P2M Weekly News

P2M had a fantastic week. We had a few visits from the review team this week and we were more than happy to show off our learning and our skills. Here are some of our highlights…

We have been working really hard with our ‘big maths’ – our version of ‘mental maths’. We are working on evaluating our own learning and thinking about what particular ‘big maths’ we personally need to improve on. Therefore, we have had the opportunity to choose what we do in maths lessons. This week we had some different stations to choose from. We could work on our ‘counting’ by playing ‘whack a mole ict games’ on the smart board (last week homework game) or by playing an app on the ipads. This app is called ‘skip counting’ if you want to download and use at home. We could also work on our learn-its through a range of different games. One of these games is also on the ipads and is called ‘math racer addition’ – why don’t you have a go of this at home too? One of the trickiest parts of our ‘big maths’ is ‘it’s nothing new’ and recently in this section we have been working on: if 7 – 2 is 5 then 50 – 20 is 50.

We have started our new maths topic of ‘time’. This week as an introduction to time we consolidated our knowledge of time from p1 and extended this further. We ordered some daily routine cards from the first thing we do in the morning to the last thing at night. As a challenge we tried to order these cards backwards too! We love a challenge in P2M. We also made clocks using a split pin to keep the hands in place so we can use this clock to learn how to tell the time. The first ‘time’ we learned to tell was ‘o’clock’ – it is ‘o’clock’ when the big hand points to the 12. We used time fans to play a ‘show me’ game. Miss Meechan thought we were so good at this game that she decided that we should be the teacher. Have a look at Miss Roy and Mr Quinn showing off their teaching skills. Miss Meechan wasn’t very good at the game and kept showing the wrong time… we had to help her find the correct time. We played a game on the smart board to help us with telling the ‘o’clock’ time. Have a go at home using this link: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html

Transport is such a fun topic and we are really enjoying our range of learning experiences. As you can guess we are very excited about our class trip on Wednesday to the transport museum in Glasgow. Remember to hand in your letter back to Miss Meechan if you want a school lunch to take on the trip with you! This week we began making cars using mod-rock. We don’t have any pictures of this as it was such a messy task our hands were all too dirty to take any! Check back next week to see the finish product. As promised from a few weeks ago here are our pictures of our paper mache hot air balloons. Can you spot anyone familiar?

Did you hear about the fairy door that magically appeared in our classroom this week? We all had some super ideas as to how it got there and we turned these ideas into imaginative stories. Ask your child who they thought put the door there?

This week was a new session from structured play with 8 new stations. Miss Meechan and Miss Boyes had a look at our self-evaluation forms from our last structured play to check what the favourite stations were and these were slightly changed to make them even better. Have a look of our photos of our new structured play session.

We raised over £150 at our bake sale meaning we have £51 to spend on some things for our classroom. Have a look back after the holidays to find out what we bought.

Finally, we say goodbye to Miss McCormack who has been working in our class for 6 weeks. Thank you Miss McCormack for all the exciting learning experiences you have provided us with… we are going to miss you.