Hello Readers,

Firstly, thank you to everyone who attended our Nativity last week. We loved performing and showing all of our hard work.

We would like to wish you all a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year celebrating with family and friends 🙂

We have had a fun-filled festive week in primary 2A and we are all excited for the holiday’s!

Thank you for an excellent start to the year, full of hard work and lovely memories. I cannot wait to see you all back in the New Year- Miss Brodie.

Merry Christmas everyone and happy New Year.

See you all in 2025,

Primary 2A 🙂

Welcome back to our blog! We have had a great week in primary 2A.

The week began with some cheeky visitors in our class! They have been getting up to no good…

Literacy

We enjoyed reading new books this week, continuing DLL and writing a recipe for a good friend.

Maths

We practiced some problem solving this week using the Numicon. We also used the Numicon to help Santa and his reindeer make 20.

Craft

We worked so hard making our crafts this week for the school Christmas Fair. We used our engineering knowledge to plan, build and decorate our crafts. We also spoke about what life would be like inside a snow globe. We used our creativity and curiosity during this to complete our craft and talk about life in a snow globe.

We have lots of advent calendars in our class, one of them gives us a Christmas song of the day. We played the song just before lunch and decided to ‘dance like we are in a snow globe’. We had so much fun.

Hello readers,

H&WB

In health and wellbeing this week we began creating a recipe for a good friend. We began with deciding the key ingredients to make a good friend!

PE

In PE we practiced how to pass a ball using throwing and kicking. We worked in pairs to see how fair we could throw the ball to our partners and then how far we could kick the ball.

 

Maths

In maths we played lots of different maths games and completed fun worksheet! We were adding to 10 and 20, we even challenged ourselves to add 3 numbers together to make 20.

Literacy

We learned about the magic e this week and how this can change words. We also enjoyed our new reading books and spelling words for the week.

French

In French we practiced introducing ourselves to our partners. We also learned how to ask and answer, ‘How are you?’.

We have also been super bust practicing our Nativity play, every week we are getting better and better! We love adding lots of dancing and actions to our play.

Our construction area has been super busy with our new engineering challenge to make a ship!

We hope you all had a lovely week and enjoy your weekend, we can’t wait to update you on our learning next week!

Welcome back readers,

We have had a great week in primary 2A.

H&WB-

This week we continued talking about what makes a good friend. We played a game of friendship bingo. We had to find a different friend to fill each box.

PE-

In PE this week we practiced different ways to pass a ball. We played lots of team building games where we were challenged to pass the ball without letting it touch the ground.

Literacy-

In literacy this week we celebrated Book Week Scotland, and spoke about our love of reading. We took part in different tasks; we got to take on the role of Charlie Bucket in a hot seat activity, we drew pictures of all the reasons we love to read, we created a poster about why we love reading and we got time to read in the class library.

Maths-

In maths this week we took part in some problem solving. We also continued prancing our mood and even numbers, greater than and less than signs and counting all the way to 100!

Our tuff tray this week was set with an engineering challenge where we had to make a building tall enough for all of the people and strong enough for at least 7 animals… but we could only use what was provided in the tuff tray.

We also enjoyed continuing to practice using our money skills in out in-class shop.

We also spent time this week practicing hard for our upcoming Nativity play, we can’t wait to get on stage.

Have a great weekend readers and wrap up warm. We will be back next week 🙂

Welcome back everyone, and happy Children in Need!

Literacy

In literacy this week we learned a new sound, we practiced our vowels and we did some writing! We also used our literacy skills in our new engineering topic- we had to write a design brief for a new machine that can clear rubbish from the ocean.

Numeracy

We continued learning about odd and even numbers, money, giving change and greater than and less than signs. We got to use our new home corner shop to practice spending money and getting change.

H&WB

We did some drama this week on showing how to be a good friend and what this looks like. Primary 2 A is full of great friends and we always show friendship which is one of our school values.

IDL- Engineering

We learned about famous engineers this week and spoke about why they are so important, what they had been involved in and how they have shaped the world we live in today.

We were set a challenge of creating a new invention that could be used to remove litter from the ocean. We each designed and labelled a design and then worked in groups to merge of all the designs by using one part of each. After this we drew our final designs and then got to model it using the playdough we made.

Finally, we got to use all of the resources in the classroom to build our final creation! Check them out, we worked so hard.

Thank you for reading our class blog, come back next week to see everything else we get up to.

 

Hello readers, welcome back to another week in the life of primary 2A.

H&WB

We began the week with health and wellbeing. We continued speaking about people who help us and made posters of someone in our life that can help us.

 

PE

In PE we had our final week of gymnastics, we performed our routines. We loved showing the class our routines and everything we had been working on.

Literacy

In literacy we worked so hard with our new reading challenging books. We also learned a new sound and all about vowels. We got to play different games to practice our sounds too. We also spoke about some wow words that we could use to describe fireworks.

 

Maths

In maths we continued practicing our counting, we were counting in 2’s, 5’2, and 10’s. This is helping us use our mental maths for tricky questions. We also practiced sequencing numbers and spotting the missing number in sequences.

We also began to learn about money, we looked at lots of different coins and began adding them together to make different totals.

 

Art

In art this week we used our printing skills to create fireworks using lollipop sticks and forks. We also used chalk to create fireworks, and straws. We spoke about all the different ways that we could create fireworks using the art skills that we have.

Construction

Finally, Miss Brodie set us a construction challenge to build a treehouse that can hold animals, check them out!

Have a great weekend everyone 🙂

Hello readers,

Here is everything we got up to this week.

In PE we made up some gymnastics routines using different jumps, balances and skills on the benches. We are looking forward to performing these on Monday in our groups to the class. In outdoor PE we had fun doing some Halloween races… look at our scary faces.

In literacy we continued our work in DLL with lots of new books. We learned a new sound and played some games about nouns. We love learning new skills every week and we love getting our new books.

In maths we continued learning about weight. We spoke about different things we use weight for a decided we should put our new skills to the test by following a recipe. We made playdough – it was so much fun.
We also played lots of different maths games throughout the week to practice our number skills. We also got to play some Halloween maths games.

In health and wellbeing we spoke about people who help us in and out the school.

We had so much fun doing lots of Halloween activities during the week, look at all of our fun games.

Thank you for reading our class blog. We hope you had a great Halloween and a happy Diwali to those who celebrated. We are excited to learn about Guy Fawkes night in our celebrations topic next week.

Thank you for reading our class blog, have a great weekend readers!

Welcome back readers, we hope you had a lovely and relaxing October Holiday.

We have been learning lots of new skills in primary 2 this week, here is everything we got up to.

PE

In PE we played a scary game of zombie tig to start. We are so excited for Halloween! We continued with our gymnastics and learned how to do handstands, forward rolls and cartwheels.

RME

In religious education we were learning about the Harvest festival. We made fantastic posters all about Harvest and added drawings of everything you need to celebrate. We also learned about the Jewish celebration of Sukkot, we are looking forward to learning more about this.

Literacy

In literacy we spent time recapping the ‘qu’ sound and the ‘ar’ sound. We also started to learn about nouns, we discussed common nouns and proper nouns and thought of as many examples as we could for each.

 

Maths

In maths we learned about measuring weight. We spoke about how to use scales and how to tell if something is ‘heavier than’, ‘lighter than’ or ‘equal to’. After this we used different classroom objects to work out what was heavier, we used our estimation skills to do this.

Our home corner this week was Halloween maths themed too.

IDL

We finished our ‘People around the World’ topic this week with a final visit to Japan. We painted beautiful cherry blossom trees to remember the trip.

Next week we are moving onto an exciting new topic. We will be looking at celebrations all over the world. We cannot wait to see what we learn.

We have had a very fun and busy week in P2A and love sharing everything we get up to with our readers.

We hope you enjoyed, have a great weekend 🙂

 

Welcome back to the primary 2A class blog.

We have had such a busy week, here’s everything we got up to.

Literacy

In literacy this week we started a new sound, we thought of lots of words with the ‘qu’ sound and wrote them in our brand new literacy jotters.

We also continued using our handwriting jotters- this week focussed on letters p, q, d and p. We enjoy using our handwriting jotters and practicing our letters.

Maths

In maths we finished our measurement of length topic by measuring objects in the classroom using our feet, hand-span, paperclips and rods. We worked in pairs and recorded the answers in our workbooks.

We also learned a new game called ‘shake and spill’. In pairs we took a handful of counters (one side is red and one side is yellow) – we take turns to take the counters, shake them in our hands and spill them on the table. From this we add the red sided counters to the yellow sided counters and reach our answer. We recorded this on a worksheet in pairs. We loved this game and creating our own addition questions using the counters.

PE

In gymnastics this week we practiced different jumps from the bench onto mats. We learned about star jumps, straight jumps, pike jumps and tuck jumps.

Check it out.

RME

We learned all about the Harvest festival this week and how it is celebrated. We loved watching a video about Harvest and seeing how people prepare and celebrate.

IDL

Kon’nichiwa, we had a long flight this week all the way to Japan! We learned all about the flag, traditions, clothing, language, food, sport, school, animals and landmarks.

We love visiting new countries every week and talking about the differences between all of the countries and Scotland.

We tried some Bluey karate.

We are lucky enough to be going back to Japan after the October week and make our own cherry blossom trees. If we are we might even get to try some traditional Japanese noodles.

We got some great pictures of Mount Fuji.

We learned that Japan invented a robot that wins every game of rock, paper, scissors. We played with the person next to use to see who might be able to beat the robot.

Here is lots of things that we learned about Japan this week.

Check back in after the holidays to see what we get up to.

STEAM

We were lucky enough to visit the Science Centre this week. We got the chance to discover lots of new interesting things about our body, forces and space.

We also go to travel into space and see the stars, planets, and Milky Way up close!

We were so warm standing next to the sun!

 

Hello from space.

 

We made some music.

 

Cheese!

We absolutely loved our trip and getting to see experiments take place.

Extra-curricular

Some of P2A also attended the school disco this week. Miss Brodie didn’t realise how many amazing dancers were in the class!

After a busy week in Japan, the Science Centre and the school disco we are ready for a relaxing October week.

We look forward to updating you on everything new after the October holiday.

Have a lovely week off, Miss Brodie & Primary 2A 🙂

Welcome back readers, we hope you had a lovely September weekend.

It has been a busy week, here’s everything we got up to…

Literacy

In literacy we started our new DLL books. We learned a new sound and practiced our handwriting. We love DLL and getting to try new activities during it every week.

Maths

In maths we got creative and made a new colourful wall display. ‘Over the Measurement Rainbow’ we all got to make a cloud and measure each piece of the rainbow using cubes or centimetres. We wrote the length of each piece of paper to show the differences in length.

Look at our hard work!

IDL

Unfortunately all flights from Crookfur were cancelled this week so we have not visited a new country. However, we did discuss everything we have learned about Mexico and The Netherlands. Luckily, the food from the Netherlands was still able to make it to our classroom and we all got to try the traditional snack ‘hagelslag’ (bread with chocolate sprinkles).

Fair to say we loved this snack and it has defiantly taken the top spot, for a few of us, from our travel snacks so far.

We can’t wait to see where we go next week!

Modern Languages

Bonjour, during French this week we revisited how to say ‘hello, my name is’, ‘how are you’ and our numbers up to 10. We played a fun game to practice our counting in French. We love learning new languages and can now say ‘hello’ in French, Dutch and Spanish.

Art

We have started making some Halloween decorations to decorate our classroom. This week we made sneaky spiders. They look great.

Thank you for reading this week’s blog, we will be back next week.

Until then, au revoir. Have a lovely weekend.