Snow Day!

Happy Snow Day, Primary Two!

I hope everyone is safe and enjoying an unexpected two days off. Here are some ideas for how to enjoy yourselves while still learning:

Numeracy & Mathematics

See how many different shapes you can make out of snow

Have a competition to see who can build the tallest/smallest/widest/narrowest snowman

Use a watch or a mobile phone timer to see who can build a snowman the fastest

Count how many snowballs you can make in one minute/five minutes/ten minutes

If you are sledging, have a race and explain who was 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.

Use your positional language while sledging – explain who is in front, behind, to the left, to the right.

See how many different patterns you can make in the snow using your feet/hands/objects.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Ask an adult to help you check on your Grandparents or neighbours to see if everyone is safe and warm

Help an adult make a meal with the food you have at home

Ask an adult for a kindness challenge – cleaning your room, or reading to a brother or sister.

Practise your throwing (and even catching!) skills if you happen to be having a snowball fight. But be careful!

 

Literacy

Read a story to someone at home

Watch a snow day movie and talk about the characters/plot/setting

Make up a story of your own – be an Imaginative Izzy!

Create your own setting for your story – e.g. build a den out of blankets and pillows, create a castle using Lego bricks.

 

RME

Keep practising for our Mass – We are hoping to be back at school by Tuesday!

 

Hope to see you soon!

Miss O’Rourke 🙂

Fab Fit Friday!

We have had a busy week rehearsing for our Christmas Nativity, and if we have a speaking part our scripts are now at home for you to practise with us! Today was our Fab Fit Friday Dancethon – every class travelled around the school and took part in different dance activities within each classroom. We enjoyed some Harry Potter yoga and relaxation as well as our dances and we all agreed that it was a great day!

Lava Lamps and More

We have had another busy week here in P2. We had a brilliant Science workshop and we made our own Lava Lamps to bring home. We also started making our own instruments with the Big Noise. We made violins, violas, cellos and double basses.

In Literacy we have been learning about different punctuation. This week we practised using question marks correctly and some of us started working on exclamation marks.

We learned about some events that happened in Dundee in our topic lessons and this week we focused on the Tay Rail Bridge. We learned about the disaster and we took part in a bridge building challenge of our own. It was tricky but we used our superhero characters to help us. We worked together, like Tabitha Teamwork, and we didn’t give up, just like Tough Tommy.

Next week is our Assembly, on Wednesday. We have letters in our school bags inviting you all to join us and we can’t wait!

Term 2

We had a great first week back at school. Our friends from Big Noise Douglas came to work with us on Tuesday and Thursday and we got to try out different instruments for the first time. We played violins, violas, double bases and cellos.

In Numeracy we are continuing to work on place value and soon we will move on to working on our number bonds. Our Learning to Read Groups started again on Monday and lots of us have moved to new colours and are excited to be making such amazing progress.

We are working on our fitness levels in gym and we went outside for some circuit training on Thursday.

In our school bags this week we brought home our speaking parts for our P2 Assembly next Wednesday. Please help us to practise as much as we can so we can put on a fantastic performance!

 

End of Term 1

We can’t believe term one is over already! We have been working really hard recently with our friends from Big Noise Douglas and Gordon and Kirsty have introduced us to different instruments, games and songs. We are enjoying it a lot and we can’t wait to start playing our own instruments sometime soon!

During our last week before the October holiday, we visited the Community Garden at Dawson Park with our friends in primary 2/3. We had the chance to look at the different flowers and animals found there and meet some of the people who volunteer in the garden. It was a great morning of exploring and we especially liked the butterflies.

Our last Friday of school was a Fab Fit Friday and we took part in some amazing activities. First of all we met Craig from the gym in Douglas who taught us some circuit training exercises. It was exhausting! We played some outdoor games and then had the chance to try out some different dance styles with Glen fro Aspire. We had a bit of a rest listening to our visitor from Police Scotland and finally we had the opportunity to try out a huge inflatable obstacle course in the playground. We had a great time and were definitely ready for our holiday after such a busy last day!

 

Time Flies

We had a fantastic Maths Week and took part in lots of exciting activities. Ms Cox came to visit us and played some maths games with us; Miss O’Rourke enjoyed it more than we did and has lots of new ideas for us now! We also played some counting games in French with Madame Bradbury, who was impressed with our French number knowledge.

We made our own fruit cocktails with Yvanne from ASDA and got to try out some new fruits as well as practising our counting. On Thursday some of us brought our bikes and scooters to school and enjoyed the bike breakfast. We would also like to say thank you to everyone who visited us on Friday for our Open Afternoon.

We can’t believe the end of term is sneaking up on us already! Have another look at our Blog next week to see more of our learning.

Maths Week

We are super excited this week because it’s Maths week in school and we have lots of activities planned. We will update with pictures of these later. We have a home learning challenge this week for our Homework, as well as a challenge to “Get Caught Counting” in some unusual places. Please help us join in as there are prizes to be won.

We have been out and about in our local community recently. We went for a walk around the local area to take notes in order to create our own local area map. Last week we also walked to the Douglas Library and brought home some new books to read with you.

In Gym we have been working on controlling our bodies and moving on to controlling objects. We are getting good at throwing, catching and rolling.

As you might have seen on the news, we launched Big Noise Douglas last week. We can’t wait to start working with our musicians on Tuesday and see what the project brings.

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog and thank you for reading. This is where our P2 class will share our learning through blog posts, pictures and videos. We have settled in well to P2 and are working very hard already.

This term we are learning about Dundee as our main topic. We are using our ICT skills to show off our learning, creating our own Dundee PowerPoint presentations. In Literacy, we are enjoying our new “Learning to Read” groups on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On Tuesday and Thursday, we are working on writing skills in class, specifically the correct use of punctuation and capital letters. Miss O’Rourke has been very impressed with our Numeracy skills; we are working on Numbers to 100 and starting to learn about Place Value. We love a Numeracy challenge. In the gym, we are working on controlling objects as well as bodies.

This week, we had a visit from the “Big Noise” team; some of you might have caught the playground concert after school. We talked to Jess about different instruments that we might be able to try and we can’t wait to get started!

We also created our “Class Promise” this week. We decided that we like promises better than rules. So, we have promised to be a good friend and not hurt one another with our hands or our words. We have promised to always try our best and never be afraid to make mistakes. And finally, we have promised to be positive and have lots of fun during our P2 journey.

Keep checking back for weekly updates on our learning.

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