Overview
World Book Day was a great success. The class engaged in different activities on Thursday to celebrate the day. Next week we can’t wait to hear about each child’s favourite text when they deliver their class talk that they have prepared as part of home learning over the last two weeks.
In numeracy and maths learning this week the focus for P2 is symmetry, for P1 they have continued their subtraction learning as well completing some symmetry activities too. For symmetry the children have learned about using a mirror to help them identify if an image has a line of symmetry. They have also had a go at completing a picture to make it symmetrical. One of the favourite activities this week was the digital learning that we used to support our practise of symmetry. Have a look at the home learning section to see the links to the games we used.
In literacy this week we read a story called How To Grow A Dinosaur. This inspired us to think about what we could grow if we had some imaginary seeds that could grow anything in the world. There were some fabulous ideas…Mrs Currie would grow a Shoe Tree, Adam would grow a Football Tree, Isla a Glitter Plant, Lucy a Sweetie Plant and Courtney a Unicorn Tree! Well done to these children who were our Star Writers this week! When we were writing our procedures on how to plant our imaginary seeds the children were learning to use numbers to order their instructions as well as using time openers such as First, Then, Next, After and Last.
Home Learning
Try out some of these web links to practise symmetry. The programme Symmetry Drawing Peg and Cat was a HUGE favourite in the class!
https://pbskids.org/peg/games/symmetry-painter
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching
Pupil Voice
Shay – I love outdoor learning
Julian – I really like Peg and Cat drawing on the ipad
Kevin – I loved having Hot Chocolate Friday
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Currie
