Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

This week we continued to look at number bonds, adding skills and ‘number of the day’ in our Maths and Numeracy work. The children enjoyed the Ten Pin game on Education City for number bonds as well as some of the other games available to them.

We continue to work well with our sounds and tricky words, beginning to look more at our tricky words and practising these in different ways such as through Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check (LSCWC). The Year 1 – Tricky Words selection in this game is a good way to practise some tricky words using LSCWC.

In our topic work we wrote about the sort of job we would like to have in a castle such as a knight, cook or prince! After our trip last Friday to Dunbar’s Close, we used leaves as material in our art work which went home this week – we really did use a lot of different materials and tools for that piece of art!

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

Lastly, congratulations to our

Bryce

for being a Confident Individual with his super contributions in class, helping others and being sensible as well as always working to use his manners.

General homework for 4th October 2021

Request: For our Castles work we are looking to gather in some spare cardboard. Please send in clean cardboard boxes, such as cereal boxes, or cardboard tubes as you can spare them. Thank you in advance!

Reading –  Reading books should be returning today and new books will go out on Thursday, please ensure you return your reading books on Monday 11th October.

Literacy – Look in your child’s orange homework jotter. We are focusing on handwriting as we revise our sounds. Please take some time to complete the handwriting tasks for ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘d’ and ‘s’. Can you then use your best handwriting to write 3 of the green words from:

at, mat, mad, sad, dad, sat

Maths – Please let me know if you are having issues logging into Education City. There will be a Number Bonds Homework for you. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework
OR
try the attached number bonds worksheet.

Health and Wellbeing – Remember to send in your Building Resilience Home Task for Friday the 8th of October.

Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education programme

Please find below the home learning information sheet about the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education programme Primary 2 will be starting shortly.

We will be focusing on relationships we make and develop, looking at our families, and how all our families are different, what makes us unique, making and having friends and what makes people alike and what makes us different (diversity). Several aspects are also covered by, or otherwise overlap with, our Building Resilience programme work.

The full programme can be found online at https://rshp.scot/first-level/
Download: rshp-learning-at-home-first-level-information-for-parents-and-carers-1

8/10/21: Updated to add: We will be looking specifically at Friends and friendship parts 1-3 and My family/All our families are different. You can find the slides and activity plans linked above or the activity plans linked below:

It has been Profile Jotter week this week! We have been working diligently to put our work into these jotters and look forward to eventually showing these off to you.

In Numeracy, we continue to work on numbers before, after and between as well as working on our Number of the Day. We looked at ‘missing’ numbers in addition sums too. The children enjoyed this number bonds game to help us with number facts and fluency: https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/ten/

We are continuing to work with Read Write Inc., reviewing our sounds, working to read and write using our sounds and to read our tricky words too. We were using our reading skills to read the words in this game and decide if they were real or fake words.

During Milk and Snack time, we looked at volcanoes in a short clip video and the class were keen we shared this video on the blog.

We also looked at this video about the Giant’s Causeway and how it was made by volcanoes. We listened to the legend of Finn McCool and his encounter with Benandonner which led to the creation of the Giant’s Causeway. The children particularly enjoyed this animated short about the story! We wrote a personal response to share our thoughts on this story about the Giant’s Causeway.

We had a look over some Spanish greetings this week, with children sharing what they knew or remembered and we practised some of these in class. Here you can hear some of our work!

We have been out this Friday, looking for signs of autumn using most of our senses, please look forward to seeing those photos next week!

Finally, to our Star of the Week!

Congratulations to our

Mariam

for being a Responsible Citizen and always working to be respectful, being kind and using her good manners!

We start homework this week! We have a Building Resilience homework assigned this week which can come in for the 8th of October, the Literacy and Maths homework should be completed for this Thursday, the 30th of September.

General homework for 27th September 2021

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday, please ensure you return your reading books on Monday 4th October.

Literacy – Look in your child’s orange homework jotter. This week your child has been asked to ‘Be the Teacher‘ with their sounds with you. Take a couple of minutes each night to test each other on the consonants in the Speed Sounds Chart on the first page. Encourage your child to say the sounds and ‘be the teacher’ with you. Take turns in pointing to the different letters and using their sound. This video can help you with the sounds.

Maths – Please try to log in to Education City. There will be a Homework for you. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework.
The log in information for both Education City and Active Learn should be on the inside cover of your child’s orange homework jotter.

A guide to logging in to both sites should be in your child’s homework pack. If you have any issues logging in please let Mrs Aylward know. An electronic version of the guides can be found here:

Health and Wellbeing – Building Resilience.

We are all likely to experience ups and downs in life. We can’t always predict what
life throws at us. However there are things that can help us to deal with challenges
and setbacks, and even learn and grow as a result.

In this unit, we are covering:
– Everyone goes through ups and downs in their life
– Resilient people cope better with difficulties
– I can learn to be more resilient

We start the Be Resilient unit this term. Please complete the Home Task to be handed in by the 8th of October.

Home Task First Level (P2–P4)
Think about someone that inspires you – perhaps a parent, your class teacher,
grandma or a neighbour (or a character from a book or film, or someone famous).
Find out about a time they found challenging and what they did to overcome it.
What things did they do to help them cope? Create a poster with the ideas you come
up with.

Here are the electronic files for this Home Task, one is a leaflet overview for parents and the other file is the Home Task as described above.