Hello again from P2a!

                         

This week was an exciting one because we were very busy all week practising for our Scottish Focus competition on Friday.  Three of us – Kiara, Matthew and Tess performed a Scottish Poem called – I dinna like the midge, and Frankie, Cameron and Rylan sang a Medley of Scottish Songs.

  

                          

Everyone was brilliant but we have to wait until Monday before we find out the winners….oh no that’s ages!  More next week…

(Did you notice in the first picture above that some of the Hamish McHaggis characters we made were used as part of the Scottish Display on stage?)

As well as learning Scottish songs and poems we were also busy finishing off our snakes as part of the Chinese New Year because we learned that this is the Year of the Snake in China.  Here we are creating our snakes.  It was quite easy making patterns and colouring in our snakes…the tricky part was cutting around and around to make the snake shape. 

   

  

  

    

We have some already on display in the class…more to be put up on the wall next week.

                                       

We also finished our snails and whales as part of our display for ‘The Snail and the Whale’ book we read recently by Julia Donaldson.  We’re hoping to find a space in our classroom for this…but our teacher thinks we may have to have an extension made for all our art work!!

   

In Drama we had fun pretending we were toy soldiers when we acted out the story of ‘The Brave Tin Soldier’ by Hans Christian Anderson.  Our version of the story had a happy ending but we learned that the original story had a sad ending.  We found it quite tricky trying to march in time like soldiers but  we’ll practise this again next week.  Also in the gymhall we had fun playing tig games and practising bouncing and catching balls. 

     

In Maths we learned how to tell the time and now know how to read times like – o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.  We also practised more number sequences for numbers 1 to 100 and revised the 2 times table. 

In Literacy we practised our reading with our new reading books, but we also had the chance to read a short novel by Dick King-Smith about a sausage dog called Dumpling, who was fed up being short and wanted to be long like the other dachshunds.  It was a really funny story and we all enjoyed reading it.  Maybe next week we’ll read another story like this.  We wrote our own story about a boy winning first prize in a competition.  It was a guitar and it gave Mum a headache when the boy in the story played it all day long.

We used the whiteboard to watch William Whiskerson visit the Scilly Isles and a dairy farm.  We found out about the journey milk makes from the cows on the farm to the supermarket, then we had to put pictures of the journey into the correct order and colour them in. 

      

We also watched our science programme Curious Cat and found out about the how bricks are made…from clay to the bricks we use to build houses and schools.  It was very interesting.

      

It was very nice on Monday to welcome a new boy to our class.  We hope he will like being part of Ancrum Road School as much as we do. 

More from us all next week…Bye for now from P2a!