Author: wlanna.prince@glow

Well done to all the children for their fantastic performance of Wriggly Nativity, it was great to see them enjoying themselves up on the stage. They sang their hearts out!

In Maths this week we rounded off our work on addition and subtraction and completed a check-up with Miss Prince. We are all on track and have worked so hard this term. Next week we will be covering pattern.

In Literacy we wrote letters to Santa, we did this independently as Miss Prince wanted to see how we are getting on. It is lovely to see the progress since our first piece of writing back in August. We are mostly remembering capital letters, full stops and finger spaces and some of us are experimenting with question marks and exclamation marks. We could all do with some extra revision of our common words (sight words), here’s a game you could play to practise:

http://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

After listening to the story ‘Here Comes Jack Frost’ we used our imaginations and discussed who we think Jack Frost is and what he/she might look like. We created our ideas using collage and wrote a sentence to describe our ideas.

Our naughty classroom elf, Elfie, has been causing all sorts of bother over the past couple of weeks. One day he even pinched all of our emotional check-in faces and put them up high so we couldn’t reach them! I wonder what mischief he will get up to next week…

Here are some photos from last week – Katie Morag painting, Christmas card making and our Christmas Fayre Stall:

Have a great weekend!

12 sleeps…

Love P2A and Miss Prince x

Another busy week in P2A, our Nativity practices are now in full swing. This week we began staging, we are getting good at remembering when it is our turn to go on the stage. Next week we will be sorting out our costumes and having a go with the microphones.

In Maths we continued our work on subtraction, moving on to subtracting teen numbers.

For example; 16 – 12

We know that we can take away the 10 first: 16 – 10  = 6

Then take away 2 more: 6 – 2 = 4

Here’s a game to practise subtraction sums:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids

We understand that we all learn in different ways so we tried out lots of strategies and decided which worked best for us. Some of our strategies:

• Hopping on a number line
• Using cubes
• Counting on from the smallest number

We are all working so hard in Maths and getting quicker at solving sums. EM and RW independently completed all their subtraction sums, we are very proud of them!

In Phonics, we worked on some more consonant blends and wrote sentences using our spelling words. We are getting good at spelling words that begin with a consonant blend; next week is our last week on this.

In Drama with Mrs Hogg we invented a machine that a character in our story could use.

Our P7 helpers helped us make fluffy sheep to decorate the hall for Christmas.

On Wednesday Miss Prince took some of the P6/7 choir representatives to sing at an awards ceremony. We went to see other teachers in the lower school and joined in with Art and PE. We all had a lovely time and all the teachers commented on our enthusiasm and good behaviour.

We LOVED PJ day!

Have a fab weekend,

Love P2A  and Miss Prince x

In Phonics this week we have been learning about consonant blends – br cr dr fr pr. On Wednesday we showed some of our adults what we do in Phonics. We love writing our spellings in different ways, this week we used chalks and wrote rainbow words.

In Maths we continued our work on addition to 20, this week we used our knowledge of doubling numbers to help us. For example:

6 + 5 =

Double 6 is 12

Take one away = 11

Here’s a good game to practise this strategy at home:

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurDentist/

In PE we played a tricky game called opposites, whatever Miss Prince told us to do we had to do the opposite – we had to concentrate really hard! We also practised our ball skills; we learnt the bounce pass and the chest pass and practised these with a partner.

In Writing we sequenced a story about Bonfire Night. We wrote sentences and ordered them correctly, checking that our writing made sense.

During Milk and story we listened to Katie Morag stories and learned about the Isle of Struay. We made a mind map to record the things we’ve learnt about Katie Morag so far. Next week we will be writing to Katie Morag and telling her all about where we live.

We had interesting show and tells from the girls on Thursday, everything from first wobbly teeth to homemade dresses!

We also began practising our Nativity songs with P2B, next week we will find out our parts – we are very excited!

Have a lovely weekend,

Love P2A and Miss Prince x

This week the children have been very excited about all things Halloween! They had a great afternoon at the Halloween disco, thank you to the PTA for organising.

In Phonics we have been learning words that end in ng and nk. All of the children did very well in dictation and they were all able to independently write a sentence using words with these sounds in. Here is a good game to practise reading ng and nk words at home:

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurEggs_phonics/index.html

In Maths this week we have been working on addition to 20. We can now add a single digit number to a teen number. We made a bus to help us to visualise what these sums would look like.

We know we can somersault addition sums. Starting with the bigger number helps us to solve sums quicker on a number line or in our head.  For example,

3+14 =

14+3 =

In Art we made our own Halloween monsters using chalks on black paper. It was a challenge not to smudge the chalk, especially for the left handed (Miss Prince struggled with this too!) They have turned out brilliantly, what a creative class we are.

We have finished making our hoglets, they are living in a tuff tray in our classroom. If you go out walking this weekend and find any good leaves for them to hibernate under then please send them in.

The children were very excited to find a real life hedgehog on the pitch on Thursday; they were very sensible and gave the hedgehog lots of room to scuttle away.

Next week…

We have a new boy starting in our class on Monday, he came to visit on Wednesday and we were all very kind and welcoming.

Next Wednesday is our Phonics/Spelling opening morning, hope to see you then.

Love P2A and Miss Prince x

Welcome back, I hope you all had a lovely October break.

We’ve packed lots into our short week!

In Writing we wrote about our holiday, we all had lots to write about!  We all successfully used a joining word in a sentence and some of us challenged ourselves to write 4 sentences.

In Spelling we worked on our common words. We made up actions to help us remember each one. We are getting better at speed reading our common words (remembering we don’t need to sound them out).

In Mental Maths we worked on adding 3 single digits, using our knowledge of number bonds to help us.

For example; 6 + 4 + 2

                                  10 + 2 = 12

Here are some sums to try at home:

8 + 2 + 6 =

9 + 1 + 3 =

5 + 5 + 4 =

We also learnt about 3D shapes. We can talk about the properties of 3D shapes using the language – corners, faces and edges. We loved making cuboid and cube aliens!

Our Outdoor Learning focus this week was hibernation and hedgehogs. Hedgehogs will begin hibernating very soon, we know not to disturb piles of leaves in case there is a hedgehog sleeping in there. In Art we used clay and twigs to make hoglets (baby hedgehogs). We rolled and smoothed the clay to make the body of the hoglet and we used twigs we collected to make the spikes. When the clay dried we painted them. We will show you our finished hoglets next week.

Next week we will begin our Literacy book focus – Katie Morag. If you have any of these stories at home and don’t mind us borrowing them that would be great!

Thanks for reading our blog 🙂

Love P2A and Miss Prince x

 

Thank you for sending in your postcards, it helped us to identify the different features. On Tuesday we wrote our own postcards from the seaside – we put the stamp, address and name in the correct place and wrote some sentences about our holidays. Miss Baillie visited us during our writing lesson; she was very impressed with our enthusiasm for writing. We have enjoyed posting our free writing in the post box and role playing as the postman/woman!

In Maths we have been counting forwards and backwards in 10s from any number to 100. For example, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78… We found this tricky so we used this number square to help us:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

In Art we looked at seaside art by the artist Paul Bursnall. We liked how he used thick lines and bright colours – the houses reminded us of Balamory. On Thursday afternoon we had a go at painting our own seaside scenes in the same style.

Next week is our final week before the October break, we’ve worked so hard this term; we definitely deserve our holiday! Next week we will be learning about different types of energy in Science and 2D shape in Maths.

Looking forward to seeing you all at Parents’ Evening (Wednesday/Thursday).

Have a great weekend!

Love P2A and Miss Prince x