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.

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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.”

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.”