A huge thank you to Grace’s mum and Orla’s gran for visiting us today.  We loved hearing stories about Elmer the Elephant and Kittie Lacey, The Fairytale Hairdresser.

Remember we will have a Reading Room every Monday afternoon so if you would like to bring your own book and a small cuddly toy to read with then pop them in your bags.

Mrs Brown

Look at our first place prize winner with his art entry for the Neilson Show. We are all so proud of you! 👏👏👏

What a quick 2 weeks, almost into May!

During this two weeks in literacy, we have focussed on short vowel sounds, oi and oy in spelling. We have been playing games and going over our spelling lists in class to help us practise them! In writing we have been adding detail by continuing to write about our news from the weekend and writing about what we did during Easter and explaining why our favourite animal is the best. In our comprehension we have focussed on our summarising skills, allowing us to summarise passages and our group reading books!

In numeracy we have been continuing to practice our number bonds within 20, improving our quick recall everyday. The butterflies and spiders have been practising their vertical calculation skills and the lady bugs have been working very hard on their ordering skills to help them find the biggest and smallest numbers. We have also been recapping our pattern skills, creating them on whiteboards and sorting coins into certain amounts to practice our money handling skills.

The focus on health and wellbeing at this point is to understand how we can make healthy choices. This is done through food choices, sleep and exercise habits. So far we have successfully categorised food into healthy and unhealthy on the chromebooks and will be going on to make our own ‘perfect plate’ to highlight the healthy foods we like to eat, as well as the treats we like to have.

We are now into a session on rebound games, with the children all working very hard on their bat and ball skills, relay racing skills and sportsmanship. We also had a sunny dance lesson outside where we used the instructions of the cha cha slide to make our own dances.

Only two more months until this lovely class of primary 2 turn into big  primary 3s, where has all that time gone?! Another fantastic month in p2/2, can’t wait to see what May holds for us!

Miss Smith 🐱🐝

What a brilliant term we have had in primary 2! We’ve been super busy with lots of visits form special visitors and making our way through our maths and literacy work!

In literacy we have continued to look at our sounds like ew, ar and qu. We have been using different ways to spell them with things like pasta. We also have continued to work on our adjectives by writing creatively, using feely bags and deciding what adjective best describes what is in the bag!

In numeracy we have continued to work on our numbers stories. We are getting very good at them. The Ladybugs have been working especially hard. We have also looked at weight and how on a balance scale the heavier object will be lower than the lighter one since it weighs more.

We have wrapped up our Roman topic with some Roman writing and drama. I am so proud of my little Roman army all remembering their latin commands! We have made mosaic and temples which are hanging up on our display. We also remade our favourite Roman inventions, including a toilet, cutlery and a (toilet) house!

We have also been exploring expressive arts through different lessons like art, music and drama. Check out our musical skills! I was blown away by how fast the pupils picked up ta and te-te.

Finally in health and wellbeing we have been covering how to look after a baby. A HUGE thank you to Theo’s mum and baby brother for coming in to visit us. We were also lucky enough to have Mrs Carr bring in her grandson. We got to ask lots of questions and compare the differences between a 4 month old and a 1 year old. This also led to us looking at the similarities between plants and humans and what helps eveyone/everything grow. To top this off we planted some lavender, daisies and blue marigolds in the muddy movers planters. We have focussed on rebound games in PE and have also been taking part in the Big Walk and Wheel.

A big thank you to all you pupils in p2/2 for your hard work this term. I hope you enjoy a well deserved rest over the Easter holidays. I will see you when you are back in April!

Miss Smith 🐱🐝 x

A huge thank you to Violet and Alice for making me the most delicious chocolate birthday cake 🎂 Violet also asked the class to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ too, thank you girls for being so thoughtful 🎂🥳💝

Today we visited the Co-op to learn about Fairtrade. After our scavenger hunt around the shop we really enjoyed our Fairtrade snack of tangerines, bananas and chocolate. Delicious!

Another month into the term and we have certainly been busy in p2/2!

In literacy we have been learning all about how to persuade people! We did so well with our persuasive writing that we were able to persuade Mrs MacDonald to give us an extra break time! We learned about why we might want to persuade someone and what words we can use to get people to see our point of view. We have also been continuing with our spelling and reading and my goodness me, I’ve been so impressed! It’s amazing to see how far all the children have come since the beginning of primary 2!

In numeracy we have continued to revise our numbers stories, learn about rounding and the butterflies and spiders have been doing vertical calculations! We have all been working so hard as well revising concepts like our months of the year, Ten and Units and finding missing numbers! Take a look at some of the things going on in the classroom.

In topic we learned all about different habitats and global warming. We have now moved onto the Romans and goodness me, what fun! Although we are only 2 lessons in, we’ve made some Roman temples out of cardboard which will be stuck up on our topic wall to make a village. Did you know that Emperor Caligula made his horse a consul? We learned that too!

In health and wellbeing we have been working hard at our gymnastics skills by improving our balancing and sequencing. The pupils all really impressed me with their hard work and how well they would self-assess and peer-assess one another. A fantastic block and we look forward to our rebound games before Easter.

We even had two of our own compete in the XA Factor as a dancing duo! Well done Cara and Eva! Well done as well to the pupils in the dance club who also competed, what a brilliant performance! I was so proud of you all!

Again, a total pleasure to have these hard working and fantastic young people in my class. A real joy to teach!

Miss Smith 🐱🐝 x

Thinking of all Scouts and Guides in all organisations across the world.

Over the last few Thursdays we have been learning about money.

We can:

– identify all coins and notes.

– show different ways of making the same total.

– record amounts accurately in different ways.

– give change.

– calculate a total amount spent and calculate change.

Today we used our money skills to visit the Cross Arthurlie Fair! We had to pay the stall holders to play the game, stall holders had to calculate change and winnings. We all had such a fun time at the fair.

Happy 2023 and happy Lunar New Year to you all! What a busy start to the term and the new year!

In numeracy, the butterflies and spiders have been learning lots about subtraction and how to find numbers ‘in between’ two others. Our jotter layout has certainly been improving and I’m so impressed by everyone’s hard work in maths! We seem to have a group of budding mathematicians! The Ladybugs have now moved onto numbers up to 100 and my goodness I am so impressed by their hard work, to say there are lots of stickers and house points being given out is an understatement.

In Literacy we have continued with our sounds and have been writing persuasively. We decided to write about what animal should be our class mascot but we all seem to still like having Lola so I guess we will just need to have 2! We are working super hard in comprehension and reading as well. Mathematicians and book worms?! Goodness I am one lucky teacher!

In Health and Wellbeing we’ve been looking at friendships and how we can be good friends to one another. We have also been doing gymnastics in PE and I am thoroughly impressed by how well we have been doing (Miss Smith… not so much. Who’d have thought? 😂).

I do apologise that there are not more pictures, for some reason they are not transferring from the iPad to the computer to upload. I’ll make sure it is sorted for next time!  have so enjoyed the beginning of this term with my lovely wee class and am so excited for things to come!