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The last day in Class 2…
We made some Christmas biscuits (everyone took home a wee bag of them), decorated a bush outside and had some fun playing.
Most children came home with iPads. Any child who did not bring home their iPad will have it delivered ready for home/remote learning starting on January 11th. Let me know if you need a charger and that can also be delivered.
Until then, happy holidays and stay safe!
I look forward to seeing everyone in 2021.
Mrs Chapman
Class 2 have continued to work hard this week whilst having some Christmas and Hanukkah fun!
We made some Jewish biscuits (kakas and babas) that (most of us!) enjoyed eating at snack time.
Hanukkah is called the Festival of Lights. In keeping with this theme, we finished our menorahs this week and decorated glass jars to turn them into lanterns.
Some of us made Christmas cards for the residents of a local care home.
In literacy, we wrote a character description of Santa Claus.
Kayden and Kit created a digital description of Santa…
Khadija and Kareem have been doing some independent literacy tasks this week.
In digital literacy, we designed our own Christmas jumpers and created short animations.
This one was made with the help of some children from P6/7.
In Maths this week, we did some assessments to help with planning for Term 3.
Some other activities from across the week…
That’s all for now! Have a wonderful holiday and see you in the new year!
Mrs Chapman
With Hanukkah starting on 10th December, we have been learning about some of the traditions associated with this Jewish celebration in IDL lessons.
We made our own dreidels and played the dreidel game using ‘gelt’. Bilal won!
We also made menorahs. A menorah is a special candlestick with 9 candles. Jewish people light a candle on each day of Hanukkah.
In Phonics this week, we have been learning about spelling patterns linked to ‘ck’. We noticed that ‘ck’ is usually at the end of words and sometimes in the middle, but never at the start. We also worked out that ‘ck’ only comes after a short vowel.
Khadija and Kareem are getting good with their letter and picture matching!
In Maths, we have continued learning about division…
In our Health and Well-being lessons, we are still exploring the concept of trust and what it means to be trustworthy. We thought of ways that we can build up trust in relationships while building a tower of trust.
We enjoyed watching the Barrowlands Ballet performance and our Christmas Movie yesterday.
Hector had a busy day yesterday being co-director in our nativity recording and helping out with tidying up after the ballet performance…and even had time to be a friend to some of the younger kids! 😊
Today we danced our socks off outside on the MUGA with Kate the dancing Christmas tree!
The grande finale to our busy week was our Christmas party! We enjoyed some games and treats…and even had a surprise visit from Santa!
Have a lovely weekend Class 2 and see you next week!
Mrs Chapman
In this first week of Advent, Class 2 have enjoyed getting a sweet from our Advent calendar each day and decorating our class Christmas tree today.
Well done to Subhan, Kayden and Mrs Bennett for wrestling with the fairy lights!
With St Andrew’s Day on Monday, we continued are Scottish theme as our focus for IDL.
In Literacy, we wrote an imaginative recount of what it might have been like as a soldier at the Battle of Bannockburn. We used our senses to help us to describe the experience.
We also did a bit of our own re-enactment of the battle…
Khadija and Kareem have been busy hunting for letters and making and sounding out words this week.
Also as part of our IDL unit, we made and drew our own Loch Ness monsters and sang some Scottish songs. We also started learning to play the Skye Boat song on the glockenspiels.
In Mathematics this week we made the link between finding a fraction of a group and division. We have started looking at arrays as a way of showing division.
Our PATHS/Health and Well-being focus for the week was ‘trust’ and the importance of building trust when developing relationships.
We thought of five people we trust in our lives…
Today we baked some oaty biscuits, two of which should have found their way home in a school bag…unless they were gobbled up on the way home!
Kareem made a fabulous creation in choosing time today!
In addition to biscuits, Nativity scripts went home in everyone’s school bags today. If there is time on the weekend to practise lines, that would be wonderful. We are recording our performance on Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Chapman
