“I know my left and right” – Olivia

“The right angle looks like a L” – Jessica

“I have learned about directions and the language we use is forward, left, right, above, below and backwards” Lily R

“A right angle is 90 degrees” – Iona

“I have leaned that right angles fit in rectangles, squares and some triangles” – Ava

“I have learned my left and right sides” – Nathan

“I have learned that when I am turning left and right, it is the same as a right angle turn! – Austin

“Right angles are in corners within our classroom. We found right angles on our table and our chair leg” – Christopher

We have a brand new wall display in P2a.

Here is a look at how we achieved these fantastic pieces of work!

Senses in Science 

We know there are 5 senses. We went round a station for each of the senses and wrote down ideas for what we might find in a haunted house!

“We were doing all 5 senses and we had to pretend that they were stuff in a haunted house” – Christopher

“We felt really wiggly snakes but it was actually spaghetti!” – Ava

” We tasted disgusting worms but it was really just sour sweets!” – Lily D

Descriptive writing

“We had to do the station and write down what we thought using WOW words like wiggly” – Archie

“After we had done the planning sheet, a few days later we wrote a poem about a haunted house. We cut and attached our haunted house to our poem” – Lily R

Painting 

“We were learning how to mix colours. We mixed white and blue and black” – Sydney

” By mixing white and blue you get a tint” – Joel

“If you mix black and blue it makes a shade” – Olivia

What we think

“I think mine is super great! – Cole

“I think my work looks good enough to win a prize!” – Iona

“I really like them all because I liked their wow words and what they thought. ” – Lily R

“I like my work because I did lots of wow words and I did very amazing words” – Ivy

“I’m proud of everybody because lots of people came into our class and said they’re really good!” – Ava

We had a very exciting day as we were all dressed up! This morning we were so excited! Our classroom was all decorated and we were keen to show off our costumes. Don’t we all look great!?

The Primary 7s came round and chose some winners.

1st place – Joel who was Big Ben. We were all very impressed with his amazing costume. Ava said Joel’s mummy must be an artist as she made it.

2nd place – Olivia as Cruella De Vil. We loved Olivia’s costume, especially her hair. Miss McCabe said it will be very tuggy later!

3rd place – Tony was a safe for keeping money. He wore a really big box and it had lots of money stuck to it! We were disappointed to learn it wasn’t real money though!

Telling the time

This week we have been learning to show and tell O’clock and half past times.

“We played clock bingo” – Lily R

“When the big hand is pointing at the 6 it is half past and when the big hand is pointing at the 12 it is o’clock” – Ava

Miss McCabe said some times and we were all able to show these on our own clocks.

We were even able to draw the hands of the clocks in the correct place.

“There are clocks with no numbers” – Jessica

We were able to show times and draw the hands on clocks all on our own!

“The big hand is the minute hand and the little is the hour hand” – Archie

And finally we were excited to see Joel was a clock. Miss McCabe helped us to read the time on his face! He said 5 past 3.

Colour wheel umbrellas

We read the story mouse paint and learned all about primary and secondary colours. We mixed our own colours for our colour wheels.

“We were mixing secondary colours” – Ava

“We were making colour wheel”-Archie

“We were keeping the colours in the lines” – Christopher

Lots of lovely lines!

We did line drawings of the church in Neilston. We were then interested in learning about lots of different types of lines.

“There are straight lines and diagonals” – Alistair

“dotty lines, diagonal and there is zig zags” – Ivy

“We were learning about lines” – Ryan

“We were concentrating on keeping the lines in the box and we were trying to keep it perfect “- Lily R

“They are the four seasons. We had winter, autumn, summer and spring.”

Collage linked to Katie Morag

“We were learning Katie Morag and decorated a boot because Katie Morag wears the welly boots.” – Iona

“We were sticking them on and doing a pattern. You were getting to choose anything in the tub like pom poms, love hearts and squares.” – Lyle

In Maths we have been learning in lots of ways.

On a Friday we have Maths stations and we enjoy working in groups to play games and solve problems.

Ava – we were doing problems. We had to read it and then write the calculation and answer on our whiteboard.

Joel – we were solving if it was a subtract or an add. You had to read it and if it said addition or altogether it was an add.

Archie – we were learning adding and subtracting calculations and we wee learning which numbers to take away from them.

Alistair – it was easy!

Ryan – I was trying to figure out the missing numbers and I got 5 or 6 right!

Lily R – we were learning to play snakes and ladders different ways by if you have 6 you take another turn. I really like it and you have to say the number before you take the turn.

Olivia – we were finding missing numbers.

Iona – we were learning to count up or add or take away.

Austin – I was playing power towers and I love them because once you build it you can knock it down.

Liam – I was learning about work and I like maths.

We have been learning about our local area.

We went on a walk around the village to see features of our environment.

Lily – we were looking for objects that we saw on our map

Christopher – we saw a house and we saw a lamppost.

Iona – we saw a train station and a wind turbine.

Archie – we went to see thing in our village.

We also did some work on mapping. We looked at maps of Scotland and even managed to find some places on a map of Neilston.

We then mapped out our classroom and found where we sat and drew pictures of where some of our furniture is!

Ivy – our desks are right in the middle of the classroom. It’s like a bird looking up above.

Olivia – the doors or anything don’t look the exact same as they do in the classroom, it’s just for show.

Jessica – we looked at the maps and we saw the bank on it.

Hello everyone and welcome to our blog!

We had a great first day in Primary 2. Here is our new classroom.

Some of us were a little nervous about coming back to school. We read a story and we thought it was funny that it turned out to be the teacher who was nervous! We had some ‘jitter juice’ that made our butterflies fly away and we were then ready for a day of fun in P2 with Miss McCabe.

Our juice came with a little poem that we read together…

Here are some of the things we thought about our first day…

Archie -I liked to listen to the story. It was funny that it was the teacher who was nervous.

Austin – I liked the jitter juice because it made my nerves fly away!

Joel- I liked doing lots of fun stuff.

Ivy- It was great because we got to do a lot of things that I like.

Christopher- Really good because we made our little rainbow things.

Cole- You get to play.

Lyle – Good because we got to play with toys.

Jessica- Exciting when we get to play and I like the new classroom and I like the dojo

Sydney- I liked the juice because it made me happy.

Ryan- Jitter juice made me happy.

Lily D – I was excited because I liked making the rainbow.

Ava – I liked the first day of school because I had a new teacher.

Alistair – I like to play.

Tony – I like coming to do work.

Iona – I liked helping people amd like the class dojos.

Lily R – I liked the jitter juice because it was a bit like lemonade. I was very very nervous and now I feel great!

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