Happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend – please see below for homework and class news.

Homework: Pupils have worked extremely hard this term and I have been very impressed by their dedication and determination. There will be no formal homework this week. Enjoy some rest as we have a very busy week of festivities ahead!

Wordwalls: New wordwalls will be issued in January.

Other News:

Nativity: Primary 2C are looking forward to show day! Our nativity will take place on Thursday 14th December. Pupils should wear a shirt and tie for the performance. They may also wear a Christmas accessory such as boppers, headbands or tinsel. The show will start around 9.30am. Tickets have been issued for the performance – please let me know if you have any queries regarding this.

Christmas Jumper Day: We will be participating in Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 15th December. Donations go to Save the Children.

Engineering Project: In term 3 Primary 2C will be participating in an engineering project. To do this we require shoeboxes (with a seperate lid). If Santa is kind enough to deliver a pair of shoes to your home then any unwanted boxes will be willingly received in the Primary 2C classroom.

We hope to start this project mid way through January and I think it will be a lot of fun!

As always, my door is open for any questions or queries. Thank you and have a lovely week ahead!

Miss Cauley

Hello everyone, I hope you have had a lovely weekend. Please see below for homework and class news.

Homework:

Home work will be issued on Tuesday this week. It will consist of:

Spelling. Our sound this week is ‘y’ at the end as in holly and berry. You did a wonderful job today coming up with words and I look forward to seeing some more!

Maths: today in Maths we learned how to round to the nearest 10 by using our knowledge of skip counting. There will be a sheet to accompany this.

Reading: Reading books will be issued this week. If your child has not received a reading book today then they will receive one tomorrow. This is due to the completion of running records.

Other News:

It is December already! We have been practising our nativity songs and have also taken part in house art day. We are looking forward to our woodland community walk on Friday – thank you to those who have volunteered to help!

Thanks you for your continued support.

Miss Cauley

Several mornings a week we play ‘target’. This involves mentally calculating a mathematical story to reach a specific number. We can add, subtract or use a mixture of both – as long as we can prove it works! One of our target numbers this week was 25 and we explained how to reach this number using a variety of strategies including counting on and back, using our knowledge of tens and units, doubling and adding on and counting in 5s and 10s. Miss Cauley was very impressed!

I hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. Today in class we learned about estimation and also discussed what happened at the beginning, middle and end of our reading books.

Please see below for homework and other class news.

Homework

As our working week is a little shorter there will be no new spelling words issued. Please feel free to play games to revise words and sounds – there is a link below to help you.

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Reading books will not be issued this week as children have been working to sequence the events in their current reading book. Please feel free to read for pleasure at home as we continue to discuss our likes, dislikes and puzzles in class at storytelling time.

Maths: We have been learning how to count in 10s, 5s and 2s – these skills help us to identify tens and units. They are also useful for discussing odd and even numbers. There is a short sheet to complete. You can also play Sumdog at home.

News

There is no school on Thursday 30th November as it is St Andrews day.

Christmas house art day is on Friday 1st December. This year our theme is Christmas carols.  Pupils should wear their house colours –

Hawks (green)

Falcons (blue)

Eagles (yellow or gold)

Ospreys (red)

The children will be using lots of art materials including glue, paint and drawing materials.  It’s going to be a lot of fun but please don’t wear your best clothes as it can get a little messy!

The school fair will take place this Saturday (2nd December) in the school between 1pm and 3pm.

Primary 2C will be joining the other Primary 2 classes for a local community walk on Friday 8th December. This is to investigate our local environment and complete our Stickman topic.

If you are able to accompany us between 9am and 10:30am on this day please pop a note in your child’s diary and I will give you some more information.

A reminder that the short read, write count event takes place on Tuesday afternoon.

Thank you for your continued support and have a lovely week ahead,

Miss Cauley

Good evening everyone,

I hope you had a lovely day. Homework and news as follows.

Spelling: Our sound this week is ck as in lock, back and sock. I was very impressed with all the extra words you came up with today in class – try and use some of them in your homework.

Reading: Reading books have been sent home today. Please continue to discuss what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story if you are able. I’ve also enjoyed hearing about the beginning,  middle and end of books that you have read at the library. We hope to visit the library as a class next term.

Word walls: These have now been issued and we will continue to work through these in class.

Maths: Our focus this week is greater than, less than and equals – <  =  > and there is a sheet to accompany this. Remembering which sign goes which way can be tricky – the crocodile eats the larger number because it is super hungry! Here is the link to the song we sang today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2slaI

Other news:

I have been introduced to some fabulous new stories this term. Thank you for bringing in your books – we still have a few weeks left of this topic if you have anymore tales to share.

Primary 2 will be taking part in this year’s nativity performance.  We have already begun to learn our songs and I have been very impressed with our sense of rhythm and beat! If you have not received a letter regarding our performance day please pop a note in your child’s diary.

Have a lovely week ahead,

Miss Cauley

Good afternoon, I hope you have all enjoyed your weekend so far. Please see below for homework, news and class updates.

Homework:

Our spelling sound this week is ‘ll’ as in ‘tell’, ‘fell’ or ‘bell’. We will continue to discuss the difference between single and double letter endings.

Here is a game focusing on ‘ll’ that can be played at home. Some words also contain sounds which we have covered already.

http://www.galacticphonics.com/digraphs/ll/interactive/llspell/llspellt.htm

Reading books will be given out again this week. Children are growing in confidence when speaking about the beginning, middle and end of stories and we will continue to focus on this as a class.

If your child does not yet have a revised word wall then they will receive it this week. I will highlight the words I would like them to focus on but they may do more if they wish.

Maths:

Our focus in class this week will be missing numbers, e.g., ? + 7 = 10. This can be quite tricky but pupils have worked very hard to learn the pairs of friends to 10 and we will now discuss how to use that knowledge to work out a missing number – whether in a calculation within 0 – 10 or using higher numbers. If you are able, please ask your child to explain how they reached their answer.

Other News:

Thursday is our Children In Need fundraising day. If they would like to take part, your child may come to school dressed in spotty clothing on that day. Please don’t hesitate to ask me if you have any other questions or queries.

Thank you and have a lovely week!

Miss Cauley

We’ve had a very busy week in P2C. Music lessons have taught us about ‘ta’ and ‘tay tay’ and we have spent time in Maths learning some new subtraction strategies and how to analyse data.

We also had a fantastic writing session on Tuesday where we created acrostic poems for the word ‘firework’. I have really enjoyed watching you progress throughout this unit and have been impressed with all your ideas! I have popped a few pieces of work below – do you recognise yours?

Poem 1

Flashing

Incredible

Rockets in the air

Everyone was watching

Whoosh!

On Saturday we went

Raining

Kites in the sky

Poem 2

Fire

In the sky

Rocks in the air

Exciting

Wow! Look up there!

On top of the clouds

Racing flashes

King of fireworks

Poem 3

Flaming in the sky

Interesting

Running away

Enthusiastic

What a firework!

Oh! Look at the colours!

Rockets that are pink

Keep going

Just a short note to say that we will be painting in class on Friday. We have aprons available for everyone but if you wish to send in an old long sleeved shirt/tshirt for your child to wear over their clothes then please feel free to do so. These should be in a plastic bag and labelled with your child’s name so that they can be returned.

Thank you in advance,

Miss Cauley

I hope you have enjoyed your weekend – I look forward to hearing all about it at check in tomorrow. Please see below for homework, news and class updates.

Homework

Spelling – This week our sounds are ‘ss’ and ‘zz’. We will be looking at words like ‘class’ and ‘buzz’ and discussing the difference between the sounds. There will also be common words to learn.

Reading – Reading books will be issued again this week. Please if you are able, continue to discuss what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. We have been doing this in class and I have been very impressed with the quality of discussion surrounding the stories we have been reading.

Maths homework this week will be looking at doubles. These are part of our Big Maths calculations. It will also help children with our topic of subtraction as we continue to learn different methods to ‘take away’.

News

Stickman has been a great source of conversation in class and the children continue to impress and inspire me with their creations and thoughts. Please see above for pictures of our individual Stickmen and Stick Lady Loves. This week we will begin to look at vocabulary to describe the characters in the book and will consider how the feelings of a character may change over the course of the story.  Thank you to those who were able to bring in wellies/older shoes –  the children are enjoying the opportunity to be outdoors so often.

Our focus on Julia Donaldson books continues and I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to/supporting children during reading. All children will be offered the opportunity to read/have their story read – our class library is a popular place to be!

Our PE days are Wednesday and Thursday. Our current topic is hockey and pupils are enjoying learning how to control, stop, dribble and pass. Hopefully we will soon be ready for a game!

Thank you for your support and enjoy the week ahead.

Miss Cauley

Hello, I hope you have all had a wonderful week. We had a fantastic day today developing our knowledge of Stickman and his family. We looked at how to sequence a story and discussed why it’s important to put things in the right order. We also spent some time outside discussing the textures of different materials before heading back inside to design, create and build our own members of the stick family. Final display coming soon! Until then, have a look at our works in progress.

Have a great weekend and remember – stay safe on Bonfire Night! Miss Cauley

Good evening everyone, I hope you are having a suitably spooky night!

Our current language focus is acrostic poetry and today I was blown away by some of the outstanding poems written by P2C. You should all be very proud of yourselves – not only can you explain what an acrostic poem is, you can use your knowledge of vocabulary and your thoughts and ideas to create a piece of your own.

Here are just a small selection of the poems from today – I hope you enjoy reading them. Can you spot yours?

See you all tomorrow!

Miss Cauley

Poem 1

Happy

At Halloween party

Lonely

Lava drinks

On the bike

Wings

Excited

Excellent

Next time!

Poem 2

Haunted

A witch

Long

Lots of sweeties

On Hallowe’en it’s spooky

Witch is screeching

Excited

Eat your treats

Night

Poem 3

House 100

Amazing

Look at that scary tree

Lets go out

Oooooh!

Werewolf

Excited

Eeeh! Here I go!

Ninjas