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.”

Here are some of the children’s comments about their learning this week:

“I enjoyed creating a fireworks picture.”

“I enjoyed using chalk to create a fireworks picture.”

“I found handwriting easy.”

“I enjoyed painting a pebble for our school poppy.”

“It was fun creating a fireworks picture.”

“I found learning the -tion sound tricky.”

” I enjoyed our art this week. It was fun to create a fireworks picture and paint a poppy.”

“I enjoyed painting a pebble and using chalk to make a fireworks pictures.”

“I found writing a ‘k’ tricky.”

Good Evening. Please find below the link to the Window into Learning for this term.

LVPS Window into Learning Term 2

Miss Maclachlan

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

Good Afternoon. P2/1 have had a busy week full of lots of learning. In Literacy, P1 have this week learned the sounds ‘g’ and ‘o’ and the tricky word said. We have made the letters with playdough, made a giraffe and an octopus, taught ted and coloured in ‘o’ pictures. We also made words on our magnetic boards using the letters learned so far. P2 have been revising the ‘air’ and ‘are’ sounds. We rolled dice with letters on them to make real and nonsense words, played snakes and ladders, played roll and read and completed a word search. We also did reading.

In Numeracy P1 have been learning about the number 10 and finding the number one after a given number. We have made 10 out of playdough, drawn stories of 10, spun the spinner to find the number after and played a dice game. P2 have been exploring fact families, the part part whole model, writing number sentences using the add sign. We completed a number line worksheet, wrote fact families and completed part part whole models.

In Health and Wellbeing this week we looked at the tool of keep connected. We spoke about people who support and encourage us. We then created our own back up team. We sorted out animals into their habitats. On Thursday afternoon we looked at coding. We had to help Rusty the Robot get to his desk by following a code. We then explored programming a BeeBot.

Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I found it tricky when coding Rusty the Robot to get him in the right box.”

“I enjoyed learning about coding.”

“I found it tricky when Rusty the Robot had to avoid his friends and the bugs and we had to turn him left or right.”

“I enjoyed learning the ‘g’ and ‘o’ sounds.”

“I liked making my own Geraldine giraffe.”

“I enjoyed coding Rusty the Robot.”

“I enjoyed making an octopus using breakfast cereal.”

“I enjoyed programming the BeeBot.”

“I liked using BeeBot.”

Have a lovely long weekend.

Miss Maclachlan