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Hello P2M, Parents and Carers,

This week has been a tricky week at school – well done to P2M for all their hard work and resilience with all the last minute changes, I’m very proud of you!

Literacy:

• adding -ed to words to make them past tense
• eg. looked, waited, twisted, crashed, pushed, played
• ‘Jelly Baby Writing’. This week we used Jelly babies to help us with our writing. They were very clever and yummy! (gelatine free sweets were given too)
• Dictation and Hold the Sentence (-ed words)
• Reading – Poetry
• This week for reading we have explored ‘My Shadow’
• Optional activities were sent home
• We also completed a Poem Review
• Thank you to everyone that has shared their learning with me. Here is Connor learning in the sunshine……….

• Handwriting – ascenders and descenders.
• Handwriting – we are now focussing on writing correctly on the lines

Numeracy:

• Measure – this week we have started to estimate the length of an item based on prior knowledge
• we looked at different items and estimated the length before we measured
• 3 times table
• Times maths challenge

Other Curricular Areas:

• Outdoor Learning – Numeracy (Bingo)
• P.E – tig games and ball games
• Learn Through Play
• Health and Wellbeing – ‘Healthy Brain Recipe’

Highlights from this week:

“The timed chilli challenge” – Kaiden

“the timed challenge” – Rayyan

“Colouring in” – Max

“Writing” – Abdullah

“Learning with the building blocks” – Carl

“Mindfulness colouring in” – Lewis

“Counting in 3s” – Zoe

“Counting in 3s” – Scarlett

“I enjoyed the counting in 3s” – Mahdis

“I enjoyed doing -ed and dictation” – Beth

“I enjoyed doing the writing” – Ella

“I enjoyed doing the Jelly Baby Writing” – Megan

“I enjoyed doing mindfulness colouring in” – Eesha

“I enjoyed the building blocks” – Connor

“Timed challenge” – Fergus

” I enjoyed doing writing” – William

“I enjoyed doing handwriting” – Jack

“I enjoyed doing the Jelly Baby Writing” – Kayden

“I enjoyed writing about jelly babies” – Lily

“This week I enjoyed learning about having a healthy brain” – Miss McGhee

“I enjoyed some of P2M making me a tree to sit in” – Mr Monkey

Extra Info:

• Please return any Learning Stories you still have at home (blue folder)
• Please bring your poem to school every day
• Next week we are continuing with Poetry
• A poem will be sent home for you to read together. We will also explore this poem throughout the week at school and do activities linked to it
• I will also send reading activities home – these are optional and do not need to be returned to school

Enjoy the weekend, see you on Monday!

Have fun and stay safe

Miss McGhee

Hello P2M and Happy Friday!

We’ve had an odd week at school this week with holidays and the school being closed yesterday! I hope you had a fun day Learning Together at Home! Don’t worry if you didn’t join the live session or complete the home learning – we understand the change in routine can make this tricky.

This week we have been exploring…….

In Literacy;

• Writing ‘All About Me’ as part of our Big Writing Programme
• Writing about Primary 3
• Reading (whole class activity)
• Reading (at home book review)
• Handwriting Practice (cursive and non-cursive)

In Numeracy/Maths;

• Fractions (halves and quarters)
• 3 Times Table (counting in and sequencing 3s)

Other Curricular Areas;

• Music – we recorded our performance today! Information of how we will share this with you will be sent home as soon as possible.
• PE. Team Tig Games

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Looking after the new pets – the snails are still a big hit!
• Marble Run
• Block Play (we have new large blocks)
• Lego/construction
• STEM activities
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table – free choice
• Painting station – free choice
• Literacy games
• Numeracy games
• Mindfulness colouring in
• Drawing table – free choice

Looking forward to next week:

• New sounds – soft c (continued)
• Tricky Word practice (reading and spelling)
• New reading book (new books on Monday)
• 3 Times Table
• Maths – Fractions
• P.E (Monday/Wednesday)
• Outdoor Learning
• Dictation
• Writing
• Learn Through Play
• Morning Starter/Afternoon Ender

Extra Information

• Learning Stories have been sent home today – we hope you enjoy seeing your child’s learning from last term and their targets for this term
• As we moved closer to Primary 3 we are going to start spending a little bit more time sitting at our own desk!
• We will still be learning through play, have lots of opportunity to lead our learning and make choices too
• This will help us to be ready for Primary 3 after the summer!
• Please remember to bring reading books to school every day – especially a Thursday as that’s collection day
• Some learners in the class have been asking about ‘Show and Tell’. As you can imagine this could become very time consuming and trying to get through everyone would be a tricky task! Although I don’t do ‘Show and Tell’ learners are welcome to share learning and/or achievements from home. If your child would like to do this you are welcome to provide something to display on our ‘Learning At Home’ wall.
• This term learners will be given the opportunity to do a presentation to the class – more information will be shared nearer the time.
• All learners are invited to speak and share with the class, during the ‘whole class input’ part of a lesson and during the ‘plenary’ part of a lesson, daily.
• I hope this reassures everyone that public speaking is a skill we work on daily without the pressure of it feeling like a bigger task

Enjoy the weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee xxx