Another great week in P2/1. Our teachers have been impressed with our effort and super learning this week.

In literacy, P1 have learned the sounds x and z, Willow enjoyed making a zebra and Jeremy enjoyed giving a zebra playdough stripes. P2 has focused on the digraph oo and their last magic e sound u_e. P1 wrote great sentences about they food they like and dislike, while P2 wrote about a toy.

To help us with our pencil grip, we worked on strengthening our hands with a dough disco and a fun activity using tweezers to pick up and sort pasta shapes. We enjoyed racing each other to pop all the pops on a popit.

For maths this week we have continued our learning of subtraction. We are all doing so well choosing strategies we want to use to answer a calculation.

For topic this week we looked at a map to find Scotland and learned about Scottish cities. We also made saltire flag. We read a story about clans and looked up some of our surnames to find out our clan, crest and tartan. We then worked really hard to make our own tartan.

Gymnastics is our new p.e focus and we are loving it. We have been learning shapes and used these shapes in a game where we skipped about the hall but had to listen carefully for an instruction and make that shape. We also started to think about balance and used our body parts to make a 4/3/2 and 1 part balance.

We enjoyed going into the area to play this week, the water and sand were very popular.