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!

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year. We enjoyed listening to the story of the Chinese New Year Animal Race.  We learned that the rabbit came fourth in the race and that this year is the year of the rabbit. 🐇

We also learned that to celebrate the New Year, Chinese people make and light paper lanterns, clean their houses, join in dragon dances, watch firework displays, eat together as a family to name just a few things.

We made our own paper lantern pictures using tissue paper and then made a black silhouette rabbit to finish it off. We think they all look fantastic.

In French, we learned to say Merry Christmas 🎄 and used our new vocabulary to make a Christmas card for our families.

We also learned how to say lots of colours in french and used this new knowledge to colour a Christmas picture.

During muddy movers we loved exploring and playing with the frost and ice.

Finally, I’d like to say a huge well done to each and everyone of Primary 2/2 for their fabulous nativity performance. I think you’re all superstars 🌟❤️

We have been learning to describe, follow and record routes. We have been giving and following oral directions including right and left turns through right angles. We now know a right angle has 90 degrees. We can write instructions for a route and program BeeBot to follow our directions.

We had a fantastic time at our Christmas party! We played musical statues (well done on being one of the winners Arlo!), pass the parcel (which had a little surprise as the prize, mwahaha) and got some yummy snacks. We even had a special visit from Santa Claus AND he said we could all have one of our Christmas presents early! What a great way to finish our first term!

Happy Holidays!

Miss Smith 🐱🐝xx