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.

Hello readers and happy maths weeks 🙂

This week has been very busy in primary 2A- we have been learning lots about how we use maths at home, in school and in our future job aspirations.

Health and Wellbeing

We have discussing what makes a good friend- we then filled in handprints with five qualities that make us a good friend. These are now displayed in our classroom as a friendship flower.

Maths

In maths we have been practicing our addition and subtraction in our jotters, we have been focussing how to lay out our work and answers questioning with missing numbers.

To celebrate maths week we read a new book ‘The Doorbell Rang’ – the book was all about sharing cookies amongst a varying number of characters in the group.

We participated in different task relating to our maths week book.

We practiced sharing cookies between the characters, we looked at sharing depending on the number of people at the table and practiced adding dice together to work out how many chocolate chips our cookie should get.

We have been setting ourselves maths targets at lunchtime to see how we have used maths in the dinner hall and the playground. For example: we counted 40 steps between the dinner hall and the playground, some people cut their sausage roll into 5 pieces, we counted how many hops we did in hopscotch. It was very interesting to see how we use maths out with the classroom.

We have loved maths week and discussing how important our maths skills are.

Literacy

In literacy we have been practicing our ‘ng’ sound and looking at the differences between ‘ong, ing, ang, ung’.

We have also been writing sentences, focussing on who, what, when and where. DLL has been continued this week with new books and new familiar reads- we love getting to read different books every week.

PE

We have continued working on our gymnastics skills and balances. We have been practicing balances on mats and the beams. We love trying new skills in PE.

IDL

Hallo readers. This week we took a short flight from Crookfur to the Netherlands! We learned all about the Netherlands, their traditions, food, sport, flag, school and landmarks.

We hoped on our bikes and arrived at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. We had to get our cameras out to take a picture of the beautiful Palace!

We then learned about Kings Day that is celebrated in the Netherlands- during this we learned a dance that was made for the celebrations.

We also got to try the traditional stroopwaffle- we loved them!

After a short and smooth flight we arrived back at Crookfur.

We can’t wait to continue our travels around the world next week… Where to next?

Thank you so much for reading our blog. We hope you have a lovely and relaxing September weekend. Come back next week to hear more exciting updates from Primary 2 A.

Hello readers, we have been super busy this week. Here’s everything we got up to…

Literacy

In literacy we have been continuing to do DLL every day, we love getting to read lots of new books!

We have also been practicing how to put sentences in the correct order.

This week our new sound was ‘ng’ – we thought of lots of words that use our sound!

Numeracy

In maths this week we have been practicing our mental maths addition- we have played lots of fun games to do this. We also got to use the IPads – we loved using them.

We have also been looking at measure! We have been measuring different objects in the classroom using our feet and hand span. We have been practicing how to estimate the length and then checking it!

PE

This week in gymnastics we have been practicing group balances- we got into groups and had 5 minutes to create a balance and practice. We then had to hold it for at least 10 second! We loved trying lots of different balances- our class yoga has definitely helped!

 

IDL

Hola! Primary 2 A took a quick trip to Mexico this week as part of our ‘People around the World’ topic! After almost missing our flight, we got our passports and boarding passes checked and found our seats on the plane. It was a smooth take off and before we knew it we had landed in sunny Mexcio!

We learned all about the Mexican culture, flag, language, traditions, school, food, sport, clothing and landmarks!  We loved our visit- especially hearing about all of the yummy food. After our quick visit we practiced our Spanish, spoke about the difference between Scotland and Mexico and agreed that we must try some Mexican food! We tried traditional guacamole we had mixed opinions but we are happy we got to try it!

We had to get out cameras out to snap a picture of the famous Chichen Itza!

After a smooth flight back to Crookfur we were already thinking about our next trip! Next week we are heading to the Netherlands and we can’t wait to learn all about another country.

Thank you for reading our blog! We hope you have enjoyed hearing everything that happened in P2A this week.

Adios readers- we will be back with an update next week, have a lovely weekend 🙂

Welcome back to the Primary 2A Blog!

This week in Primary 2A we decided to add to our home corner- by making yummy lollipops. Check them out…

Literacy

We have been working on our Daily Literacy Learning (DLL), each group has worked through every task board. Well done P2A!

We have been learning the ‘cheeky sound’- ‘th’. We have been doing a lot of THinking about our sound and words with the sound in it!

Numeracy

We finished our days of the week, months of the year and seasons. We have also be practicing our mental maths addition with games of around the world. Next week we are starting measure, we can’t wait to measure all of the items in our classroom.

Our tuff spot has been used this week to practice saying, counting, building and writing our numbers. We wonder what the tuff spot will have next week…

 STEAM

With Mrs Dougall the class have been learning about the earth and seasons- we look forward to this every week.

IDL

We have been learning about people around the world and finding countries on the map. We can’t wait to learn more next week.

Other News

Our construction corner has been very bust this week! Look at our amazing creation using our blocks to make another class chocolate factory!

 

Thank you for reading our class blog. We are looking forward to updating you all next week with everything that goes on in Primary 2A.

Have a lovely weekend readers!

Hi readers, welcome to our second blog.

We have had such a fun week, learning lots of new skills and enjoying our new class chocolate factory!

Physical Education

In PE this week we started gymnastics- we loved learning how to do a forward roll, some us of can already do two in a row!

Literacy

This week we started Daily Literacy Learning (DLL) – we have worked through each task board this week and have been enjoying our new books.

We have also been learning the ‘ch’ sound- we have been practicing our sound with shaving foam, memory snap and games on the active board.

We used the tuff spot to practice our common words- look at our hard work!

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we have been learning about the months of the year and seasons. We thought about important dates in each months to help us remember them. We realised that Primary 2A has no birthdays in June or July!

We have also been working on our number bonds to 10 and have been completing tricky calculations with missing numbers!

IDL

We began our topic this week- we discussed countries we are interested in and looked at their flags. After this we each drew a flag of the country we want to know more about – we are looking forward to finding out about lots of different countries next week.

Finally, our chocolate factory was lacking a key ingredient… chocolate! So we each designed our own chocolate bar for the factory. Check them out – they look delicious, like Mr Willy Wonka himself had designed them.

 

We have been making lots of amazing creations in our construction corner- look at our car garage!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sun 🙂

We can’t wait to show you everything we get up to next week,

Primary 2A 🙂