This week we have continued our Author study of Julia Donaldson books.  We have engaged with the story of The Gruffalo and were inspired to write some sentences and to create our own Gruffalo faces.

P1 have learned the phonics sounds c and p and have had a lot of fun learning what colour each of the letters are.  Ask your child what colours c and p are and why?

P2 have started to learn the P2 key words, these are words which they will work on learning to read and write over the course of P2.  Some of these words can be sounded out but others we need to take a photograph of in our mind and learn them.  The words we have covered so far are;

can, came, all, for,had, as, at, but, be, are

Continue to practise these at home by looking out for them when you are reading together.

For numeracy we have started our Number Talks sessions.  We are looking at how to count larger amounts by grouping.  Look at this Number Talks picture and discuss with your child how many different ways you can work out how many.

P1 have learned the numbers 4, 5 and 6 and have been practising writing them.  Have a go at home.

I’m sure you’ll agree the children have all worked hard this week.  Well done everyone, especially Khyla who was our Hot Chocolate Friday Nomination for the week.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Currie

 

Phonics

Amelie: we have been learning the ‘m’ sound.

Sophie J: it comes from your lips.

Anaiya: it’s a red sound.

Lennox: we put jam on our lips and lips went red.

Kian: we pretended it was like lipstick and we made the ‘m’ sound.

Harry: we have been learning the ‘c’ sound.

Chloe: it’s yellow.

Myron: it comes from the back of your mouth.

Max: you need a torch to see the back of your mouth.

Kian: the torch turns your mouth yellow.

Ollie: ‘m’ for mug.

Grace: ‘m’ for mum.

Chloe: ‘c’ for cup.

Mason: ‘c’ for cat.

We have been using these songs to enhance our understanding of these sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2fB71gOD0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0AB79253I

 

Numeracy

Mason: we have been learning how to write the number 6. You do “bend down low to pick up sticks, now I’ve made the number 6.”

Parker: we have been learning how to write the number 5. You do “the neck, the tummy and the hat.” You can only lift your pencil for doing the hat.

Anaiya: we have been learning how to write the number 4. You do “down and across and down once more, now I’ve made the number 4.

Chloe: we have been learning how to write the number 3. You do “around the tree, around the tree, now I’ve made the number 3.”

We have been playing this game on the smart board this week as part of a rainbow learning activity:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

 

Our Highlights this Week

Anaiya: playing with the puzzles in the playroom.

Grace: drawing a love heart.

Amelie: playing with the dolls house.

Kian: building a castle with bricks.

Max: playing with the pirates.

Carly: playing with the building bricks in the playroom.

Harry: playing in the dinosaur museum.

Chloe: playing in the house corner.

Sophie F: drawing shells.

Sophie J: playing in the house corner.

Mason: playing with the dolls house.

Parker: drawing a house.

Ollie: playing with the bricks.

Myron: playing with the pirate ship.

Lucy: playing with the dinosaurs.

Zaki: playing in the dinosaur muesuem.

Lennox: playing with the bricks.

Sylvia: playing with the dolls house.

Anna: playing with the bricks.

Reka: playing with the puzzles.

Joanna: playing with the play-doh.

Primary 2 Blog 30.08

A busy week in primary 6/7 with lots of learning.

Primary 7 were visited by the Show Racism the Red Card team on Monday and really enjoyed the input. We have read more of our class Novel and have learned more about some new characters.
In numeracy we are working on place value and rounding, as well as learning about angles and symmetry in maths.

We have started our rugby block in PE and will be outdoors in all weathers! Please be prepared for OUTDOOR PE on Mondays and Wednesdays this term.

Pupil Voice:

Kacper – I enjoyed playing doge ball with my friends

Jan-I enjoyed rugby training and expanding our rugby skills

Evie- This week I enjoyed Rugby in PE it was my first time playing rugby

Joseph- I enjoyed doing the captains video

Mark-I enjoyed math with Mrs McdonaldJ

Adrin-I enjoyed rugby for the first time.

Joshua-I enjoyed dodge ball, it really got me excited. J

Sean- I enjoyed writing the diary entry for Wonder

Aidan – I enjoyed dodgeball and rugby.

Oliwier- I enjoyed playing dodge ball and the book called Wonder XD

Ethan – I enjoyed reading more of  wonder

Hasan – I am really looking forward to see what will happen in wonder.

Huda – In maths P6 have been learning shapes and angles

Emma – I enjoyed when we did free writing Friday

Levente-  I liked writing down the St Ninian’s  prayer and decorating it.

Aaron – I liked everything lol

Kasia – I liked art  because we got to do shades and chose every positive word to go with our portrait which was in the middle of our art picture.

Robbie –we done lots off math

Ola – I liked reading  part 2 of wonder from  Via

Ailie – I liked starting to read Via’s  part in wonder

Louise – I liked doing P.E . We played doge ball.

Zuzanna -I liked art because we could create ourselves and only two features for your face.

This week we had a very very fun week in P5.

In writing this week we wrote character descriptions about another Awful Aunt for James from our class novel. We had to use similes, metaphors and adjectives to create a clear picture of our character.

“I liked doing writing because making the character mean and weird was really funny!” – Wojtek

“I liked writing because it was fun trying to use similes and metaphors!” – Ahmed

“I liked writing about the horrible aunties!” – Madison

We have tried a new way of working smart starts, there will always be 4 activities and we can ick which one we want to go to. Every day we must choose a different station so that by the end of the week we have had a chance at doing them all.

“I really enjoyed doing smart starts, especially using the stile boards and construction!” – Angelina

“I liked using the construction in my smart start!” – Oma

In art, we have been learning about tinting and shading. We had 6 original colours and we experimented with white and black paint and mixing them together to create lighter and darker shades of colours.

“I really liked art because it was fun!” – Julia

“It was very fun doing it and I had a good time!” – Maeve.

In music this week, we had Mrs Nichol as our teacher.  We played fun games to get to know each other and sang songs.

“I liked doing music when we had to do a hand clap game.” – Alishba

“I liked playing hot potato!” – Madison

“I enjoyed ‘Free Writing Friday’ this week. I wrote about a spider!” – Marcus.

We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.

It has been another great week in P3 and the children would like to share their highlights.

Christopher liked making a crocodile puppet.

Eve liked reading with a buddy bear (which her gran very kindly knitted for us!).

Milena liked rounding numbers to the nearest ten.

Kayla liked making her own guardian angel.

Cooper liked playing the addition slider on the netbooks.

Jiya liked playing games in PE.

Seren liked reading The Enormous Crocodile.

Abigail liked using number lines to round numbers to the nearest ten.

Amelia liked singing crocodile songs and playing instruments.

Mirren liked adding doubles and near doubles in number talks.

Ibad liked handwriting when we worked on the letters u, w and e.

Abu Bakr and Alasdair liked doing Smart Start on Free Choice Friday and using the play area.

Mark liked playing the Rocket Rounding game on the netbooks.

Victoria liked Fun 31.

Maya liked using the Mighty Writer board to create her own stories.

Joshua liked building huge towers with Kapla.

Oliver liked writing instructions to tell other children how to make crocodile puppets.

Have a lovely weekend.

From P3, Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Welcome to everyone in P2 and P1.  It has been an amazing start to the session.  The children have all come in and settled well.

This week we have been reading the book A Squash And A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson.  We learned that this story actually started off as a song by Julia Donaldson which she then turned into a book.  Click this link below to hear the song.

 

P1 have been learning how to complete their rainbow learning activities during their free play and they have also completed some pencil control activities to help develop their fine motor skills.

P2 have started to revise their letter formation of the letters a, b, c, d and e.  We have particularly focused on b and d and the sounds they make and what way they face.  We have been using the “bed” strategy to help us with this.

P1 have focused on the formation of writing the number 2.  P2 have been writing the numbers 11 – 20.

Super work from everyone!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie