Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a lovely break. P2/1 have worked very hard in this short week. In Literacy, P1 have been practising their tricky words. We have been reading, writing and making words such as I, me and my. We played disappearing words. P2 have been looking at high frequency words (common words) such as little. We played roll and read, looked for words in a word search and put these words into  sentences.

In Maths P1 and P2 have been exploring 2D shapes. We have used shapes to make pictures, played shape bingo, played a shape monsters game on the smartboard, walked around the school on a shape hunt and coloured in shapes. We have discussed the properties of shapes for example a triangle has 3 sides and 3 points.

In Science with Miss Whigham we discussed Autumn. We spoke about the leaves changing colour, birds migrating and animals hibernating. We wrote about what we see in Autumn. In Drama, we explored using sign language to express how we are feeling.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I found it easy playing the roll and read with high frequency words.”

“I enjoyed searching for high frequency words in a word search.”

“I learned about squirrels making a store of their nuts for the winter. I did not know this before.”

“I found it tricky when practising writing the letter ‘g’.”

“I enjoyed colouring in the picture of the house and finding all the different shapes.”

“It was tricky writing the letter ‘g’.

“I enjoyed handwriting.”

“I found it hard writing the letter ‘p’.”

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Maclachlan

Good Afternoon. I can’t believe its Friday already and the end of our first term. What a quick term it has been.  This week in Literacy, P1 have learned the sounds ‘u’ and ‘b’ and the tricky word you. We have made a unicorn, a butterfly, taught ted how to write u and b, coloured pictures that begin with b and made words on our magnetic boards. P2 have been revising the aw, au, ir, er and ur sounds. We played snakes and ladders, played roll and read, looked for words in a word search and wrote the words three ways. We also read our reading books.

In Numeracy P1 have continued to explore pattern. We have copied and completed patterns on peg boards, made our own coloured patterns, made patterns with the counting bears, been the actual pattern(boy, girl etc.) and played patterns games. P2 have been learning to add more, find a part and have looked at finding how many left. We have completed part part whole models, worksheets and played Sumdog.

In Health and Wellbeing we explored the story of My Fantastic Elastic Brain. It taught us that we can grow our brains. We can grow our brain by doing things that we have never done before and that we find hard at first. We discussed saying I can’t do it …yet! For IDL, we worked with a partner to create a fact file about an animal. We drew a picture of the animal and found out where it lived, what it ate and about its young.

In Drama, we explored using mime to show our emotions. We worked in a pair and the rest of the class had to guess how we were feeling. In Science with Miss Whigham we were learning about habitats. We looked at how animals adapt depending on where they live.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed completing the word search of ir, er and ur words. I enjoyed finding Miss Maclachlan’s mistake. She had put the word burn in twice. ”

“I found it tricky this week when making the butterfly. I enjoyed finding out the facts about the animals”

“I found creating a pattern with the counting bears easy. I think completing the butterfly was hard.”

“I found creating a beautiful butterfly a bit tricky.”

“I enjoyed doing my sounds word search.”

“I liked playing roll and read with aw or au words.”

“I enjoyed completing the word search.”

Have a lovely holiday.

Miss Maclachlan

Good Afternoon. Another week gone already. P2/1 have worked very hard this week. In Literacy, P1 have this week learned the sounds ‘k’ and ‘ck’ and the tricky word no. We have made kangaroo and koala puppets, taught ted, sorted pictures into ‘ck’ and not ‘ck’ and rolled dice to make words. P2 have been revising the ‘ure’ and ‘ire’ sounds. We played snakes and ladders, played roll and read, wrote our words in rainbow colours and did handwriting. We also read our new reading books.

In Numeracy P1 have been exploring pattern. We looked at shape, colour and picture patterns. We made peg patterns using our pegs and boards, tower patterns using Lego bricks and completed colour patterns on scarves. P2 have been looking at numbers bonds to 10 and 20, comparing number sentences and adding how many altogether. We completed bar models, played games and used our greater than, less than and equals to symbols to complete number sentences. This week was Maths week Scotland. We have created symmetrical natural art using materials from the woods such as leaves, played eliminator where we have to get into groups of the number shouted out, we have been robots and had to direct our partners around the field using positional language such as forwards and completed the BBC Rainbow quizzes which covered a variety of topics such as adding and odd and even numbers.

In Health and Wellbeing this week we looked at two resilience tools, challenge your mindset and get active. We watched Mojo the Dojo videos about not giving up and learning from our mistakes. In assembly we spoke about the tool of get active and about taking risks when trying something new.  For interdisciplinary learning we spoke about what a fact file is and we are going to work in pairs to create a fact file about an animal.

On Tuesday we had our first session of Outdoor Learning with Mrs Smith. We went on a walk to the woods and went on a bear hunt. We talked about words such as above, behind, up, down, over and through. We collected lots of sticks, pine cones and leaves.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I enjoyed the rainbow quiz on odd and even. Our answers created a pattern.”

“Same thing as Emelia.”

“I enjoyed outdoor learning with Mrs Smith. We went in the woods.”

“I enjoyed going on a bear hunt in the woods.”

“I enjoyed learning about squirrels eating the acorns in the woods.”

“I found it tricky trying to read the words on the snail race game.”

“I enjoyed going in the woods. My favourite bit was finding the acorns.”

“I found it tricky learning the ‘ire’ sound.”

“The same as Penelope and Willow. I enjoyed the woods.”

“I liked seeing the squirrels and learning about how they eat the pine cones.”

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan