Another week over already. In Literacy P1 have learned the sounds ‘ng’ and ‘nk’ and the tricky word your. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words with ng and nk sounds and played roll and read. P2 learned the ‘ear’ and ‘ure’ sounds. They searched for these words in a story, played roll and read, made a poster of ‘ure’ words and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week we have continued to explore information handling. We have explored tally charts, pictograms and block graphs for favourite colours, pets etc. In Science we have been learning about the moon. In P.E we played a game of prisoner dodgeball and started practising our dance for our Christmas party. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Hiba is our star of the week. Practise for our nativity is continuing and it is coming along great. On Thursday we had a special assembly with a visit from Michael Kear. He is partially sighted and a skier. On Friday it was Primary 5’s assembly. It was all about reading.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I liked the song Gotta keep reading.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed the video of people dancing with the books during P5’s assembly.”

Connie: “I learned the nk sound.”

Teria: “I enjoyed our learning about pictograms.”

Solomia: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I enjoyed the songs.”

Alister: “I enjoyed learning about pictograms. I also enjoyed hearing Michael Kear’s story.”

Charlotte: “I found it tricky learning the ng sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed all of the songs at P5’s assembly.”

H: “I really enjoyed learning the nk sound.”

Another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy P1 have practiced the qu sound and learned the x sound and the tricky word put. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu and coloured pictures that had x in them. P2 learned the ‘ew’ and ‘ire’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week P1 explored tally charts and tally marks. We surveyed the class on their favourite song from nativity and created a tally chart. P2 have been exploring pictograms and bar charts. We created a pictogram of our favourite hair colour and created a bar chart on our favourite book from book week. In Science we have been learning about day time and night time animals. In music with Dave we started to put music to a Christmas story. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played a game of prisoner dodgeball. As part of book week Scotland we have explored the story Monkey Puzzle. We created a door display, wrote a letter to mummy monkey asking her not to leave again, created missing monkey posters and re-enacted the story through drama.  We had our Star of the Week circle time. Ayden is our star of the week. We continued to practise for our nativity and had our first go in the hall. We are starting to practice our lines and acting. On Friday we went to the JRSO’s assembly. It was all about the Green Cross code and road safety. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Gabriel: “I enjoyed making a missing monkey poster.”

Olly: “I enjoyed learning the sound qu and x.”

Murdo: “I learned from the assembly how to stop look listen and think.”

Christian: “I enjoyed assembly. I learned how to keep safe by the road. I enjoyed seeing everyone’s Anti-bullying pictures.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed creating my missing monkey poster.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning about road safety at assembly.”

Ch: “I enjoyed creating a missing monkey poster.”

Lucia: “I liked learning qu.”

Oops! Silly Miss Maclachlan posted our learning reflection on P2s page. Here it is

In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘z’, ‘ch’ and ‘qu’ sounds and the tricky word all. We stuck stripes on a zebra, practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu. P2 revised the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and searched for ai words in story. In numeracy P1 have continued to explore adding. We have played games, used counters and screens to make friends of 5 and 10 and used Numicon to make friends of 10. P2 have been comparing number sentences using the greater than, less than and equals signs. We also wrote out the 8 fact families for a pair of numbers such as 7 and 3.  In Science we have been learning about the sun. We completed a true and false task and we coloured in a picture of the sun. In music with Dave we finished putting music to a story about Josh and his granny. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played games. For IDL this week we were creating our own weather forecasts. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Solomia is our star of the week. We continued to practise our songs for nativity and we put actions to our songs. On Friday we went to P6’s assembly. It was all about WW2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I found it tricky learning the sounds ch and qu.”

Teria: “I enjoyed Primary 6’s assembly on WW2.”

Lucia:  “I liked learning the qu sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed the Primary 6 assembly.”

Alister: “I liked going to Primary 6’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed the Primary 6’s assembly. I liked the songs they sung.”

H: “I enjoyed learning our new sound qu.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about the sounds z and qu.”