In Primary 2 we have done quite a mixture of learning this week.

We moved on to learning about parts of the ear in Science but, we have to do some more exploring of the ear next week.

We still had some Art work to do with the eye. So, we used 2 different types of media for this. First of all we thought about what we can see with our eyes and we made this picture with coloured pencils and black fine line with felt pen.

Next we made an eye collage with material. We thought this looked like an easy activitiy but, we had to do lots of problem solving and we had to work hard to make our cutting neat and accurate. It was fun using the tiny material scissors to cut through the fabric.

We had fun comparing and contrasting our two styles of eye Art.

We also made our Christmas card designs even though it is still September! We really enjoyed listening to  the Christmas music as we designed them.

In practical Maths we measured different objects with straws and small cubes. It was fun to be active in our learning and to work with others. We are trying very hard to be better at sharing equipment with others. We have made huge progress with this.

Our teacher modelled some writing for us this week and our focus was on a best friend. We had already made a labelled plan and this helped us when we wrote on the lined paper. Although we find writing challenging we are so proud of ourselves when we read it over at the end and look at the lovely handwriting we have too.We are going to add the last line to our writing on Monday. Then it will be fun to share our writing with our friends.

We have been becoming more creative in our play this week and we have been using our imaginations to add some props to the dragon models and making our own maps for the cars.

We did a whole class vote for Recycling rep and we are looking forward to getting started in our new roles of responsibility.

Yet another busy working week for Primary 2. Well done everyone!

Well done to all the pupils who applied for the jobs of class council rep and sustainable squad rep. They were all well prepared and spoke clearly and confidently about their strengths and hopes for the coming year.

Our class council representative this year is Jade (secretary – Lola).

Our sustainable squad representative is Caitlin (secretary Ella).

Congratulations!

A huge thank you to the pupils from primary 6/7 who helped us create our animations using our pipe cleaner people. We took photos on our I pads and then put them into I movie to create a short film. We really enjoyed this and will try adding some background scenery and sound effects next week.

This week P7B have adapted well to having a different teacher in class this week. Thank you and well done.

Have a look at the reflective questions below and discuss them with the people at your table. Leave a comment with your thoughts:

1. What is the most important thing that you have learned this week. Why do you think that is?
2. When were you most creative? Did you draw or make something? Or did you have to use problem solving skills?
3. What made you curious this week? How does learning feel different when you are curious?
4. What did you find difficult this week? What did you do to help yourself? Did you use any of Skipper’s tools?

I hope to see you all next week everyone. Have a wonderful weekend!

We love playing this game and it helps us remember our number bonds to 20.

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

This beautiful pheasant stopped by for a quick visit this afternoon.  It was lovely to see him spread his wings and fly away when the bell rang for afternoon break but we managed to get a picture or two first!

miss misses missing missed missile
finish finishes finished finishing unfinished
swim swims swimming swimmer swimsuit
wish wishes wished swishing wishbone
skill skills skilled reskill skilling
lyric lyrics lyrical lyricist lyricists
syrup syrups syrupy syrups syrupy
cygnet cygnets cygnets cygnets cygnets

P5a learned about a trick photography technique today and took some unbelievable shots!

In our novel study ‘Max and the Millions’ Max and Mr Darrow made tiny models and an entire miniature civilisation, called ‘millions’.

Today we learned about ‘forced perspective’ where you make things appear bigger or smaller depending on perspective.

We had a lot of fun and improved our photos as we went along.

We have had a very busy week in p2.

We have explored designing our own gardens in art and with loose parts in relation to our novel study.

We explored subtraction through games, e.g., snakes and ladders in reverse and using playing cards.

We explored our sense of smell this week in science. Scents we like and don’t like, as well as trying to guess the scent.

We have also been learning about rhyming words, practising our handwriting of focused letters and reading.

This week was our first assembly which the children really enjoyed. They explored resilience and preparation skills of climbers in the olympics and how they can relate to when we are facing challenges.

Well done P2. Have a lovely weekend

We started this week watching assembly which included a clip of Olympic climbing. Our task was to recognise which ‘building resilience’ strategies the climbers used.
We said

• get active as you need strength to climb
• have a goal to aim for the top to win
• keep connected, talking to each other about the route up
• challenge your mindset by telling yourself you can do it
• Look on the bright side as you might be feeling a bit worried
• respect yourself by telling yourself to have a go
• make a difference as you can go high then even higher

We completed making our miniature castles based on our class novel Max and the Millions. We then looked at the work of artist Willard Wigan who makes microscopic models. We made a person using pipe cleaners and are beginning to imagine a scene from a story around our castle and person.

In writing we wrote a description of our school, after we had decided on paragraph subheadings as a class.

In maths we wrote numbers in words and numerals and placed numbers on a number line which can be challenging if we need to work out what each mark stands for.

We are going elect a class rep for both the Pupil Council and the Sustainable Squad so we are busy thinking about what it takes to do a good job.

In health and well-being we are learning about the effects on our health of too much or too little and we are relating this to the effects of alcohol.

Here we are together enjoying the good weather.