Good Afternoon. A busy week for P2/1. In Literacy, P1 have been revising the sounds already learned.  We made words on our magnetic boards, played roll and read, played the snail race game and taught ted how to write w or th words. P2 have explored real and nonsense words with a variety of different sounds. We completed a real or nonsense worksheet, read our reading books and made words with long vowel sounds on our magnetic boards.

In Maths P1 have continued to explore subtraction. We have completed subtraction worksheets, played games and used Numicon to help us with subtracting from 10.  P2 have been adding to 20 to colour then reveal a hidden picture and looked at comparing objects such as cookies or counters within 50.

On Tuesday we filmed our Nativity in the morning. Miss Maclachlan is very proud of us all. For our Outdoor Learning this week we learned about fire safety and made s’mores with Mrs Smith. We all had great fun. In science with Miss Whigham we were investigating the seasons. We learned about the weather in each of the seasons. We had to match the seasons with the months of the year. On Friday we got to watch the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed making s’mores. They were delicious.”

“I liked making the s’mores as we got a shot of trying to make a spark using a flint.”

“I enjoyed filming the nativity because I got to be a narrator.”

“I enjoyed filming the nativity and being an angel.”

“I liked making the s’mores.”

“I liked making the s’mores too. I also enjoyed doing the nativity.”

“I liked the pantomime. The part with the giant was my favourite part.”

“I enjoyed watching Jack and the Beanstalk. My favourite part was with the cow Buttercup.”

“I liked when Buttercup the cow was sticking his head out of the window. It was the funniest part of Jack and the Beanstalk.”

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Maclachlan

Good Afternoon. P2/1 have been working hard again this week. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘w’ sound and the diagraph ‘th’ and the tricky word was. We made words on our magnetic boards, coloured pictures that began with ‘w’, taught ted, played roll and read, cut out and made ‘th’ words and drew pictures of something beginning with ‘w’. P2 have explored the last 25 of the first 100 Fry’s common words. We made the words on magnetic boards, wrote the missing words from the sentences on a white board and played our own board games.

In Maths P1 have been exploring subtraction We have used counters and ourselves to explore subtraction. We played dice subtraction where we had to roll two dice and then take the small number away from the bigger number. We also completed subtraction worksheets. P2 have been exploring numerals and number words to 20 and place value to 20 and beyond. We have played snap with numerals and number words, made numbers using base 10 materials, explored one more and one less than using the base 10. We completed a two sided worksheet where we had to say how many tens and ones were shown.

In Science we have been learning about the four seasons. The seasons are winter, spring, summer and autumn. We have continued to practise our nativity and had a go of acting in front of the green screen. Our nativity will be filmed next week. For art we painted our salt dough ornaments and created our sign for our advert. Our salt dough ornaments are £1 each. This week we have practised signing the second day of Christmas for the 12 Days of Christmas.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed painting my salt dough ornament”

“I enjoyed making my salt dough ornament and practising for our nativity.”

“I enjoyed learning the sound ‘th’.”

“I liked learning the cheeky sound ‘th’.”

“I enjoyed painting my ornament.”

“I enjoyed our Christmas enterprise. I also enjoyed practising the nativity.”

“I enjoyed being the narrator in our nativity.”

“I enjoyed learning how to sign the second day of Christmas.”

Good Afternoon. Yet another busy week in P2/1. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘v’ and ‘y’ sounds and the tricky word are. We made words on our magnetic boards, coloured pictures that began with ‘v’, taught ted, played roll and read and created graffiti walls with y words. P2 have again been looking at high frequency words (common words). We played bingo, made the words on magnetic boards and played our own board games that we created a couple of weeks ago.

In Maths P1 have been exploring addition and number bonds to 10. We used linking tens which are ten frames and Numicon to explore our number bonds to 10. We played dice addition where we had to roll two dice and then add the numbers together. We also played race to the moon. P2 have been comparing number sentences using <,> or = symbols. We also explored numerals and number words to 20. We filled in the missing numbers to make statements true, completed a worksheet and created pictorial representations of teen numbers. In Number Talks P2 have been exploring number strings and using the counting on/all strategy. P1 have been exploring dot patterns and seeing how many and saying how they have seen them.

This week we have started practising for our class nativity. We have explored the Christmas story, re-told it in our own words, handed out roles and practised our acting. In Science, we have been learning about the sun. We learned that it takes 24 hours for the planets to go around the sun.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed playing my own board game. I liked saying my lines in the nativity.”

“I liked writing the letter y and y words on my own graffiti wall. I enjoyed practising for our own nativity.”

“I enjoyed playing my board game.”

“I also enjoyed playing my board game. I enjoyed the nativity.”

“I enjoyed doing Science with Miss Whigham. I found it tricky circling the living things.”

“I have enjoyed starting our nativity.”

“I liked playing my board game.”

“I like being an angel and acting in our nativity practice.”

“I enjoyed learning about the sun and the moon.”

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan

Good Afternoon. P2/1 have worked very hard this week. In Literacy, P1 have been learning the ‘r’ and ‘j’ sounds and the tricky word your. We made words on our magnetic boards, coloured pictures that began with ‘j’ or ‘r’, made a jellyfish taught ted and played roll and read. P2 have been looking at high frequency words (common words). We played bingo, made the words on magnetic boards, wrote sentences and created pyramid spelling words.

In Maths P1 and P2 have been exploring information handling. We have carried out surveys to find out our favourite colour, most popular hair colour and our favourite book. We have learned about pictograms and created a class pictogram of hair colour. We learned all about tally marks. We rolled dice and made tally marks for each time we rolled each number.

This week was Scottish Book week and we spent time exploring the books in our Book Bug bags and our Read Write Count bags. We have created woolly jumpers, explored how everybody is unique, looked at different garden birds, created fact files about the Red Squirrel and Hedgehogs and continued a story by adding our own pages to the story of This is a Dog. We also decorated our door as the front cover of Elmer.

In Science with Miss Whigham we have been learning about the sun and how it turns. We also learned about the moon. We made our salt dough ornaments for our Christmas Enterprise. More details about our enterprise will follow later.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I learned that baby squirrels are called kittens.”

“I learned that the moon is a big bit of rock. I did not know it was water on the other side.”

“I learned that the sun is a big ball of gas.”

“I found it easy making my jellyfish for ‘j’.”

“I drew a picture of a T-Rex when I was adding to the story This is A Dog. I enjoyed this.”

“I did not know that red squirrels can swim.”

“I learned about the moon.”

“I did not know that baby squirrels can swim.”

“I added to the story of This is a Dog by drawing and writing about a blue, a baby and a dad dinosaur.”

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.”