Hi everybody,

It was lovely getting to chat to you all at parents’ night this week. P2/2 have had a busy and enjoyable October- here’s what we’ve been up to…

In science, we’ve been learning about space. We decided to head outdoors to model how the planets orbit around the sun at difference speeds. Each orbit is 1 year and it takes the far away planets much longer to orbit than nearby planets!

In muddy movers, we’ve been exploring different ways that we can balance. We can use different parts of our bodies to balance on and can use the equipment in various ways to help with this.

We were very lucky to have received a taekwondo session! Everybody had a wonderful time and learned some new skills.

Finally, we had a wonderful Halloween! We chatted about our costumes, completed a Halloween mystery using our number skills and created spooky silhouette artwork.

Hi everybody,

It’s hard to believe we’re at the September weekend already! P2/2 have had a super September. Here’s some of the things we’ve been up to…

It was lovely getting to see so many of you at our open afternoon at the start of the month. The children were excited to show off what they had been learning about for our Mythical Creatures topic and created some fabulous things with your help.

We have continued investigating mythical creatures this month, focusing on some of our favourites such as dragons and unicorns. We have also been learning about woodland magical creatures and made some toadstool houses for any creatures who decide to visit our classroom…

In PE, we have been working on possession games. We have been rotating around lots of different stations to practise, throwing, catching, control, aiming and teamwork.  Our favourite was shooting into a basketball hoop!

In muddy movers, we have been working as part of a team to create bridges. We have tested out different materials to find out which ones are suitable for a strong bridge. Some were great but others were too weak or wobbly. Using what we learned, we are improving our ideas to make bigger, stronger bridges.

We are becoming more confident at problem solving in maths and enjoy working with a partner to select different strategies which can help us. We have also been investigating numbers to 100 in maths and have a good understanding of how these numbers are made. Counting in 10s is much quicker than counting in 1s for big numbers!

Have a lovely September weekend,

Miss Donaldson and P2/2

Hi everybody,

It has been lovely getting to know Primary 2/2 these past few weeks. We’ve been having a great time exploring the classroom and making it our own. I’m not able to include photos with pupil’s faces in it just yet but once I can, I’ll share our class photo from our first day in P2.

We’ve luckily managed to avoid the worst of the rain so far and having been enjoying our Monday afternoons at Muddy Movers. We have worked as a team to create structures to balance on and have been investigating the wildlife that can be found in the garden. Our favourite was a ladybird!

In PE, we have started learning about keeping fit. We’ve been keen to participate in a range of activity stations which help our fitness to improve.

In maths, we have been working in pairs to practise problem solving. We’re getting pretty good already! Some of us have also been investigating angles and learning to follow instructions which include directional language.

Finally, our science focus currently is space. We have learned that the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours which is why day and night occur. Then we made our own sundials to watch the movement ourselves.

We’re looking forward to our open afternoon where we hope to see lots of our grown ups!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2 😊

It is hard to believe we are coming to the end of Primary 1! What a quick year it has been. I am so proud of each and every one of you it has been such a pleasure being your teacher. Thank you for all your hard work and parents, thank you for your support and kind words this year.

Here are some photos from our school trip and our fruit kebab making.

What a quick month it has been it is hard to believe we are almost at the end of Primary 1. Check out our video we have made for the new children who will be starting in August. We had great fun talking about life in Primary 1 https://www.thinglink.com/video/1850272109486408548

We have been learning about animals around the world and have made our own non-fiction books. We were interested in what wildlife can be found in our school grounds and had a visit from Rennie, the park ranger from Barrhead Dams. He talked to us about the different animals and plants in the local area and helped us search for mini beasts in the Muddy Movers area.

We have had a busy start to term 3. On Monday 22nd April we celebrated World Earth day and made a class promise that we will turn off the lights when we leave the classroom and turn off the board when we are not using it to save electricity. We spoke about the importance of recycling and making sure our litter goes in the bin.

In maths we have been learning about data handling. We have been sorting objects by different criteria.

What a quick month March has been. We became authors as we created our own story based on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We read our stories to the nursery children then our p6 friends. Later we designed our front cover.

 

 

 

Over the last few months we have been learning to  explore digital
technologies and use what we have learnt to solve problems and  share our  ideas and thoughts.

Linking with artist such as  the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso we explored how we can use digital technology to be creative.  We have been mastering the skills of opening up Word Documents, interesting Word Art  and inserting shapes to create artwork inspired by both famous artist. We can change the colour and texture of the shapes. All very impressive!

When learning to paint like an artist we used the website TatePaint to work on our digital painting skills. This has also helped improve our mouse control skills. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint

 

We have also been exploring simple coding using Bee-Bots.  We put our engineering skills to the test to build a race course for our Bee-Bot friends and successfully navigated them from start to finish.

We transferred our coding skills  to the computer using the website https://beebot.terrapinlogo.com/.

This helped us work out turning left, right and moving forward and backwards.

 

We have been working on identifying  the icons for Google Chrome so we can access website such as Chrome Music Lab.  This  makes learning music using digital literacy more accessible with  hands-on experiments.

Have a go at home if you are brave!

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com

 

 

Using Spheros  we investigated some simple programming techniques.

 

Throughout February we have been learning about people who help us. We had a special visit from PC Lorraine who told us lots of information about her job. We listened well and asked questions. Some of us wanted to try on her hat and some of us decided we want to be a police officer when we grow up!

During languages week, primary 6 worked alongside us to help us learn to sign our names.