Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

In maths we continue to focus on reading the time using words on an analogue clock to the hour and half past the hour. Across this week we have been working on our calendars of this year in class which has linked with our Spanish work where we have been looking at the months of the year.

In our literacy, we worked on the ‘air‘ and ‘ir‘ sounds patterns this week. Linked here and here are some games to practise the ‘air‘ pattern and here and here are some games to practise the ‘ir‘ pattern if you wish! We also had a look at some Scots words this week as we thought about Burns Night and had a go at a version of ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes‘ in Scots!

We continue to look at fairy tales in Wordsmith and you can find a copy of Mary and the Twelve Months to read online in your ActiveLearn accounts. We had a think about the character of each month and the sort of colours we could use to show this based on the events and plants or fruits that might grow at their time.

In our Space work we start to look at Earth, why it is considered the ‘Goldilocks‘ planet and continue to work on our art of the solar system. We explored using marble inks in our art this week and are waiting on these to dry to use them in our art.

And last but not least…

A big well done and congratulations to our

Rayan

for being a Confident Individual in being resilient, trying to make sensible choices and for his efforts to solve problems.

Remember to have fun this weekend and we look forward to sharing some of our Languages Week work with you next time!

General Homework for 24th January

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday. Please ensure you return your books on Monday the 31st of January.

Health and Wellbeing – You still have time to complete the Home Task for Building Resilience. Find linked below a copy of the Home Task. Please return this by Thursday the 27th of January. If you need more time just let me know!
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Literacy – Take some time to practise saying your speed sounds on the attached sheet.
We are focusing on the air and ir patterns for our speed sounds this week.
Complete the work in your child’s orange jotter.

Maths – Continue to look over your Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.
There is a Time Homework on Education City. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework OR try the worksheet that goes home today.

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:
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Please find included in this week’s review a copy of our Termly Descriptor for this term.

This week we have been looking at doubling and halving in our numeracy and we started to look at Time too and to think about what we already know about ‘time’ in general, including time words. We had a go at doubling our numbers to twenty on Hit the Button. We enjoyed this video below too!

In literacy we focused on the ‘ar’ and ‘or’ sounds this week alongside our reading and writing work. We looked at the beginning, middle and end of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as we continue to explore fairy tales.

In P.E. we went outside for games in Holyrood Park and Mr Madine worked with us on Tuesday! We looked at the sun this week as part of our Space topic work. We also began to create the solar system using a variety of art techniques and from having a look at images from space for our backgrounds.

Finally, a big well done and congratulations to our

Theodora

for being an Effective Contributor in her contributions to class discussions and her teamwork with others as well as her efforts to seek solutions to a variety of problems.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the Termly Descriptor!

General Homework for 17th January

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday. Please ensure you return your books on Monday the 24th of January.

Literacy – Take some time to practise saying your speed sounds on the attached sheet.
We are focusing on the ar and or patterns for our speed sounds this week.
Complete the work in your child’s orange jotter.

Maths – Continue to look over your Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.
There is a Sequences and Ordering Homework on Education City. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework OR try the worksheet that goes home today.

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:

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Health and Wellbeing – We have a new Home Task for Building Resilience. Our new unit is Keep Connected and there is a sheet in your child’s homework going over their task to think about who they would want on their ‘backup team’ and their challenge is to design a wanted poster for such a person! Please find linked below a copy of the Home Task. Please return this by Thursday the 27th of January. If you need more time just let me know!

Welcome back to our first Week in Review of 2022!

Firstly to confirm the change to our P.E. timetable – we are now having P.E. on Mondays and Tuesdays.

We have been looking at ordering and sequences in our Maths and Numeracy work this week having reviewed some of our mental agility work for number recognition from last term. We enjoyed looking at this ordering game on Topmarks during the week and we were keen to try this game with ordering and sequencing at home.

In our sounds work we have been looking at the oo (as in zoo) and oo (as in book) patterns. We also started to look at fairy tales and thought about some of our favourite fairy tale stories this week! We wrote and draw some short summaries of these.

We looked a little at New Year and thought about resolutions last week and we continue to look at some of the festivals people celebrate for different new year festivities. This week we looked at Rosh Hashanah as part of our Judaism focus and we will continue to review other celebrations too! We used the theme of eating sweet things during Rosh Hashanah to create some pomegranate art using oil pastels and paint.

Have a look at some of our work below!

A big well done and congratulations to our

Freddy

for being a Successful Learner and his efforts in his literacy, always applying himself to his work and trying to be responsible in class.

Lastly, we have started to look at the Solar System as part of our Space topic. We were looking over the 8 planets of our Solar System and P2 enjoyed this song about them.

Have a lovely weekend and remember to have fun!