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Primary 1/ 2 Blog

Primary 2 – Week in Review

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NUMERACY

In maths P2 have continued to work on number of the day. Learners now choose their own number of the day by rolling a dice or for an extra challenge two dices. For  number of the day children continue to write their number in words, add 1, subtract 1, add 10, take away 10, make tally marks and draw their number.

Beyond number we are looking at measure. This week’s focus has been around weight. We became a post office employee by weighing parcels and reading scales. The children may wish to continue to play this game at home, here is a link:

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

We learned measure vocabulary used on scales such as grams and kilograms. We shall continue to aim to record our measurements accurately.  Next week, around measure we shall look at volume/capacity.

LITERACY

Our class novel is “Horrid Henry Meets The Queen” by Francesca Simon. P2 have found this book humorous and picked up some new vocabulary along the way – ‘mimicked’, ‘considered’, and ‘spectacular’ to name a few unfamiliar words we have discussed together. 

Everyone has had an opportunity to read aloud to the teacher on three occasions, and WOW what fantastic expression some children are using retelling their stories!

We have worked on Read, Write, Ink and our focus for learning has been sentence construction. P2 are superstars using capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation at the end of their sentences (!, ? or .).

I am pleased to say, P2 enjoyed having an opportunity to work with their p7 buddies on Monday afternoon. The class split into two and we completed an art activity indoors and spent time in the outside playground to share a story with our P7 buddy. We are all looking forward to working with our buddies again very soon!

TWO PLUS ONE LANGUAGES

In Spanish we are learning colours, played bingo in pairs, and loved singing this song too. Here is the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz69JxNznWA

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

We have completed our block of gymnastics and are now looking at dance. This week we became familiar with a Scottish ceilidh dance and a Superman party dance. Videos and photographs to follow. The children had lots of fun. 

Kind Regards
Nicola Sandilands

Nursery Blog, Uncategorized

Fantastic Friday!

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Welcome back to Fantastic Friday where we showcase the amazing work and play done in the nursery each week! This week we have been exploring light and dark and focussing on space and the night sky. We have been discussing the different routines for night and day and the planets in our solar system. We have enjoyed reading books about the moon and astronauts and have been role playing in our space suit. We made some beautiful stained glass window decorations to observe how the colours change in the sunlight, built amazing rockets using recycling and painted some bright stars and moons. We also designed and built some brilliant rockets in our construction area and had lots of fun playing with our small world space station. We helped bake a yummy cake for our friend’s birthday and made some bright playdough. We had a great time at forest school making some lovely leaf rubbings and played hide and seek in the woods.

Please continue to post lovely pictures of the fun you have at home on the learning journals. If your child is going to school after the summer then please make sure you have submitted your application. As the weather is getting colder please make sure you bring you are on time as it is too cold for the children to be waiting outside for long periods of time. We hope you have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

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Primary 1 Blog

P1 – Monday 8th November

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Library Trip

Ted and Primary 1 went on an adventure to the Edinburgh City Children’s Library. P1 were super sensible on the long walk and did some very good listening too.

Shape

Making with playdough
Drawing with pens, pencils, chalk and water bottles!
Sorting due to their properties

We’ve been busy this week!

CVC word building

Choose a card, find the blocks and then spell the word. Some groups have even played ‘Be the teacher’ and tested each other! This activity has really helped us with sounding out the letters then blending them together to read the word.

Phoning the Emergency Services

When sharing stories about Fireworks Night, Primary 1 began our topic about People Who Help Us

“Phone 999” the class says. But how?
With house phones being less popular, would your child know how to phone 999 on a locked smartphone?
With no 9 button visible, this may be trickier than it sounds.

Emergency Call Handler Bethany Tidmarsh, explained the best way to start a conversation about the subject of calling 999 is when an ambulance goes past, when they see one on TV, or even when they hear sirens.

Questions to think about

  • Do they know where the landline or mobile phone is kept in the house?
  • Do they know how to phone on a locked smartphone?
  • Do they know their home address?
  • Do they know how to unlock their door in an emergency?

Miss Aitken

We have also welcomed Miss Aitken a PGDE student at University of Edinburgh, into our P1 team. She will be supporting the class until the Christmas break.

Thank you for taking the time to read what we have been up to. Click reply to this post to say Hello!

Warm wishes, Miss Copeland, Mrs McGlashan, Miss Aitken and Miss Black