{"id":24646,"date":"2024-07-10T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalbeattieprimaryschoolblog\/?page_id=24646"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:31:39","slug":"p2-3-mrs-r-mclean-and-mrs-howie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/dalbeattieprimaryschoolblog\/class-pages\/p2-3-mrs-r-mclean-and-mrs-howie\/","title":{"rendered":"P2\/3 Mrs R McLean and Mrs Howie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday 17th February<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0We have been learning about Autumn and Winter recently. we have been looking at all the seasonal changes and specifically relating them to animals by reading ‘The Hodgeheg’ and ‘Can’t You Sleep Little Bear’. This has led us to think about how animals cope through the Winter months and that some hibernate or migrate. This afternoon we used sticks to build bear dens. Great fun and a\u00a0 super group activity for showing communication, collaboration, adapting, leadership and\u00a0 creativity.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Friday 7th February\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Today in art work, we used our creative skills to select and manipulate a range of different ‘hot colours’ paper to make collages of the sun. This relates to our topic learning about the ‘Weather’ and also links to ‘Space’ which we will also be covering later this term.<\/p>\n

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Symmetry\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have been learning about symmetry this week in class. A good website to use at home is topmarks symmetry painter or use the link below.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/pbskids.org\/peg\/games\/symmetry-painter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some photos from P.E with Mrs. Gray today. P.2\/3 have been concentrating on using small body parts to do balances and have been learning to do 3 types of roll(forward,pencil and egg roll). They are all excellent at them.<\/p>\n

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You may manage some or all of this work at home on Friday 24<\/span>th<\/span> January. It may depend on your access to a device to watch the video clip. However, there are activities listed below, which can be done without access to the internet or, indeed, power if we should have a power cut. P<\/span>lease do only what your circumstances allow you to do.<\/span> Please try, however to do at least one maths activity, one literacy and one other if you are able. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, please ask your parent to take a photo of any learning you have managed and email the picture to Mrs Howie at:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

gw09howiealexandra@ea.dumgal.sch.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If this is not possible, completed tasks on paper can be brought in to school next week FAO Mrs Howie.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maths<\/span><\/b>
\nFor topic maths, we are moving onto work on information handling. At home, watch this introductory clip about gathering and recording data:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/zw3g87h\/articles\/zvgvqp3<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Find a collection of something in your house which you can sort and organise. Have a go at making a tally chart of each type of thing and then use the\u00a0 information to make a table like the \u2018meebs\u2019 example you saw in the video.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It could be for example:\u00a0 lego brick or toys cars or beads, types of books, writing things (pens. Pencils, crayons) etc\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OR<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have no access to the internet, think about the work we have been doing on weight instead. Ask a parent to help you find food items and compare the weight in grams, labelled on the packets\/packaging. <\/span>\u00a0Draw pictures of 3 items in order of their size, by weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Literacy- Spelling<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of your spelling test in school, write each of your words 5 times and then write each one in a\u00a0 separate sentence.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and\/OR<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Make a list of good adjectives to describe the weather.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Art<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week we were going to be using our skills in creating rainy day art work, linked to the class learning about seasons and weather. Instead, this week let\u2019s try, at home,\u00a0 to make a windy picture.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What to do: First draw a tree trunk and then add branches, bending slightly to the right. Then add a picture of a person in a coat, with scarf and umbrella. Draw the person with their scarf blowing to the right side. Have a go at drawing the umbrella being pulled by the wind also. Finally, add leaves blowing across your picture from left to right.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope there are enough activities here for you.\u00a0 Again, only do what your circumstances allow. Above all else, please keep safe.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p>\n

Mrs Howie<\/p>\n

17.1.25<\/p>\n

This week in ART, we have been developing our creative skills of manipulating paper by tearing, cutting and folding to create our thistle art work, relating to our focus on Scotland through Scots poetry. We have also been working on a whole class collaborative acrostic poem about ‘Friends.’<\/p>\n

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Happy New Year everyone!<\/p>\n

W\/B 7.1.25<\/p>\n

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10.1.25<\/p>\n

Happy New Year all! This week, it has been lovely to see the children settle back in so quickly to be focused learners, following the holidays.<\/p>\n

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This week, in topic maths, the Primary 2s have been developing their skills of collaboration and curiosity while carrying out practical measurement tasks, using cubes as non standard units of measurement. Meanwhile the Primary 3s have been learning about grams and using their focusing skills to look carefully at the numbers on spring scales to read the exact\u00a0 number of grams.<\/p>\n

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In Art work, we have been using our line drawing and control of brush strokes to create winter scenes. We had some lovely pictures!<\/p>\n

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19.12.24<\/p>\n

Christmas party P.2’s Santa came to visit us today and gave us a chocolate bar. We played lots of games and made groovy moves on the dance floor.<\/p>\n

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13.12.24<\/p>\n

Some of our Christmas art work is coming home today: our hand-printed glitter trees and our nativity Stained Glass Window pieces.\u00a0 Both of these activities gave the children opportunities to develop a range of skills when working with mixed media, including printing and cutting and manipulating tissue and other paper.<\/p>\n

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12.12.14<\/p>\n

It was great fun at the Primary 3 party.<\/p>\n

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5.12.24<\/p>\n

In topic maths this week we have bene continuing with our practical work on measure, using our skills of collaboration, sense making and curiosity to carry out various challenges. P2 have been comparing a range of different non standard units to measure with while P3 have been working to together to measure longer lengths using metre sticks.<\/p>\n

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In Art, we have been using our creative skills when finishing our handprinted Christmas trees (great fun with glitter- after all, it is Christmas!) and making stained glass effect windows for another activity next week.<\/p>\n

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3.12.24<\/p>\n

Collaborative writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

In p.2\/3 today we went into groups to write a narrative story. We had to use our imaginations and make sure we had different openers and connectives. We used lots of meta-skills in the activity such as creativity,\u00a0 communication, leadership and focusing. We enjoyed putting our ‘thinking caps’ on and working as a team. As a group we read out our stories to the rest of the class.<\/p>\n

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