This week we had a great time learning about Islam and Eid in preparation for our Eid celebration today.
We learned about mosques and created our own mosque art work.
We read a book called ‘Hassan and Aneesa Celebrate Eid’. In the book they made paper chains to decorate their house. We made some in class, too.
On Eid celebration day we dressed in our best clothes. Mrs Amin taught us how to make chocolate strawberries and bananas.
We have enjoyed creating some lovely Easter bunny art work this week including line and pattern.
This week we have really enjoyed trying out something new in our class – Daily Numeracy Learning (DNL).
Every day, we work in groups on a numeracy activity before we start our lesson whilst one group works with Mrs McAra/Mrs Grieve on learning a strategy for adding or subtracting. We rotate the challenges every day and Mrs McAra/Mrs Grieve will work with a different group each day too, so we all get a shot at everything.
At the moment, the activities allow us to practise doubling, completing fact families, place value and number formation.
Today we listened to a piece of music together.
We thought about how the music made us feel and what images popped up into our heads when we listened to it.
Afterwards, we left the music playing and we all went back and created a picture inspired by the music we heard. Through this we learned that you can express how you feel through art.
Another great week in 2b! This week we had our class treat as we managed to fill our marble jar again. We win marbles when we work well as a team. This term we have earned LOADS for how great our line is moving round the school. Other teachers compliment our line all the time! We chose to go outside and play for our treat this time. We did some chalk drawing, ran around the cycle track and enjoyed the school’s activity trail. 
On Thursday, we were visited by a Doctor, an Artist and an Engineer as part of the Meta Moments Day. We really enjoyed hearing from these professionals about the meta skills they use in their job every day.
We had a great time celebrating World Book Day on Thursday.
We did some silent reading in the morning. Then we all spoke about our favourite books and we re-designed the front cover.
Our P5 Reading Buddies also came into our class and read us a story!
Over the past few weeks, during Numeracy and Maths, we have been focusing on missing number calculations. This week we played a subtraction missing number calculation game on the iPads. We were able to choose our own level of challenge.
Hi there, it’s Mrs Dougall here. As you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4. This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence. I now teach P2b for 3 periods of IDL and one of PE each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.
We started the year learning about the Earth’s relationship with the Sun and Moon. We learned the difference between Revolution and Rotation and that the Earth has three main Climate Zones.
We investigated the phases of the moon
We learned the difference between Revolution and Rotation and the children led their learning by discovering Nebula and creating their own Nebulae. 
Linked with the Learning Journeys, we have been learning about Meta Skills. These are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children for the World of Work.
Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and more recently we have been focused on Communicating and Collaborating. The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.
During our second Learning Journey we became Food Waste Warriors. We learned about how far some foods travel to get to us and how they grow.
We investigated what happens to food that we waste, especially in our Dinner Hall, set out to educate others in how to waste less food 
And we tasted some of the fruits that travel a long way to discover if they still taste good after all of their airmiles.
We finished our Learning Journey with a special visitor who came in to tell us all about how Viridor Waste Management turn our Food Waste into biogas and compost.
Our third learning journey is all about Growing and Planting in a Sustainable way, we are recycling containers and seeds – we are really looking forward to discovering what we can make grow!
This week some of us have have been learning how to round to the nearest ten. We played games in groups and on the iPads to practise. 
Some of us have been giving missing number calculations a go. We used numicon to help us work out the answers. Here we are on a “missing number calculation” treasure hunt. 
In class we have been talking about what makes us unique. In French this week, we learned how to describe our appearance in French. We have played a P2b version of ‘Guess Who?’ – where we describe someone from our own class!
We learned about the Scottish artist Stephen Brown and did our own ‘McCoo’ pictures! We are looking forward to teaching our adults at the open afternoons this week.
We learned about Charles Rennie Mackintosh this afternoon and we all did our own version of a Mackintosh rose. We spoke about the visual elements of line, shape and colour. We tried leaning harder with our coloured pencil to make a darker colour and lighter to make it light!
We have had a great week this week! Below you can see some of us reading, playing some addition games, retelling the story of The Magic Porridge Pot to our partners and doing our first ever story map! 
