We have been working hard in P2/1 this week despite it being a shorter week than normal.

We have been taking pictures with our ‘memory camera’ to help us recognise and reme

mber the word ‘the’ as it is a word that we can’t sound out.  We have been learning to write ‘the’ on our whiteboards, building ‘the’ from Lego and finding ‘the’ which has been mixed up with lots of other words.  We are getting good at recognising and writing it now!

We designed posters with an Eco theme for the House points board.  We had lots of good ideas to share and worked hard on our designs.

We are still learning to speak French.  We can say ‘Bonjour’ and always start our mornings off with a French song.  This week we have been learning what ‘Ca-va?’ means and have been answering Mrs Mackie in English but next week we will learn to answer in French!

We have started singing songs for our Nativity already!  So, you might hear us singing about Father Christmas and Christmas recipes around the house!

We had an afternoon of ‘autumn’ were we had different autumn challenges.  We could build a home for an animal to live in or explore the autumn tray and draw the natural things that we found (like conkers or sycamore keys or acorns).  We had autumn paper and wrote or drew stories about autumn.  We completed autumn patterns and had to decide which autumn picture would come next plus lots of other activities to do.

Next week we will be learning about Halloween and beginning our new topic about Scottish Wildlife. We will be learning about keeping ourselves safe on Bonfire night, rhyming words and adding sums and much, much more.  Ask us what we are learning and we will be able to tell you!

Miss Paterson is working in our class with us just now and will be with us for the next four weeks. She is helping us with our learning and we are showing her what superstars we are!