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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

Hello P2M,

I have attached this week’s post as a Word Document (I hope you are able to access it – next week it will be back to the usual format!)

Have a lovely long weekend – see you on Wednesday,

Miss McGhee

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Hello Magic Monkeys and grown-ups and welcome to Term 3! We’ve had a super busy first week back at school…….

In literacy we have covered:

• Writing about the Easter Break
• Writing ‘silly sentences’ with our learning partner
• Dictation – magic e and blends

Reading:

• Whole class reading
• We focussed on listening and looking this week – we listened to an e-book then answered questions based on the text and pictures
• We also read ‘Treasure in the Garden’ and completed follow up activities linked to ‘Thought Bubbles’

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Giving and following directions
• Exploring the points of a compass (North, East, South, West, NE, SE, SW and NW)
• Using the points of a compass to navigate a map and answer questions about location
• Dividing by 2
• Partitioning large numbers into smaller numbers to make halving them easier

P.E/Outdoor Learning:

• Lots of Tig Games: Team Tig, Bunny Tig, Toilet Tig and Rock, paper, scissor Tig
• Prize Bingo

Other Curricular Areas:

• Health and Well-being (team work and positive communication)
• Health and Well-being – circle time
• Music – learning to sign ‘True Colours’
• French – colours

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• STEM activities
• Fine Motor Skills Art
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table – French numbers
• Literacy games
• Numeracy games
• Mindfulness colouring in

Morning Starter/Afternoon Ender:

• Holiday Whiteboard
• Mindfulness colouring in
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Letter formation practice

Extra Information 

• New reading books will be sent home on Monday 26.04.2021
• Please bring reading books to school every day – especially a Thursday so they can be “quarantined” over the weekend. Thank you!  
• We have had another a new pupil join us this week– it has been lovely to welcome him into our team!

Enjoy the weekend, have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee 😊

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Re-cap of digraph sounds covered so far in Term 1
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Dictation – digraph revision
• Writing ‘October Holiday’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, using a connective word and writing 2 or more sentences
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Subtraction within 30
• Chilli Challenge subtraction – continued in our new maths jotters!
• Time –days of the week and months of the year
• Counting in 5s
• Number formation

Reading

We have started a class novel – The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark!

• Reading groups
• Predicting the story
• Recalling the story
• Reading out loud

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Joe Wicks fitness
• Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Tuesday – writing name using cursive letters  
• Wednesday – literacy activity
• Thursday – picture/word recognition  
• Friday – ‘partner game  

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

Outdoor Learning

• This week we have made an ‘Outdoor Learning Journal’
• We collected leaves and decorated our own journal
• We will use this journal each week to document our outdoor learning
• Descriptive writing about leaves

We enjoyed our walk around the school to see all the pumpkins!

French

• Simple greetings

Extra Information 

• We have some unclaimed/unlabelled uniform in the classroom – please let me know if you are looking for any items.  

Enjoy the weekend, have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee.

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Writing ‘Holiday’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
• Sounding out and spelling oo and ew words
• Digraphs (oo and ew)
• oo words – book, cook, roof, boot, shoot
• ew words – flew, grew, new, few
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Subtraction within 30
• Chilli Challenge subtraction – in our new maths jotters!
• Time – reading the time on digital and analogue clocks
• o’clock and half past
• Quarter past and quarter to
• Counting in 5s
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• reading to our ‘Learning Partner’
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Joe Wicks fitness
• Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – word building
• Wednesday – cursive letters
• Thursday – partner game
• Friday – ‘Just Dance’

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

I am looking forward to the October Break because…………..

“I’m looking forward to spending time with my family” – Beth

“I’m looking forward to going to my Granny’s for a sleepover” – Scarlett

“I am looking forward to going running with my Daddy” – Louise

“I am going to playing with my baby brother” – Ella

“I am looking forward to getting a new toy and going in my campervan” – Lewis

“I am looking forward to my Birthday” – Connor

“I am looking forward to playing Lego with my Dad” – Roman

“I am looking to going to golf with my Dad” – Jack

“I am looking forward to training my dog” – Megan

Extra Information 

• If anyone has any unused/unloved Lego at home we would love to have it in class to add to our Learning Through Play activities – please don’t buy any new Lego!

Enjoy the October Break!

Have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee xxx

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Writing: ‘My Feelings’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
• Sounding out and spelling oa and ow words
• Digraphs (oa and ow)
• oa words – boat, coat, soap, float
• ow words – row, bow, crow, window
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Introduction to time
• o’clock and half past
• Quarter past and quarter to
• Counting in 5s
• Time Bingo
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• reading to our ‘Learning Partner’
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – music
• Wednesday – word building
• Thursday – cursive letters
• Friday – partner game

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

French

• Greetings
• Numbers/counting
• Colours  

Something I have enjoyed learning this week:

I enjoyed writing about our feelings – Lily

I enjoyed handwriting – Mahdis

I enjoyed Tens and Units and reading groups – Louise

I enjoyed doing Maths – Scarlett

I’ve enjoyed doing the sound oa/ow – Eesha

I enjoyed doing digital clocks and analogue clocks – Eliza

I like P.E – Jack

I enjoyed reading – Megan

I like doing adding, reading and tens and units – Roman

Extra Information 

• If anyone has any unused/unloved Lego at home we would love to have it in class to add to our Learning Through Play activities – please don’t buy any new Lego!

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Independent writing: ‘My Hobby’.
• Writing Star Step: use a connective (and, then, because)
• Sounding out and spelling ow and ou words
• Digraphs (ow and ou)
• ow words – cow, town, clown, flower, down, bow
• ou words – shout, loud, out, mouth, ground
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive (https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/writingRepeater/)
• Reading Groups – in class
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Number bonds to 10
• Number bonds to 20
• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 5 + ? = 9)
• Exploring tens and units
• Partitioning Numbers
• Chilli Challenge addition
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• Designing a new front cover
• Writing out our favourite part of the story
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – word building
• Wednesday – cursive letters
• Thursday – partner game
• Friday – Music activity

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

Extra Information 

• We have some unlabelled uniform in class – a purple jumper and a purple cardigan. Let me know if you are looking for these!

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Independent writing: ‘Super Me’
• Sounding out and spelling igh and -y words
• Digraphs (igh and -y)
• igh words – high, night, light, fight, knight
• -y words – sky, spy, fry, fly, cry
• Dictation
• Tricky words
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups – in class
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Number bonds to 10
• Number bonds to 20
• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 5 + ? = 9)
• Exploring tens and units
• Partitioning Numbers
• Chilli Challenge addition
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• Recalling information
• Sense and non-sense sentences
• Exploring sentence structure

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Tuesday – weekend whiteboard
• Wednesday – word building
• Thursday – cursive handwriting
• Friday – Music activity

 

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games

 

Extra Information 

• E days are now Monday and Wednesday

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Independent writing: All About Me.
• Sounding out and spelling ee and ea words
• Digraphs (ee and ea)
• ee words – leek, weed, tree, sleep, sheep
• ea words – bead, seat, leaf, seal, speak,
• Dictation
• Tricky words (Block 1 – 5 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
• Tricky Word Block 1 PP
• Tricky Word Block 2 PP
• Tricky Word Block 3 PP
• Tricky Word Block 4 PP
• Tricky Word Block 5 PP
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups – in class
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Number bonds to 10
• Number bonds to 20
• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 5 + ? = 9)
• Exploring tens and units – games on ‘Topmarks’
• Partitioning Numbers
• Chilli Challenge addition
• Number Bingo
• Number formation

P.E:

• Fitness – circuits outside
• Cosmic Kids Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – Literacy Activity
• Wednesday – Learning Partner activity
• Thursday – Numeracy activity
• Friday – Music activity

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Role Play
• Exploring ‘Pointillism’ art
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud – individually
• Reading sentences and drawing pictures that match
• Sense and Non-sense sentences
• Exploring sentence structure

 

Extra Information 

• IMPORTANT INFORMATION – P.E days are changing to Monday and Wednesday (WB 21.09.2020)

Have a lovely long weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee