Hello again from P2a at Ancrum Road Primary School!

We are still getting used to being P2 instead of P1.  Now we line up in a different place in the playground and have a new classroom.

We all had a super holiday but are happy to be back at school with our friends.  This term we are pleased to welcome a  new boy called Rylan in our class…a new friend for us!

Our topic this term is all about Space and we were very busy this week painting lots of aliens, monsters, planets and astronauts to decorate our classroom. Here we are exploring our new classroom and trying out some of our activities at Golden Time.

We read the story about Aliens love Underpants, which we thought was very funny!  We designed lots of different underpants for the aliens and they are now on a washing line in the classroom!  We’ll show a photo of them next week. 

In Numeracy we did some revision of addition to 10.  We remembered most of our number bonds but we’ll have to be really good at them because this term we’re going to be learning addition and subtraction to 20 AND our numbers up to 100!  We used a number line up to 10 last year but now we have number lines up to 20!  We also looked at a 100 square on the whiteboard and talked about the number patterns we could see on each line.  We’ll be working on this more next week.

In Literacy we all got new reading books.  We’ve also got some super library books in the classroom that we can read if we finish our activities early.  We learned our spelling words with the -ck sound and practised writing some sentences. 

For Homework we’ll be getting some spelling words to learn,  maths activities, our reading book to practise and Homework Challenges.  The first Homework challenge will be next week and we’ll be making a Space-themed Desk Tidy using a small cardboard box and 4 tubes.  We’ll get more details about this on Monday.

We went to the ICT suite this week and learned about the keyboard.  We had to find the letters of the alphabet on the keyboard and key them in order.  It was very tricky.  Later we coloured in pictures of a keyboard to show the keys we would need to use to spell the word computer and keyboard.  Here are some of our pictures.

In Health and Wellbeing we spoke about our families.  We drew pictures of the people in our families and labelled who they were.   Here are some of our pictures.

We’ve been very busy this week and it’s only been 4 days since we came back from the holidays!

Remember that next week we need to bring our Gym Kits for Monday and Tuesday!

More from us next week – bye for now from P2a!