We have been very busy this week welcoming the p1s into school and helping the p2s settle back into the classroom routines. Our p2s have been very helpful showing the new p1s what to do when they come in in the morning and what to do at the end of the day when we are getting ready to go home as well as helping throughout the day.

Here is a little snap shot of some of the learning we have been doing:

We read ‘The Rainbow Fish’ story and used it to think about how to treat of friends in class. We decided on our class rules and created a class charter which we all agreed to. Elyse enjoyed decorated her own scale to add to our class rainbow fish which will be our charter display. Maris thinks we have been following our class charter well by being kind to each other in the class and in the playground.

P1 have been busy practicing their forming their name and Callum enjoyed using pegs with letters on to make his name and the names of his friends. We have been thinking about the sounds in their own names and their friends names. We have all enjoyed drawing a picture of ourselves and writing our names in our big alphabet book, thinking about the first sound in our names.

P2 have been practicing the maths the learnt last year using laptop and group games which Josh has enjoyed. P1 have been practising their number recognition and counting skills through playing games in small groups.

We have all enjoyed the opportunity to work together and get to know each other more – Oliver has enjoyed creating things from Lego and learning how to use the iPads and laptops.

We are looking forward to a busy term learning lots of new things!

Miss Bredin and P1/2