Happy New Year !

in P2 we have been working very hard to learn a Scots poem. Both poems are by JK Annand. One is called,” Mince and tatties” and the other one is,” The snawman.”

We have to choose one of the poems and try to learn as much of it as we can.

We also spent a lot of time trying to translate the Scots words into English so that we could understand the poems.

Next week we will work on pace, clarity, expression and gestures when we are saying our poems.

We also listened to a story about Bea and Brodie that is set in Scotland. Some of the words were in Scots so, we enjoyed trying to work out their meanings in English.

In Numeracy we have been focusing on addition and for MSHD we spent some time handling 3D shapes and chatting about their properties. We have also started to look at symmetry and we have played some fun games to help us to learn about symmetry.

We also made some New Year’s Resolutions to try to start or improve on something in 2022.

A hard working first week back, P2. Well done!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We had a very important guest in our class today – Santa !

while Santa spent some time with us Mr Harkness had the job of feeding the reindeer their carrots. They were parked on the roof and they were very well behaved. Rudolph was being a bit mischievous but, once he had had his carrots he was quite happy.

We all had a turn at ripping the paper off of the parcels and we were very Eco friendly when we put the wrappings in the recycling bin.

In the afternoon after we had completed all of our jobs we had a great time playing with our new games.

Thank you, Santa!

P2/3 and P3 Christingles Christmas cards.

  Working hard on our letters for Riverside House. We hope the residents enjoy our cards as much as we enjoyed making them.

What is your wish for Christmas?

In our party clothes.

On the 2nd day of Christmas we drew these amazing baubles on our iPads. We are enjoying the Inspire Learning Christmas activities.

We had fun recycling sweetie wrappers to make these Christmas cards. We are thinking more about how we can be Eco friendly.

We have enjoyed listening to Christmas music while we have been doing our Christmas crafts. This has actually helped us to feel quite calm and relaxed.

We have worked very hard on 2D shape in Maths too. It has been fun learning about the shapes then playing with them. we have also done some addition and subtraction to make Christmas tile mosaics. We turned these into jigsaws that we can use for Mental Agility games.

P2 had a fantastic party !

It was so much fun partying with our whole year group.

We loved dancing the Military two step, we played snowmen statues and we had fun finding a partner in the snowball game.

Thank you to the Parent Council for our party bags and food. This made our party much more special.

A big thank you to all of the adults who helped out at our party.

It was lovely to see everyone in their party clothes.

We have been very busy learning many new skills.

Here are some photos we would like to share with you.

We are looking forward to seeing our completed self-portraits.

It  has  been   fun  learning  about  Earth,the  Sun  and  the  Moon.

A real highlight in P2 this week was using the iPads for the first time. We watched a short video of a story about a little girl and her snowman friend and then we learned how to use the Sketches School App to build a snowman picture. Our first iPad session was very successful with only a few hiccups which we were able to sort very quickly. We are all very proud of our snowmen.

Another highlight has been making our props for the virtual Christmas Nativity concert and learning our song. We have done so well with this. We like singing along without the words now.

We are really looking forward to singing our song on the stage next week.

We have been continuing to explore non-fiction books in class and although the text can be quite challenging we are doing very well and managing to read most of the book fluently.

We all enjoy discussing the photographs and text with our learning partners.

As we move into December we have been finding out about Advent and why we have advent calendars. It has been fun  searching around the classroom for our gift  and task if it is our name that is chosen.

We have had a very busy week.

We have been enjoying being challenged with our numbers this week and we are now working with numbers to 100. We have been learning some strategies for using our 100 square and working out our answers a lot faster.

In HWB we are continuing to explore what makes us unique because some of us found this a tricky word to say and understand. We liked painting a self portrait, looking in the mirror to help us  and it was great fun mixing the skin colour for our face and neck. We are not quite finished our self portraits but, we are looking forward to seeing them finished and posting them on our Blog page.

We are still having fun exploring Night and Day in our topic work. We discovered that a rotation of the Earth around the Sun causes night and day, a revolution of the earth around the Sun takes 365 days or 366 days in a Leap year. This causes the Seasons.

It also takes around 27 days for the Moon to be seen in all it’s phases. Many of us are enjoying completing our homework sheet andwe have been discussing the fact that on cloudy nights we cannot see the Moon to record on our sheet.

In class we took a little quiet time to do some Cosmic Yoga Kids with Jamie. We really enjoyed her Moon story and we felt so calm when we were doing the yoga.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy your extra day to celebrate St Andrew’s Day !

Book Week

We have had some fun exploring books for Book Week. Our focus has had strong links to Literacy.

We explored the book,” The last wolf” by Mini Grey . This was a book that was in the P3 Read, Write, Count goody bag that we took home on Monday.

The Primary 2 goody bag was amazing too. We loved the note book, card game and measuring tape too.

We tried to act out parts of the story and we felt that we were actually in the book when we did that. There was lots of fun and laughter at the end when the story had a happy ending.

The book made us think very carefully about environmental issues and how we need to take care to look after wildlife. When hedges and trees are cut down the animals lose their homes and food. So we could be more mindful of this when we make choices.

We are looking forward to sharing books we bring in from home tomorrow.

Click on the link below to hear one of the stories we shared this week

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Here is a non-fiction story we read this week.

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Numeracy

We are now looking at exploring numbers to 100 and we enjoyed using the big 100 square and working out the correct sequence of numbers. We enjoyed being active with our learning.

We are really looking forward to using the big 100 square when we are choosing in our free time too.

Well done for wanting to transfer your learning into your play, P2 !

Sustainable Squad meeting 1.

We had an early morning meeting and felt very grown up when the tables were rearranged to make our meeting more formal.

We took the meeting very seriously and our responses were very mature.

Here are some of the things we discussed.

P7 will be planting legacy trees in the school grounds in December and January. This will provide shelter and shading and be good for our wildlife. We can also think about the P7’s who planted them.

We are looking forward to finding out more about the polytunnel that we are going to have in Spring.

Surprise!

Mr Swinney surprised us by dropping off some of the jigsaws and games our teacher had ordered. Mrs Ward gave each class money to spend and we are really excited about exploring our new games.

Thank you to Mrs Ward as these games will make our learning and play even more exciting.

Remembrance day

This week we have been finding out about how the poppy became the symbol of Remembrance Day.

At 11 o’clock on the 11th of November we fell silent in class for a 1 minute silence. We were respectful and thought about the ex-servicemen and women who had lost their lives in war.

We made poppy wreaths and painted our own pictures of poppy fields like the ones in Flanders, Belgium.

Non-fiction

We are enjoying exploring our new non-fiction books.

Bonfire weekend recount

Writing was challenging for us this week because we had to have a go at writing our recount independently. We all worked very hard at this.

Maths and Numeracy

In Numeracy we explored some word problems and learned about how important it is to read the words very carefully. this then helps us to work out what the sums is. We recorded our answers in drawings and then number sums.

For practical maths we are going to explore weighing with a variety of non-standard units like straws and marbles and we might even try Lego bricks.

On Friday 19th November you can bring in a favourite book from home to share with the class. The read, write count bags look amazing this year!