Author: Sue Zeitlin

As part of our nutrition studies Primary 2 was visited by a Dietician. She told us all about healthy foods.  She even brought in vegetables for us to smell and hold.  We liked the look of the aubergine and some of us liked the smell of the fennel.  Following that P2b made healthy sandwiches.  We worked in pairs to design and create our sandwiches.  We could choose from cheese, lettuce, tomato and cucumber.  Of course we also used healthy brown bread.  Have a look at some of our photos above and below.

 

This week was Scottish book week and we all took part in different activities. One game was to play charades where we acted out either a book or a character from a book. We listened

to Miss Zeitlin’s favourite book ‘Franny K. Stine’.  We also received a lovely gift bag.  In the bag we got games, books, colouring pencils and puppets.

This week in P2b, we have been revising Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams with Miss Reid. The circles in P2b were learning place value, and how to place tens and units. Also as whole group in P2b we played a number bond game to 20.

We made some beautiful animal masks and we also made a poster relating to the animal on the mask. On the poster we wrote what the diet of the animal was, a description of the animal and fun fact about the animal.

 

Primary 2 has been very busy staying warm in our classroom.   Some of primary 2 have been learning about 2D shape we have learnt about the properties of hexagons and pentagons.  Others in P2 have started to learn about data handling.  We began to learn about Venn diagrams in P2b with Miss Reid.  She will be working with us for the next few weeks.

This week we explored some features of the Rainforest. We learnt about the four layers of the Rainforest, which are: the Emergent layer, the Canopy layer, the Understory and the Forest Floor.   We also did a piece of descriptive writing using time markers and adjectives.

We have now moved on from the transport topic and our new topic this term is The Rainforest. At school this week, we have made a poster about what we already know about the rainforest. We put what animals we think are in the rainforest. We think that elephants, birds, flamingos and lots of other animals live and play in there. P2a think that it rains a lot in the rainforest. We also think that trees and vines live in there too. Some of us think there are pine trees and palm trees and Eilidh P has told us all about Monkey Puzzle Trees which we will do some research on. Adam B has been telling us that vines are green and the bottom of the pine and palm trees are brown but the leaves are green. In writing we have been using the openers: First, Next, After, Then and Finally to describe what was happening in the rainforest picture.

 

On our first week back after the October holidays P2a and P2b learnt about different types of transport around the world. We really liked the sea plane that takes off and lands on water and some of us would love to travel by camel in the desert.

In P2b, we are now getting good at counting up in 2s and 10s. The Squares are learning about tens and units and the Triangles have been learning how to calculate change in money.  Together they have been learning about halves and quarters. The Circles are learning about the properties of 2D shapes.

Next week we will be starting a new topic. We will tell you more next week.

In P2a, the triangles group have been learning about money this week. We have been making money plates to make the amounts in the middle of the plate using 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p coins. The Squares maths group have been learning about the times o’clock and half past. We know that when the big hand is at the 12 it is o’clock and when the big hand is at the 6 it is half past. If it is half past, we know that 30 minutes have passed the hour. If it is o’clock then 0 minutes have passed the hour. The Circles group have been learning about family facts. We have been making subtraction and addition calculations.

We have been learning about different ships in our transport topic. We have been learning about Christopher Columbus who is an explorer. He started the communications between America and Europe. We have been learning that one of Christopher Columbus’ ships is called the Santa Maria and he had 3 ships altogether.

 

Primary 2 are well underway on our Transport topic. This week we have been learning about cars and bicycles.  We learnt about the very first cars and we are writing about what we think cars will look like in the future.

Next we began to learn about the history of bicycles and we went on to build our own Penny-farthing bicycles out of pipe cleaners. This was part of our technology lesson.

We have also begun new topics in maths. The Squares are learning about time.  There are 60 minutes in 1 hour and 30 minutes in half an hour.  We are also learning to tell the time in analogue and digital formats.

The Circles are learning about Fact Families and how addition and subtraction are related.

The Triangles have been learning about money. We have been making totals up with coins and seeing how many different ways we can find

Have a nice weekend.

From Primary 2.

The Squares and Triangles group have been measuring the weight of fruit. We used some fruit to make a 1kg fruit salad. We put the fruit on scales to see if they were 1kg.

The class went to Eastwood High School for P.E. and we played the traffic light game. When the teacher calls ‘red’ you have to make any shape and hold it for 4 seconds. When the teacher says ‘amber’ we have to jump on the spot and when she says ‘green’ we have to run. We were also learning throwing and catching ball skills.

We have been learning about the water crisis in some places in Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. We drew buckets of dirty water to remember that some people don’t have clean water to drink. We watched a video and took notes on our whiteboards to write down round our bucket pictures.

 

This week Primary 2 has played team games and balancing games at PE.

As part of our Global Goals Topic we have been looking at Water. This week we explored how we get clean water to our homes and school and how we get the dirty water taken away again.

We began writing this week. We wrote a short story called ‘The Cave’.  We had to include at least three describing words.

Primary 2 has also been learning our number bonds by heart. We will keep practising this.

 

 

In Science we have been learning about the Water Cycle. We have learned how the water is evaporated by the sun and made into gas. It floats up into the air and condenses into a cloud. The cloud gets heavier and it turns into a liquid and it starts to rain and this is called precipitation. The ground collects the water and it happens over and over again. We watched a video on this and did a sheet matching the words to the pictures.

 

Ask us about the Water Cycle song!