Category: P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week. We cannot believe this is the last Reflective Friday blog for this term!

Important information:

• Reading books will be sent home this week but not next (we will continue to work on reading skills at school) . Please return all reading books that you might have at home, we are missing quite a few of them.
• Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

• This week we have started learning about soft g. Soft g When g is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /j/. For example: giant, gym, and gem. Hard g When g is in front of any other letter, it says /g/. For example: go, gave, and gravel

This is a video that we have used in class and will support learning at home.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wS4v_YTJw8

We have practiced our reading skills: this week we have focused on comprehension and fluency.

We have continued to learn common words from block 6: idea, answer and usual. Please continue to practice tricky words at home. All children know in which block they are working on.

In writing we are learning to write descriptions.

In handwriting we have practised  our name using cursive script. Please continue to practice this at home.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

• Practice words with g and ask your child to say if it is a soft or a hard g and how they know that.

• Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.  
• Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day. Please ensure you do this during the holidays. It doesn’t have to be long but daily practice is highly recommended.

Maths 

We have continued to learn about money. This week our focus has been recording amounts accurately in different ways using the correct notation. Please continue to practice recognising coins at home as we have noticed that a few children are still finding this difficult.

We have also worked on numeracy skills: addition and subtraction. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s (3s and 4s for some). Please continue to practice these skills at home.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• Practice a couple of calculations every day (please choose accordingly with your child’s ability)
• If you have coins at home give an amount to your child and ask them to write it. You could write an amount and your child could make the amount with the coins.
• This is a website that we have used in class:

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/cashing-in/cashing-in.html

Other areas

World Down Syndrome Day

We found out about World Down Syndrome day which is celebrated on 21st March each year. We learned more about the condition and enjoyed a story called Trudy and Me by Bridget Campbell.

EXA and PE

In gymnastics we are working on landing, balancing and rolling skills. We have improved our forward rolls.

IDL

We have continued to work on Food Chains.

RME

We have learned about Easter.

We enjoyed watching the P4 show about Nessie and our loose parts session.

Have a wonderful and restful Easter break!

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents, 

We hope you have had a good week. 

Important Information 

We have loose parts on Friday 22^nd. Please come to school dressed for the weather.

Here is a summary of our learning: 

Literacy 

Phonics

We have continued to learn about soft c. When e, i and y come after /c/ it makes the /s/ sound. For example circus and cycle.

Reading

We have enjoyed working on our reading books this week. In particular we have been working on reading aloud with fluency.

Writing

We wrote descriptions about animals.

Spelling

As a class we were introduced to spelling the words those, first and buy. 

Handwriting

We continued to work on the f formation as it is very tricky. Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation.   

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)    

Ideas for learning at home: 

Odd One Out

Write out some hard and soft c words on small pieces of paper. Choose 3 soft c words and 1 hard c word OR 3 hard c and 1 soft c word. Lay the words out in a row. Ask your child if they can read the words then identify the odd one out.

Examples of words to include are:

• Face
• Mice
• City
• Cycle
• Circus
• December
• Coat
• Click
• Camera
• Cobweb

Your child will know the block they are working on for spelling, please continue to revise the spelling words with your child.  

Reading books are being sent home today. Please ask your child to read this to you over the weekend. There are useful suggestions for questions to ask your child on the inside covers.

Maths and Numeracy

In our Maths work we are continuing our unit of work on money. Lots of children are still finding it tricky to identify coins and add them together. It would be very helpful if you could revise recognising coins at home.

In Numeracy we have been working on the links between addition and subtraction. For example, if you know that 25 + 5 = 30 then you also know that 5 + 25 = 30. You can also use this knowledge to work out that 30 – 25 = 5 and that 30 – 5 = 25. This is sometimes referred to as a fact family.

You can record these in a triangle as shown below.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• As mentioned above, as much hands on practical experience with coins as possible.
• Challenge your child to make a fact family triangle to demonstrate their understanding of related addition and subtraction facts.

Other Areas 

PE 

We have been developing our gymnastics skills in PE. In particular forward rolls and balances. 

RME

We have been learning about Ramadan.

Sustainability

We continued to work on the Tree of Hope story. We have been creating our own ‘trees of hope’ for a display.

Science

We have started to learn about basic food chains.

Eco garden Competition

There is an Eco -garden competition organised by the Eco-Enviros at school if your child would like to design an eco- garden for the school please have a look at the document below.

https://www.eco-spaces.co.uk/school-eco-gardens.html

https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/climate-action-schools/eco-schools/topics/school-grounds

https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/community-and-place/community-projects/garden-for-life/resources

Here are a few photos the children asked me to add to the blog.

Have a lovely weekend, 

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information:

• Loose parts on Friday 15^th March.
• Please ensure that all your children’s items are labelled (including hats and gloves).
• Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have started learning about soft c. When e, i and y comes after /c/ it makes /s/ sound. We also learned about hard c: when a, o , u comes after /c/ it makes a /k/ sound.

This is a video that we have used in class and will support learning at home.

We have practiced our reading skills: this week we have focused on comprehension and fluency.

We have continued to learn common words from block 6: both, don’t and won’t . Please continue to practice tricky words at home. All children know in which block they are working on.

In writing we are learning to write descriptions. This week we have written descriptions about Katie Morag.

At cursive handwriting. This week we have practice f and k.  We have now learned how to write in cursive all the letters of the alphabet. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

• Practice words with c and ask your child to say if it is a soft or a hard c and how they know that.

• Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.
• Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have started to learn money. This week our focus has been on revising recognising coins and to work on value.

We have also worked on numeracy skills: addition and subtraction Please continue to practice these skills at home.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• Practice a couple of calculations every day (please choose accordingly with your child’s ability)

• If you have coins at home, ask your child to make different amounts using coins. Challenge: Use the less amount of coins as possible, e.g. To make 38p use  a 20p, 10p , 5p , 2p and 1p coins rather that 38 1p coins.
• This is a website that we have used in class:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money

Other areas

EXA and PE

We have played games to work on listening to instructions and reaction times.

In gymnastics we are working on landing, balancing and rolling skills.

IDL

We have started a small topic on Sustainability. We read the story ‘The tree of hope’. You could read the story at home.

Click to access The-Tree-of-Hope.pdf

We are thinking on different ways that we can Reduce, Recycle and Reuse at school and at home.

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day by creating our own books and reading at different times of the day wearing comfy clothes.

Here is a school quiz to do at home:

Famous Authors (office.com)

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Have a lovely Mother’s Day!

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents, 

We hope you have had a good week. 

Important Information 

We read our books in class this week but will not be sending them home today. Books will be sent home next Friday.

We have loose parts on Wednesday 6th March. Please come dressed for the weather! 

Here is a summary of our learning: 

Literacy 

This has been the final week in our Magic E unit of work. Magic e working on the vowel e. Examples of words with this spelling are: Pete, Steve, theme, these. 

With our reading books we have been focusing on decoding new words and reading with fluency.

As a class we were introduced to spelling the words eye, even and above. Then we worked in our groups on the particular spelling block which we are focusing on. 

The letters for handwriting were j and y. Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation.   

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)    

Ideas for learning at home: 

Real or nonsense words 

Write these magic e words down on small pieces of paper. Can your child read the word then decide if it is a real or nonsense word? 

cake 

eve 

fline 

tube 

smope 

make 

pine 

spure 

pole 

clube 

Your child will know the block they are working on for spelling, please continue to revise the spelling words with your child.  

Numeracy 

In numeracy we have continued to work on addition and subtraction skills. We are finding subtraction more tricky compared to addition. In order to help with this we are working on counting backwards, stopping and starting at different numbers, and paying close attention to crossing decades. It would be very helpful if you could work on this at home too in order to give extra reinforcement. 

Ideas for learning at home: 

As mentioned above, please work on counting backwards. This can be done in the car, walking home from school, any time you have a spare few minutes! 

Here are a couple of links to online games which will reinforce subtraction skills. 

If your child is finding this difficult: 

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/subtraction/catch-the-stars

For more challenge: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids

Other Areas  

Outdoor Learning 

We enjoyed our session of Loose Parts session on Monday. 

PE 

We have been developing our gymnastics skills in PE. 

HWB – Building Resilience 
We are working on the unit of work titled ‘Respect Yourself’. We have been learning that we all have similarities and differences, but we are all unique. We have been drawing and writing about what makes each of us special and unique.  

HWB – RSHP 

We have been learning about Privacy and the PANTS rule. 

P is for privates are private. 

A is for always remember your body belongs to you. 

N is for no. 

T is for talk about secrets that upset you. 

S is for speak up, someone can help. 

This is a good website with ideas:  

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule

This is the song we have listened to: https://youtu.be/_SzbMEVYiyg 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Mrs  McFarlane

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information:

• Loose parts on Monday 26^th February.
• Please ensure that all items are labelled (including hats and gloves).
• Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we continued to learn about magic e. This week was magic e with an u. Eg: cube, tube, mule, rude.

This is a video that we have used in class and will support learning at home.

We have practiced our reading skills: this week we have focused on comprehension.

We have continued to learn common words from block 5: eight, learn and money. Please continue to practice tricky words at home. All children know in which block they are working on.

In writing we are learning to write descriptions. This week we have written descriptions about Granny Island from the Katie Morag series of books.

In cursive handwriting we have worked on p and u. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

• Use your magic e wand for these words: cub, cut, tub, etc. Ask your child to write them and then add the magic e band at the end of the word and see which words they have now.
• Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.
• Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have started to learn about tessellation or tilling: what is tessellation and which 2D shapes we can use for creating tessellations.

We are learning to identify examples of tiling in the environment and to apply knowledge of the features of 2D shapes to create tiling patterns incorporating two different shapes.

We have also worked on numeracy skills: addition and subtraction (missing addends). Please continue to practice these skills at home.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• Look for tessellations around the house and when on a walk.
• Lego tessellation activity: Make your child use their coloured building blocks as an awesome learning tool. Ask them to make symmetric patterns using their Lego.

• Practice a couple of calculations every day ( please choose accordingly with your child’s ability)

Other Areas

EXA and PE

We have played games to work on listening to instructions and reaction times.

In gymnastics we are learning landing and balancing skills.

RSHP

We are learning about the topic of privacy and about having confidence in our bodies.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents,

We hope you have had a lovely week.

Important Information

• We did reading in class this week but we will not be sending the books home over the holiday.
• Here is the link to the first Friday Buckstone Quiz created by P7. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=af6sSGo3tUKfacnke7-5xIbyRkDbeDZCilCs0WzXtdFUOUc1QkdWN0VQTTYzTzU2UllYT0RVTDhIVS4u

Here is a summary of our learning.

Literacy

Spelling: As a class, we introduced the tricky words people, again and four. We then each worked on the particular spelling block we are focussing on.

Phonics: We have continued to learn about magic e. This week we have looked at words with the o vowel. Magic e makes the vowels say their letter name rather than their sound. For example, in the word hole the o makes an ‘oh’ sound. Magic e remains silent.

Writing: We wrote descriptions of Monet.

Handwriting: We have been learning to form the letters h and b. Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk) 

Ideas for home learning:

Ask your child to explain how magic e works. Do they understand? The focus this week was on words with the o vowel.

You could write the following words on a piece of paper then ask your child to wave their magic e wand then add an e at the end of the word. When you add magic e to the end of the word, can they read the new word that has been created? For example not would turn into note.

not

rob

con

hop

cod

slop

Here is a video with activities you could try with your child at home.

Long O with Magic E – 4 Minute Phonics (youtube.com)

Please continue to work on reading and spelling the tricky words block your child is focussing on. Here is an idea for a game to play at home.

Spelling Pairs

Play pairs in the same way that you would play to help your child to read the words but this time have a large piece of paper and a pen in the middle of the table. If you find a pair you can only keep the pair if you can write the word, spelling it correctly. Remember to give time to your child to look at the word and talk through ways to remember it.

Maths and Numeracy

Numeracy

We have continued to work on addition strategies. In particular, we have been working on missing addend sums. For example, 46 + ? = 50

Ideas for learning at home:

Ask your child to solve these sums:

• 48 + ? = 52
• 78 + ? = 81
• 23 + ? = 25
• 59 + ? = 62
• 35 + ? = 39

For more challenge, you could pose these word problems.

• Amy made some cupcakes. Then she made 8 more. Now she has 19. How many cupcakes did she make first?
• There are 15 children ice skating. 6 of the children are in level 1. How many children are in level 2?

Shape

We have continued to work on vocabulary for describing the properties of 3D objects. The words we have been using are: faces, edges and vertices.

Ideas for learning at home:

• Ask your child to describe a cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder and prism. Can they use the correct vocabulary?
• Then you could describe a 3D object using these words. Can they guess which shape you are thinking of?

Other Areas

French

We have continued to learn the names for colours in French.

Outdoor Learning

We enjoyed our session of loose parts on Tuesday.

Chinese New Year

We enjoyed learning about The Great Race as well as how Chinese New Year is celebrated.

IDL

We have continued to learn about Greyfriars Bobby.

HWB – Building Resilience

We are working on the unit of work titled ‘Respect Yourself’. We have enjoyed singing songs such as ‘I’m the Only I’ and ‘Fabby Dabby Dee’.

We also read the story ‘Only One You’. Here is a link to a read along version.

Read Aloud “Only One You” (youtube.com)

The illustrations in the book are of painted stones. During the holiday, if you would like to design and paint your own unique stone, we would love for you to bring it in to show the rest of the class.

HWB – RSHP

The children are working on the topic of My body. They will be learning about having a healthy body and keeping clean. This week we have been learning the correct names for male and female genitals. The body-part names covered this week were: nipples, penis, scrotum and testicles and vulva.

We use these terms because they help to remove any embarrassment or shame about these body parts. Also, knowing these words means that children can explain clearly if they are unwell or have a worry. Knowing these terms help to protect children because they also learn that these parts of the body are private – we will be doing more on this in class. We encourage parents and carers to use the same terms at home, we do understand that families often have informal body-part terms that they use, but we would ask that you take on board the need to use the same terms as school.

Have a lovely February holiday,
Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

It was lovely to see you at the Drop-in session on Tuesday.

Important information:

• Loose parts on Tuesday 6^th February.
• Please ensure that all items are labelled (including hats and gloves).
• Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.
• Next week we will do reading in class but not send reading books home.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we continued to learn about magic e. This week was magic e with an i. Eg: time, kite, pipe, etc.

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction and fluency are our focus.

We have continued to learn common words from block 5: write, great and move. Please continue to practise tricky words at home. All children know in which block they are working on.

In cursive handwriting we have practice m and n. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

We did our ‘Twa Leggit mice’ recitation and two children have been selected to perform at the school assembly. Well done to all the children who took part and learned the poem; it was a very hard decision!

Ideas for learning at home

• Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.

• Use your magic e wand for these words: kit, bit, fin , etc. Ask your child to write them and then add the magic e band at the end of the word and see which words they have now.
• Ask your child to write and read these words: kite, bite, time, white, bike, line, slide, five, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the initial blends and circle them.  
• Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
• Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have started to learn about properties of 3D objects: faces, edges and vertices; stack and roll.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• When talking to your child ensure you use vocabulary using 3D Objects: we have learned cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder and prism.
• 3D object hunt around the house and outdoors.
• This video will help to reinforce the learning:

Other areas

EXA and PE

We have continued to learn Scottish Dance. We are learning to combine actions to create movement sequences independently and with others in response to music. We can now dance the Flying Scotsman.

We enjoyed drawing Scottish castles using charcoal.

FRENCH

We are learning about colours.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We have been learning about Greyfriars Bobby.

Here are some photos of our fantastic junk model castles from last week!

Here are a few more photos from this week.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents/Carers, 

We hope you have had a lovely week. It has been a busy one in p2! 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

Please ensure learning stories are returned ASAP. 

Your child will be taking home a poem to practice at home ‘Twa Leggit mice’. Information about the Robert Burns competition went out in the home link yesterday. As mention there only children who want to take part will do so but we would like all children to learn this poem. We have used this video in class to help us:

Here is a summary of our learning. 

Literacy 

Spelling: As a class we introduced the tricky words story, does and done. We then each worked on the particular spelling block we are focussing on. 

Phonics: We have started to learn about “magic e”. Magic e makes the vowels say their letter name rather than their sound. For example in the word cake the a makes an ay sound rather than ah. Magic e remains silent. 

Here is a fun video which demonstrates this. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qzlrx/alphablocks-series-1-18-magic

Writing: We wrote descriptions of a family member, trying to include as much detail as possible. 

Handwriting: We have been learning to form the letters v and w. 

Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation. 

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk) 

Ideas for home learning: 

Ask your child to explain how magic e works. Do they understand? The focus this week was on words with the a vowel. 

You could write the following words on a piece of paper then ask your child to wave their magic e wand (sent home today!) then add an e at the end of the word. When you add magic e to the end of the word, can they read the new word that has been created? For example cap would turn into cape. 

cap 

mad 

hat 

tap 

gap 

at 

can 

mat 

car 

van 

Please continue to work on reading and spelling the tricky words block your child is focussing on. Here is an idea for a game to play at home. 

I’m thinking of a word 

Write the words out on pieces of paper / card. Spread the cards out. Pick a word but do not tell your child which word you are thinking of. Say ‘I’m thinking of a word, the word has … letters’. The child is to guess what the word might be from the words spread out. If they guess correctly, they can keep the word card. If they cannot guess, give them another clue. ‘I’m thinking of a word that starts with the sound …’ or ‘ends with …’ or ‘rhymes with …’. Keep giving clues until they guess the word. This game will encourage your child to think carefully about the tricky words and ways to memorise them.  

Please also go over their reading book at the weekend before returning it on Monday. 

Maths and Numeracy 

We have been working on naming 2D shapes and linking this with patterns. 

Here is a fun game to play at home to reinforce this learning. 

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

In our number work we have continued to work on doubles and addition and subtraction strategies. For those who are confident with doubles and the doubles plus one strategy, we have linked this to addition and subtraction strategies and used larger numbers. 

Here is a fun video on doubles and halves. 

BBC iPlayer – Numberblocks – Series 2: Double Trouble 

For those pupils who are confidently adding and subtracting, we encourage the discussion of different strategies. You could challenge your child with some sums and ask them to explain how they reached their answer. For example, for 21 + 13 do they count in 1s? Or can they use a more effective strategy, such as first to add 10 to get to 31 then add 3 to get to 34.  

Other Areas: 

We have continued to learn about Monet as part of our artist study this term. 

We have been learning to name colours in French. 

As part of our health and well-being programme we have started the next unit of work which is called ‘Respect Yourself’. We have been thinking about valuing ourselves, accepting compliments and about the skills and qualities which make us each unique. 

We have continued to learn about Edinburgh Castle and also enjoyed making junk model castles in small groups. 

We have continued to work on our fitness as well as Scottish dancing. 

Have a lovely weekend. 

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information:

• Your child will bring home their learning story today. Please have a look at the termly overview and your child’s targets for this term. Please return them to school by Friday 26^th January at the latest.
• Loose parts on Monday 22^nd January.
• Please ensure that all your child’s items are labelled (including hats and gloves).
• Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have learned the initial blends: sc, sk, sn, sp, st, sw, tw.

We have practiced our reading skills: our focus at the moment is fluency.

We have started to learn common words from block 5: school, because and before.

In writing we are learning to write descriptions. We have started by writing a description of ourselves.

In cursive handwriting we have practised r and s. See the link below of the formation we use at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

• Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.

Look at these ideas to work on fluency at home:

1. Show them your own fluent reading. The more often your child hears fluent reading, the more likely they are to pick it up.
2. Teach your child how to track words.
3. Focus on sight words.
4. Recruit a friendly audience and ask your child to read the story for them.
5. Ask your child to write and read these words: scoop, scar, scan, scab, skip, skin, skid, skim, snail, snap, snug, snip, smug, smash, spin, spat, spot, spit, speck, stop, step, star, stuck, stick, stock, swim, swam, swag, swig, twin, twig, twit. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the initial blends and circle them.  
6. Please continue to read stories to your child at home.
7. Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have started to learn about properties of 2D shapes and reviewed our knowledge of 2D shapes.

We have been working on doubles and doubles plus one.

Ideas for learning at home: 

• When talking to your child ensure you use vocabulary using 2D shape: we have learned circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezium, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon and decagon. They were confident on the first three but found the others challenging.
• Shape hunt around the house and outdoors.
• Make a shape book: every page could have a shape and your child can write how many sides, how many corners (we have introduced the word vertex ( how many vertices?) and draw objects with that shape.
• In this online game you could click on the doubles area.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Other areas

EXA and PE

We have started to learn Scottish Dance. We are learning to combine actions to create movement sequences independently and with others in response to music.

ART

We are learning about Monet. We have learned about his life and started to look at his technique.

FRENCH

We are learning to count to 20.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We have been learning about Edinburgh Castle. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McFarlane

Dear Parents/Carers,

Happy New Year! It was lovely to welcome back the pupils this week. Everyone seems refreshed and ready for the busy term ahead.

Here is a summary of our learning

Literacy

Our phonics focus has been on the initial blends bl,cl,fl,gl,pl,sl. Examples of words with these blends are: block, clap, flag, glitter, plant, slip.

We have enjoyed our reading books this week, focusing on reading aloud with fluency.

Ideas for learning at home:

Here is a fun game to play which will revise the phonics focus for this week. Examples of words are: black, blow, clip, cloud, flag, flock, glass, glen, plum, play, slug, sleep.

Silly Sentence

Write the words out on bits of paper. Spread the word cards out face down. Pick 3 cards and turn them face up. Say the words as they are turned up. Now try and make up a silly sentence that includes all 3 words on the cards.

Please also ask your child to share their reading book with you. Once they are finished you could ask them to explain what happened at the beginning, middle and end. Reflecting on the structure of books will help them as they write their own stories.

Numeracy

We have been practising a variety of number skills this week. One focus has been on number recognition. We revised ‘teen’ and ‘ty’ numbers briefly and are becoming so much more confident with this now!

We have also been looking at the 100 square and looking for patterns which will help us to identify numbers and their value.

Ideas for learning at home

Click on this link to open up an interactive 100 square.

Paint the Squares – Interactive Number Charts (topmarks.co.uk)

On the left hand side you will see options to ‘pick a puzzle’. These offer various levels of challenge and the class have enjoyed exploring their number skills through this.

You could also make up your own 100 square challenges like in the photo below. Can your child fill in the spaces?

Try to look out for numbers in the environment for example house doors, bus numbers, items in packets at the shops. Real life examples of reading numbers can be much more interesting than a worksheet!

Other Areas

• We have been learning about the UNCRC article 6. We have been learning that every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.
• We enjoyed working in groups in PE.
• We have been learning about New Year resolutions and made some of our own in a creative way. See photos below!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs McFarlane