Miss Muir

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

Reporting, Number Talks and Habitats

We have had lots of fun in our learning this week. Please take a look at what we have been up to.

In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been practising counting in 10’s to 100. Some of us can even count this backwards! Miss Muir was very impressed. We have even been counting in hundreds, tens and units all the way to 1000. We enjoyed this so much that some of us challenged ourselves to count above 1000 and write this correctly on our whiteboards. During free play we noticed Miss Muir set us a challenge: how many different things can we count in the classroom? Miss Muir was amazed at how many different things we were able to count. We have had our first full week of Number Talks and are using the signals Miss Muir has shown us during our Maths lessons. We also learned about breaking numbers apart into tens and ones/hundreds, tens and units. This is called partitioning. We find it challenging to say but Miss Muir says practise makes perfect!

In Literacy we became reporters this week for the Springfield Herald. We were reporting on seagulls eating Mr Grinling’s lunch from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch book. We learned what was in a newspaper report and highlighted the key features on the board. This helped us to write our own reports. Miss Muir even dressed up using a bow tie and microphone when reading out her report! Some of us liked this so much we decided to dress up too when we read out our reports to the class.

On Monday somebody had left out plastic cups and pictures of lighthouses on one of the class tables. Lots of us had a look and were excited to start creating our own mini lighthouses. We used art materials like glue, paper and crayons to create them. Some of us cut parts of the cup out to make a door and some of us made a background scene to go with the lighthouse. We made so many that Miss Muir wasn’t sure where to put them all!

We also met our P6 Pals on Thursday afternoon where they helped us with our reading books and made pictures together.

As part of our IDL we learned about beach habitats. We learned what a habitat was and which plants/animals lived on the beach. We loved learning about all the animals/plants especially watching video clips of them. When we were drawing and writing about our animals Miss Muir put on wave music. It was very calming! We even thought about having a rock pool for our tuff tray next week. Miss Muir thought this would be a great idea. We can’t wait to see it on Monday.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

P2A and Miss Muir 🙂

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

P2A

It has been another busy week in P2A where we have worked hard and been resilient when facing new concepts in Maths.

In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been learning about numbers to 100. We have looked at what the words ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘less’ and ‘more than’ mean. Using this knowledge and by practising our counting (forwards and backwards) we have been able to complete problems which use these words. We especially enjoyed using the ‘Splat Square’ as a class on the board to help us. It makes a funny noise when you press a number! We have also been helping each other out when some of us have found a question challenging. Miss Muir was really pleased to see this and the resilience we have had to overcome these challenges.

In Literacy we have been learning the digraphs ‘nk’, ‘ng’, ‘ou’ and ‘ow’. We have used the magnetic board on the Promethean board as a class for sounding out words.

We read the Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and loved that the lunch was put on a zip line to the lighthouse for Mr Grinling. Although, the seagulls kept eating his sandwiches so we thought of ingredients to put in a sandwich to keep the pesky seagulls away. We thought of mud, sand and slime just to name a few! We then wrote instructions of how to make our sandwiches.

During story and milk we read a story called ‘One Magical Day’. We enjoyed hearing about all the different animals on the farm and what they did when they woke up in the morning to when they fell asleep. Some of our favourite animals were in the book! We changed the tuff tray with farm animals who were in the story. We liked playing with them, pretending we were at a farm.

In R.M.E this week with Mrs Bergarnie we learned about the Hindu Festival of Raksha Bandan. This is a special day that is celebrated by lots of children, especially by brothers and sisters. We made cards and bracelets to give to our brothers and sisters. We enjoyed drawing and colouring in our cards and making the bracelets with bells.

We also met our P6 Pals on Thursday afternoon where we played games outside in the playground. We were very happy that it didn’t rain and stayed dry for us!

Thank you for reading our post and we hope you have a lovely September weekend.

September 5, 2019

Hello from P2A

It is P2A’s first post of the year! We have been busy bees since being back at school. Take a look at what we have been doing in class this week.

In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been learning all about symmetry. We discussed as a class what symmetry means, what this looks like in our classroom and the wider world. We have enjoyed creating symmetrical butterflies and making sure that they are the same on both sides. We also created symmetrical shape patterns. This is where we traced around a 2D shape, cut and folded it. We then created our own patterns in the shape using lots of different colours. Miss Muir was impressed with our effort and hard work that we took when making these.

In Literacy we have been revising the vowel digraphs ‘oi’, ‘oy’, ‘oo’, ‘ew’, ‘oa’, ‘ow’. We have used our magnetic boards for sounding out words with these digraphs. The whole class are making a great effort in trying to think of their own words. Miss Muir didn’t even think of some of the ones we came up with! Also we have been writing our own sentences with these words which we are proud of.

In P.E this week we had Mrs Reid on Wednesday and Miss Muir on Tuesday. We played some warm up games and learned some new stretches. In partners, we practised our throwing and catching skills with different sized balls.

During story and milk we read a story called ‘A Tale of Two Beasts’. In the story a little girl rescues a fox called Fang. She takes Fang home with her and creates a home for him out of a cardboard box. However Fang misses the deep dark wood so he escapes. This got us thinking how the girl could have made her home for Fang better to stop him from escaping, so we created our own homes out of cardboard boxes. This is what we made…

Thank you for reading our post. We can’t wait to see what next week brings!