This week we were playing team games in PE and developing our reaction times and listening skills. We had to be quick off the mark to win points for our team. We warmed up by moving around the hall like different animals. Have a look at our best giraffe and elephant impressions.
Our caterpillars have grown so much and when we came in on Monday they had started to form a chrysalis. Miss Mudd is going to move them into their butterfly nets this weekend.
In Literacy we were all having an upper case letters week. We had lots of activities to work around to practise forming our capital letters. We have also started writing our imaginative stories. Over the last few weeks we have created a setting for our stories. We have also created a character and used adjectives to describe them. This week we started to plan out our ideas. We used the structure of a story mountain to draw out our beginning, middle and end. We used talking partners to help us talk through our ideas. We looked at the structure of other stories we had read and put them on our story mountain to see how it worked. Next week we will use our plans to start writing our stories. Miss Mudd is so excited to read them as we had some wonderful ideas! Our stories were full of fairies, dragons, goblins and trolls. There are lots of budding authors in P1/2!
In Maths we have been learning about multiplication. We practised grouping items and used arrays to show different multiplication sums. We used the grids of circles for some little multiplication problem solving tasks. We have been looking at the 2 times table this week so have done lots of activities linked to that. We have also been learning about tens and units and looking at numbers to 100.
In IDL we have continued with our learning about Linlithgow. We used Google Maps to explore our local area and zoomed in to look at all of our houses. We talked about where we live and identified some street names. We worked in groups to locate key landmarks around our town. We used the maps to find a school, church, supermarket and a park. We discussed the symbols that are used on a map. We then looked at pictures of Linlithgow and created a poster to show others what we love about our town! P1/2 decided they wanted to learn more about Linlithgow Palace so we did some research together. We watched a video, used the internet and looked at books to learn some facts. We discussed the difference between a fact and an opinion then we used our knowledge to create a fact file about the Palace. We also learnt how to draw our own simple maps. We pretended we were birds looking down on our school and tried to map out some of the key areas. We labelled the different areas of our school.
Some of the boys in the class used their choose time to build boats and bridges for our canal. The rest of the class then decided to make lots of different types of fish to go in the canal. They used the craft area to experiment with different materials.
We hope everyone enjoys the sunshine this weekend.
Primary 1/2 and Miss Mudd
