Another busy week for P2/1. In Literacy P2 have been revising the ‘air’ or ‘are’ sounds. We made and read words such as care, fair etc., played roll and read and looked for words in a word search. P1 have learned the ‘b’,’f’ and ‘e’ sounds and the tricky word he. We played roll and read, practised our letter formation, made a butterfly and rainbow fish and found words that began with the letter f. In numeracy and maths this week P1 have been exploring friends of 10. We used gems to put spots on the ladybird showing friends of 10, we used ten frames to make the dot patterns for 10 and we sorted 10 cars into friends of 10. P2 have been continuing to learn about subtraction. We spent more time looking at fact families and writing the 8 facts. We also explored subtraction using a number line. In Wee Story Big Sound this week we went to space. We listened and responded appropriately to music and a few of us got to play the symbols or a drum and make as much noise as we could for the engines of the rocket.  With Miss Whigham we were focusing on our sense of touch. We sorted items as to how they felt using words such as smooth, soft etc. On Thursday we went to church for our harvest festival. We hope you have a lovely holiday. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed assembly and learning about our three rules of being safe, ready and respectful.”

Lucia: “I liked learning the sound e this week.”

H: “I enjoyed learning the letter e like Lucia.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed learning the air and are sound.”

Teria: “I enjoyed learning with Miss Maclachlan and being with my friends.”

Lucas: “I found it hard writing the letter b.”

Olly: “I liked learning our three new letters b, f and e.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed learning about e and it was tricky to write e.”

Sam: “I enjoyed learning about and writing the 8 fact families.”

Murdo: “I enjoyed finding words that had air or are in them in a story and a word search.”

This week in Literacy P2 have been revising the ‘aw’, ‘au’ or ‘or’ sounds. We made words, read words, played snakes and ladders and looked for real and nonsense words. P1 have learned the ‘k’ and ‘u’ sounds and the tricky word said. We played roll and read, practised our letter formation, made kangaroo and koala puppets and umbrellas. In numeracy and maths this week P1 have been exploring pattern. We have looked at colour, shape and picture patterns. We made patterns with the pegs and beads. We also made patterned scarves. P2 have been learning about subtraction. We have made subtraction stories, used the part whole model and written the subtraction facts. We also explored fact families which include addition facts. In RME, we learned about what harvest is and how it is a time to be thankful for the things we have. In Wee Story Big Sound this week we listened to different sounds on the piano and we told the story of the Lion and the mouse by playing instruments such as bells and the guitar. With Miss Whigham we were focusing on our sense of smell. We drew pictures of things we like the smell of and things we don’t like the smell of. On Thursday we had a song practice to practice the songs for our Harvest church service next week. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Solomia: “I found it tricky drawing pictures of the things I like the smell of.”

Christian: “I found writing the fact families in numeracy tricky.”

Hiba: “I liked the story with the instruments with Dave.”

Charlotte: “I liked learning about the sounds ‘k’ and ‘u’.”

Connie: “I enjoyed learning everything with Miss Maclachlan.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning everything just like Connie.”

Ch: “I enjoyed learning the Harvest songs.”

Alister: “ I liked doing the songs in the hall.”

P2/1 have been very busy. This week P1 have learned o and c. We made a caterpillar, an octopus and told ted how to form these two sounds. P2 have been revising the o-e, ow, u-e and oo sounds. We became sound spotters, played roll and read and completed word searches. In writing, we wrote about a haunted house. On Thursday it was European languages day. We greeted each other in French by saying bonjour and played games in French during P.E. In numeracy, P1 explored the numbers before and after. We looked at the number line and pointed to numbers one more or one less than. We also used the number spinners to give ourselves a start number and then wrote the number before and after. P2 have been focussing on adding together and comparing numbers bonds to 10. We have explored Google earth this week as we used it to find the country we live in and then Livingston. We looked at the houses and discussed what they were made of.  In Science with Miss Whigham we were exploring the sense of hearing. We played a bingo hearing game and used the instruments. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed learning the o-e, ow, u-e and oo sounds again.”

Olly: “I enjoyed learning about curly c, o and n.”

H: “I liked learning everything.”

Gabriel: “I enjoyed speaking in French. Bonjour!”

Alister: “I enjoyed playing games in French.”

Teria: “I liked learning the split diagraph vowel sounds and the other ow sound. I enjoyed learning everything.”

Solomia: “I liked learning French and playing French games.”

Connie: “I liked learning the letters g, o and c.”

Please find below a copy of the P2 home learning task sheet. Each child has a paper copy in their reading bag. Please support your child to complete the task ‘All about Me’ and two more of their choosing. The children should be prepared to share their learning on Thursday the 24th October. The class talks will be heard on the 24 and 25th October. Continue to hear your child read daily. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

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We hope you had a lovely long weekend. Although it was a short week P2/1 were very busy. P1 have learned the sounds p and g. We practiced our letter formation on the computers, made words on the smartboard and created a parrot and a giraffe. P2 have been continuing to focus on a-e and i-e. We played a game with the split diagraphs, played roll and read and wrote as many a-e and i-e words as we could. In numeracy P2 have been exploring adding using the part whole model and addition fact families. We played four in a row using our adding skills, spun the number spinner to give us numbers to add together and completed part whole models. P1 have explored the number 10 this week. We wrote the number, counted out 10 and created towers of ten bricks. In health and wellbeing we looked at the eight wellbeing indicators – safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. We had a good discussion about what these mean. We also had music with Dave again. We sang songs and went on an imaginary train journey to the jungle. On Thursday afternoon we had our next resilience assembly with Mrs Mill. This assembly looked at the tool of ‘take a moment.’ This will be explored further in class. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I enjoyed learning the g sound and making a giraffe.”

Murdo: “I liked learning about a-e and i-e sounds.”

Ch: “I enjoyed all of my learning.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed all of my learning too.”

Lucia: “I liked learning all about the number 10.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning number 10 too.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about number 9 and 10.”

Sam: “I enjoyed learning about the part whole model and using it to help me add.”

P2/1 have had a busy week this week. P1 have been learning the i and n sounds and the tricky word of. We used shaving foam to write our sounds, taught ted how to write the letters, made an iced biscuit and an iguana. P2 have been revising the a-e and i-e sounds. We played roll and read, wrote a-e, i-e words and made words on our magnetic boards. We have begun our topic of houses and homes. We made a list of features of a house and created houses using chalk. P2 have continued to explore numbers using greater than/less than and we looked at ordinal numbers. P1 have counted, written and made 8 or 9. In PE we continued to play games. In Science with Miss Whigham, we took part in a taste experiment. We tasted sour foods such as lemons. We also tasted chocolate, jam and crisps. Have a lovely long weekend. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Murdo: “I found it hard doing our number talks on counting all/counting on.”

Olly: “I found it hard looking for the sounds in the sand.”

H: “I learned how to write the letters i and n.”

G: “We drew houses out of chalk. I enjoyed drawing my house.”

Alister: “I liked using Charlie the crocodile (more than/less than symbols). It was quite hard though.”

Lucas: “I enjoyed learning new letter and finding the letters in the sand.”

Teria: “I enjoyed learning about houses and I enjoyed learning about magic e sounds. I enjoyed science with Miss Whigham.”

Christian: “I enjoyed science with Miss Whigham. We were eating sour foods and chocolate.”

P2/1 have settled in well to the school routines. This week P1 have been learning d and t. We have made d and t with playdough, taught ted how to write them, looked for the letters in the sand, created a dinosaur and a tiger. P1 also learned the tricky word the. P2 have been revising the ea and oi sounds. We searched for words in a word search, played roll and read and played an autumn woodland walk game which involved us reading ow or oi words. In writing this week we wrote about what we are looking forward to this year in school. In Numeracy and maths P2 have been busy learning about the more than and less than symbols. We know that Charlie crocodile likes to eat the big numbers and we can identify the bigger or smaller numbers in a sentence, for example 9 > 6. P1 have been busy exploring the numbers 6 and 7. We have been counting 6 or 7, ordering 6 or 7 and drawing 6 or 7. As a class we are in the middle of creating our class charter and we have been thinking about the five school values of aspiration, compassion, equality, perseverance and respect. In P.E we are enjoying playing games such as Port, Starboard and working on being spatially aware. Here are the children’s reflections on their learning this week;

Ayden: “I enjoyed assembly today and talking about compassion, respect and positive relationships.”

Ch: “I learned about the greater than, less than symbols <, >.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning the letters d and t and using the playdough to make them.”

Hamish: “I enjoyed talking about houses and writing our new letters on our backs.”

C: “I enjoyed learning about the sound t.”

Lucia: “I enjoyed finding the letters in the sand.”

Hiba: “I enjoyed Mrs Mill’s assembly.”

Sam: “I found learning the greater than and less than symbols tricky but I enjoyed it.”