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1ST Reflective Friday of 2018 Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Byrne

RERC – THIS IS OUR FAITH                                                                                            As we Leave Christmas and January behind, Primary 2 have been looking at and learning about Jesus Family and Ours, Ordinary Time (Green) in the  Liturgical Calendar  and Liturgical Colours. (Green/Purple/Red/Pink/White-Gold)  As we approach February, an early Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent (Liturgical Colour Purple) on the 14th February, the children will be learning about  Lent, Alms Giving, Making Sacrifices and Thinking about and Caring for others as we approach this  special prayerful time we give to God.

LITERACY                                                                                                                                  P2’s first Star Writers of 2018 with their wonderful ‘Recount’ of Christmas Morning, and…

  

With some beautifully written thank you ‘Letters’ to Santa for their Special Christmas  gifts.

Numeracy and  ICT – Money, 2 Times Table and Sumdog!

 

  

The children have been enjoying using ICT to help actively participate in their learning.   Here are some of the children in the ICT suite working with money, learning about their 2 times table through song and interactive games and in particular at the moment they are  enjoying getting to know ‘Sumdog’ and have had fun using this site  to find out what they know, as well as helping the children to develop their new learning in school and  at home as well.

People Past Events and Society / Art /Literacy                                                   Scotland – Robert Burns                                                                                                  As the children learned about their Scottish Heritage and Robert Burns with Mrs Stevenson , here they  are as they design and make new kilts for him using a variety of colours and media.

              

   

   

Here are some of their fantastic designs.  “I’m sure Robert Burns would be delighted P2.”   Great Work!

Writing and  Co-operative  Learning and Robert Burns

 

  

Here, the children are working and supporting each other, as each person in each group  individually takes turns, to write down a word that begins with their groups letters:   R. O. B. E. R. T.   B.U.R.N.S.

This gave the class a selection of words that could help them begin each line of their Robert Burns, Acrostic Poem.

The children enjoyed this very much and worked very hard on their poems.

Here are this weeks Star Writers With their Acrostic Poems. Great Work Boys and Girls.

Art – Snow and Pointillism

 

Above our Star Writers in the same picture, you will notice some more of our children’s fantastic artwork as they learned about ‘Pointillism’ with Mrs Stevenson .  These beautiful snowmen were inspired by the real ones they made with Mrs Stevenson as they enjoyed the snow last Wednesday.

Health and Wellbeing – ‘SHANARRI  Wheel Indicator’  –  Active

  

P.E – Football Coaching

This is the 2nd Week of football coaching and some of the children are enjoying it more than they imagined they would.  Here they are having fun learning and developing some of the techniques they require to control the ball as they progress in their ability and knowledge of the game.

 

   

Great Work P2.  You have worked hard this month a wonderful start to 2018. Well done!

P2 December Reflections 2017 Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Byrne

Literacy

Star Writers of December and some of their fantastic letters to     Santa.

Interdisciplinary Learning – Maths, Art  and Literacy

P2 had fun identifying  shapes, listening to and following instructions to help them make a Christmas Santa.  They used  different  shapes and range of media with  festive colours.               Love your Christmas Shape Santa’s Primary 2.

Our ‘Jesse’ Tree

P2 Also worked with shape during R.E. to make symbols on different shapes for their ‘Jesse’ Tree.  These symbols represent stories from the bible, from Creation to the birth of Jesus.

 

 

Nativity. – Holy Joe

This year p1, 2 and 3 were absolutely wonderful in their Holy Joe Nativity. Everyone worked so hard and they should be so proud of themselves. P2 particularly enjoyed playing their part as Narrators this year and being part of the Choir.

Christmas Craft Fun

The children have really enjoyed learning about Christmas and  have also enjoyed learning about crafts and how to make different  decorations to help celebrate this time of year.

Christmas Party Time!

Here they are again having a lovely time at their Christmas party, enjoying all the traditional games and dances they have been learning over the past few weeks.

Rookie Rockstars Christmas Return

We had great fun when Rookie Rockstars returned for a Christmas visit and had us all singing and dancing again while we learned how to treat others with kindness by being caring.  We learned a new Santa dance too!

Advent Service and End of Term

After a beautiful Advent service on Thursday, you are all due a lovely restful holiday over Christmas boys and girls. Have a great time. Mrs Stevenson and I will be thinking of you over the holidays and will look forward to seeing you in 2018. God bless and happy Christmas.

P2 Reflective Friday November 2017 – Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Byrne

Learning – R.E./Literacy/Expressive Arts/Maths

Nativity Play Rehearsals – (Holy Joe)

P2 along with P1/2 and P3 are working very hard as the learn their lines and practice their songs and carols for this years Nativity performance.  They are all very proud of themselves as they do their very best, focus and work hard to they prepare for their  performances.   Great work P2, P1/2 and P3.

Remembrance Day

As the children learned about Remembrance Day they also wanted to make a poppy wreath of remembrance  for our class alter so that we can keep all the fallen soldiers in our prayer particularily during this special month of November.

Numeracy, Christmas Fayre and Enterprise

As P2 Looked forward to the Christmas Fayre and making and measuring out their quantities of Reindeer Dust to sell,  the children discussed what else they could measure and how this could be done.  They started with height and decided they would like to know who was the smallest and tallest in the class.

 

As the children made their  Reindeer Dust to sell, they decided they would like to raise more money and went on to make ‘ Santa Sweetie Surprise bags’. Here are some pictures of how they went about this.

 

…and a  few photographs of their finished results.  Well done P2

While the children  prepared to sell their goods, we  discussed the quantity they felt they should make, how much this would cost  and how much  money could be made from their sale.

National Book Week

The children have enjoyed this very much.  They have brought in some of their own favourite books to share with the class and have had a special opportunity to have books read to them .  In particular the would like to thank the Head Teacher from Mossend Primary who came over to Holy Family to read to them and the children enjoyed this very much indeed .  The children also loved their’ Read, Write and Count’ Backpacks with lots of books and goodies inside and couldn’t wait to take them home to show their families.

 

 

P2 Star Writers

Writing – Cinema Visit to see  Boss Baby            Thursday 17.11.17

Last Thursday the children had a fantastic opportunity to visit the Cinema to see Boss Baby.  The had a terrific  time and used this experience as a opportunity to write a recount of their visit, using Core targets, joining words and paragraphs.

Here are some of our Star Writers .

Well done  boys and girls.

P2 Writing – For Remembrance Day                             Friday 9.11.17

As we approached  Remembrance Day P2 wrote instructions  to make a Poppy Wreath.  They included the resources you would need,  discussed and identified common nouns, and used core targets to become successful learners and this weeks star writers.

P2 making their own poppies and working together to make a  Poppy Wreath for their class Sacred Space..

Great Work P2