The festive spirit in P2 has been in full swing this week! We had lots of fun designing and making some Christmas crafts and have been busy rehearsing for our nativity next week. We said goodbye to Miss Anderson who has been with us for the last 6 weeks and had a fun Christmas themed afternoon to say thank you for all the fun we’ve had with her.

Today we learned about why mistakes are magic. Mistakes make the muscles in your brain get stronger which helps you learn.

Together we created a whole class piece of art work.  We turned marks we made into art!

This week we have been learning about adjectives. We know that they describe a noun and help to make our sentences more exciting. We went on an adjective hunt in our woodland and played some games to practise the new words we have learned.

We have been working on our measuring skills this week by learning how to use a ruler.
     
Today we were set a jigsaw puzzle challenge. Whilst we were working, Miss Anderson was checking to see how we were working as a team – but we didn’t know that!! When we had had a good go, we talked about things that make a good team, like sharing, taking turns and speaking in a calm voice. We are going to refer to the things we said every time we work in groups.   

This week we created fireworks pictures!

We also read a story called ‘Finn’s Little Fibs’.

We spoke about what makes us tell a fib, and how we feel after it.  We all decided it felt much better to be honest, and if we do tell a fib, we should try and tell the truth as soon as we can as it will make us feel better. Next, we drew pictures of a time when we have told a fib and it how it made us feel.

We have been working on our handwriting this week.  We were practising i and j. They are ladder letters that go down first!

Some of us made play dough this week.  Before we made it, we tried to sequence the instructions in the correct order.  We made a few magic mistakes, but we were able to fix them as we went!

This week P2b had a very well deserved spooktacular class treat on Tuesday afternoon after filling up their marble jar! We had fun making some spooky crafts, showing off some fabulous dance moves and enjoying a snack or two.

In maths we have been using our doubles knowledge to help us with near doubles.

This week we have learning about Carroll diagrams in maths, where we had to sort pirates by their different features. We also sorted cubes by their colours to make a bar chart.

P2b are super excited about their new topic ‘celebrations’, this week we have been learning about Harvest and have turned our role play into a farmers market. We’ve had fun making our own menu and decorations to show the different fruit and vegetables on offer in the market. We’ve also been making scarecrows to scare the birds away from our crops.

We ended the week by finishing off our shoe box aquariums and posters about our Under the Sea topic.

As part of our under the sea topic, we have been learning about living and non-living things. We became biologists for the day and had to look at some of the living things we could see in the sea. In groups we then sorted them into different categories e.g. type of animal and created a tally table to match.

We read poems about sea creatures in groups and had to use the clues given to work out which sea creature it was.  Then we made a fact file about the creature.

We also had our trip to the Science Centre this week where we consolidated our learning about Space with a visit to the Planetarium. Thank you so much to the parents who came with us!

The children were excited to create their own surveys about our under the sea topic this week. They came up with a question like, ‘What is your favourite type of shark?’ and then asked the class to vote. We then turned the results into pictograms to share our results.

This week, we have been enjoying completing our ‘Daily Play Target’. Mrs Grieve and Mrs McAra chose an area in the classroom for each of us to visit for at least five minutes.  When we do get time to explore our room, we can go to that area.  This means we are visiting areas that we might not always choose to go to, learning new skills and means we might get to play with different people!

We started off maths week by reading a story called ‘Tally O’Malley’. The book was all about a family playing a game by choosing which colour of car they thought would be most popular and then counting them using tally marks to see who was the winner. We then had a go at this ourselves, with us counting all of the cars that drove passed the school.

We also read a story called ‘ice cream for everyone’. We had a class vote to find out everyone’s favourite flavour of ice-cream and made a pictogram to show the results. Bubblegum was our winner!

Next we read ‘The Doorbell Rang’ by Pat Hutchins. In the book, two children have cookies to share, but people keep arriving and they keep having to share their cookies with more and more people! We solved problems about biscuits ourselves.  We talked about how acting out the problem would help us solve it, and we used play dough as pretend cookies.

Next we baked our own cookies! We enjoyed helping to weigh out the ingredients and getting a turn to cream the butter and sugar. We also had to split the dough into smaller parts at the end to make each cookie.

If only Mrs Grieve hadn’t left them in for an extra five minutes just to make sure they were cooked! She’s not planning on applying for Bake Off any time soon!

Wishing everyone a relaxing long weekend!