What a quick but busy week for P2/1!  In Literacy P1 have been revising all of set 1 sounds. We have made words on our magnetic boards, sorted ng and nk words, wrote ch and sh words and played roll and read. In writing, we designed a poster advertising our nativity ‘Fishing for Stars’. P2 learned the ‘tion’ sound. We searched for tion words in a word search, played roll and read and made words on the magnetic boards. In Numeracy this week P1 have started exploring subtraction. We have played dice subtraction, four in a row and completed a worksheet. P2 have been exploring place value using the base 10 materials. We have been partitioning numbers into how many tens and ones. We rolled a double dice, wrote down that number then split it into tens and ones. In Science we have been learning about the constellations. In P.E we continued to practise our dance for our Christmas party. On Wednesday morning we performed the story of the lion and the mouse with Dave. We thoroughly enjoyed performing in front of an audience. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Hamish is our star of the week. Practise for our nativity is continuing and we can’t wait to perform it next week. Our nativity performances are Tuesday 10^th at 2.30pm and Wednesday 11^th at 10am.  On Friday we went to P4’s assembly. It was all about St Andrew. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Gabriel: “I enjoyed P4’s assembly. I liked the song I am my country.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed P4’s assembly.”

Ch: “I found it tricky learning the ‘tion’ sound.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed making ng and nk words.”

Christian: “I loved the Primary 4 assembly on St Andrew and the song I am my country.”

Olly: “I enjoyed the assembly all about St Andrew. P4 spoke clearly.”

Lucia: “I enjoyed learning about the nk sound.”

Murdo: “I enjoyed learning the new sound ‘tion’.”

Alister: “I enjoyed learning the ‘tion’ sound like Murdo. I liked P4’s assembly. I liked singing the song Welcome Everybody.”

Another week over already. In Literacy P1 have learned the sounds ‘ng’ and ‘nk’ and the tricky word your. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words with ng and nk sounds and played roll and read. P2 learned the ‘ear’ and ‘ure’ sounds. They searched for these words in a story, played roll and read, made a poster of ‘ure’ words and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week we have continued to explore information handling. We have explored tally charts, pictograms and block graphs for favourite colours, pets etc. In Science we have been learning about the moon. In P.E we played a game of prisoner dodgeball and started practising our dance for our Christmas party. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Hiba is our star of the week. Practise for our nativity is continuing and it is coming along great. On Thursday we had a special assembly with a visit from Michael Kear. He is partially sighted and a skier. On Friday it was Primary 5’s assembly. It was all about reading.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I liked the song Gotta keep reading.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed the video of people dancing with the books during P5’s assembly.”

Connie: “I learned the nk sound.”

Teria: “I enjoyed our learning about pictograms.”

Solomia: “I enjoyed P5’s assembly. I enjoyed the songs.”

Alister: “I enjoyed learning about pictograms. I also enjoyed hearing Michael Kear’s story.”

Charlotte: “I found it tricky learning the ng sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed all of the songs at P5’s assembly.”

H: “I really enjoyed learning the nk sound.”

Another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy P1 have practiced the qu sound and learned the x sound and the tricky word put. We practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu and coloured pictures that had x in them. P2 learned the ‘ew’ and ‘ire’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read and made words on the magnetic boards. In Maths this week P1 explored tally charts and tally marks. We surveyed the class on their favourite song from nativity and created a tally chart. P2 have been exploring pictograms and bar charts. We created a pictogram of our favourite hair colour and created a bar chart on our favourite book from book week. In Science we have been learning about day time and night time animals. In music with Dave we started to put music to a Christmas story. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played a game of prisoner dodgeball. As part of book week Scotland we have explored the story Monkey Puzzle. We created a door display, wrote a letter to mummy monkey asking her not to leave again, created missing monkey posters and re-enacted the story through drama.  We had our Star of the Week circle time. Ayden is our star of the week. We continued to practise for our nativity and had our first go in the hall. We are starting to practice our lines and acting. On Friday we went to the JRSO’s assembly. It was all about the Green Cross code and road safety. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Gabriel: “I enjoyed making a missing monkey poster.”

Olly: “I enjoyed learning the sound qu and x.”

Murdo: “I learned from the assembly how to stop look listen and think.”

Christian: “I enjoyed assembly. I learned how to keep safe by the road. I enjoyed seeing everyone’s Anti-bullying pictures.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed creating my missing monkey poster.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning about road safety at assembly.”

Ch: “I enjoyed creating a missing monkey poster.”

Lucia: “I liked learning qu.”

Oops! Silly Miss Maclachlan posted our learning reflection on P2s page. Here it is

In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘z’, ‘ch’ and ‘qu’ sounds and the tricky word all. We stuck stripes on a zebra, practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu. P2 revised the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and searched for ai words in story. In numeracy P1 have continued to explore adding. We have played games, used counters and screens to make friends of 5 and 10 and used Numicon to make friends of 10. P2 have been comparing number sentences using the greater than, less than and equals signs. We also wrote out the 8 fact families for a pair of numbers such as 7 and 3.  In Science we have been learning about the sun. We completed a true and false task and we coloured in a picture of the sun. In music with Dave we finished putting music to a story about Josh and his granny. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played games. For IDL this week we were creating our own weather forecasts. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Solomia is our star of the week. We continued to practise our songs for nativity and we put actions to our songs. On Friday we went to P6’s assembly. It was all about WW2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I found it tricky learning the sounds ch and qu.”

Teria: “I enjoyed Primary 6’s assembly on WW2.”

Lucia:  “I liked learning the qu sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed the Primary 6 assembly.”

Alister: “I liked going to Primary 6’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed the Primary 6’s assembly. I liked the songs they sung.”

H: “I enjoyed learning our new sound qu.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about the sounds z and qu.”

We have been very busy again this week.  In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘y’, ‘w’ and ‘th’ sounds and the tricky word so. We stuck wool on a yak, practised our letter formation, taught ted and coloured in a whale. P2 revised the ‘er’, ‘ou’ and ‘ow’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read and coloured in real and non-sense words.  In numeracy P1 have explored adding. We have played games, used the linking tens to make 10 and used concrete materials such as counting bears to help us make friends of 5 and then 10. P2 have been exploring different strategies to use for subtracting such as count back and find the difference. We played race to zero, used a number line to work out answers and used Numicon to help us find the difference.  In Science we have been exploring day and night. In music with Dave we have been continuing to put music to a story about Josh and his granny. We have had the chance to play instruments such as a drum, a guitar etc. We invite you to come and share our Wee Story Big Sound learning on Wednesday 4^th December at 11am. In P.E we practiced dribbling with the ball at our feet and played games. We have started to look at weather as our topic. We brainstormed what we knew and what we would like to know. We also identified different types of weather. We had our Star of the Week circle time. This week we got together with P1 and P2 and started to learn the songs for our nativity. On Friday we went to assembly. It was all about remembrance. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hiba: “I enjoyed everything this week.”

Solomia: “I enjoyed all our learning this week.”

Olly: “I enjoyed colouring in the whale for the ‘w’ sound.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning about day and night with Miss Whigham.”

Murdo: “I liked the video during the assembly on remembrance.”

Connie: “I enjoyed assembly and singing the song we all need a rock.”

Ch: “I enjoyed everything.”

Christian: “I enjoyed the assembly about remembrance and music with Dave on Wednesday.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed the story of Josh and Granny with Dave.”

Another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘r’, ‘j’ and ‘v’ sounds and the tricky word no. We made a rainbow, a jelly fish, practised our letter formation, taught ted and coloured pictures beginning with ‘v’. P2 revised the ‘ir’ and ‘ur’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read, looked for the ur sound in a story and coloured in real and non-sense words.  In Maths we continued to explore 2D and 3D shapes. We went on a shape walk, sorted 2D and 3D shapes, made shape biscuits and made 3D shapes with toothpicks and playdough.  In Science we were looking at seasons. P1 matched pictures to the correct season and P2 matched the seasons with pictures and sorted the months into the correct season. In P.E we did a Halloween yoga and team games. We spoke about what we would like to learn about for our interdisciplinary topic. We also started Star of the Week circle time. Lucas is our star of the week. On Friday we went to Primary 7’s assembly which was all about Guy Fawkes. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Olly: “I found it tricky trying to write without my fish grip for my pencil.”

H: “I enjoyed Primary 7’s assembly on Guy Fawkes.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed Primary 7’s assembly when they were acting out their drama.”

Teria: “I enjoyed everything.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed listening to Primary 7 speak about Guy Fawkes.”

Christian: “I enjoyed assembly. I enjoyed singing the song.”

Murdo: “I enjoyed the whole of Primary 7’s assembly.”

Lucas: “I loved learning the letter v and j.”

Please find below the link for our Window into Learning for term 2.

2019_10_08 LVPS Window into Learning Term 2

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely holiday. P2/1 have been busy learners already. In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘l’,’h’ and ‘sh’ sounds and the tricky word you. We played roll and read, practised our letter formation and made a fluffy lamb.P2 spent time revisiting the last four sounds of aw, au, air and are. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and read and we practised writing our tricky words.  In Maths this week P1 and P2 have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We have been talking about the properties of shapes, playing shape lotto and drawing shape pictures. With Miss Whigham we looked at and explored autumn. P2 wrote an autumn poem and P1 explored autumn colours by colouring a picture. In art, we created little hedgehogs by finger painting. We also coloured in leaves and squirrels. In P.E we worked on large ball skills and team work. On Thursday afternoon we had a special assembly to welcome back Clachan Wullie. Hayley from the hospital for Sick Children came and spoke to us about how the Oor Wullie bucket trail has helped raise money for the hospital. P2 also did their class talks on ‘All about Me”. Miss Maclachlan was so impressed with the effort that the boys and girls put into preparing their talks. Well done P2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Lucas: “I found it tricky writing the sound ‘sh’.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning the sound ‘sh’.”

Solomia: “I want to learn important things at school.”

Alister: “I enjoyed everything this week.”

Hamish: “I found some learning tricky this week.”

Ch: “I enjoyed assembly today.”

Lucia: “I enjoyed everything this week.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed the assembly on Thursday when we got Clachan back.”

Connie: “I enjoyed going to assembly on Thursday and Friday.”