Pictures from our week – Christmas party and a visit from Santa! Merry Christmas everyone!

“We got a present from the elf and we got a Christmas tree for our class and Megan brought in a Santa to go on the top of our Christmas tree.” (Abby W. and Megan)

“We were performing ‘Maybe it’s a Baby’ to the mums and dads and grannies and grandpas”. (Dakota and Aryanna)

“We got a picture of our costumes and when we were getting ready to go in the people on the stage needed to go up the front steps into their places”. (Bryce and Beth)

“Last week the Rotary box charity came to our class and P2M joined us.” (Beth)

“Last week the Rotary club came to our school and they were telling us things about the Rotary club. They told us when the Rotary Club started and P2M came too. We had a chance to talk to them and ask them questions.” (Kayla and Annabelle)

“We were writing how to make our Christmas biscuit on a piece of paper and when you are done you get to play on the laptops on Clicker 7.” (Natsumi)

“Clicker 7 is a game where you write the title and you tell a story because we were writing a letter.” (Riley and Ohad)

“We were cutting out some of our flowers to put on the wall. We are putting adding sums and take away sums on the flowers. We also had stations for the numbers for our flowers.” (Alexis, Hanna and Járed)

“We were playing a game on the laptops on Funky Mummy.” (Liam)

“On Clicker7 we could write different stories and on Funky Mummy we needed to do taking away sums or making the numbers.” (Megan)

“We were decorating our Christmas tree and we had to straighten out the branches.” (Lena)

“In the nativity, we were performing to the school and we enjoyed doing the practices”. (Ohad)

P2B have had a fantastic first term.

We learned all about houses and homes, looking at different types of houses and how they are built. In literacy, we continued to learn new sounds and develop our reading skills through Read Write Inc. We improved our writing skills through stories and lists. In maths, we focused on numbers from 1 – 100, 2D shapes and 3D objects and area.

Please see our Class Newsletter for Term 2 below.

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either of us.

Learning focus this term:

Through our topic Our Caring Community we will be learning about:

• What a community is
• What a charity is
• How local organisations and charities support the local community
• The difference between needs and wants

If you have any experience in this area, please let us know. We would love to have some ‘experts’ come in to share in our learning journey.

Core Literacy:

• As you are aware, we are continuing with our Read Write Inc programme for phonics and spelling. We are now using Storyworld books for our reading, along with our class novel, to help develop reading and comprehension skills.
• Our writing lessons will have a focus on functional writing this term. We are developing the use of connectives within our sentences, such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’ to extend our writing. We will also be developing our handwriting skills.
• We are working on our listening and talking skills through Show and Tell, Book Blessings and sharing our news at circle time. We will be learning about asking open and closed questions.

Core Numeracy:

This term will be focusing on

• Addition and subtraction, to include doubles, and tens and ones
• Time, to include months of the year
• Symmetry
• Compass points

We will also be learning about Christianity with Mrs Given.

Health and Wellbeing:

This term we are learning about health and wellbeing through our Rookie Rockstar programme. We are also participate in anti-bullying week. We will continue to encourage and teach our children to make healthy choices, to enable then to become healthy, active and emotionally resilient young people of the future.

Yellow Wing Cuddle on the Couch:

Please help us to promote reading by joining us for Cuddle on the Couch. Come along to the Yellow Wing and spend some time reading with your child.  Our last session for this term will be on Thursday 6^th December.

Nativity:

This year P2 will be participating in the nativity, which will be taking place during the week beginning 10^th December. All children will be learning songs and some will have speaking parts. These will be sent home for you to practise with your child.

Lost Property:

We are aware that children sometimes misplace jumpers and other items of clothing. Please ensure that your child’s name is on every piece of clothing that comes into school. Children are given opportunities to find their property in class and throughout the school. If your child comes out of school without some of their belongings, they will be given the opportunity to retrieve their property the next day.

I look forward to working in partnership with you this session.

Kind regards,

Mrs Black

P2B really enjoyed our trip to the Gate where we learned all about how the charity support our community through food banks and more.  Thank you for all of your donations, and to our parent helpers who made the trip possible.

“We were making animal masks from the story Umbrella Bella”. (Logan and Bryce)

“We were dressing up as Pudsey and Blush last week”. (Michael)

“We met an author who wrote Umbrella Bella. She wrote the words. She read the story and we played games with her”. (Hanna, Beth, Amber and Megan)

“This week we were playing funky mummy to practice our doubles”. (Alexis)

Here’s a good game for you to play with your children. http://www.ictgames.com/funkyMummy/index.html

“In gym we have been doing some partner balances.” (Georgia and Ohad)

“We were practising our songs for our nativity. My favourite song is flocks of sheep, and I also like Sorry there isn’t a room” (Abi J and Járed)

“In topic we were talking about needs and wants” (Kayla).

“We were doing a Pudsey Parade outside on the trim trail”. (Joseph)

“We have been taking pictures in the corridor”. (Euan)

“We were going outside to have a walk around the school”. (Ohad)

“We were raising money for Children in Need by selling Pudsey  pin badges and wristbands.” (Aryanna and Mollie)

“In art we were drawing Pudsey.” (Megan)

“We designed a Rookie Rockstars poster.” (Abby W)

“In maths we have been using our doubles in maths.” (Kayla)

“In PE we were doing stations. We did bowling, football and doing forward rolls and going through the tunnel.” (Járed)

“We were writing a letter to Daisy about the trouble with Christmas.” (Nathan)

“We have been learning about what is bullying or not bullying.” (Rory)

Enjoy our Pudsey Pictures!

“We were tasting some of the herbs in our garden”. (Járed and Nathan)

“On our outdoor learning we were finding stones, pinecones, shells, sticks and leaves to make animals with” (Logan and Aryanna).

“We were doing sums on a rekenrek. We were learning doubles.” (Bryce and Kayla)

Here is a link to a game that we have been playing about doubles.

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/archeryDoubles/index.html

“We were logging on to computers and we were coming back off using the shut down button.” (Georgia)

“We were logging on and off the laptops”. (Joseph)

“On our show of Rookie Rockstars we performed songs”. (Riley)

We have had a fantastically busy, topsy turvy week in p2B this week! With Halloween and Rookie Rockstars going on, we have had lots of fun!

“In art we made some pumpkins with paper, pens and oil pastels.” (Georgia)

“In gym we played zombie tig and in Rookie Rockstars we were making a CD.” (Beth)

“We were at a Halloween disco and everybody dressed up.” (Riley)

“We were writing about what we did at Halloween. I was writing about carving a pumpkin.” (Natsumi)

“With Mrs Given we were making witches for Halloween. The witches were all the same but the smiles were different.” (Liam)

Rookie Rockstars!

“We sang some songs about bullying, about being OK and we were playing air guitars.” (Cameron and Abby W.)

“We were designing a Rookie Rockstar a CD cover.” (Bryce and Ohad)

Hope you can make it to our concerts on Tuesday or Wednesday. Tickets are still available.

We have also been practicing our numbers in French to 20. Here’s a video you could watch at home.

In maths we have been practicing our doubles within 20. Here’s another couple of videos that you could watch together to help remember our doubles.

We have had a fantastic first week back after the October holidays. This is what we remembered from this week…

“In French we were doing numbers 1 to 10.” (Logan). Here is a link to the video that we watched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDPkQzpGu8&t=0s&index=14&list=PLhBmg2IrSf6ztLPg0dXzT-LIcIs9qo3wF

“In art we were making a spiders web with light colours to paint over.” (Georgia)

“We got one card and tried to match it with the cubes in maths.” (Annabelle)

“We were using the blocks to count up to 100.” (Euan)

“In our writing we were writing about our October holidays. We were using finger spaces, capital letters, connectives and two sentences or more.” (Hanna)