What a great start we’ve all had to Primary 2, look how smart we were on day 1 💜

We started off the new school year thinking about how we can be good friends and showing kindness and respect to everyone. We decided to make birthday cards, so on our birthday we will receive a card from the whole class.

We are also busy designing and making our Class Charter, I wonder if you guess what theme we choose?

In Numeracy we are all working on addition and subtracting and linking fact families.

At gym we are working on our ball control skills and learning new games together. Taking turns, sharing and being a good team player are important skills that we are developing.

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Over the last few weeks we have been learning about right angles. We know they have 90 degrees, that a right angle turn means the same as a quarter turn and we can identify them in the environment. We were very excited to make our own right angle checkers and go exploring outside for right angles.

We have also been exploring symmetry and patterns. We are able to identify lines of symmetry in everyday objects and shapes and also in nature. We loved painting our own symmetrical butterflies 🦋 We can all identify a simple pattern, continue patterns and create our own.

Finally, we have been busy learning about directions. Using the arrow keys on Blue-bot we programmed him to go to different places on the mats. We confidently use the terms forwards, backwards, left and right turns and we are getting increasingly confident in saying ‘quarter turn’ and ‘90 degree right angle turn’.  We also learned to write directions for Blue-bot, we were able to check if our directions were correct by programming him and seeing if he travelled to our chosen destination!

Huge well done Primary 1! 🌟

From Mrs Brown

We made notes to plan what we fruit we would like to use in our fruit kebab. We drew what we would like it to look like. We explored food health and safety and made sure we washed our hands and handled the knife carefully. We peeled, sliced and chopped.

To finish of our learning about dinosaurs we invited P6 down to tell them all we have learned. They helped us develop our research skills on the chrome books and we worked together to make a fact file about a chosen dinosaur.

This term we are learning about life in the past and this class were keen to learn about dinosaurs. We have been using books and videos to find out information. We have enjoyed hearing from palaeontologists and how they dig up fossils and dinosaur bones. We pretended we were palaeontologists and pieced together a dinosaur. We compared our height to dippy the Diplodocus’s femur bone.

P6 have been helping us look at circuits. We looked at simple circuits, different components, how to put them together and also an online version of building circuits. Some of the P6s created their own matching card games  for us to play on the big screen! Great fun!

Red Nose Day

Thank you for all the donations this Red Nose Day. We participated in Bluey’s keepy up for Red Nose Day challenge. We tried to keep our red noses up in the air for as long as possible!

Sign Language 

Primary 1 and Primary 5 have been exploring sign language so ahead of British Sign Language week, we teamed up to learn how to sign ‘my name is…’

Here are some photos and videos below.

Van Gogh

We are continuing to explore the work of Van Gogh and have been using line and shape to create our own sunflowers. They are not quite finished yet as we are going to be experimenting with oil pastels to add colour but look how fantastic they are so far!

Fair trade Fortnight

We had an excellent time visiting the Coop to learn about the importance of Fairtrade. We learned that fair trade means that farmers are being paid a fair price for their products and we can support them by buying products with the fairtrade symbol on them. We went on a scavenger hunt in the shop to find five fairtrade products. Thank you for having us!

World Book Day

World book day was great success! We enjoyed sharing our favourite book from home with a p7 friend. Our p7 friend then helped us write a book review. In the afternoon we went on a Where’s Wally? hunt!

Literacy

This month we have been exploring the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Over the last few weeks we have developed a range of skills. On week one, we listened and retold the story to our talking partner. Next, we created a story-map adding key details. The following week we sequenced pictures from the story and wrote sentences to match each picture. After that, we explored features of a letter and pretended to be Goldilocks and wrote a letter apologising to the three bears. Next we couldn’t believe it…Goldilocks actually visited our classroom and broke one of our chairs! We made wanted posters and learned to use a conjunction ‘and’ to join our ideas together. For example- Goldilocks has blonde hair and a blue dress. Finally we made porridge and wrote a porridge recipe. Those of us who wanted to try porridge had a taste and said it tasted ‘just right’. What a great time we have had with lots of fantastic learning taking place.

Art

Primary 1 have been exploring the work of Van Gogh. We looked at his famous painting ‘The Starry Night’ and discussed what we liked and didn’t like about it. Some children shared they like the swirls, the moon and the stars. Others didn’t like the dark colours used. Robyn said the painting made her feel calm due to the blue shades. We had a go at creating our own starry night using paint mixed with flour to create a thick texture. We used swirl lines and thin brush strokes. Our next step will be to add on a village with black paint,

People Who Help Us

We had a very exiting and educational visit from the fire fighters based at Barrhead firestation, Eddie, Mark, Barry, Cammy and Stevie. We learned about all the ways they keep us safe and got to see their uniforms up close as Mrs Burnett and Miss Payne dressed as fire fighters. Zach asked how the hose works and we were lucky enough to all get a turn of testing the hose out. We added what we have learned to a jamboard which is attached below.

People Who Help Us

We are learning about people who help us in our local community and are interested to find out about different jobs. Mr Cummings, our janitor, and PC Lorraine visited p1 to talk about their role in the community. If any parents work in Barrhead and would like to talk about their job please get in touch as we would love to have you in.

Languages Week

During languages week we have been mark making Chinese numbers and symbols.

Gymnastics 

This term in PE, we are developing our gymnastic skills. On our first week, we learned to make some basic body shapes- y shape, t shape, straight shape, star shape and tuck. We also explored different ways to move our body across the bench . We applied our learning to create a sequence where we moved across the bench and held a body shape. Once we reached the end of the bench we finished our sequence with a jump,

Science

We can identify the five senses: touch, see, hear, smell and taste. We have had lots of fun learning about how our senses work and especially enjoyed using our sense of touch to detect information. We were blindfolded and used our sense of touch to identify the object given to us. We used language such as hard, soft, rough, smooth to describe the object and we all guessed correctly! We also used our sense of touch to work out which letters or numbers were in the tuff tray.