Highlight of the week was definitely our beach trip. Huge thanks to all our helpers, without whom the trip could not have gone ahead.

Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Spelling revision

For spelling revision, please have a look at our spelling city homework page for games and activities to support learning.

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been continuing our Scottish National Assessments in Numeracy this week.

We have also been learning about fractions.

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Other areas of the curriculum

In anticipation of the beach trip we were finding out about molluscs, invertebrates and garstropods .

We enjoyed having a close look at how snails move.

In PE we played games combining many of the skills we have been learning this year and we enjoyed a great visit from Simon ( Simon says Dance )

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts on Tuesday.

The Edinburgh School Uniform Bank is the charity supported by P1 this year. We made a shortr video to raise awareness of the charity and what they do. please watch the video ( linked below) and consider making a donation to a drop off point if you can. The lsit of drop off points can be found here

The Edinburgh School Uniform Bank.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling.

Please return any outstanding Blue Learning Story folders and parent comment sheets from the reports ( even if you do not wish to comment, please sign and return the sheet to conform that you have read the report.)

Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

Spelling revision

For spelling revision, please have a look at our spelling city homework page for games and activities to support learning.

Our writing prompt this week was ‘Dear P2 teacher’ –

As our writing contains our names then the pictures can’t be shared this week.

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been doing our Scottish National Assessments in Numeracy this week.

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Other areas of the curriculum

We really enjoyed getting to watch the P7 show. It was great !

In PE we continued our block of athletics, and also played games designed to help develop our core strength.

Looking ahead to next week

Beach trip on Wednesday !

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play this game. Choose addition or subtraction and then set your level of challenge – there are lots of options to try !

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

The highlight of our week was a visit from baby Finn. Thank you Alexis ( and her mum) for teaching us all about how to look after a baby.

Ask me –

1. To tell you about trumpets.
2. To write the spelling words listed below
3. About baby Finn

Please continue to send in your clean recycling.

Our learning this week

Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

bl is for blow

tr is for trumpet

For spelling revision, please have a look at our spelling city homework page for games and activities to support learning.

Here are some spelling words to try at home using this week’s focus blends of bl and tr

black, blob, bling, track, trim, tree, trumpet

Our writing prompt this week was ‘At the beach’ – we are looking forward to our outing on the 19th.

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

Maths and numeracy focus

Position and movement. Key vocabulary included forward, back, left, right, turn, above, below, infront, behind, between.

P7 brought their ipads and taught us how to use the Beebot app. Then we applied our new-found skills to the programmable beebots in the classroom.

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics, and also played games designed to help develop our core strength.

On Monday we released our butterflies. The video link below wasn’t working last week ( my apologies) but it should be ok now.

Watch one emerging on this video link..

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts on Thursday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play this game. Choose addition or subtraction and then set your level of challenge – there are lots of options to try !

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.