Our phonics focus this week has been ‘ew’ and ‘ire’. So far the children have discovered eight different spellings for the ‘ew’ sound! In numeracy P2 have been partitioning a 2 digit number into tens and ones. To help celebrate Scottish Book Week the children have  enjoyed sharing their favourite books. On Thursday we tuned into #AuthorsLive to hear The Gruffalo being read aloud in Scots, we thought it was braw! If you want to watch it again or hear any of the other stories you can access them at: https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning-and-resources/authors-live. P2 were delighted to receive their Read Write Count book bags today. Happy reading everyone!

My favourite book is…

Charley – ‘The King Cat’ is my favourite book because cats are my favourite animals!

Austin – ‘Steve, Terror of the Sea’ is a good book because every page is funny!

Sushanth – I like the shark story because every page is funny and the giant shark is so huge.

Poppy – ‘Wonky Donkey’ is my favourite story because it is very funny and silly. It’s a rhyming book the words rhyme.

Nicholas – I like ‘Hare and Tortoise’. The rabbit runs then falls asleep and the turtle wins the race.

Lois – ‘The King Cat’ from our Read Write Count bag is good. It really funny because the cat decides its too peaceful when the dog goes away.

Leighton – My favourite book is ‘Spook and Skull.’ They go into a house and there is a person that sees the ghost and skeleton he jumps up and bangs himself on the wall.

Ziva – My favourite book is ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ It is funny when he eats all day, it feels like I want to eat as well!

James – I like ‘The King Cat’. The dog came and the cat is upset because that’s his house and he thinks he is the king of the house. The dog and cat become friends at the end of the story.

Euan – I like ‘Station Mouse’ because the mouse got up to mischief and went around the station.

Subhan – I like the ‘Ninjabread Man.’ When he comes out the oven he jumps out and runs out the door. I read it all the time.

Lewis – I like ‘The Snail and the Whale’. The snail and the whale are friends and they swim around the world. The other snails get to swim on his back and they take turns!

Rory – ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is my favourite book. It’s really funny because everyone runs away from the small fish but we find out it’s really the shark everyone is scared of!

Emma – I like ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas.’ It’s funny it says he is scary but the truth is it’s a shark everyone is scared of.

Coben –’Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is good.  It’s because there are scary parts and there is also a scary fish!

Isaac – ‘Steve, Terror of the Seas’ is funny. Steve is a funny fish because he thinks he is the scariest fish but it’s really George the shark that everyone is scared of. They go everywhere with each other!

In Literacy P1 have learned the ‘z’, ‘ch’ and ‘qu’ sounds and the tricky word all. We stuck stripes on a zebra, practised our letter formation, taught ted and wrote words that began with qu. P2 revised the ‘ai’ and ‘oa’ sounds. They searched for these words in a word search, played roll and searched for ai words in story. In numeracy P1 have continued to explore adding. We have played games, used counters and screens to make friends of 5 and 10 and used Numicon to make friends of 10. P2 have been comparing number sentences using the greater than, less than and equals signs. We also wrote out the 8 fact families for a pair of numbers such as 7 and 3.  In Science we have been learning about the sun. We completed a true and false task and we coloured in a picture of the sun. In music with Dave we finished putting music to a story about Josh and his granny. In P.E we practiced dribbling the ball with our hands and played games. For IDL this week we were creating our own weather forecasts. We had our Star of the Week circle time. Solomia is our star of the week. We continued to practise our songs for nativity and we put actions to our songs. On Friday we went to P6’s assembly. It was all about WW2. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Hamish: “I found it tricky learning the sounds ch and qu.”

Teria: “I enjoyed Primary 6’s assembly on WW2.”

Lucia:  “I liked learning the qu sound.”

Sam: “I enjoyed the Primary 6 assembly.”

Alister: “I liked going to Primary 6’s assembly.”

Ayden: “I enjoyed the Primary 6’s assembly. I liked the songs they sung.”

H: “I enjoyed learning our new sound qu.”

Charlotte: “I enjoyed learning about the sounds z and qu.”

The children enjoyed the opportunity to share their learning during our PATPAL session this week. Thank you to those who made it along it was lovely to see you all!

Isaac – teaching my Mum. We were finding some pronouns and nouns. Pronouns are words like ‘he’ and ‘she’ we use them instead of saying Father or Mother Duck in the story.

Austin – I liked the P6 assembly. It was about World War 2. The ladies made the bombs for the soldiers.

Nicholas – The P6 assembly was good. It was about the war.

Sushanth – I liked the assembly. They threw streamers to celebrate at the end of the war.

Savinc – I enjoyed the PATPAL. We were teaching the parents.  I showed them how to find all the sounds in our story.

Lois – we learned the sounds ‘oa’ and ‘ai’ this week. I am going to try and think of words with them. We know three ‘ai’ sounds.  split digraph o-e as in home. Coat has ‘oa’ in the middle. Snow has ‘ow’ at the end. Cake is split digraph a-e, snail has ‘ai’ in the middle and play has ‘ay’ at the end.

Leighton – I am enjoying the Nativity songs. My favourite one is Baby Jesus!

Coben – I liked the assembly because it was about World War 2.

Leo – I enjoyed the assembly because it had the song from The End Game.

James – I liked P6 assembly. They threw ribbons at us they were really long. They were celebrating the end of the war.

Ziva – I enjoyed the Nativity rehearsal. Plodding Along is my favourite song.

Subhan – I liked the Nativity songs, my favourite is Fishing for Stars!

Euan – The P6 assembly was good. It was about the people who died in the war.

Poppy – I like rehearsing for the Nativity play. I am enjoying lots of the songs and I am doing all of the actions. My favourite song is High on a Hill!

Lewis – I liked learning the ‘ai’ sound this week. It’s mostly in the middle of a word and sometimes at the start. Snail has that sound.

Kaelan – I liked the PATPAL. You get to show the parents what you are learning.

Rory – I enjoyed the PATPAL. My Mummy came and I showed my Mum what to do.

Charlie – I liked singing with Dave this week.

Learning Reflection for W/E 8/11/19

Oops, I did not get round to posting this last Friday!

Another busy week in P2. Our phonics focus this week was the sounds: er, ‘ou’ as in shout and ‘ow’ as in flower. Our tricky words were: there & want. In maths we have continued to explore the properties of 3D shapes. The children enjoyed designing and making 3D junk models to help Max get back home from the land of the Wild Things! The children love the music workshops ‘Wee Story, Big Sound’ with Dave. This week they were all playing percussion to accompany the story of Josh and Granny. We have also started learning the songs for our Nativity!

Coben – We were trying to make a submarine out of shapes. So that Max could get back home. I used a cube and a cylinder to make it!

Euan – I enjoyed the assembly, it was about poppies.

Rory – I made a rocket so that it can go over the water and under it.  I used a cylinder and a cuboid in my model.

Nicholas – We were playing music with Dave. We had to count 1,2,3,4.

James –  I liked making my model. It is an aeroplane that can get Max over the water back to his home. It says Max’s aeroplane. We used three cuboids and a sphere.

Lois – I liked the assembly, I liked all the poppies. We have to remember the war and the people who died. I think war is bad because they all die and it is really sad!

Charley – I liked singing with Dave. We were doing a story about Josh and Granny. I was playing the glockenspiel. I played the D note!

Sevinc – I enjoyed music.

Sushanth – We were learning 3D shapes. I used a sphere and lots of cuboids in my model.

Isaac – I enjoyed learning about 3D shapes. We learned about how many faces, sides and vertices they have.  A dice is a cube,  it has six faces and eight vertices.

Leo – I enjoyed PE this week.

Poppy – I liked building the junk models to get Max home. I made a boat and it’s got lots of stuff in it. It takes a long time for Max to get home so there is food and a bed. I used cuboids to make it.

Ziva – My favourite was music with Dave. We helped Granny and Josh get home by telling a story.

Leighton – I enjoyed making the 3D models. Me and Rory made a rocket. We used a cuboid a cylinder and we used a cone and that’s all!

Austin – I liked the assembly. It was about remembering day. We think about the soldier and people who died in the war.

Lewis – I liked the assembly. It was about the people who died in the war. Some people wear poppies because it reminds us of the people who died.

Kaelan – I liked PE because we were doing gym stuff. We were getting animals into the pond and we had to run fast. We played the colour game, asking colours in French and having to go to that colour. Rouge is red, orange is orange, bleu is blue and jaune is yellow!

Subhan – I liked making the models. I made a helicopter with Euan. I used a cylinder and a cuboid.

Oops, I didn’t get round to posting these on Friday. Here are the children’s highlights from last week!

Austin – I liked listening to music with Dave. There was happy music and scary music. The scary music was fast and it got louder it was like something was getting closer.

Leighton – I liked when we were doing big noises and little noises with Dave.

Sevinc – We were learning about the five senses.  This week we were doing smelling. We smelled coffee, vinegar, onion, orange and soap. I liked the orange smell it was nice and sweet. The one I didn’t like was the vinegar it was really strong.

Sushanth – we learned about the smells. we smell with our nose. The five senses are: sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste.

Poppy – I liked when we were learning about smell. We smelled five different things. They were orange, a coffee smell, an onion smell, soap smell and a vinegar smell. I didn’t really like the vinegar and the onion but I liked the orange, soap and coffee. The vinegar and onion were a really strong smell.

Nicholas – I loved the cake.

Charley – I liked the cakes from the cake sale. The cake sale is for a charity.

Euan – when I was through with Dave, I was right next to Leighton. Then when Dave played the piano it was terrifying because of the danger music.

Emma – I enjoyed the little assembly that happened yesterday, because I like the songs that we sing in assembly.

Leo – Doing my reading cause it is fun.

Ziva – I enjoyed science when we were smelling. My favourite was the soap and my less favourite was the vinegar.

Roshan – I enjoyed numeracy. We used 3, 2 and 5. 5 was the whole 3 and 2 were the parts.

James – I liked PE because we were doing some ball skills. We were controlling the ball and we had to go to the colours. We say the colours in French, rouge, bleu, jaune, vert and violet.

Lewis – I liked about the chimp story. We learned that your brain helps you remember, seeing, balance, thinking, movement and feeling.