Hello again from P2a!
This week we learned a poem in Literacy about Geraldine the Giraffe by Colin West. The poem is written in the shape of the long scarf she wears around her neck. We were given a copy of the poem but most of the words were missing so we had to fill in the blanks (in our best writing). Then we had to colour in a picture of Geraldine, cut out the long scarf-shaped poem and either put it around her neck or glue it onto a piece of card. Here we are very busy on this task.
We also continued with our story of the Flying Magic Carpet in our BBC Let’s Move programme in the gymhall. Last week we had to imagine we travelled to a tropical island where we found monkeys and fantastic birds. This time we had fun pretending we were flying on our carpets to the North Pole, where we had to imagine we were polar bears in the snow!
Later in Art we created our own Flying Carpets using coloured pens and pencils. We coloured in patterns on our carpets and finished them off by sticking different coloured paper fringes around the edges. We tried very hard to keep within the lines with our colouring in and we are getting very good at this. Here we are concentrating hard as we make our carpets!
This week in Maths we carried on with Multiplication and division, numbers to 100 and adding and subtracting to 20. We like using the Education City website for the multiplication songs, especially the 2 times table song about the train that starts off slow and ends up fast. Later in the week our Primary 6 buddies helped us play our Snakes and Ladders and Lotto games. This is really helpful for us because they show us how to play the games, remind us to take turns and help us with any reading or counting required in the games.
The first of our Parents’ Nights was on Thursday and some of our parents or carers were able to come to school, speak to our teacher and see some of our work. We hope you were all pleased with our work. Next week the 2nd Parents’ Night is on Tuesday.
Also this week we were visited by the Book Fair and we were able to look at the books for sale and buy some if we wanted. There were lots of really interesting books for us to choose from. We still have a chance to buy next week.
In RME we read and discussed the story of Androcles and the Lion. We learned that the story took place a long time ago in Ancient Rome when the Romans were very powerful. Androcles was a poor slave who made friends with a lion called Leo when he helped him by removing a thorn from the lion’s paw. Later in the story Androcles runs away from his Roman master but is caught and put in an arena to be fed to the lions. Luckily the lion who came into the arena was Leo! The Romans were amazed at their friendship so Androcles was set free. It was an unusual story but it taught us about kindness and friendship.
We learned more about animal topic when some of us brought in some pictures and stories we had cut out from newspapers. We read the stories and put them on our Animal News noticeboard. One of the stories was about a very clever elephant who can paint pictures and they are so popular people want to buy them on E-Bay! Another story was about a ‘sausage’ dog, whose back legs were paralyzed so he couldn’t walk. Doctors had carried out a special operation on this little dog and now the dog is able to walk again! We learned that doctors are now hopeful to try out this type of operation on humans, which would be wonderful if it allowed people, who were confined to a wheelchair, to be able to walk again! We must keep looking at our newspapers for more interesting animal stories!
Still no news of any winners in our Road Safety competition…we’ll maybe find out next week. However, we received our Bronze Awards for good behaviour at Assembly on Friday. Well done, everyone! Our Star of the Week is Ellis, and our Group of the Week is The Happy Hedgehogs again! Well done!
Remember next week we’ll be having our pantomime – super!
More from us then…bye for now from P2a!
