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!

This week we have learned that angles are made when two straight lines are joined together. We made right angle checkers and used them to find right angles in our classroom.

We made 2025 calendars to take home!

We have all enjoyed settling back into school this week!

Today we have been learning about the word unique.  Unique means different.

We spoke about how each person is unique.  We all talked about how we look different.  We read a book called, “We’re Different, We’re the Same” which said that although we look different, our bodies do the same things.

The book said that a rainbow would be boring if it was only green or blue, what makes a rainbow beautiful is that it has every hue.

Then we made a rainbow of finger prints.  All our finger prints are unique.

This morning we also did some problem solving. Below you can see some of us using some different strategies we discussed to solve a word problem.

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.