Sharing Our Learning
The children are ‘tres bien’ at speaking French in P2/1! This week Camenbear visited our classroom to help us learn how to chat to people we meet. Everybody had fun bringing lots of soft-toy friends on a make-believe aeroplane, and Pilot Camenbear flew us to France to practice our new words and phrases! We said ‘Bonjour’ and ‘comment ca va?’ to friends we met, and they answered with ‘bien merci!’ or ‘ca va mal’ before everyone said ‘au revoir’ and got back on the plane home to Longridge.
Friday 26th September was European Day of Languages, which was a perfect day for this year’s French Friends leadership group to introduce themselves! This group of primary 6 and 7 pupils volunteered for the role of encouraging a love of languages across the school, and have showed enthusiasm and passion from the very start. They visited every class to introduce themselves, share their exciting plans for the year ahead, and give every class their first set of French Focus Phrases to help build speaking French into our everyday routines. Tres Bien!
When Nurse Sandra dropped by to do some routine growth checks, P2/1 had lots of questions for her. Happily Sandra had time to chat with children about how she uses literacy and maths in her job every day. Children were very interested in how neatly she wrote the numbers and letters down on record sheets, especially when it helped them to check who was tallest!
The class were also keen to ask about how to make sure they keep growing, and Sandra had some top tips about eating well and getting plenty of sleep. It was lovely to see the children showing our visitor how Respectful and Ready to Learn they can be – they were a great showcase for our school rules.
Children loved meeting the mascot of Maths Week Scotland, who is called Finfinity. We took part in the national challenge “Wild Maths” and took Finfinity out to our garden for some wild maths adventures! Children showed so much creativity by creating stories for their character, and helping him solve problems by counting and measuring. The next day we wrote story books to record the exciting adventures. They were so much fun to read, the children created some very interesting stories set in space, jungles, forests and fairyland!
P2/1 have measure the weight of all sorts of things this week, including their snacks and even themselves! The P1s are learning to use vocabulary like heavy, heavier, heaviest and light, lighter, lightest. They have learned that when two things weigh the same the scales are balanced.
P2s have been learning that we use grams and kilograms to measure weight. They have weighed things like shoes, calculators and books with a digital scale, and were very surprised by some of the amounts!
