Most days in class near home time we have our Spanish learning time, we have been learning some basic Spanish vocabulary, we have focused on saying hello and asking how someone is feeling. To do this we have been using this catchy song. Try it out at home.
P2 – For literacy this week we have started our PM writing programme of work. This programme helps us focus on different types of genres and purposes for writing. The genre we have looked at this week is a recount. We read a recount by a little boy who had helped his mum in the house with some jobs. This made us think about a time that we have helped someone and what we did to help them. We have written a plan which includes a title, orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment. Next week we are going to turn our plan into a full recount. We have also focused on the spelling pattern _ay. This makes the same sound as -ai-, so we learned that ay usually comes at the end of a word (there are always exceptions such as crayon) and ai in the middle of a word. Watch this little teaching video, it gives us some good advice about adding tails onto words such as _ing or _ed or _ er, this is something we will be looking at in more depth over the course of P2. For our reading our comprehension work was based on finding the title, author and blurb on the book. Keep practising this at home everytime you are reading together.
P1 – In literacy P1 have been using the sounds they have learned to blend and make CVC words. The phonic sounds we have learned are s, m, t, p, c, a, i, k and ck. To learn to blend we have used our magnetic boards, written on whiteboards, jumped in lettered hoops and match pictures and words. Try asking your child to either tell you the sounds or write the sounds they hear in the following words; mat, map, cat, cap, sit, sip. For writing this week the children were thinking of something or someone who might be sitting on a mat and they wrote a short story and drew a picture of it.
P2 – In Numeracy for our learning about numbers to 100 we have been looking at counting backwards as well as identifying the largest/biggest number and the smallest number. The children learned a dice game where you make one of the dice the tens die and the other the units (ones) die. When you roll them you put the two digits side by side to make a two digit number, your opponent then repeats this and whoever gets the largest number wins a point (or takes a counter). Have a go at this game at home. For number talks we have been looking at dot patterns, the children are given some dots to count and we are trying to find efficient ways to count them. They have realised that it can be quicker and easier to not lose count if you group them, however you have to be able to add the groups together as you go, that is the tricky part. Have a go at this number talks;
P1 – For numeracy P1 have reached the number 10 and are now learning about forward and backward sequences when counting out loud. Some children have started to group amounts into a bundle of ten and then count on from this to reach a total within 20.
For our IDL topic we have completed our learning about water by exploring the three states, solid, liquid and gas and we used our pupil voice to help us plan some activities. Thanks to Isla’s question about how does water help food cook, we boiled pasta in class to see the changes and why they happened…we then got to taste it too!
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Currie
