Bonjour!

What a great week we have had learning about the different countries and continents of the world and what a super response to the Cultural Challenges set for home learning, well done to everyone who completed a challenge task. Hopefully your language skills are now a little more developed than they were at the beginning of the week.

This week P1 have been learning the or and air sounds and P2 have been learning about double consonants ff, ll, ss and zz. We have had great fun playing different games to practise these sounds while also developing our observational skills and our turn taking skills. Some people were very good at spotting our focus sounds within differents texts in the classroom. I wonder how many you can spot around your home or when out and about?

In numeracy this week we have been continuing to practise our number bonds to 10 and 20 and have been using these to help us with our subtraction.  We have also been learning about o’clock times on an analogue clock. I wonder how many analogue clocks you can find around your home?

In Art, we continued to develop our observational skills as we watched a Charles Rennie MacIntosh tutorial about how to draw a Rennie MacIntosh rose. We have drawn these using black pens and will finish colouring them next week and let you see them.

In PE we have continued to work on our gymnastics skills and have been practising more rolls. Please remember that our PE days are Monday and Wednesday and children should come dressed ready for PE on those days. You might also like to provide your child with 2 water bottles on PE days so they have plenty to drink.

Yesterday we enjoyed a Digital Schools session with the National Museum of Scotland and it was very informative. We learned about the different parts of a plane and went on a journey to Australia where we met koalas, kangaroos, emus and kookaburras.

Here are some of the children’s comments this week:-

Poppy “I liked learning about the planes and how the animals move a little bit like the aeroplane and I also liked learning the gymnastics moves.”

Dylan “I liked singing the songs about the different parts of the aeroplanes.”

Ethan “I agree with Dylan.”

Cooper “I really really liked writing.”

Minny “I liked learning about the Rennie Mackintosh rose.”

Kyle “I liked drawing the rose.”

Aylar “I liked doing the rose too.”

Rory “I liked the rose too.”

Theo “I liked learning about the guy who makes the poems – Robert Burns.”

What a great week we have had celebrating Burns Day and hearing all our Scots Poetry Competition finalists. Well done to our own class finalists Ethan, Rory, Minny and Poppy. We have also listened to some videos which taught us some Scots language from different parts of the country, click here to listen to the videos again with your children at home.

In phonics, Primary 1 have been learning the sounds oo and ar and Primary 2 have been revising the long vowel u (ue u-e ew) and the bossy r sound using the digraphs er, ir and ur.  In writing, we have been continuing to think about adjectives and wrote some decriptions about ourselves. 

In numeracy, Primary 1 have been continuing to develop understanding of number bonds to ten and Primary 2 have been learning about subtaction using the counting back strategy. This week we have also been learning the Months of the Year, please continue to practise these at home.

We are continuing to think about different places in Scotland that we have visited and have been developing our understanding of the map of Scotland. We have plotted the main Scottish cities on the map and we learned about some of the food that people associate with Scotland. We also discussed some famous Scots including Andy Murray, Robert Burns and John Logie Baird.

In PE we are learning about gymnastics and this week we practised some balances, jumps and rolls. Some of us showed great perseverance as we worked hard developing our skills.

Here are our highlights this week:

Georgia “I enjoyed learning.”

Cara “I’ve enjoyed maths.”

Rory “I liked building. I was building a camper van and a vets.”

Ethan “I liked logging in to Seesaw and sharing my work with mummy.”

Hunter “I liked drawing and learning.”

Aylar “I liked having fun playing teachers with my friends.”

Dexter “I liked learning about Scotland.”

Cooper “I didn’t know you could make the ‘r’ sound from different letters.”

Kyle “We were doing some jumps and some rolls in gymnastics.”

Dylan “I liked gymnastics.”

Jack “I’ve been learning some letters, the ‘oo’ sound.”

Kaylan “PE’s been good, I liked the gymnastics.”

Poppy “I liked everything.”

Kade “I liked gymnastics and doing the moon jump.”

Minny “I liked everything.”

Theo “I liked gymnastics and doing the forward rolls.”

This week P1 have been learning the sounds igh and ow. Primary 2 have been revising oi and oy and also learning the different sounds for ow. We have worked hard to use our phonics to build words and have been using our phonics really well when we are blending the sounds together in our reading. 

For the Scots poetry competition we have been learning our poems and Mrs Clyne was so impressed with how well we had practised and learned our poems. Well done to Rory, Ethan, Minny and Poppy who have been chosen as the P2/1 finalists and we look forward to finding out who the winner will be. Our favourite poems to learn were Crocodile and Mince and Tatties by JK Annand.

In our numeracy we have been practising our number bonds to 10 (P1) and 20 (P2). To help us with this we used the numicon and tens frames. Perhaps you could try drawing some tens frames at home?

We have also been learning our days of the week and trying to sequence these and also recognise and write them. We sang some songs to help us remember the days of the week and these two are our favourite ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdpL06MIfE. 

In this week’s story Hamish McHaggis visited Loch Ness in the search for the Loch Ness Monster. We learned that the Loch Ness Monster is called Nessie and she is shy and doesn’t like to be seen by the tourists. We had a discussion about whether Nessie is real and watched a programme about it. What do you think?

Here are our highlights this week:

Cooper – Learning words is important to help us be able to read from books.

Theo – I learned that knowing my number bonds to ten can help me know my number bonds to 20.

Poppy – I enjoyed everything this week but learned that you can count on from any number.

Minny – I never knew that doing reading for 5mins can help you learn new words. 

Dylan –  I enjoyed revising the sounds.

Kaylan – I enjoyed revising the sounds too and playing the Caterpillar ordering game on the computer.

Georgia – I liked the Caterpillar game.

Aylar – I like the Caterpillar game too.

Cara – I liked maths.

Kyle – I enjoyed all my learning.

Jack – I enjoyed playing with the cars. We made a whole city through it.

Hunter – I liked adding numbers.

Dexter – I liked learning about the Loch Ness Monster.

Ethan – I enjoyed learning about Loch Ness.

Please find attached the Window into Learning for P1 and P2 children this term. We hope you will also follow our weekly updates on the Blog.

LVPS Window into Learning P1 of P2-1 – Term 3

LVPS Window into Learning P2 of P2-1 – Term 3

Happy New Year and welcome to our first post of 2022. We started our week with a chat about New Year celebrations and made some New Year Resolutions, we are going to work hard to achieve these. We also made some beautiful firework pictures after we talked about people setting off fireworks at the bells to see in the new year.

This week P1 have been learning the new sounds ay and ee while P2 revised set 2 and set 3 sounds with a focus on split diagraphs to make the long vowel sounds (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e). We have also been practising the common words I, me, the, of, my, said, he, no, you, so, all, put, your and to.

In Numeracy we have been learning about doubles and practising our doubles to 10; we particularly enjoyed this song from Jack Hartmann to help us learn our doubles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqbCfplYrg . We have also been learning about counting on and how this strategy can help us to be more efficient mathematicians as we don’t need to start counting at zero each time.

Miss Hamilton read us the story of The Gruffalo but it was in Scots so it was a little bit tricky to understand some of the words. Here is the link if you’d like to listen to the story with your child again at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qmm9o77NU&t=3s .

In preparation for the school’s annual poetry competition, we have been listening to the poems for our Scots Poetry recitals (remember links to your child’s poems are on Seesaw) and we appreciate your support at home in helping the children to learn their chosen poem. We look forward to hearing the children recite their poems in class on Wednesday 19th January.

The next few weeks in school have a Scottish focus and to support our learning in P2/1 we will be using the Hamish McHaggis series of books, written by Linda Strachan. So far we have read Hamish McHaggis and the Edinburgh Adventure and Hamish McHaggis and the Great Glasgow Treasure Hunt.

We have enjoyed our first full week back at school and look forward to sharing our learning with you as we move through the coming weeks of our Scottish focus.