The reading club put together an advent book tree last week. We all recieved some books each and piled them together to make this beautiful tree! We even decorated it ourselves! 🎄

Look at our beautiful tree!! 

P2/3 absolutely love their advent tree. We read a Christmas story every day and not only that… we all recieve our very own christmas stories to keep forever 🎄

Inaaya recieved her book on the 1st of December. “A Christmas Carol”. Inaaya was confident to read the story to the class! Well done Inaaya!

Layth recieved his book on the 3rd of December.  He loves his christmas story.

Omar recieved book number 4!

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” and we didnt read this one….we sang this one together!

Ideis also recieved the 12 days of Christmas!  And this time everyone was able to join in with the singing!

We have been learning lots about our topic this week.

P2/3 would like to share our learning wordle with you this week…

 

We have been learning about the cities in danger of rising water levels. We looked for these cities on the world map and looked at some contemporary art where artists had created cities underwater.

Here’s how some children responded to the art work…

 

We were able to explain how the piece of art made us feel. We had some very deep discussions about art and emotions.

We looked at famous structures in Barcelona, Venice, London, Dublin, Sydney, Rio Di Janeiro and Cape town. We drew these structures and used blue chalk to create an underwater effect.

 

 

 

In digital learning we created our very own fish characters. We will be creating an animation with these next week!

We turned our drawings into 3D models! We will be creating our underwater animations next week. Watch this space….

Our incredible work doesn’t stop there! On Thursday we transformed our list poems into shape poems. Have a look at some of the fantastic work from your children. We were able to make our words look like waves!

 

Very proud of all of the hard work in P2/3 this week. they never fail to amaze me!
Cant wait to share more with you in the next few weeks.

Miss Cameron and P2/3 x

P2/3 are so excited to tell us about their new topic Climate Change.

We created another wordle to tell you how much we have already learned this week. P2/3 have some very impressive facts already.

“Climate change is when the earth is getting really really warm and the sea is going to rise because the ice is melting!” – Noor P2

“The earth will have a big blanket” – Eshal

“the water will rise to the roofs” – Ibrahim

“People will have to use boats” – Hasan

“If its way too hot the ice is going to melt.” – Malaika

P2/3 were able to have very mature conversations surrounding the reasons behind Climate change and we spoke what might happen if we don’t do anything.

Here are some of the excellent responses from some children in P2/3:

 

 

P2/3 researched independently using their books and made mind maps explaining what will happen if we do not do anything. This class never fails to impress Miss Cameron.

We had a look at the World Globe with a magnifying glass and searched for Antarctica, and some countries in danger of flooding.

We found Venice in Italy.

We also found Glasgow!

 

Digital Learning

Also as part of our topic, we will be creating an underwater animation with Mr Stewart. We have already made underwater characters and have given them a character profile. We will create a story board next week and finally create our own animations on the I pads. We cannot wait to show you what we will be getting up to in the next few weeks!!

We had an excercise session with Jump start Johnny to get us energised on Monday morning! We even tried out some yoga moves! P2/3 are so flexible!

 

Thursday was a very exciting day! We worked together to make playdough from scratch. We were able to write instuctions on how to make playdough! We know what you need and what you do.

Play-Dough is much more fun when you make it from scratch.

The fun did not stop there. We used our playdough to create our very own baker shop called “Cake Box”. Everyone had an important role to play in the shop and we had some excellent cashiers who were able to give change to the customers. We made up prices for our items and even had some great deals going. We had lots of servers and bakers in the back.  All of this helped us develop some money skills in a real like context.

 

 

Face painting!

For our writing this week we were writing instructions on how to paint your face like a clown.
We even tried it ourselves after following a tutorial on YouTube. Looks like we have some very talented face painters in P2/3. We were able to write some great instructions on how to paint your face like a clown using bossy verbs.

 

 

 

I think Ava may be the happiest clown in the world! Beautiful <3

 Happy Halloween!!

Some amazing Halloween costumes on Tuesday! we had a great time at our Halloween party.

Looking good!

Mental Maths

Lots of hard work and continued perseverance in mental maths this week.

P2/3 have been working with concrete materials to create arrays. We can solve tricky maths problems with our partners. We grouped together different materials to help us work out division problems. We know how to group items together to work out multiplication problems too!

Very impressive!!

Outdoor Games

We had so much fun with outdoor games on Thursday. We faced challenging obstacle courses and mental maths challenges to create number bond sums to 20 with only a certain amount of cards. Lots of solid teamwork and hard efforts by all meant that all teams completed the challenges successfully.

 

Amazing effort P2/3!

 

We then faced another  tricky challenge. We had to work together to fold the tarpaulin as small as possible WITHOUT ANYONE COMMING OFF. We all managed to complete this challenge and worked so well in all of our teams. Well done P2/3.

 

 

 

 

Monday

We were breaking up words and splitting them into their sounds.
We had some witches in our class who helped us tap out the sounds we hear.

Wednesday

We had fun on Wednesday making Jack-o-lanterns.

They look amazing!!

 

We can write instructions on how to make a Jack -o- lantern using bossy verbs.

1. Cut out the top of the Pumpkin.          

2. Scoop out the seeds and put them into a bowl.

3. Draw the face.

4. Carve out the face.

5.Light a candle to make your pumpkin Glow!

We worked so hard in our groups to make these pumpkins. They look fantastic!

 

Friday

We love Snack and a Story!!

On Friday we enjoyed some snacks while we spoke about our reading books with a friend. We were able to summarise the story and talk about our favourite part.

• Crazy Hair Day!

P2/3 gone wild with crazy hair day! What a fantastic effort by all!! 😊

 

 

 

This Weeks Learning 

We have been learning about 24 hour time. We have been converting digital to analogue time.

We worked together to create a class clock!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been enjoying some digital learning! 

We drew pictres and edited them using the ipads.

We presented these edited photos to the rest of the class. Some great presentations by p2/3 .

So proud of the fantastic work in p2/3 this term!  Hope you all have a wonderful well deserved October break!

Miss Cameron 😊X

Our Outdoor Learning Week Wordle. 

P2/3 created a wordle for outdoor learning week. Sums up an incredible week and everything we have achieved together.

Monday

We learned about wild animals and their homes and P2/3 worked together to make a home for Henry the Hedgehog!

 

Looks like Henry loves his new home. He even has some yummy berries to eat for dinner!

 

 

 

We made paintbrushes from sticks and leaves and had fun painting nature with nature.

Wednesday

We had lots of fun orienteering in mathematics. We were able to Follow a map of the playground to find hidden treasure.

Thursday

We worked together to complete a rainbow scavenger hunt. We collected things in the natural environment.

Some of our families came along to help. How lucky! Inaayas little brother was an excellent helper! 🙂

Idris worked  so hard and was able to incredible amount of things in the playground! Well done Idris 🙂

Super team-work in p2/3 once again this week!

Where did our reading take us on Friday?

We chose to head to the world of Dr seuss on Friday morning. We read the fun rhyming book Hop on Pop in the sensory garden before comming up with our own rhyming words outside.

Layth found a tall branch and a small stick! How clever! 

What a fantastic week!😊

Ordering Numbers

P2/3 have been working on ordering numbers from the smallest to the biggest this week. P3 successfully worked together to order numbers (in silence!!)

Music

Inaaya and Mishall worked together to use the triangle during music. “we were the “ting team” – Inaaya

Sorting

We have also been sorting objects by colour and by number!

“I created two patterns and I sorted them into their colours!” – fab job Noor!

The badgers worked together to order the sticks into different colours.

Inspector Mishal

Mishal had a very important job this week inspecting all of our desks to make sure the class was very tidy. She was a super inspector!

 

A very exciting start to p2/3! There has been lots of fun things happening in our class over the past two weeks and the children have been so excited to tell you all about what we have been doing! 

“This is our Enchanted forest where we read all of our books at story time. And we also sit on comfy seats 🙂 ” – Danial

We have been learning about being unique and read a lovely story about an odd dog out. We even  even made our very own odd dogs out!

“My dog is  a special princess who who lives in a castle with Ava’s dog” – Malaika

“I found lots of things outside in the woods to make my very own odd dog out!! ” – Ava

“We had lots of fun making  our very own masks for the Rock Against Racism festival in Queens park” – Fatima, Malaika and Hafsah showing off their masks.

Omar won a very special certificate and prize from our treasure chest for Diner of the Week! Well done Omar !!

And last but not least Hikmah won a very special award this week for  for working hard and helping others Well done Hikmah !! 🙂

Thank you from p2/3 and we hope you have a lovely weekend  🙂