We enjoyed working together and using our imaginations to build interesting things with the loose parts outdoors. We also found lots of worms!
We have been learning about how firefighters help us as part of our ‘People Who Help Us’ topic. We wrote about what firefighters do to help us and designed our own fire engines.
We have also been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in maths and have been creative building with the new blocks bought for our class.
We have also been talking about our school value ‘Respect’ and what it means to us.
We celebrated Red Nose Day by dressing down and designing our own red noses.
Pupils have been issued with a new reading book in their book bags this week as well as a common words grids. These are words that your child needs to work on and each child has a set of words personal to them. It would be great if you could help them practise reading and writing each of the words on their grid at home. When they can do this confidently they will be given a new set of words.
This week Primary 2 have had fun playing outside in the sunshine!
We have been counting and multiplying in maths, writing about our special gifts in literacy, working together to complete a jigsaw and being creative during activity time.
We enjoyed listening to the story ‘Marmalade the Orange Panda’ by David Walliams. Ashton kindly brought the book in for us to read and it was a lovely story!
We enjoyed playing parachute games and practising skipping skills in the gym hall.
This week the numeracy homework involves solving word problems involving addition, doubling, days in a week and counting in 2’s. We have been doing lot of this in class!
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On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. We read favourite books that some of us had brought from home. We talked about who we liked to share books with and drew pictures to show us reading our favourite book together. In the afternoon Primary 6/7 came to our class to read with us. We loved listening to their stories and then they stayed to play with us a while! Primary 6 and 7 have also recorded books for us to enjoy on the iPads.
On Friday we had great fun outside. We used our imagination to build a pirate ship, created a jail in our new den and worked together with the P3’s to design a ball run using guttering.
Pupils have been given a numeracy homework task to complete this week which has been added to their numeracy scrapbook in their book bag. This activity is all about adding number bonds to 10, counting in 2’s and and solving problems using concrete materials.
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Primary 2 were so happy to finally be allowed to have indoor P.E. in the gym hall this week! The class had great fun playing games and using the parachute.
If you haven’t already done so, please send in a bag with a pair of shorts and trainers/gym shoes for your child to wear for indoor P.E. sessions. These can be kept in school on your child’s peg.
This week we have been building some super models, working on our spelling and reading in literacy and continuing to use different strategies to multiply in maths.
Primary 2 will be starting weekly indoor P.E. sessions on a Friday afternoon. Pupils should bring in a P.E. kit (e.g. shorts, trainers in a bag that can be left in school) to wear for these sessions.
We will continue to go for a walk on a Tuesday afternoon with Primary 1, so pupils should come to school suitably dressed on that day.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and Primary 2 have been learning about Growth Mindset and the Power of Yet. We read the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andreae and wrote about things we can do and can’t do….yet! We made these super giraffes which will look fantastic on display.
In maths we have been learning to use a number line to multiply.
We have also had lots of fun building with the new blocks that have been purchased for our class, making play dough, painting and drawing. We even had some Valentine’s Day activities in the class this afternoon.
Our walk this week was much muddier than expected, apologies for all the dirty shoes!
Here are our ‘Star of the Day’ awards for this week:
Pupils have been given a numeracy homework task to complete this week which has been added to their numeracy scrapbook in their book bag. This activity is all about adding and subtracting number bonds to 10 including zero. We have started to learn about multiplication in class, so pupils may also want to include some multiplication number sentences.
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