LITERACY 

Reading homework books will come home in the week beginning 28th Jan, but don’t worry, we’re doing lots of reading in class in the meantime

Our spelling pattern this week is the split digraph a-e, or ‘magic e’ . W have learned how adding a  silent e to a word with a short a sound can turn it into a stretchy sound like ay eg cap – cape, tap – tape

We have started our literacy investigation into the book ‘The man on the moon’ We created questions for Bob, and took turns in the hot seat in the role of a Bob to answer the questions.

We are enjoying sharing the Jill Tomlinson novel ‘ The owl who was afraid of the dark’

Please continue to revise your tricky spelling  words using the spelling city word lists ( accessed via the link below.)

We continue to enjoy “BEAR” time in class.

You may wish to use our Spelling City class page to play games and revise the tricky spelling words. n.b. this site works best on a laptop, but there is a free app available for tablets

Numeracy and maths

Other areas of the curriculum.

• We have been learning about magnets and experimenting with a range of magnets and magnetic objects . We know that magnets have poles and that opposite poles attract and the same poles repel each other. We found that different magnets have different strengths. We discussed the fact that gravity is a bit like a magnet, attracting us to the earth.
• In assembly we learned that our Building resilience focus this term is ‘ Get Active’ and we also learned a little about the work of a Martin Luther King jr
• We decided that our topic focus this term will be the Dark. We spent time discussing what we would like to know. You can see a few of our questions below.
• We continue to develop and learn through exploring our environment and playing cooperatively with our peers.

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Some of our questions -( just a few, we had lots):

• What do Owls eat?
• Do owls lose their teeth?
• How dark is the night?
• What colour is the darkness ?
• How does the moon move?
• How does the moon change shape?
• How do stars twinkle?
• How are stars made?
• Which animals like the night?
• How big is space?

If you have any expertise you could share with us around our topic please do get in touch.

Things you could do at home…

Look in books and newspapers for magic e words

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. If you want a challenge, try 3s, 4s and off decade 10s

Look at the moon on a night when the sky is clear

Read a book that interests you

Get active – any way you choose.

I hope everyone  had an enjoyable and peaceful  break.

Firstly, thank you very much indeed for all the thoughtful and generous gifts – they are all much appreciated.

It has been lovely to catch up with the children this week and hear all their news. We have spent this week reminding ourselves of routines and expectations.

Welcome to our new pupil who has joined us this week along with his older sister in p4 and younger brother at nursery.

The children have decided that they would like to spend some time investigating magnets and magnetism, so we will begin to explore this topic next week.

Reading groups will continue in class as we begin to explore fantasy settings in stories. Key aspects of our learning will include creative thinking, communication, developing empathy and enquiry/prediction.

Reading homework will restart in the not too distant future.

Apologies for my absence this week due to laryngitis. All being well I hope to return on Monday.

LITERACY We revised spelling words with the bow sound as in slow, grow, flow .

In writing we wrote an account of our weekend. 

Please continue to revise your tricky spelling  words using the spelling city word lists ( accessed via the link below.

We continue to enjoy “BEAR” time in class.

You may wish to use our Spelling City class page to play games and revise the tricky spelling words. n.b. this site works best on a laptop, but there is a free app available for tablets

Numeracy and Maths

We have been discussing the properties and names of 3d shapes. We learned about faces, edges and vertices. Some faces are flat and some are curved. We are familiar with cube, cuboid, cone, sphere, pyramid, triangular prism  and cylinder. How many objects can you find at home which are these shapes. You might want to list some on a chart, or use tally marks. 

Other areas of the curriculum.

We  danced an Orcadian strip the willow to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.

We enjoyed baking for the school fair ( thanks to the parents who helped) 

We learned about our skeleton. Many of us know lots already. Here are some of the facts we discussed.

Your skull protects your brain

Our skeleton supports our body

The femur is the longest bone in your body.

The smallest bone is hidden inside your ear.

A baby has more bones than an adult.

An adult has 206 bones.

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By researching, I can describe the position and function of the skeleton and major organs of the human body and discuss what I need to do to keep them healthy.

I have explored my senses and can discuss their reliability and limitations in responding to the environment.

I know the symptoms of some common diseases caused by germs. I can explain how they are spread and discuss how some methods of preventing and treating disease benefit society.

Some of our questions:

•  Find out about bones, how do they move?
•  How do your bones get made?
•  What are the lines in the middle of your hands? Are they veins? What are veins for?
•  How do germs get back on to your hand once you have washed them?
•  How do water and soap get germs off your hands?
•  What are all the senses?
•  Finding out what sports we can do to keep healthy.
•  How does blood come out of your skin?
•  How do all the different parts of your body work?
•  Finding out about how your heart beats.
•  How the germs get inside you?
•  How do your adult teeth grow in?
•  How does your brain work?
•  How do your lungs/arms work? How do you breathe?
•  How do you burp ?
•  Why do we need oxygen?
•  Why do our fingers go wrinkly when you swim?
•  How do bones break ?
•  How do germs spread ?
•  Why is our skin different when we are young?
•  How can you taste food?
•  How does food turn into poo ?

If you have any expertise you could share with us around our topic please do get in touch.

Many thanks to Miss Martin for looking after P2c today and posting on our blog about our week whilst I was on a training course today.

Here are a few photos of what we got up to in class this week.

P2 are seeking support in a number of ways. We’d be most grateful if you could take time to read this list and get in touch if you can help with anything.

1. We have been having great fun developing our fine motor skills, creativity, problem solving and vocabulary as we dismantled an old TV at our ‘tinkering table’ However, to continue our journey of exploration we need more things to dismantle. If you have any small electrical items waiting to be taken to the tip then we would love to use them in school.

2. We were lucky to be given a free pack of almost 1000 flowering bulbs and we have been working on weeding some raised beds and planting some bulbs. We could do with some extra hands in order to allow us to get the bulbs in as soon as possible. If anyone was willing to come in and either work with the children to prepare  a bed, or simply to spare half and hour at any time to dig out some weeds on your own it would be much appreciated.

3. Finally ( for now) , looking ahead to Christmas Creativity, we would appreciate any donations of used wrapping paper, ribbon, bows, last year’s Christmas cards, unwanted decorations/ tinsel etc.

Many thanks for all your continued support.

Thank you for all your support for the P7’s fundraising day for Children in Need.

LITERACY

Please continue to revise your group’s spelling words using the spelling city word lists ( accessed via the link below)

Plums – Blocks 1 and 2

Shoes – Block 2 and 3

Trees and Doors – Block 3 & 4, and 5 if you are ready for a challenge

We continue to enjoy “BEAR” time in class.

You may wish to use our Spelling City class page to play games and revise the tricky spelling words. n.b. this site works best on a laptop, but there is a free app available for tablets

Numeracy and Maths

Other areas of the curriculum.

We planted daffodil bulbs and learned a little about the life of Marie Curie.

We watched a Magic Show all about Road Safety.

 

In learned how to say colours in French.

We made puppets to retell the story of the bible story, “The feeding of the 5000”

We learned the names and uses of the different types of teeth.

 

By researching, I can describe the position and function of the skeleton and major organs of the human body and discuss what I need to do to keep them healthy.

I have explored my senses and can discuss their reliability and limitations in responding to the environment.

I know the symptoms of some common diseases caused by germs. I can explain how they are spread and discuss how some methods of preventing and treating disease benefit society.

Some of our questions:

•  Find out about bones, how do they move?
•  How do your bones get made?
•  What are the lines in the middle of your hands? Are they veins? What are veins for?
•  How do germs get back on to your hand once you have washed them?
•  How do water and soap get germs off your hands?
•  What are all the senses?
•  Finding out what sports we can do to keep healthy.
•  How does blood come out of your skin?
•  How do all the different parts of your body work?
•  Finding out about how your heart beats.
•  How the germs get inside you?
•  How do your adult teeth grow in?
•  How does your brain work?
•  How do your lungs/arms work? How do you breathe?
•  How do you burp ?
•  Why do we need oxygen?
•  Why do our fingers go wrinkly when you swim?
•  How do bones break ?
•  How do germs spread ?
•  Why is our skin different when we are young?
•  How can you taste food?
•  How does food turn into poo ?

If you have any expertise you could share with us around our topic please do get in touch.

Literacy

Please continue to revise your group’s spelling words using the spelling city word lists ( accessed via the link below)

Plums – Blocks 1 and 2

Shoes – Block 2 and 3

Trees and Doors – Block 3 & 4, and 5 if you are ready for a challenge

We continue to enjoy “BEAR” time in class.

You may wish to use our Spelling City class page to play games and revise the tricky spelling words. n.b. this site works best on a laptop, but there is a free app available for tablets

cursive writing formation

Numeracy and Maths

We created block charts.

In PE, we explored differently ways of rolling

 

We investigated our 5 senses, using them to identify objects.We liked  some smells and textures more than others.

We discovered that we could use the magnetix to build UNDERNEATH the table, but gravity sometimes pulled our structures down. Why is this ?

By researching, I can describe the position and function of the skeleton and major organs of the human body and discuss what I need to do to keep them healthy.

I have explored my senses and can discuss their reliability and limitations in responding to the environment.

I know the symptoms of some common diseases caused by germs. I can explain how they are spread and discuss how some methods of preventing and treating disease benefit society.

Some of our questions:

•  Find out about bones, how do they move?
•  How do your bones get made?
•  What are the lines in the middle of your hands? Are they veins? What are veins for?
•  How do germs get back on to your hand once you have washed them?
•  How do water and soap get germs off your hands?
•  What are all the senses?
•  Finding out what sports we can do to keep healthy.
•  How does blood come out of your skin?
•  How do all the different parts of your body work?
•  Finding out about how your heart beats.
•  How the germs get inside you?
•  How do your adult teeth grow in?
•  How does your brain work?
•  How do your lungs/arms work? How do you breathe?
•  How do you burp ?
•  Why do we need oxygen?
•  Why do our fingers go wrinkly when you swim?
•  How do bones break ?
•  How do germs spread ?
•  Why is our skin different when we are young?
•  How can you taste food?
•  How does food turn into poo ?

If you have any expertise you could share with us around our topic please do get in touch.