Hello from P2a!

This week we didn’t find out about our Road Safety competition yet …nor have we got our stories about flying ready for our blog…..BUT we did have lots of fun in the classroom with our animal topic!  In Art our learning intention was to make a picture of a parrot using  pens, pencils, glue and lots of feathers!    We also learned how to make an animal mask using a template.

Here we are busy making our parrot pictures and masks-

     

     

   

While we were working we sang along to some of the songs we are learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  It’s nice to have a sing- along when we’re busy.

Later we read a story called Rumble in the Jungle and talked about the animals we would find there like gorillas, leopards, monkeys, lions, tigers, giraffes, hippos, snakes….and parrots! 

Some of us brought in our own animal books this week, which we enjoyed reading in class.  There was one about farmyard animals, one about a tiger, one about a hen laying eggs and one about mammals.  There’s bound to be lots more stories about animals next week!

Anyway, once we’d finished our artwork it was all hung up in the class (some still have to finish off their work…but that will go on display too as soon as it’s ready!)  Here is some of our work –

     

     

   

We watched some BBC clips on the whiteboard and learned about animals and their babies.  We also read some articles from newspapers about animals and especially liked the one about a Chorkie puppy called Lily, who was missing this week in Dundee.  Luckily the puppy was found so the story had a happy ending.

On Monday we practised our Scottish dancing again in the gymhall as well as doing some aerobics to pop music.  We were very hot after all this dancing!  On Tuesday we were back in the gymhall for Let’s Move.  This week we had to pretend we were on a flying carpet.  We had to clap our hands and raise our arms so our imaginary carpet rose up into the air.  Then we pretended we were flying in the sky travelling to a faraway place.  We ended up on a tropical island where we had to pretend we were monkeys and tropical birds!  Next week we are going to use our ‘flying carpets’ to travel to somewhere very cold….we wonder where that could be??

In Maths we have been busy learning about multiplication,  ordering numbers up to 100 and subtraction to 20.  This came in very useful because on Friday at Golden Time we had the chance to use our mathematical skills when we played maths games with our new Primary 6 buddies.  They helped us play games like snakes and ladders and lotto.  A big thank you to Primary 6…and we look forward to playing with you again next Friday.

We started our new reading books on Monday.  This was quite tricky but with a little practice we did very well. 

More from P2a next week…meantime bye from us and bye from some more animal friends who have joined us in our classroom – Rylan’s snake and an assortment of fluffy dogs, ducks and pandas!