SEPTEMBER 

We’ve been really busy during the first few weeks of September!

We listened to our first solo talk of the year which was fantastic.  We all listened very carefully and had lots of questions at the end.  Well done KC!

We made bread which was so much fun and tasted wonderful!

We also made butter which involved a serious amount of shaking!

We loved tasting produce from Scotland.  Our favourite was the cheddar cheese and oatcakes.

We have really enjoyed all our topic work so far this month 😊

 

Welcome back to school! 😊

We have  been very busy creating our Class Charter. This reminded us about our rights and we voted for our new class representative for the Equality Committee.

We all made a target for this term and drew a self portrait to go along with it. Great work, P3/2!

 

We all had lots of fun at Sports Day. Thank you to all our adults who came to support us 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏅

You may have already heard that we all wrote to the manager at Barrhead McDonalds asking, very politely, if they had any spare packs of UNO cards then we would love some to learn to play with our classmates. The manager was very kind and gave us the display unit with packs of cards and some books. We are all delighted!

A huge congratulations to Euan, Libby and Olivia who were awarded Highly Commended for their entries to Neilston Art Show. 🌟🌟🌟

April has been another busy month for primary 2! We came back to school feeling refreshed after the holidays and have been working hard 🙂

We have been learning all about musical notes and everybody worked hard to play some melodies on the glockenspiel. Then, as a special treat, we got to have a try of Miss Donaldson’s violin.  We asked lots of questions and all did a wonderful job of playing!

In RME, we have been learning about Islam. So far, we’ve found out about the 5 pillars of Islam as well as the holy month of Ramadan and the celebration of Eid. We had a great time making our own Eid decorations.

We love taking part in science experiments 🙂 At the minute, we’re learning about forces and have been testing how we can alter a force.

At the start of the month we enjoyed the cycle and scoot to school activities.

After being authors and illustrators we enjoyed sharing our books with Primary 1.

The highlight of the month has to be hearing everyone’s solo talks. You were all fantastic 🌟 I learned so much from each of you and hearing you all talk so confidently about a topic you love was amazing 🤩

This last week has been extremely busy! Learning more about place value, compound words, symmetry, walking to Co-op to hand in our Easter art competition entries and enjoying Easter scratch art are just a few of the things we’ve been busy with 😊

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and Spring break🐣🐰

We started February learning about Chinese New Year. We enjoyed hearing the story, from long ago, about the Jade Emperor naming each year of the zodiac after the first twelve animals to cross a fast flowing river. 2024 is the year of the dragon so we got very arty and made fantastic Chinese dragons and we tried writing numbers zero to ten in mandarin.

In Numeracy we have been working on a range of new concepts including fractions, money, symmetry, time, place value and greater and less than signs.

In PE we have been working on our gymnastics skills.

A huge thank you to all our visitors today, we always love having you join us for Open Afternoon 💜

 

This month we have been learning about the early life of Robert Burns and his lasting influence in Scotland today. Our learning has taken us down lots of routes thanks to the children’s questions and genuine curiosity about life in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Due to the very cold and rainy start to the month we completed a scavenger hunt inside, finding out information about Robert Burns.

After discussing the facts we found and watching a short video clip about Robert Burns we used our new knowledge to independently write a fact file page.

We also investigated patterns on tartan and tried making our. Then we folded it to make it look like a kilt. We love them, what do you think?

To celebrate Burns Night, we planned a fun day making Scotch Broth, tasting oatcakes, singing Auld Lang Syne, listening and dancing to Scottish bagpipes, making Scotland flags and finally reciting the poem ‘The Sair Finger’ that we have worked so hard to learn (the video has been posted on Google Classroom because it wouldn’t load on here!)

What a great start to the new year Primary 2!🌟🌟🌟🌟

 

What a busy month we’ve had!
After lots of rehearsing we performed our socks off in our fabulous nativity performance ‘Christmas with the Ailens.’ We hope you all enjoyed it 🌟👏

We had lots of fun making Christmas gift bags to sell at the Christmas fayre.

In French we have learned some seasonal vocabulary and made a French Christmas card. 🇫🇷

Lewis brought in a Christmas book to share with us and at the end of the story it had instructions for making paper snowflakes so we decided to give it a go ❄️ ❄️❄️

We were given a design problem with specific criteria to include but we had so much fun building that we added on extras like Santas workshop, present shooting machinery for Santa to use and reindeer stables.

Finally, we had amazing time at our Christmas party. There was lots of dancing, games and snack eating before we had a very exciting visit from Santa 🎅🏻💝

I hope you all have a restful and wonderful Christmas holiday with your family. See you all in 2024 for more learning and adventures.

Mrs Brown 🎄🎅🏻