I cannot believe how fast this term is flying by! October holidays are approaching and we’ve all been super busy in p2/2 😎

Literacy has been a very busy area for us! We’ve been practicing handwriting, starting to look at how we can write instructions and learning all of our new sounds. We have a sound book that we can add words to when we hear them elsewhere. ‘Tiny Teacher’ will now become a weekly part of our literacy recap on Fridays because all of the children were so happy having one of their friends picking who could answer and helping spell the words with our ‘qu’ sound. The children have also been practicing all of their sounds by playing games like ‘Secret Words.’

In numeracy, we have been celebrating Maths Week Scotland! This ran from Sept. 26 until Oct. 2 and allowed us to look at several interesting aspects of maths! Our favourite part of maths week was learning about the artist Kandinsky and the colourful circles he created! Kandinsky noticed that shapes and maths were everywhere, so we spotted as many shapes as we could in our classroom, like our rectangular door and square window! We created our own Kandinsky circles and I must say, Kandinsky himself would be proud of these! Here are some of ours…

We also have been recapping a lot of pattern work and looking at solving mazes this week. Everyone even showed me the fantastic time work they’ve been doing with Mrs Brown ⏰! Mazes were a really fun part of maths this week, even if some of them were a little tricky! But we all remembered our Health and Wellbeing lessons and changed our ‘I can’t’ statements into ‘I can’t right now, but I’ll try it!’

We have been talking a lot about adding and subtracting calculations to make sure we remember what the signs look like, what they mean and what happens when we use them. Everybody is always keen to show me what the signs look like and we’ve had some very creative ways to show them with our whole bodies or our arms ➕➖🟰

In topic we have started looking more at maps and the symbols that they have on them. We started by listening to the story ‘We Are Going On A Bear Hunt’ and creating our own maps to go along with the story.

We’re continuing to work on our signs and symbols  by doing some more match up and recap work. As always, we love Lego in this class so our Tuff Tray has been a building site! We have made detached houses, semi-detached houses and a whole village!

As well as this, we have loved having Camembear in our class! Camembear has been so helpful by teaching us the numbers up to 10. Our class worry monster Flower James Honey (we put our top names in a hat and picked three at random), was even getting some lessons from Camembear and our Tiny French Teachers.

Health and wellbeing has been very fun this term. We have been doing lots of passing games in PE and continue to look at our emotions. We have been having very interesting group conversations about who we can talk to when we have big feelings and what we can do to help ourselves. A common answer was a cuddle from their adult, and I must say I totally agree 😊

What an exciting time we have been having in our classroom! I hope everyone has a lovely October break when it comes ❤️

Miss Smith x