Happy New Year and welcome to our first post of 2022. We started our week with a chat about New Year celebrations and made some New Year Resolutions, we are going to work hard to achieve these. We also made some beautiful firework pictures after we talked about people setting off fireworks at the bells to see in the new year.
This week P1 have been learning the new sounds ay and ee while P2 revised set 2 and set 3 sounds with a focus on split diagraphs to make the long vowel sounds (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e). We have also been practising the common words I, me, the, of, my, said, he, no, you, so, all, put, your and to.
In Numeracy we have been learning about doubles and practising our doubles to 10; we particularly enjoyed this song from Jack Hartmann to help us learn our doubles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqbCfplYrg . We have also been learning about counting on and how this strategy can help us to be more efficient mathematicians as we don’t need to start counting at zero each time.
Miss Hamilton read us the story of The Gruffalo but it was in Scots so it was a little bit tricky to understand some of the words. Here is the link if you’d like to listen to the story with your child again at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qmm9o77NU&t=3s .
In preparation for the school’s annual poetry competition, we have been listening to the poems for our Scots Poetry recitals (remember links to your child’s poems are on Seesaw) and we appreciate your support at home in helping the children to learn their chosen poem. We look forward to hearing the children recite their poems in class on Wednesday 19th January.
The next few weeks in school have a Scottish focus and to support our learning in P2/1 we will be using the Hamish McHaggis series of books, written by Linda Strachan. So far we have read Hamish McHaggis and the Edinburgh Adventure and Hamish McHaggis and the Great Glasgow Treasure Hunt.
We have enjoyed our first full week back at school and look forward to sharing our learning with you as we move through the coming weeks of our Scottish focus.
