we will see you again in January. 
This week in P2
This week in P2 we began looking at division using sharing to help us. We used play-doh to show how to share equally. We have been discussing the skills we use in our lessons and thinking about where else we might use these. We really enjoy our handwriting lessons each week and use Ruby our noise dragon to help us focus on our learning. We have also been learning how to say Merry Christmas in a different language each day looking at the languages that people in our school speak. Lots to look forward to over the next couple of weeks!
More Literacy in P3/2
In Literacy, we have been working hard on our Bump It Up Wall. We have changed the writing on our wall and we worked together as a class to give feedback to each other. This means the people with their writing on the wall, all know what they are doing well and their next steps.
We love Guided Reading and one of our favourite learning activities to do is independent reading for enjoyment on Epic. We also use Epic at the start of each Guided Reading lesson to practise reading fluently. We lead echo reading with the class in pairs and this really helps us to read a range of texts fluently.
We also get the chance to lead echo reading in our groups and have been working on asking and answering questions. Some of us are working on inferential questions where we have to read between the lines. Some of us are going to be learn dictionary skills to get us ready for clarifying which will will be our Comprehension focus next term.
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