Author: Mrs Scott

This week in numeracy we have continued to practise our skip counting by 2. We practise this during our CLIC sessions. We enjoy using this clip to help us with our skip counting.

We have continued to use arrays this week to build on our two times table knowledge. At one station we had to pick out two numbers and make a multiplication sentence and then show what this would look like in an array.

We love using the netbooks and the smart board during our number lessons. This week we played the “Hit the Button” game to practise our two times table knowledge. You have to quickly hit the correct answer.

Paolo the parrot here- I would just like to share how much the children like my plenary wheel. I like to check that they have learnt and understood the learning intention. One aspect that the children have been finding tricky is the difference between 2+1 and 2×1. Maybe you could ask them at home: what is 2×1?

The children kept getting confused and though that 2×1 equalled 3. So Miss Boyes made it her mission to help the children understand the difference. After checking their knowledge at the end of the lesson I can say that they successfully got it right!

In literacy this week we learnt all about road safety. We watched a video clip which spoke about the important things we have to think about before we cross the road.

After watching the clip we wrote our very own set of instructions. Later in the week we then read over our instructions checking that we had them in the correct order. Next we went for a walk nearby school and thought about our instructions when we crossed the road.

We were able to cross the road successfully and we were all very sensible. When we came back to class we assessed our knowledge of crossing the road by completing a sequencing task. Miss Boyes has checked over all of our learning and can proudly say that we can all successfully follow the green cross code.

We will bring our very well deserved road safety certificates home to show off on Monday!

On our topic plan we shared that we wanted to learn about how you get to the moon. Therefore Miss Boyes taught us all about Rockets and we learnt about a man called Neil Armstrong! This was super interesting because we learnt that he was the first man to walk on the moon!

His famous quote was
“One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”. – Emma

After learning about Neil Armstrong we used 3D shapes and mod-rock to build our very own space rockets. “We used a cylinder and cone shape”. We covered the shapes with the mod rock and had to let it dry over-night.

Then the next day we painted our rockets.

“I really liked using the mod-rock because I’ve never used it before.”- Maya.

We used fantastic listening skills during this lesson as we had to listen carefully to the steps Miss Boyes told us.
We enjoyed using the mod-rock and although we needed some help with assembling our rockets we all worked together to make sure they were built to reach the stars!

Miss Boyes has displayed them on the wall in the classroom and it looks great!

We will show off our display next week!

This week in P2B we have been learning how to match repeated addition sums to multiplication sentences. As part of our carousel stations we completed an independent task where we had to match the multiplication sentence and array to the answer card. We also took this one step further by then writing down the repeated addition calculation on our whiteboards.

At one of our CLIC station in our numeracy carousel this week we have used the netbooks to practise our ability to find the missing number in addition and subtraction calculations.

This week in literacy we celebrated world book day. Lots of children and teachers came to school dressed as a book character.
As part of one of our smart starts in the morning we read a book which we chose. Afterwards we created a book mark and had to draw our favourite book character. In writing this week we wrote a character profile for our favourite character. Part of our success criteria was to write about the character’s appearance and their personality. Later in the week we up levelled our writing during our kick-start. We had to read our wish which is written in green pen by Miss Boyes. Miss Boyes discusses our wish with us so that we know what action to take to achieve the next step.

In spelling this week we have been learning about words that have a short vowel and end in ck.

We used the playdoh to write our spelling words out and then asked our friends to read the words.

Another way that we practise our spelling words is by using the active spelling cards.

“The spelling cards are fun ways for us to write out our spelling words.”- Angel.

In PE this week we have been learning all about winning and losing in a different context. The gym hall look liked a big board game which you could move up levels. We started at the first level and had to roll a dice with a partner, if you have the highest number you move up a level and if you have the lowest you have to do laps around the hall depending on the number you rolled.

If you roll the lowest number you give your partner 1 of your tokens. The winner is the person with the most tokens. Miss Boyes could see that we were all very engaged in the game and we congratulated our friends for rolling the highest number.

As part of our topic plan we wanted to learn about how things move and in particular transport. This week we started to learn about forces. We have learnt about the difference between the motions of pulling and pushing and if objects can change shape.

To meet our learning intention we took part in 3 stations which Miss Boyes had set up around the classroom.

At the first station we were force detectives and we had to record which object around the classroom you can push, pull or both. We thought about pushing and pulling the door, pushing and pulling the shoes trolley etc.

At the next station we worked with Miss Boyes to investigate different objects. We had to decide if you push or pull the object and then if they can change back into their original position.

In pairs we took part at in the third station which was a game on the netbooks. We had to help a character move an object by either pushing or pulling it.

Also in topic this week we have been learning about transport from the past. We compared the transport of the past to the transport of today and spoke about why they are different and how we use them.

We had to order the different pieces of transport along a timeline.

For our structured play, we have been working with P2M to build a train. It looks amazing, we use the train as part of our role play station where you can make and buy train tickets. We will share a picture with you next week.

Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P2B!

In P2B we have been checking our knowledge of written number names and matching it to the number. We played a numeracy game (Fruit splat numbers to words) on the smart board which helped us recognise the numbers and their names.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/fruitShootNumbersWords.htm

We have been learning our two times table.

We have been listening to a song to help us learn our two times table.

We listen to the song during our Big maths CLIC session, Miss Boyes pauses the song after each multiplication sentence and we work in pairs to write down the answer to the calculations as quickly as we can. We will continue to practise this so that we can complete each calculation as quick as a click.

Our spelling words this week were tricky words and they had the “I” sound for inky mouse. We had to take a picture of our spelling words and then we completed different spelling activities.

In handwriting we have really progressed with our letter-join. We have been learning to write our spelling words by using letter-join. We have been practising writing out spelling words in a sentence.

In writing this week we wrote a food advert. We had to use our senses to describe our favourite food. We were persuading the reader to buy the food at the supermarket. Miss Boyes wanted to buy all of the food after reading our writing.

In reading we have continued to use different skills to complete our task maps. This lets us show our understanding of our story. We read the questions together as a group and then we write our answers in sentences.

We have started our transport topic this week. To begin our topic we discussed what we already know about transport and what we would like to know. Together as a class we made a mind map of all of our ideas.

We came up with some fab ideas…

Maya asked “How does transport move?”

Kasia “What transport do they have in other countries.”

Aaron “I want to learn about the transport which takes you to the moon… Rockets.”

Brooke “I want to use different materials to build transport.”

Miss Boyes has transferred some of our ideas onto our learning wall.

We started the topic off by learning about transport from around the world. “We found out that in Venice they have boats called Gondolas because Venice has a lot of water.” – Maya.

“To travel to Islands called the Maldives you have to go on a sea plane, I think this is because they don’t have space for big planes to land.” – Andrew.

“In Thailand they have tuk-tuks,”- Calvin.   “In San Francisco they have trams because it is very hilly there.”- Jakub.

This week we have started our daily mile. The daily mile is a run which we complete around the school.

The daily mile helps us keep fit and healthy.

Our structured play has been updated to reflect our new topic. We are really enjoying completing the new activities throughout the different curricular areas. P2B really enjoy learning with P2M.

In numeracy this week we have been learning about repeated addition and how it links to multiplication. We have also been learning about arrays and how we can track our array in different ways along the number line. We made up multiplication sentences to talk about the arrays.

We played a fun game to help us learn about our multiplication sums. You have to draw two circles on your whiteboard or paper. Then your friend gives you a number (same number for each flower) and you draw that number of petals on the flower. This has helped us think about how many flowers there are… how many petals and how many petals altogether. Then for additional challenge we had to write the multiplication sentence.

This is a fun activity that could also be completed at home.

Many different storms have hit Scotland recently but we bet you haven’t heard of “Storm P2B!”

This week we have listened to the story of “Katie Morag and Tiresome Ted”. In the story there is a big storm on the Isle of Struay. To begin our writing lesson we watched 2 short film clips from “Pocahontas and The Little Mermaid”. In the clips  a big dark storm hits the boats in the sea.

We used this as our inspiration (along with the Katie Morag story) to write our own storm descriptions. As part of our success criteria we had to use wow words to describe what a storm would look like and sound like.

Miss Boyes has really enjoyed reading all of our storm descriptions. Lots of great wow words were used such as: crashing, splashing, gloomy and screeching.

Following on from this lesson, after lunchtime we had an “exciting” music lesson. We began the lesson by listening to a piece of music written by Beethoven called “The Storm.” We had to guess what the music was about and we spoke about the loud and quiet parts of the music. Then we were split into two groups and took part in two different stations.

Our learning intention for station 1 was: “I can sort instruments into the different ways we use them.”

At station 1 we sorted different musical instruments into two hoops. We had to decide which instruments you could bang and which instruments you could shake. Zuzanna made a good observation and said “Where would I put this instrument because I can bang it and shake it, would it be in the middle?” This showed great identification skills.
After this we moved onto working in pairs and played an instrument sorting game on the netbooks.

At station 2 our learning intention was:
“I can explore the different sounds that the instruments make.”
To do this we looked back at our writing of the storm from before lunchtime. Miss Boyes helped us pick out different descriptive sentences and we used these to build our music around.

We all had a turn of playing the instruments.

We presented and evaluated our musical creations by watching our recordings back and using peer and self-assessment evaluation sheets.

Have a lovely weekend and we hope you don’t get caught in any stormy weather!

Miss Boyes and P2B!

This week we wrote instructions on how to brush our teeth. Firstly, we brushed our teeth in groups following the instructions Miss Boyes gave us. Then we had to write our own instructions remembering each step that was taken.

Maya “I thought it was good because we were brushing our teeth round and round.”

Kornel “You need to remember to put tooth paste on your brush and do a circular motion”.

This week we learnt spelling words that had the “ow” sound.

Some of our words were “Owl, the ‘ow’ sound is at the beginning.”- Brooke

“How, has the ow sound at the end of the word.” – Andrew “Crowd has the ow sound in the middle of the word.” – Seamus

Miss Boyes has told us that Paolo the P2 puppet parrot said he finds numeracy tricky and asked if we could help him. We have been writing down our strategies for Paolo and we will be using our talking book to help him with his number work!

We used our own positive attitudes to develop Paolo’s growth mind-set. We wrote our positive thoughts on speech bubbles!
We have been taking different steps to build our understanding of the concept of multiplication. We have been learning how to combine objects in a number of equal towers and say how many together. We are progressing really well! We have also been looking at arrays and marking the arrays along a number line to identify the multiplication sum. Marking the multiplication sum along the number line was quite tricky but because we have positive attitudes we will continue to work on it!

This week has been technologies week in school. We have had great fun practising our assembly. Miss Boyes was super proud of us for our fantastic singing and remembering our words. We spoke about gadgets from the past, present and the future at our assembly. We also showed off our boats that we designed and made in class. At the end of our assembly we received some really good questions from our peers in Primary 1, 2 and 3. They had been listening very hard and we answered the questions with confidence.

When learning about technologies we had to sort pictures of different gadgets under the headings past and present. For the heading “future” we had to use our imagination to think about the different gadgets we might have in the future and what they will be able to do.

We thought of… televisions that listen to you “turn to channel 2 please?”

We also drew televisions that float in mid-air with wings!

We have learnt about Alexander Graeme Bell. “He invented the first ever telephone with his assistant Thomas Watson”- Kate.

We watched a video clip about Alexander Graeme bell and then we had to use the information to decide if the statements were true or false. We enjoy visual literacy tasks!

We thought about how we use different pieces of technology. We had to identify which pieces of technology you can use to: listen to music, take a picture, write a letter and send a photo.

Hope you all have a lovely long weekend!