This week in Literacy P1 have been learning the long vowel sounds igh and ow and the tricky word are. We have written words to match pictures, built words on our magnetic boards, looked for words in a word search and played roll and read. P2 have been having a focus on tricky words. We looked for them in a word search, made them on magnetic boards, played bingo and wrote them in rainbow colours. In writing this week we worked in partners to write an acrostic poem about winter to go with our wintery scenes from last week. In Numeracy this week P1 were exploring adding to 20. We used the rekenreks to help us, number spinners to add two numbers together and built number bond towers using unifix cubes. P2 were exploring two different strategies to help with adding. We used add by making 10 and add by counting on. We played a number bond game and used 10 frames to help with learning the strategy of adding by making 10. In P.E we started our block of gymnastics. We looked at different shapes such as sitting star, pike alien and practiced different types of jumps such as the star jump. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Lucia is our star of the week. We have started our Scottish focus and have decided to explore the story of There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie. We read the book and discussed unfamiliar Scottish words. In art we spoke about tartan and then created our own. We went to assembly which was all about how people see things differently. Just a wee reminder to say that poems will be heard in class on Monday 20th January. Miss Maclachlan can’t wait to hear them. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
“I enjoyed assembly.”
“I found it tricky learning the different Scottish words.”
“I enjoyed learning the tricky words.”
“I enjoyed learning both our new sounds igh and ow.”
“I liked P.E yesterday because we were doing gymnastics.”
“I enjoyed learning our new tricky word are.”
“I liked the tricky words we were learning.”
“I found it a wee bit tricky writing an acrostic poem about winter.”
“I enjoyed learning the ow sound.”
