Good Afternoon. P2/1 have worked very hard this week. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘sh’ and ‘ck’ diagraphs and the tricky word put. We made words on our magnetic boards, cut out and stuck down ‘ck’ words to match the picture, taught ted and played roll and read. P2 have been looking at high frequency words (common words). We played roll and read, looked for words in a word search, wrote words three ways and created our own games to help us learn the common words.

In Maths P1 have been exploring adding. We have been the sums, used the number spinners then used counters to add the numbers together, explored number bonds to 10 using Numicon and completed adding worksheets. P2 have explored the strategies of counting back using a number line and finding the difference. We also explored the 8 facts fact families. We played race to 0 game and completed subtractions using a number line to show our jumps.

In IDL this week we have explored the Arctic and Antarctica. We have explored where they are, what they look like and what animals live there. In Science with Miss Whigham we learned about the sun and how it revolves around the earth. We watched a video where the sun was talking. We learned how to draw poppies. On Wednesday we went over to the church to lay our painted poppy pebbles. We also observed the two minute silence.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed playing roll and read of the common words. I also enjoyed creating my own board game. I found painting the poppies tricky.”

“I found it fun creating my own board game to learn the common words.”

“I did not know that the sun was a star. I knew the sun was very big and can shine into our world.”

“The sun is a star.”

“I liked making my board game.”

“I did not know that the sun was a big ball of gas and a star.”

“I enjoyed using common words to make a board game.”

“In the first place I did not know that the sun went around.”

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