Good Afternoon. Yet another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘v’ and ‘y’ sounds and the tricky word are. We made words on our magnetic boards, coloured pictures that began with ‘v’, taught ted, played roll and read and created graffiti walls with y words. P2 have again been looking at high frequency words (common words). We played bingo, made the words on magnetic boards and played our own board games that we created a couple of weeks ago.

In Maths P1 have been exploring addition and number bonds to 10. We used linking tens which are ten frames and Numicon to explore our number bonds to 10. We played dice addition where we had to roll two dice and then add the numbers together. We also played race to the moon. P2 have been comparing number sentences using <,> or = symbols. We also explored numerals and number words to 20. We filled in the missing numbers to make statements true, completed a worksheet and created pictorial representations of teen numbers. In Number Talks P2 have been exploring number strings and using the counting on/all strategy. P1 have been exploring dot patterns and seeing how many and saying how they have seen them.

This week we have started practising for our class nativity. We have explored the Christmas story, re-told it in our own words, handed out roles and practised our acting. In Science, we have been learning about the sun. We learned that it takes 24 hours for the planets to go around the sun.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed playing my own board game. I liked saying my lines in the nativity.”

“I liked writing the letter y and y words on my own graffiti wall. I enjoyed practising for our own nativity.”

“I enjoyed playing my board game.”

“I also enjoyed playing my board game. I enjoyed the nativity.”

“I enjoyed doing Science with Miss Whigham. I found it tricky circling the living things.”

“I have enjoyed starting our nativity.”

“I liked playing my board game.”

“I like being an angel and acting in our nativity practice.”

“I enjoyed learning about the sun and the moon.”

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan

Good Afternoon. P2/1 have worked very hard this week. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘r’ and ‘j’ sounds and the tricky word your. We made words on our magnetic boards, coloured pictures that began with ‘j’ or ‘r’, made a jellyfish taught ted and played roll and read. P2 have been looking at high frequency words (common words). We played bingo, made the words on magnetic boards, wrote sentences and created pyramid spelling words.

In Maths P1 and P2 have been exploring information handling. We have carried out surveys to find out our favourite colour, most popular hair colour and our favourite book. We have learned about pictograms and created a class pictogram of hair colour. We learned all about tally marks. We rolled dice and made tally marks for each time we rolled each number.

This week was Scottish Book week and we spent time exploring the books in our Book Bug bags and our Read Write Count bags. We have created woolly jumpers, explored how everybody is unique, looked at different garden birds, created fact files about the Red Squirrel and Hedgehogs and continued a story by adding our own pages to the story of This is a Dog. We also decorated our door as the front cover of Elmer.

In Science with Miss Whigham we have been learning about the sun and how it turns. We also learned about the moon. We made our salt dough ornaments for our Christmas Enterprise. More details about our enterprise will follow later.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I learned that baby squirrels are called kittens.”

“I learned that the moon is a big bit of rock. I did not know it was water on the other side.”

“I learned that the sun is a big ball of gas.”

“I found it easy making my jellyfish for ‘j’.”

“I drew a picture of a T-Rex when I was adding to the story This is A Dog. I enjoyed this.”

“I did not know that red squirrels can swim.”

“I learned about the moon.”

“I did not know that baby squirrels can swim.”

“I added to the story of This is a Dog by drawing and writing about a blue, a baby and a dad dinosaur.”