This week was exciting as we went on  walk around our local area. We took our clip boards and recorded the types of buildings that we found in our community. We saw lots of houses, 2 schools, a restaurant, a shop, a hairdressers and we even saw a police car drive by with it’s lights on!

Back in class we started to look at maps of our local area. We discussed why maps are useful and what information they tell us. We started to create our own maps of our local area and used symbols to represent different amenities. We made sure our maps included a key to show what each symbol represents.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine 🙂

A short week packed full of fun learning!

We looked at some abstract artists and took inspiration from Kandinsky to create our own circles patterns. Then we cut these out into the shapes of houses, flats, shops, and schools to create a class ‘community’ collage. The collage looks amazing on our display board in the corridor!

In PE we have been continuing to practise our throwing and catching. We worked in small groups and had to throw the ball to the person in the next hoop. We also practised balancing a ball on a racket. We had to walk back and forwards whilst balancing it.

Have a lovely weekend, see you all next week!

This week, we started our new Community topic. We split into groups and found out about a person in the community that helps us. We then had to report back to our teams and create a poster about some of the people who help us in the community.

In Science, we have been learning about our 5 senses. During Woodland, we went on a ‘senses walk’ and made a note of things that we could see, smell, touch, and hear.

Friday afternoon was so much fun as we took part in Crookfur’s Colour Run! Our lovely white t-shirts didn’t look like this once we were finished! I hope you have a lovely long weekend and manage to get rid of all the powder! 🙂

This week we have enjoyed the lovely sunshine. We decided to take our Numeracy outside and explore using the signs for equal and not equal. We collected natural materials that we could find in our garden.

This week in Writing, we explored a story that is favourite of our class, Chicken Licken. We created story maps to help us to remember the events of the story and allow us to retell it. Then we wrote the beginning of the story.

During Literacy, we have been exploring using speech marks to show when a character is speaking. Chicken Licken likes to say “the sky is falling!” We used macaroni to add speech marks into sentences.

Have a lovely weekend!

It was lovely to welcome everyone back from the Easter Holidays, especially as we celebrated Crookfur Culture Week! We have taken part in lots of fun activities to learn all about Ramadan and Eid.

1. We had a special visitor who shared experiences of celebrating Ramadan and Eid. She was impressed with all of our knowledge!
   
   We had PE in the classroom this week and had a go at trying Bollywood dancing. We also looked at dances from other cultures like Ireland & South Africa.
   
   We created our own henna patterns and translated our names into Arabic! On Friday, some of us enjoyed getting lovely henna patterns on our hands.
   
   In the Woodland, we made prayer mats using natural materials.
   What a fabulous week celebrating Eid! Have a lovely weekend.

Last week in the Woodland, we had a great time making symmetrical patterns out of natural materials that we could find.

We created a piece of art using a bunny template. We had to create a pattern for the background and then we used different types of line to fill in our bunny.

Have a lovely Spring Holiday everyone and I will see you all in 2 weeks! Miss Ross 🙂

This week with Mrs Docherty, we read the story of Katie Morag and the New Pier. Katie Morag lives on an island. Mrs Docherty challenged us to build a shelter that we could use if we were deserted on an island!

We had to think about what materials would be suitable for keeping us warm and dry. Then we tested our shelters against wind and rain. Here are our finished creations:

Some pictures of our time in the woodland last week. We were creating pieces of art using materials we could find.

We have started to discuss the topic of friendship. We discussed what it means to be a good friend. We created our own friendship tree where we each made a leaf with a drawing that displayed how to be a good friend.

We are working hard on all of our numeracy skills!

Have a great weekend!

This week we have been very busy as we have celebrated World Book Day!

We have enjoyed some reading for pleasure time at the start of every day this week! It has been a good chance to try reading some new books and share recommendations with friends.

As part of World Book Day celebrations, we were very lucky to be visited by P7s. They had written their own stories and were very kind to come and share them with us. We loved them!

As part of our World Book Day activities, we learnt about the author Nathan Bryon. We read one of his books called ‘Speak Up!’. We learned about his life and his journey to becoming an author. We created freeze frames about important events in his life and used the iPads to take pictures. Then we used our freeze frames to create a timeline of his life!

On Tuesday morning our writing looked very different as we came into class to find that our chairs had quit! We had to write them a letter convincing them to come back. It was tricky to write  without chairs! Luckily, by playtime our letters  had worked and the chairs returned!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, see you next week 🙂

It was lovely to speak to so many parents and grown ups at our Parent’s Evenings this week. I enjoyed sharing P2B’s amazing learning.

We have been adding tens and units.

We have been identifying patterns and sequences with numbers.

We have been adding and subtracting using a number line.

This week during gymnastics, we have been continuing to develop our travelling, jumping, and balancing skills. It was fun to jump off of the benches!

We have been thinking about why certain animals are found in some climates but not in other climates. We each had an animal and had to tell our partner which climate we thought this animal would live in and why. We then moved around the circle to share with lots of different talking partners.

We have been challenging our construction skills and enjoyed exploring K’nex this week.

We built a carnival.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Another busy week in Primary 2B! We hope you enjoy having our jotters home to look at this week. I’m sure you will be impressed by all our hard work this term. I’m looking forward to sharing more of our learning at Parent’s Night next week!

Miss Ross 🙂

During numeracy we enjoy using think, pair, share to discuss our mental maths. Sharing our ideas with a partner helps us to explain our strategies.

We enjoy playing lots of numeracy games to practise our skills. We even like to challenge ourselves!

This week, we were learning about different climate zones. We worked in groups to find information about 1 climate zone. We had different types of information to look at including texts to read, videos to watch and recorded information to listen to. We then had to share our findings and teach the others in group about our climate zone.

We are practising our skills of using warm and cold colours. We painted a picture of a chosen climate zone.

We built a habitat for an animal in a climate zone.

We built the polar zone.

We were role playing as scientists and weather forecasters.