Month: January 2020

P2b kicked off Scots Language Week today by creating their own tartan patterns. We spoke about some traditional tartan patterns and researched if our family names were a tartan. We used oil pastels, crayons and pencils to create our chosen look.

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We were very busy in P2b last week learning lots of new and exciting things.

Lots of the boys and girls showed fantastic creativity and team work during maths time using different resources found in the classroom. Hannah, Liam, Ben, LaCie and Eilidh made a very long chain. They then used rulers to measure the length of the chain.

They discovered that the ruler was 32 rulers long. We worked out that the total length was 960cm because each ruler is 30cm long. The circles were working very hard on finding fractions of shapes. During independent learning time Cieran extended his knowledge of fractions.

The squares were working hard learning how to solve missing number calculations. All of the pupils were very focused throughout the lesson and received a sticker from Mrs Sturgees for their dedication.

Lots of the boys and girls enjoyed building and creating different models this week. Some of them used the Lego to build houses, castles and shops.

We received a mysterious delivery last week. We all guessed what we thought it was. The majority of P2b thought it was a book.

Miss McFlynn read the story to us but we didn’t know the title and we weren’t allowed to see the pictures. We closed our eyes whilst the story was read to us and visualised what we thought was happening. After we heard the story we designed a front cover that we thought would match the story we heard. We also gave our stories a title. Miss McFlynn then revealed to us what the story was actually called and what the front cover looked like. Some of us were very close!

We also began learning about the properties of water. We discussed in groups where we see water and what we used it for. We drew and wrote our ideas on paper and shared them with the rest of the class.

 

Primary 2b have been very very busy this week.

Next week we will be celebrating ‘Scots Language Week’. Because of this P22b were very interested in finding out a bit more about the country we live in. Firstly we spoke about what we already knew about Scotland. Miss McFlynn noted down all our ideas and we placed them on the floor map.

Miss McFlynn was very impressed with what we already knew about Scotland.

In groups we then looked through the mystery boxes. Together we looked at each of the objects and decided which 3 were our favourites. We then placed these on the floor map.

Some of our favourites were Nessie and the bagpipes. We then each drew a picture of what we were most interested to learn about. We placed our drawings next to the mystery box item that matched our drawing. As you can see Nessie was a very popular topic so we started off our learning around her.

We then listened to the story of Nessie. We all then voted true or false depending on wether or not we thought Nessie was real or fake. After we heard the story we all got into small groups to create 3 frames which showed how we would react if we saw Nessie. Here are some examples:

The performances were fantastic and very enjoyable to watch. Well done!

Burns celebration has now been moved to Friday 31st January to coincide with Scots Language Week.

As a result pupils do not need to bring in sunglasses until next week.

Miss McFlynn 🙂

Apologies about the delay on the copy of ‘Donald where yer troosers’ lyrics. These will be given out to pupils tomorrow! In the meantime pupils can be practicing with the lyrics from our previous blog post.

Our whole school burns celebration has been changed to Friday 24th January. If possible could pupils bring in a pair of sunglasses by Thursday this week for their performance. Also, if anyone has any blow up/toy guitars, microphones or any instruments and you wouldn’t mind letting P2 borrow them for their performance on Friday could you please send them into school by Thursday.

Many thanks,

Miss McFlynn and Miss Cathcart 🙂

Below is homework guidance for this week:

P2b Homework guidance 2019

Spelling list this week is number 15 – i_e words.

All pupils have been issued with a new reading book. Reading markers will not be given out this term. Reading books should be read every night along with word wall practice.

Numeracy homework has been assigned on Education City. All children have their log in details in their homework folders.

Miss McFlynn 🙂

On Wednesday 29th January the whole school will be participating in a ‘Burns Assembly’. On this day every class will be performing something Scottish to the rest of the school as part of the celebration.

Primary 2 will be performing ‘Donald Where’s Yer Troosers?’. Pupils will be given many opportunities to practice the song in school over the next coming weeks, however, it would be also be very helpful if you could practice the lyrics to this song with your child at home as well.  Pupils will be given out an A4 sheet with the lyrics on it by the end of the week. Below is a copy and a link to the song on youtube.

I’ve just come down
From the Isle of Skye
I’m not very big and I’m awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
Donald, where’s your troosers

[Chorus:]
Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets
In my kilt, I’ll go
All the lassies say hello
Donald, where’s your troosers

A lassie took me to a ball

And it was slippery in the hall
And I was feared that I would fall
For I had nae on my troosers

[Repeat Chorus]
Now I went down to London Town
And I had some fun in the underground
The ladies turned their heads around
Saying, Donald, where are your trousers

[Repeat Chorus]
To wear the kilt is my delight
It is not wrong I know it’s right
The Highlanders would get a fright
If they saw me in the trousers

[Repeat Chorus]
The lassies want me every one
Well, let them catch me if they can
You canna take the breaks
If a Highland man
And I don’t wear the troosers

[Repeat Chorus]

Below is homework guidance for this week:

P2b Homework guidance 2019

Spelling list this week is number 14 – a_e words.

All pupils have been issued with a new reading book. Reading markers will not be given out this term. Reading books should be read every night along with word wall practice.

Numeracy homework has been assigned on Education City. All children have their log in details in their homework folders.

Miss McFlynn 🙂

First of all I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Thank you to everyone for all your support over the first term in P2, it has been a pleasure getting to know you and working with you.

Below is homework guidance for this week:

P2b Homework guidance 2019

Spelling words this week are colours. All children have written 6 words in their jotters that they should practice over the week.

All pupils have been issued with a new reading book. Reading markers will not be given out this term. Reading books should be read every night along with word wall practice.

Numeracy homework has been assigned on Education City. All children have their log in details in their homework folders.

Miss McFlynn 🙂