Hello again from P2a!

This week we were very pleased to receive our Silver Certificates for Good Behaviour.  Now we’ll have to work very hard to aim for our Gold Certificates next term!

We also found out that some of us were winners in the Scottish Focus Competition.  Well done everyone for taking part – you were all excellent!  Pictures of winners next week.

This week we had fun skipping in the gym hall.  We must be getting very fit!  We also practised marching like soldiers as part of our Let’s Move programme about the Brave Tin Soldier.  We found it quite tricky to march in time with the music…we’ll practise this again. 

In Maths we were very busy learning how to divide and count up to 100.   We use cubes to help us to work out sharing sums and 100 squares to help us remember the order of  numbers.  We also found out some number patterns using the 100 squares that help us to add on in 2s,3s and 10s.   

           

We like working with learning partners and this week we had a bit of a change with our learning partners because one of the largest groups was split into 3 smaller groups.  This gives us the opportunity to work with different learning partners.

In Literacy we read our new reading books.  They’re getting more and more difficult but we are all working very hard to improve our reading skills and it’s fun to read lots of different stories.  For spelling we learned about words with a silent b and practised alphabetical order.  We wrote a story about a cat stuck up a tree and found lots of words with – or in a wordsearch. 

As it’s beginning to look a lot like Spring, we also had some fun acting out a Spring play in Drama.  We included some Spring songs and finished it off with a funny dance.  We’ll practise more next week and let you know how we’re getting on!

This week we learned about a visit to an orchard with William Whiskerson.  We saw the different kinds of fruit grown on a farm in Somerset – lots of apples, plums and berries.  We especially liked the strawberries and cream William ate at the end of the programme and wished we could join him.

Rylan brought in lots of Holiday Brochures for us to use as part of our Journeys topic so we had fun looking through them in our groups.  We had to choose a place we would like to visit and explain the reasons for our choice to the rest of the class.  We particularly liked places like Disneyland and Lapland but it was very difficult to choose because every place looked super! 

           

Thanks to Rylan for letting us use his brochures!

One of the stories we read this week was The Elves and the Shoemaker.  Afterwards we coloured in pictures of elves and then designed our own shoes for the elves.  Here we are busy at work.

  

  

  

   

             

Here is some of our colourful artwork.  Super, isn’t it!

  

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