Hello! This week we’ve done quite a bit of art because we have a Scottish-themed competition coming up soon as well as an Art Exhibition to provide artwork for. So we have been colouring-in, painting, cutting out, gluing together and weaving with paper! For the Scottish theme we made some kilts using coloured paper strips. Here is a preview of some of our work.

but no….we’ll not give a preview of our work for the Art exhibition….just wait and see!

As part of our Topic on Journeys we learned about the story of the Loch Ness Monster. We used the whiteboard to find images of the monster then we wrote our own story about a journey to the Loch and meeting Nessie. Some of us wrote scary stories where we ended up being eaten by the Monster!!! Some of us wrote happy stories where we made friends with the monster. We also coloured in some pictures of Nessie.

We also found out a little about the Ghost of Glamis Castle when we read the story of Hamish McHaggis and his visit to the castle with his friends. We like Hamish because he says funny Scottish words and we can find out at the end of the book what these words mean.

Later this week we learned more about travelling to different places and how people didn’t have planes, trains and cars long ago. They spent a long time just travelling on foot or using a horse. We now have lots of Topic books in our classroom so we can find out about travelling for ourselves.

We watched some BBC clips about trains, George Stevenson and the first steam engines. We learned that the invention of the train meant ordinary people could now travel to places they had never been such as the seaside!

Someone who did visit the seaside recently was William Whiskerson!

We watched another programme about William’s visit to a place in England called Lyme Regis. As well as having fun on the beach he found some fossils called ammonites. It was really interesting especially when William visited the local museum and showed us some of the dinosaur models made from dinosaur bones…awesome! We wrote a sentence about what we had learned and drew our own pictures of a dinosaur. We really like William especially when he says ‘Pleased to squeak you!’ when he meets people. We wonder where he’ll visit next time!

In Maths we’ve been learning about fractions. We’re finding this quite easy and it’s fun to work out halves and quarters using different shapes…although sometimes it can make us quite hungry when we have to work out what half a biscuit looks like or what a quarter of a cake looks like! Our sums are too yummy!

We’ve been busy learning our Scottish poem and song for our Scottish competition. Some of us tried saying the poem or singing the song in front of the rest of the class and found that it’s really quite scary to perform in front of an audience! Six of us were picked to go through to the final so fingers crossed we do well! Keep practising because there’s not long to go!!

In Literacy we’re doing very well with our reading (but we must remember to bring in our reading books every day so we can practise reading them in class!)

Our writing is getting better too but some of us are forgetting to leave finger spaces…oops!….or we’re writing in little, tiny fairy writing so that our teacher just can’t see it!!

On Wednesday we wrote a story about a girl called Liz and a boy called Kevin. Both had bikes but Kevin decided to show off on his new bike and ended up not looking where he was going and riding right into a hole in the road! We’re getting very good at using the pictures to help us write the story.

Remember that next week is a short week with In-Service on Thursday and Mid-term on Friday and the following Monday…so a nice long week-end for P2a!

More from us all next week…bye for now!