This morning primary two gathered together for a prayer service to celebrate the beginning of Advent. We discussed that Advent is a time of preparation and that Jesus is the true meaning of Christmas. As a year group, we are taking part in The Travelling Crib project, where children will get to take the nativity scene home to share with their families and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas together. Please tweet and share any pictures when it is your turn!
Monday the 14th November marked World Diabetes day. According to Diabetes UK someone is diagnosed with diabetes every two minutes. As part of our health and wellbeing curriculum in Primary 2, we learn about how to look after our bodies. We were fortunate to have an expert visitor share her knowledge in the subject. During her talk, we learned about the pancreas, blood sugar levels and signs of hypos to look out for in our friends with diabetes.
We are extremely grateful to our expert for giving her own time to share her knowledge and develop our understanding of a common condition.
This week Primary two have been encouraged to share books which they enjoy. We listened to the stories two pupils brought in and both got a big thumbs up.
On Friday we received our Read, Write, Count book bags and took these home. Today we read The Perfect Fit. We were thinking about how our class community comes together.
We then used shapes around our class to show how every shape can be useful to make the perfect thing.
This week we’ve continued to work on developing turn taking in pairs. After finding with our tally partners we got a jigsaw to complete.
Jigsaws promote concentration, problem solving skills, fine motor skills and awareness of context clues. When completing a puzzle with a partner, pupils develop communication skills, turn taking and whilst working towards a shared goal.
Make your Mark
This year marks the start of our Make you Mark achievement passport. Through out the year Primary 2 will participate in a range of exciting experiences whilst developing skills along the way.
Primary 2 have started working towards their first achievement which is tie 3 types of knots. This maybe tying their own tie, shoe laces and using knots at forest school.
We had the treat of having the digital leaders come to share their knowledge and expertise. As a team we made short stop motion videos.
It was great to see older pupils displaying patience and responsibility whilst leading the learning of Primary 2.
Maths Week Scotland was a busy week for Primary 2. Each day we’ve had a different challenge to complete and we’ve been thinking about money, shapes and direction.
As part of our homework we found out how our families use mathematics in the everyday.
We wrote stories using number sequence knowledge which prompted interesting conversations about our number knowledge.
The biggest event of the week was the Whole School challenge. Pupils had to work as a group of 4 to build a tower. We worked in random groups using our tally cards to choose groups. We sketched the designs first and then commenced the build.
During the challenge, we had to contribute our ideas and listen to our team, share materials and make compromises.
As part of our friendship topic, we’ve been working with different partners in the class. We’ve learned a clapping rhyme Apples on a Stick.
We have also been learning how to play noughts and crosses. As we play we practise being good winners and losers, turn taking and logical thinking.
On Monday 12th September, we had a visit from Mr McKenna and he taught us how to use our numeracy blueprints. We looked at different numeracy strategies and how we can use these strategies in our everyday.
During the next few weeks we’ll be developing our problem solving strategies. Our first focus is Act out the situation.
For the first lesson, pupils used concrete materials to count and calculate the answer. Through this lesson they demonstrated skills in resilience, independence and creativity.
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