Author: gw17andersonmikaela1@glow

After our fantastic October holidays, Primary 2 have had a busy first week back.

In topic, we have been learning about toys from the past.
Sophie: Toys from the past are hand-made and not made by machines.
Roxana: Some toys from the past we still have and some we do not.
James: Toys from the past can’t walk or talk because there wasn’t technology.
Sienna: They were more difficult to buy.
Ewan: There’s different kinds of old toys like marbles, rocking horses and Jack-in-a-boxes.
I wonder if any of our parents reading remember their old toys. Leave us a comment about the toys you played with when you were younger!

With Halloween coming up, we also made our own pumpkins! Here are some boys and girls from P2 with theirs. They look fantastic!

Primary 2 were also lucky enough to get to watch a live broadcast with the children’s author Kes Gray about his new book! Lots of schools all across the country tuned in to see what Kes’s new book was going to be about.
Jared: He read us a story with a duck in it. The duck couldn’t say quack because he lost his ‘a’. He could only say ‘quck’.
Jay: He read books and there were rhyming words in them. He showed us his super power.
Arran: He had biscuit power. He threw the biscuits at the baddie.
Holly: Another story was called a frog on the log.

We have had a great week back in Primary 2!

This week in Primary 2, we were so lucky because we got to go to the Jump Gymnastics Club Roadshow.
Annie: We learned to do a straddle – you put your legs out and put your hands on your ankles.
Sophie: We did a straight jump – you put your legs straight and then you put hands straight.
Alfie: We done the unicorn tails. The lady gave us a wee rope with lots of colours that we put in our back of our polo shirts.
Conor: We ran around with the unicorn.
Ava: We skipped with our unicorn tails.
Abi: We also did a cuddle jump so we jump and then we cuddle our knees.
Liam: We done a star jump and landing the jump you need to do a motorbike pose.
Arran: We done the tuck pose.
Ewan: We played banana tig. When a tigger tigs you, you have to put your hands together above your head and if someone peels your skin off you can go run again.
We had a great time at the gymnastics.
James: It was fandabbydozzy.
Also this week in Primary 2, we have been painting sunsets. First we painted the sky and then we painted the hills. We had great fun.

In Primary 2 this week, we have been taking part in Scottish Maths Week. We have been making and investigating patterns in lots of different lessons this week.

In Art, we decorated hot air balloons using different patterns. We used lots of different shapes and colours to make our balloons look fantastic!

In Gym this week, we put ourselves into lots of different patterns like girl, boy, girl, boy and arms up, arm out, arms down and repeat. We also did patterns in dancing with Jump Start Jonny!

In Literacy, we found patterns in words and used these patterns to make rhyming words. Here are some examples:
Sienna: “Cat and bat.”
Sophie: “Sat and mat.”
Jay: “Rat and that.”
Liam: “Three and free.”
Roxana: “See and bee.”

Finally of course we have been looking at patterns in our maths lessons. We were looking at patterns with shapes and colours and we continued these patterns. We also were looking at patterns in numbers and being pattern detectives to find and complete the pattern. We have also been learning to count in 2s and 10s.

We have had a great week using maths and patterns in lots of different lessons. We thought Maths Week was brilliant!