Author: Mrs Davenport

P1M have had a great start to their education. All of the children have enjoyed their first week and have very quickly picked up our classroom routines. We have participated in lots of different activities this week and we have enjoyed getting to know each other.

We started our first topic which is a book study. We are using the collection of ‘Harry and the Dinosuars’ books. The children have really enjoyed this and we have lots of fun activities based on these stories planned for next week – watch this space.

We are working on holding our pencil correctly and tracing and completing some simple patterns. Why don’t you practise holding your pencil correctly and drawing something at home?

We have been learning some rhymes to help us with number formation. This is something you could practise at home too. For the number 2, our rhyme is: “half a heart says “I love you”, add a line, now I’ve made the number 2.” Add the class favourite for number 3: “around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3.”

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Remember to bring in your photographic approval forms – as soon as all children have completed these we can post photos on the blog!

 

As this is our last blog post of P2M we would like to share with you our favourite memories throughout the year.

Emily: “My favourite has been the fairyland ball because it was fun.”

Jack: “My favourite thing in P2 is going to the library because you get to pick books and go to the park on the way back to school.”

Ava: “My favourite thing in P2 is golden time because I like to play with the toy swords.”

Huda: “My favourite thing in P2 has been PE especially playing rounders because it’s fun.”

Richard: “I love PE. My favourite thing in PE was rounders because my team won twice.”

Sophie Young-Murray: “I have loved number work because sometimes I get pink and green. My favourite thing to learn in number work has been counting in 10’s and 2’s.”

Sophie Douglas: “My favourite thing was the trip to the apple store because it was fun. I liked making the aeroplanes there.”

Pawel: “My favourite has been PE because it is fun. I loved the 100m races.”

Alexis: “My favourite thing in P2 was Miss Meechan because I like working with you.”

Ethan: “My favourite thing was Miss Meechan as well because she took us to the pet shop.”

Ola: “My favourite thing was golden time because I like to play.”

Sophie Roy: “My favourite thing is P2 was structured play because you do different things. I liked to plant the seeds as an activity.”

Robbie:  “I like golden time because you can play.”

Levente: “I liked PE because you can do fun things.”

Katie: “My favourite trip was the transport museum because there were lots of cars to see and I went on a train.”

Michael: “I liked going to the pet shop and I liked all the animals but my favourite was the rabbit.”

P2M, I have loved having each and every single one of you in my class this year. It was been amazing to see you all grow and learn throughout this stage of your educational journey and I am so proud of your successes and the progress you have all made. I wish you all the very best in primary 3 but for one more short week you will be the best class in the school (but don’t tell anyone!)

Miss Meechan

Our time in P2 is coming to an end but we are still squeezing in lots of fun and learning. Our week started off with a judo session which we all loved. Did you all get the leaflet about it? Our instructor was called Jake and Jake takes the class at Deans High School on a Monday. I would love to hear if some of you decide to give Judo a go?

 

Here are some examples of what we have been doing in CLIC this week. We do the first of these calculations in our head. In this sum we would put 34 in our head and add on 2. We can add on any single digit (1-9) to any other number (within 100). If you are looking for some ideas to do at home over the next few weeks or over the summer these are some good activities to work on.

 

After our whole class CLIC session we work in pairs to complete a range of different CLIC tasks. With our partner, we can choose which activities we wish to complete.

 

We have been consolidating our knowledge of halving numbers by looking at fractions. This week we were still focusing on halving numbers, objects and linking this knowledge to dividing by 2. Here are some photographs of different activities we done as part of this lesson.

Below are some links for games and songs for you to use at home over the next few weeks or during the holidays:

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.ictgames.com/forestPhonics/forestPhonicsOnline/index.html

http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/hangman/?utm_source=Math_FG&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=640×250

http://pbskids.org/games/reading/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters3/ghostadd2.html

Look out for some ideas of apps for tablets and electronic devices on the blog next week.

If you want to practise your handwriting over the holidays in preparation for primary 3, remember to visit the letter join website and use the same username and passcode which has already been given to you.

We have had a busy week in P2M and the children would like to share with you what they have enjoyed doing this week:

Richard: “I liked PE especially the 800m race. It was quite tricky. We had to run around the track 4 times.”

Teegan: “I liked doing the daily mile this week because it helps get me fit.”

Jack: “I liked PE this week. I liked the racing especially the relay races because it’s team work.”

Pawel: “I liked working with Mr Hunter because we went outside and I drew my name outside.”

Alexis: “I liked number work this. We learned about writing big numbers. I can read the number ‘521’ and you say it like five hundred and twenty one.”

Robbie: “I like golden time because you get to play.”

Sophie Young-Murray: “I liked practising my joined up handwriting this week. It was very neat.”

Michael: “I liked maths this week. I liked learning how to do adding sums in my head. You put a number in your head and you add on another number e.g. 34+8 = 42. You put 34 in your head and add on 8 to get to 42.”

Ola: “I loved spelling. You use the ‘oy’ sound for the end of a word and you use the ‘oi’ sound for the beginning and middle sounds in a word. I remember this rule.”

Katie: “I liked spelling this week. We learned the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sounds.

Ethan: “I liked watching the clip of Narnia to help me with my writing. My story was about Mr Spiderman marrying Mrs Spiderman and they had a party.”

Sophie Roy: “I liked writing about a secret door. My story was about going through a secret door and I saw Cinderella in her wedding dress. The witch queen put her dress on fire then her dress melted. It was a great story I wrote.”

Sophie Douglas: “I liked number work this week. We have been practising counting this week and we can count past 100. I can count in 2’s and 5’s and 10’s too.”

Bartosz: “I liked Spanish this week. We can count to 20 in Spanish and we can say the days of the week in Spanish.”

Maliha: “I liked structured play. This week in structured play I done the wordsearches and played a Spanish game on the iPads.”

Ava: “I liked PE this week. We went outside for PE and we played a new game called doctor tig. It was fun.”

Huda: “I liked PE this week. I like playing rounders because it’s my favourite.”

Firstly, apologies for no photographs this week – it was such a busy week we forgot to take any!

Our spelling focus for this week was tricky words which made the ‘o’ sound. We spotted that in a lot of tricky words the ‘o’ sound is made by the letter ‘a’. This made remembering the spelling of words a little bit easier. Throughout the week we participated in lots of active spelling activities to help us with our tricky words this week. The children have really enjoyed playing the snakes and ladders game this week with their words, so much so that they have asked for this to be included in homework again next week!

We are almost finished our athletics block of learning in PE and this week we participated in the 2oom race and the 400m race.

The winners in our class in the 200m race were Katie, Teegan, Ava, Jack, Pawel and Robbie.

The winners in the 4oom race were Ava, Emily, Ola, Jack, Michael and Richard.

The 400m was really tricky because we had to run around the track twice. We were learning about how to pace ourselves during these longer races. Next week we have the 800m race and a relay race!

We have came to an end of our division topic in number work and next week will begin our consolidation of a lot of strategies we have used this year.

Our topic of ‘People Who Help Us’ has also came to an end and we have really enjoyed this topic. We have  been given the opportunity to interact with a range of different services our community has to offer us and enjoyed learning about these services too. We started our topic of ‘Summer’ and what a great week to start this topic with the lovely weather. Look out for lots of outdoor learning and fun summer activities over the next few weeks.

Miss Meechan and P2M

What a busy week for us. We have all had a fantastic (and tiring!) health week full of lots of fun activities.

Here is a list of ALL the activities we participated in:

Body combat, bootcamp, football, basketball, gymnastics, yoga, relay races, rounders, daily mile, trim trail, food tasting, healthy food pictograms, reading and sequencing the very hungry caterpillar, aerobics, synergy fit and flex, trip to the park and our favourite – micro fitness assault course.

Here is a sneak preview of our week but check out the school facebook page for all of our pictures. Here is a link for the photos:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.968276923288015.1073741832.342275069221540&type=3

Below please find some links of some of the activities we used in class this week.

Cosmic kids yoga of the very hungry caterpillar:

Aerobics:

 

Literacy: Finish off your reading book at home.

Topic: Check that your fire alarm in your home is working. Ask an adult to help you.

Health and Wellbeing: below are a range of different activities. You may wish to choose a different activity each day.

1. Go to play in a local park or in your garden with an adult.
2. Create your own daily mile – ask someone at home to help you with this.
3. Create an assualt course in your home or in the local area. Time yourself. How long did it take you to complete it? Can you try to do it again even faster?
4. Find a set of stairs in your house or outside. Run up and down them 5 times. How quick were you? Can you do it quicker?
5. Go a walk in your local area. What did you see on your walk?
6. Help someone at home make a healthy snack or meal. What did you have?
7. Try to eat your five pieces of fruit or vegetable each day. What did you have?
8. Try to drink your five glasses of water a day.

 

Leave a comment below each day you complete a different activity and tell me what you done. I can’t wait to read all of your comments.

 

This week in P2M our big maths focus was ordering numbers. We worked on ordering numbers from smallest to largest and largest to smallest. We had to read the words largest and smallest and remember what they meant. We completed lots of fun activities and games to help us practise this.

We have continued with our number topic of division. This week we finished off learning about sharing and began to learn about grouping. We also learned how to read and write a formal division sentence and solve using cubes. We enjoyed taking it in turns at being the teacher and a carousel station. Have a go at home using the link below:

http://www.ictgames.com/airlineGrouping/airlineGrouping.html

Our maths topic is continuing on time and we are becoming superstars at telling the time (o’clock and half past) on an analogue and digital clock – we can even convert between analogue and digital. We participated in some active maths game and some interactive games. Have a shot at the game at home using this link:

http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/interactive/halfhours/oclockhpimm/oclockhpimm.htm

We have continued with our athletics block of learning in PE and enjoyed participating in the 60m race event outdoors. We also took some of work outdoors into the garden this week since it was such lovely weather!

 

 

Have you heard all about our special visitors this week? The fire brigade came in to tell us all about their job in the community. We even got to have a shot of the hose in the fire truck! Miss Boyes couldn’t resist getting involved in all the fun too…