This week Primary 2 have been learning and having fun together.

We have been learning to up-level a sentence. If you have a very short sentence you can add words into it to make it longer. (Lily)

We have been learning about the river Clyde. (Ayesha)

We have been learning to count odd and even number. 1 is an odd number and 4 is an even number. (Laiba)

This week we have been writing sentences in our jotters. (Hooriah)

We have been learning the stories of 20. For example 18 + 2 = 20. (Hafsa Saeed)

We have been learning about the river Clyde boats and how they made them at the river Clyde. (Haadiya)

Ship building happened at the famous river Clyde. They still build ships at the river Clyde. (Muaaz)

We have been watching films about people making the tall ship and other boats at the Clyde. (Ghaith)

We made up river Clyde monsters who swim under the water. (Aiyla)

We have been learning to do sums in mental maths. (Ahmed)

When the ship builders finished building the boats, they set them into a pool on the river to check if they could float. (Aydin)

We have been learning how the river Clyde made Scotland and Scotland made the river Clyde. (Ghaith)

We have been learning how to give compliments to each other. (Maryam)

This week in school Primary 2’s brains have been growing every day!

We have been learning how to draw the Armadillo. (Arfa)

We have been learning about the Armadillo building… it is at the river Clyde. (Aimee)

In the Armadillo they put on shows and concerts. (Laiba and Hafsa)

We’ve been learning about the River Clyde Song. (Aamira)

This week was storytelling week. (Aydin) We have been writing a story about the river Clyde monster. (Abdul)

We have been learning about the armadillo creature. (Hafsa Saeed)

I have learned that the river Clyde has a source, the river bank, the river bed and a mouth. (Muaaz)

We have been learning about odd and even numbers in mental maths. (Ahmed)

We have been learning about Twiggle and his pictures that

I wrote a story about a good river Clyde monster. (Aiyla)

I have been learning to talk out loud. I am getting more confident. (Nurjenna)

We hope you all have a nice week.

From Primary 2.

It has been another busy week in Primary 2 and we have been enjoying our learning.

We have been learning to sit nicely in class with pictures to help us. (Lily)

We have bee learning about our topic the River Clyde. (Ahmed and Safaa)

We have been learning how to read Jolly Phonic books by practising the tricky words. (Aamira)

We have been learning about speech marks. When a character is talking and you have to change your voice to make it sound like a character. (Hooriah and Lily)

We have been learning how to put numbers in order from the smallest to the biggest. (Laiba)

We have been learning and practising sounds. (Ahmed)

We were learning to count tens. (Aiyla)

We have been learning about tens and units. (Ghaith)

We have been learning about how we can teach Twiggle to be sensible. Twiggle is a turtle. He has friends called Henrietta, Daphne and Duke! (Haadiya)

We have been learning the 10 x table. (Hafsah Anwar)

We have been learning how to count in 10s, 5s and 2s. (Aamira)

We have been learning about friendly numbers. Friendly numbers are the 10 numbers. (Arfa)

We have been learning to count groups of 2. (Maryam)

We have been learning the River Clyde song. (Haadiya)

We have learned that there were ships in the River Clyde. (Uzair)

The River Clyde brought things like salt and wood to this country. (Muaaz)

We learned a phrase about the River Clyde: The River Clyde made Scotland and Scotland made the River Clyde. Aydin found this information on Google. (Aydin and Ahmed)

We have learned that River Clyde is the second longest river in Scotland. The longest river in Scotland is the River Tay.

Have a lovely weekend. Come back next week to see what else we have been learning about.

From everybody in P2.

This term primary 2 are going to be learning about the River Clyde. We have liked at the River Clyde on a map and we are looking forward to learning more about it. To promote personalisation and choice, the children have been asked to decide what things they would like to learn about. Here are the things the children want to learn about:

Is the River Clyde the biggest river in the world? (Hafsah Anwar)

How fast does the mater move in the River Clyde? (Laiba)

Who makes or who made the boats on the river Clyde? (Arfa)

Where does the River Clyde go? (Hooriah)

How does the water in the River Clyde move? (Meekal)

Where does the River Clyde start and where does it end? (Lily)

Why does the water in the River Clyde get higher? (Muaaz)

Who made the River Clyde? (Hirrah)

Is the River Clyde a famous river? (Haadiya)

Is the River Clyde fantastic? (Maryam)

How do the boats move in the River Clyde? (Ayesha)

I want to know more about the tallship. Why is it big? (Abdul)

What does the River Clyde mean? (Aamira)

How does the River Clyde move back and forward? (Mysha and Hooriah)

Does the River Clyde go into another country? (Lily)

Does the River Clyde make waves? (Hafsah Anwar)

Why do you get big boats and small boats? (Ayesha)

Who steers the boats on the River Clyde? (Wael)

Where is the River Clyde? (Ghaith)

How big is the River Clyde? (Hooriah)

How deep is the River Clyde? (Lily)

How big are the boats on the River Clyde? (Ghaith)

How many years has the River Clyde been there? (Maryam)

How was the River Clyde made? (Haadiya)

How did the River Clyde get here? (Aamira)

What shops are at the River Clyde? (Ayesha)

Are there fish in the River Clyde? (Hooriah)

How long is the River Clyde? (Lily)

Where does the River Clyde go? (Arfa)

When were boats made on the River Clyde? (Yahya)

Who painted the boats on the River Clyde? (Alisha)

As you can see, Primary 2 have got so many questions and are excited to learn more about the River Clyde.

Happy New Year to all of our families! We hope you have a great 2019. Primary2 have enjoyed being back together in school and we have been learning lots of stuff.

We have been learning how to put numbers in the right place and we have been adding. (Wael)

We have been learning all our tricky words. (Hooriah)

We have been learning how to add things up. (Haadiya)

We have been learning how to order numbers from the biggest number to the smallest number. (Aamira)

We have learned to put numbers in order from the smallest to the biggest. (Ghaith)

We have been practising numbers on whiteboards. (Qasim)

I have been  learning sounds and writing them on whiteboards. (Ahmed)

We have been learning to count backwards and forwards. (Muaaz)

We have been learning about thousands and hundreds. (Uzair and Lily)

We have been learning about highest and lowest numbers. (Qasim)

We have been writing about our holidays. I had to remember to put capital letters at the start of my sentences and to put full stops at the end of my sentences. Sometimes you need to put an apostrophe in a word for example in we’ve or I’ve. This is because they are short for we have or I have. (Lily)

We were learning to draw somebody’s face to their shoulders. This is called a portrait. (Ahmed)

We have been doing warm ups in P.E. This is warming up your muscles and it gives you strength. (Inaya and Aydin)

We have been counting in tens. (Ghaith)

We have been checking numbers for partners to find out if they are odd or even. (Muhammed)

We hope you have a good weekend.

From Primary 2.

Primary 2 have been working very hard this week. We have been learning lots of new things

We were looking at Sputnik in the space race. We found out that Sputnik was made up of one sphere and four cylinders – Arfa and Inaya.

Sputnik was a satellite which took pictures and sent information to earth. It was launched in a rocket by the Russians – Qasim.

We have been learning about 3D shapes. We looked cylinders, spheres, cones, cubes and cuboids – Aydin.

We were counting the amount of 3D shapes we could see outside – Muaaz.

We were learning to listen for instructions to allow us to play team games in P.E. We also learnt what it means to be a good team mate – Hafsa S.

We were learning how to visualise. Visualising is when you paint a picture of what you hear inside your head. We read the Gruffalo and thought about what we could hear, feel and see. We then watched the Gruafflo to see how close our pictures were to the story -Aimee, Hafsa S.

We made models of Sputnik out of plasticine. We had to use the plasticine to make a sphere and four cylinders – Laiba, Hooriah, Ahmed, Abdul.

We made a background of space for our Sputnik. We drew stars using chalk and we used glue and glitter. We also stuck on some circles as planets – Haadiya, Hafsa , Ahmed.

We have been talking about our favourite books as it is international book week! We were talking about our favourite books and if we would recommend them to a friend – Aydin, Ahmed.

We have been practising our take away sums this week – Muaaz.

We have been learning about how to write a newspaper – Gaith.

We have been practising very hard for our nativity. The speaking parts have been working hard to practice their words and everyone else has been learning to sing beautifully for our performance – Arfa, Yahya.

We have been practicing the words above and below, near and far, next to and away from – Aydin.

This week Primary 2 have been learning lots of different and exciting things:

We have been learning about the space race – Aydin.

The space race was between America and the Soviet Union – Muaaz.

We have been learning about shapes. We looked at circles, triangles, rectangles and squares – Aamira.

We were looking at higher and lower using playing cards – Ahmed, Laiba.

We were learning to count in 2s and 10s – Wael.

We have been looking at tens and units and finding numbers using them – Gaith.

We used non-fiction books to find out about Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus – Hooriah, Hafsa S.

We were learning about Saint Albert. We found out that he was a scientist – Haadiya, Hooriah.

We watched a short story, guessing what it was about and what we think might happen. We then watched it to see if our predictions were  right – Arfa, Hafsa S.

We were looking at Sputnik, the first satellite to be launched into space – Arfa, Aydin, Gaith.

We practiced our mental maths using our 100 squares. We used them to practice our tens and units, as well as our odd and even number by looking for their partners – Hafsa A., Gaith, Hafsa S.

We practiced solving adding sums using our empty number lines – Lily.

We have been teaching Twiggle the turtle how to line up properly and how to be kind and quiet – Haadiya, Arfa, Hafsa A, Wael.

We went to a special mass for Saint Albert. We practised the songs for mass and sung beautifully at the mass – Hafsa S., Ahmed.

We have done lots of singing practice for our nativity – Hafsa S.

It has been a very  fun and busy week for P2!

Primary 2 have been creating magic potions. They found ingredients outdoors such as muddy puddles, leaves, feathers, string and mud. They wrote instructions to tell others how to cast their spells!

Primary 2 pupils have been so busy doing lots of learning and having lots of fun together. Here are some of the things we have been learning about.

In Maths we have been practising our counting using cubes. (Laiba)

We have been learning about sounds and practising the sounds. (Ahmed)

We are learning about tens an units for example 24 has 2 tens and 4 units. (Abdul)

We have been learning how to sit nicely… we have to do good looking and listening. (Hafsah Saeed)

We have been learning about odd and even numbers. (Inaaya)

I have learned that 6 is and even number and 9 is an odd number because when you make partners 9 has 1 left over. (Haadiya and Maryam)

We have been learning to sound out words and we have also been practising our reading. (Aamira)

We are learning to put our hands up to ask and answer questions. (Maryam)

We have been learning how to partition numbers for example 64 is the same as 6 tens and 4 units. (Arfa)

We have been learning about empty number lines. An empty number line has no numbers on it and we use it to add. You circle the biggest number and write that number at the start of the number line. If the small number is 5 then you have to do 5 jumps. Then you have to write then numbers on that come next after the big number that you started with. (Hirrah)         Mrs Hunter-Andreuccetti thinks this is an AMAZING comment by Hirrah. Very well done!!!

We have been learning to subitise. If you are subitising you will be able to look at a number of dots for a little minute and then you will know what the number is just by looking at it for a short time. (Lily) Mrs Hunter-Andreuccetti says very well done!!

We are learning how to teach our turtle to be sensible, to be good, to line up nicely and to be fabulous! (Maryam, Haadiya and Inaaya)

We have been learning to listen carefully to our teacher. (Alisha)

We have been learning about take away sums. (Muaaz)

We have been learning how to be nurturing and how to be respectful. (Yahya)

What an amazing group of Primary 2s that we have here is Saint Albert’s! Mrs Hunter-Andreuccetti is very very proud of you!!!