In Primary 1/2 we don’t swim alone, we swim together

This week has been an exciting week for us as we had our class assembly! We worked SO hard on our acting, costumes, props and singing. Miss Mudd was so proud of us and was blown away by our enthusiasm and commitment. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. We have loved learning about the Rainbow fish and hope it helps remind everyone to be kind and appreciate their friends. We even used sticks of celery to print scales on our own rainbow fish. Look at all of the wonderful colours.

In Literacy this week we were learning the oa/ow digraph. We have been building and writing words with this sound and trying to apply spelling rules to remember which one to use. We have done lots of sentence writing to practise using our digraphs. We give each other feedback and help each other improve each time. We also became digraph detectives and read short stories and poems to try and spot our digraphs. Some of us have continued to work on split digraphs and have been reading and writing with these tricky sounds.

We continued learning about how to write instructions. Paddington Bear left us a note to say he was feeling very hungry and would love a marmalade sandwich. We worked together to make a sandwich and had to think about the different steps we were doing. We then wrote a set of instructions to tell him how to do it. We used some fabulous sentence starters and as a treat got to try our sandwich at the end.

In Primary 1/2 we are very grateful for all of our wonderful mums who do so much for us. We made them some beautiful finger print cards and wrote about why we love our mums.

In IDL we were learning about the history of flight and watched a very funny video showing the first attempts at flying. We compared the first plane flown by the Wright brothers to aeroplanes we travel on today. They are very different! We then looked at the first hot air balloon flight in Paris and created our own hot air balloons by using collage materials.

Mrs Malcolm had asked us to do some Spring art work for her gallery. We experimented with mixing colours and talked about the colours we would see at Spring time. We painted some beautiful flowers that can be put together like a jigsaw to create giant pictures.

In Numeracy we have been sharing subtraction strategies. We have used fingers, number lines, tens frames and Numicon to look at all of the different ways we can tackle a tricky sum. We have been partitioning numbers to help speed up our mental calculations. It is tricky stuff but we have shown great perseverance.  Miss Mudd has also been setting us daily Maths problems to try. We work in pairs to talk through our thinking then share our ideas with the class.

 

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend and a happy Mothers Day.

Primary 1/2 and Miss Mudd