Wow wee, it’s Christmas time already! How did that happen? P2/2 have continued to work super hard in class and certainly deserve their holiday!

In Numeracy, we have looked at our number bonds all the way to 20 and can now explain what the greater than and less than signs (><) mean. You can even see in one of the pictures that someone made the signs using Tens columns! We all think the signs look like Munching Crunching Crocodiles because the big number is always by the mouth! We also had some excellent patterns of flags after the World Cup had finished and some domino towers.

In Literacy,  we have been continuing to work on our sounds and tricky words. We have been revising adjectives and the different ways we can describe something, look at our adjectives for Mr Christmas Tree! We’ve been working so hard in our writing by creating sets of instructions, fact files about how we use our senses and the inventors that we have looked at in topic. We have even written stories about why Santa was stuck up the chimney and about a cheeky reindeer who snuck into our classroom!

In Topic, we have been finishing our Scotland topic and have spent the last few weeks looking at the different inventors from Scotland. The class particularly enjoyed learning about John Logie Baird since he invented the TV! We also researched Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Flemming, made notes and then used our notes to fill out fact files. Did you know Alexander Graham Bell’s mum was deaf so he was inspired to become a teacher for children with hearing difficulties? AND that Alexander Flemming made penicillin by accident? We couldn’t believe it! Finally we designed and made our own inventions, you can see a fantastic flying car in our pictures.

Finally, our Nativity was a huge success and we were all so excited to show you all our hard work! We have some budding Hollywood stars, I really couldn’t be more proud of how hard they worked for the nativity. Well done to all of the pupils!

Not only is it the end of the month, it’s the end of a year and the end of term 1! I hope you all have a happy holiday period and relax, you deserve it after all the hard work in term 1! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, see you in 2023!

Miss Smith 🐝🐱 xx

Wow. Another month done and dusted, how quick did that go?! We’ve continued to be super busy in p2/2, take a look at what we’ve been doing!

In numeracy, we’ve been looking at our numbers to 100, including counting in tens and units, counting quantities of pasta (which Miss Smith is still finding in her bags😱) and recapping our number names. I love seeing the confidence of the children grow in numeracy, and like I always say, ‘if it’s new and tricky, it’ll be easier tomorrow and even easier the next day.’

We have been busy practising our spelling and writing skills in literacy. We learned about what adjectives are and designed our own monster to help us practice describing. We’ve been practicing our tricky words and using them in sentences. Recently we made fruit kebabs to help us  write instructions and they made Miss Smith super hungry! We discussed healthy foods and how we can make our own perfect fruit kebabs.

In Health and Wellbeing, we focussed on passing games and began to look at fitness in PE. We looked at sequencing steps and different races. We played trucks and trailers, tunnel tig and mirrors. In PSE we have looked at emotions and discussed when we have felt emotions like courage.

We have also been working super hard on our Nativity which we cannot wait to show you all! I cannot wait to see where they all get to before Christmas!

Miss Smith 🐝🐱

We all had a fantastic day celebrating Book Week Scotland. We enjoyed snuggling up with our teddies and cosy jumpers to read our books with Primary 7.

We have been learning about giving and following directions and programming BeeBot with directions so we showed off our skills and taught out teddies how to do it too. 🐻💜

We have been learning about the Jewish festival Sukkot. We learned that a sukkah is a hut that is built for the week-long festival where Jewish families gather to eat, pray and spend time together and some even sleep inside their sukkah. The roof of the sukkah is topped with branches and inside is decorated with harvest or autumnal themes. Jewish families celebrate Sukkot in remembrance to their ancestors, who were freed from slavery in Egypt.  (ARTICLE  24 and 30)

Zak had a great idea to build a sukkah during Muddy Movers. We all helped make paper chains and autumnal leaf mobiles to decorate inside. 🍁 🍂 🍃

We went on a lovely walk today to do some house hunting to finish up our topic. We found some semi-detached (sandwich) houses, detached houses, bungalows, flats and terraced houses!

Big thank you to our helpers for coming along on our walk! It was lovely having you all there!

Miss Smith xx

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

A huge thank you to all the adults who came to visit us this afternoon. We loved showing off our Primary 2 work and having you help us with some hibernation tasks. We also enjoyed playing with you and completing lots of the activities around the room with you.

I hope you all enjoyed your visit and now have a lovely long September holiday weekend.

Mrs Brown x🌟🌟🌟

Hello! I can’t believe August is over and we’re into September! I have so enjoyed getting to know the pupils of P2/2, what a lovely bunch! We’ve been super busy over the past few weeks developing our learning and practicing skills we learned in primary 1. We did have some technical difficulties with an iPad, so some pictures of our hard work have sadly been lost, but we have been busy taking lots of pictures of our new work to make sure you can all see it.

We have been practicing our spelling and writing skills by doing our weekly ‘News Writing’ and spelling sounds. We’ve even had some art created that ties in with one of our group reading books!

In numeracy, we have been working super hard on our numbers to 100! We have some very colourful number squares and have been able to identify the numbers that have been missing in number lines! I really can’t wait to challenge the pupils more as the term progresses, what a brilliant bunch of mathematicians! The pupils particularly liked using chalk in the playground to help them create number bonds outside (sadly, these pictures were lost), but we have done plenty of work in class to show you! Here are some of our group calculations when we did a number hunt in class. We were practicing our number bonds. What brilliant adding and taking away!

We have also been working on our topic, ‘Our Local Area.’ The pupils have loved chatting about the places around the school that they love going to and telling me all about their houses. We have some budding  estate agents in this class! We have looked at the types of houses that there are in Barrhead and will be moving on to discuss the importance of specific housing has in a community, such as care homes and hospitals. To do this, we have made house collages, ‘For Sale’ signs and little Lego houses. Some pupils also made their houses out of playdough (even the climbing frame in the playground)! There was also a block of flats made from connected squares!

Another area that we have really put a focus on since summer is health and wellbeing. As a class we have been discussing our emotions and how these emotions can make us feel in our bodies. To do this, we have been doing mindful listening activities (such as listening to music) and having a chat about how we feel after listening to the music.  We will be building on this knowledge over the coming weeks by designing posters that show where we feel out emotions.

As always, the pupils have access to an iPad, however the one I have been using has stopped working so a lot of our pictures have been lost but please know, the pupils have been taking pictures of their work and more will be available by the next blog post. I’m really looking forward to this year with such a fantastic class at Cross Arthurlie Primary!

Miss Smith xx

Welcome back everyone. It’s so lovely to see you already working so hard in Primary 2! 🌟

We have been learning lots about 2D shapes:
Robert ‘2D shapes are flat.’

Alice ‘A circle has 1 edge and 0 vertices.’

Arlo ‘A rhombus has 4 vertices and 4 edges.’

We went on a 2D shape hunt outside. We looked for circles, squares, rectangles, pentagons and hexagons.

We have been learning about repeating patterns. I thought your patterns were fantastic Primary 2.
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In Numeracy we have also been revising days of the week, months of the year, seasons and number sequences.

In Grammar we have been reciting the alphabet, learning the capital letter names and matching them to the lowercase sound and learning how to form each letter correctly.

We have also been looking at sentence structure. Every sentence must start with a capital letter, most sentences finish with a full stop and when we read the sentence it must make sense.

After listening carefully to ‘The Worrysaurus’ and ‘What the Ladybird Heard Next’ we had a range of activities to complete. We used our knowledge of sounds to write mostly independently but had access to a wordmat if needed. We used clues from the text to draw an unseen character and used our Success Criteria to complete our tasks.

The children always have access to the iPad to take photos of work that they are proud of. Here is a selection from August.

Finally, we have loved getting back outside to Muddy Movers. This week we were showing off our balancing skills. We also have some expert den builders, a regular Mud Kitchen McDonald’s in operation but most importantly we are having lots of fun playing together.
 

What a great start to Primary 2! 🌟

Ready for another year in Cross Arthurlie.