We have been working as a team as part of our Enterprise topic for the School Fayre. We each put forward our ideas for our company name, logo and slogan. We then voted on our favourite for each. We enjoyed working as a team to create our ‘Chocolate Delights’. We were very proud of the results. We loved the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime at Motherwell Civic. We were very proud when our classmate Ellie was chosen to go up on stage and join in. We had a fabulous time at our Christmas party. We were learning Scottish Country Dancing and can now dance The Gay Gordons and The Canadian Barn Dance.  Room 7 would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Welcome to Room 2’s December Blogg.  We have been very busy learning whilst having lots of fun enjoying the festivities.

Health & Wellbeing

I liked finding different leaves. (Ella)

We had a lovely Forest School Adventure to Baron’s Haugh.  We all enjoyed swinging on the hammock and swing, climbing trees, making dens, making clay faces and paddling in the stream!

The swing and tree climbing were both my favourites. (Logan)

I loved making a clay face on the tree. (Callum)

We enjoyed a visit to Jack in the Beanstalk in Motherwell Civic.

I loved the panto and the snack we got at the break.(Fatima)

Thanks to the Parent Council from all of Room 2 for providing the snack for the children at the panto.

During the run up to Christmas we have been busy preparing for the Christmas Fayre and having fun at it.

The Rainbow Cafe is one of my favourites. (Madyson)The toasties were good! (Kyle)

Christmas lunch was as always delicious. It got a huge thumbs up from Room 2. Thank-you to the Catering Team.

We have been busy rehearsing for our Nativity Show – Hey Ewe and loved performing on stage for our families and friends.

Room 2 all set for Hey Ewe dress rehearsal.

And our final festive celebration was our party with Room 1 and 3.

Next step for Room 2 in Health and Wellbeing is during P.E we will be learning about Gymnastics.

Literacy

We have continued our hard work learning new phonemes and common words.  We are working hard on our reading and writing too.  We use our knowledge of phonemes to help us.

I use the five fingers to help me remember how to spell and write my words. (Tyler)

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I am making words on my board. (Lexi)

Next step in Literacy will be to continue with our hard work learning our phonemes and transferring all we know into our reading and writing. P1’s will be starting independent Taught Writing and P2’s will be extending their independent Taught Writing.

Maths

In preparation for the Christmas Fayre we had to make our Ruldoph and the Reindeer Bags.  We used our counting skills to make these. We sold them for £1 each bag and completely sold out! Room 2 made a profit of £64.80-Well Done Room 2, we raised 2nd highest amount in the whole school

We had to count 14 maltesers and put 1 red chocolate ball in, that was Ruldophs nose. (Jude) We worked together to make our Rudolph bags. (Luke)

We have been busy learning to tell the time. Logan and Tyler have chosen their favorite times.

 I like when school starts at 9 o’clock. ( Tyler)

My best time is 3 o’clock, we go home!( Lewis)

Next step in Maths will be to learn subtraction.

Hello!

Welcome to Primary 2’s December Learning Blog! This month we have had lots of festive fun in Room 3. We have made the most of this happy time of year by taking part in lots of exciting activities and outings! We hope you enjoy hearing all about our busy month!

Literacy

In Room 3 we have been working on writing a clear and well organised set of instructions. We used bullet-points to make our instructions very easy for the reader to follow. We decided to tell our reader how to make our Reindeer Hot Chocolate Cones. We wanted to share our experience of making the Reindeer Cones with other boys and girls who might like to sell them at their Christmas Fayre.

We used our writing skills to write a letter to Santa. We asked Santa lots of questions about the elves and Mrs Claus. We also asked him to bring us some presents on Christmas Eve! Lily asked Santa for a play kitchen and Richard asked for a horse! We have been very good this year so we are all hoping we are on the Nice List!

This month we have been developing our reading skills and have been working on becoming more confident in our reading tasks. We have been focusing on our Text Detective and Beginning, Middle and End tasks. We know that when we are summarising a text, we only need to tell the reader the most important parts of the story! Next term, we will be focusing on the Find It, Prove It, Talk About It reading task and  story writing.

Maths

This month in maths we have continued to work on our numbers up to 50 and we are now more confident with numbers up to 100. We love to use our 100 Square to support us with the concept of place value.

We have also been working on the concept of symmetry. We have been using our knowledge of the line of symmetry to draw the other half of a festive picture. The snowman and the gingerbread man were our favourites! Next term, we will focus on addition and subtraction and fractions.

Health and Well being

The festive period has provided many valuable and exciting learning experiences. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Motherwell Civic Centre to see the pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Our favourite character was Silly Billy because he made us laugh.

We had the opportunity to form our own business, which we decided to call ‘The Rockin’ Rudolph Reindeer Team’. We made Hot Chocolate Reindeer Cones to sell at our Christmas Fayre. Our Reindeer Cones were a massive hit and sold out very quickly!

This year Room 3 took part in the Christmas Nativity. We were part of the Primary 2 Choir and put in lots of effort and enthusiasm when learning all the songs and actions. On the day of the performance we did an amazing job on stage in front of all the ladies, gentlemen and children in the hall.

Just when we thought we couldn’t pack any more fun into this month, it was time for our Christmas Party. We joined together with our friends in Room 1 and 2 to get into the Christmas spirit and enjoyed dancing, party games and some delicious treats! Next term, we will focus on Road Safety.

Thank you!

Thank you for visiting the Primary 2 December Learning Blog and for all your support this year! We hope you have a great Christmas filled with love and laughter! We look forward to coming back to school next year for a new term of wonderful learning experiences!

Literacy

This month we have been  learning more new sounds.  We have been thinking about d and e.

D is for dinosaur (Kylan)

D is for dog (Blaine)

E is for elf. (Kole)

E is for elephant. (Aiden)

We also wrote our own letters to Santa.

We started our sentences with a capital letter. (Arianna)

We had to put a full stop at the end. (Aiden)

We had to put ‘Dear Santa’ at the top so that Santa knew it was for him. (Sam)

We wrote our names at the bottom of our letters so that Santa knew who the letters were from. (Reece)

We have been learning about the Christmas Story.  We have chatted about the characters in the story and all the different events which took place.  We made our own Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, the Angel, the Star, the Wisemen and the Shepherds.

Maths

This month we started our topic on measure.  We compared the heights of different people in our class.

Leathan is taller than Mayson. (Mikayla).

Mrs Geddes is the tallest. (Katie)

Muhammad is smaller than Sam. (Angel).

We have also started to measure length using cubes.

The longest leaf was 8 cubes long. (Lily)

The shortest leaf was only 4 cubes long. (Lucie)

Two of the leaves were the same length.  They were both 5 cubes long. (Tyler)

We had to measure from the top of the leaf to the bottom. (Sam)

Health and Wellbeing

This term we have been very active.  We have been having lots of fun trying out our dancing in the hall to get ready for our Christmas party.  We have been working as a team to learn these new dances together.

We enjoyed having our School Christmas Lunch too.

Christmas Jumper Day

We enjoyed wearing our Christmas Jumpers to school and tasking part in some Christmas activities.

Christmas party

We had lots of fun at our Christmas party.  We tried out some Scottish Dances as well as playing some fun party games too.  We had a visit from Santa which was very exciting and he left some lovely presents for everyone.