Monthly Archives: January 2022

General Information, Primary 2/1

Weekly Reflection 21.01.22

This week P1 have been learning the sounds igh and ow. Primary 2 have been revising oi and oy and also learning the different sounds for ow. We have worked hard to use our phonics to build words and have been using our phonics really well when we are blending the sounds together in our reading. 

For the Scots poetry competition we have been learning our poems and Mrs Clyne was so impressed with how well we had practised and learned our poems. Well done to Rory, Ethan, Minny and Poppy who have been chosen as the P2/1 finalists and we look forward to finding out who the winner will be. Our favourite poems to learn were Crocodile and Mince and Tatties by JK Annand.

In our numeracy we have been practising our number bonds to 10 (P1) and 20 (P2). To help us with this we used the numicon and tens frames. Perhaps you could try drawing some tens frames at home?

We have also been learning our days of the week and trying to sequence these and also recognise and write them. We sang some songs to help us remember the days of the week and these two are our favourite ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdpL06MIfE. 

In this week’s story Hamish McHaggis visited Loch Ness in the search for the Loch Ness Monster. We learned that the Loch Ness Monster is called Nessie and she is shy and doesn’t like to be seen by the tourists. We had a discussion about whether Nessie is real and watched a programme about it. What do you think?

Here are our highlights this week:

Cooper – Learning words is important to help us be able to read from books.

Theo – I learned that knowing my number bonds to ten can help me know my number bonds to 20.

Poppy – I enjoyed everything this week but learned that you can count on from any number.

Minny – I never knew that doing reading for 5mins can help you learn new words. 

Dylan –  I enjoyed revising the sounds.

Kaylan – I enjoyed revising the sounds too and playing the Caterpillar ordering game on the computer.

Georgia – I liked the Caterpillar game.

Aylar – I like the Caterpillar game too.

Cara – I liked maths.

Kyle – I enjoyed all my learning.

Jack – I enjoyed playing with the cars. We made a whole city through it.

Hunter – I liked adding numbers.

Dexter – I liked learning about the Loch Ness Monster.

Ethan – I enjoyed learning about Loch Ness.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 21st January 2022

Good Afternoon. P1 have had a very busy week. In Literacy we have been learning the igh and ow as in snow sounds. We have written words with these sounds, played roll and read, sorted real words into a treasure chest and nonsense words into the bin and coloured real and nonsense words with the ow sound. In writing we wrote a simile about Nessie the Loch Ness Monster.  We also recited our Scottish Poems this week and Miss Maclachlan is very proud of us all.

In Maths we have been focusing on the days of the week. We have been ordering them, saying them and singing them. We have also created our own days of the week wheel where we drew pictures of something we do on each day of the week. Some of us also enjoyed playing monster days of the week snap.

During our Scottish focus we have learned about Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and Greyfriars Bobby. We have created models of Nessie using Lego or playdough and painted pictures of Nessie. When we were learning about Greyfriars Bobby we discussed how he was loyal to his master and where you could find his statue. Some children then created a collage Greyfriars Bobby or coloured in a template of Greyfriars Bobby.

Here are some of the children’s reflections on their week:

Emma: ” we learned a poem.”
Angus: “I was thinking about what a real or a nonsense word was and I finished it all. “
Aaron: “At snacktime we have been chatting about what we are doing and what we are going to do. “
Ayaat: “I liked colouring in the words. ( igh sound)”
Finlay: “I was building a house with a pizza oven in the blocks. Everyone  wishes they  could come too.”
Matthew: “I liked doing nonsense words and zapping them.”
Emily: “We did Yoga and I liked making a treasure chest with my legs.”
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Maclachlan
General Information, Primary 2/1

P2/1 Learning Update 14.1.22

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.

Class Posts, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection W/E 14th January 2022

Happy New Year to all the P2 families. Here are the children’s learning highlights for week ending 14th January.

Ella – I liked doing number talks and numeracy at the same time. We were counting on from ten and adding together the ones then the ten.

Georgia – I liked doing number talks.

Jack – I liked making a big Duplo ship. It has wind power and scoop power and it can roll about.

Grace – I liked numeracy this week. We were counting on to add. We were counting on from ten.

Kyra –  I liked free play. I was playing Descendants. I was Evie she has power she can walk over the water.

Willow –  I enjoyed gymnastics. We learned different shapes like star, sitting star, pike alien and a balance called Zoot’s stork balance. I like the balance one the best.

Elyas – I liked doing PE we were doing gymnastics moves. My favourite one was the balance one. The hardest one was the pike alien one.

Olivia – I liked numeracy we have been counting on and adding the ones then the ten.

Rhy-Lee – I liked free play this week. We are playing families. We have a mum and lots of sisters. We were cooking food.

Thea – I liked numeracy this week. We were counting on from 10 to add.

Oliver – I liked PE this week. We are doing gymnastics.

Josh – I liked counting on in numeracy. We were adding the ones then adding the ten to find the total.

Caleb – I liked doing gymnastics. We learned some shapes and a balance. I liked the standing star shape!

Nathan – I enjoyed learning the oy sound. I liked reading Room on the Broom.

Louis – I learned ‘ire’ and ‘ou’.

Alexander – I liked number talks. We were counting on from the bigger number then we used a ten frame to count on.

Arianna – I liked doing writing. I was writing about my magic pot. It can cook McDonalds and pasta!