We have been exploring Scotland this week.

We have also been learning our Scots poems and working hard at adding actions and gestures because most of us know the words off by heart now.

We designed some tartan and we will keep working on this. We will share these photos with you in the whole school Scottish Afternoon video.

We have been learning about symmetry in Maths and have had so much fun with the interactive games on the Smartboard. These games have helped us with the language and they have also given us a deeper understanding about symmetry.

We are exploring some Scots words for animals and it has been fun trying to say these to our partners.

We have been reading our non-fiction books in class and we are now becoming quite skilled at reading about real facts and then talking about them in our groups. We are not finding reading non-fiction texts as challenging as we did at first.

Another week come and gone, with lots of learning.

Reading

Each PM reading group had a task tying in with their book.
One group’s book explored different houses and homes; they then built their own den home.

Another group’s book explored homes and the layouts and designs; they then designed their own homes.

The next group used iPads and notes to recreate their book Look at Me.

Maths

We continued exploring symmetry, making symmetrical pictures and exploring lines of symmetry.

Numeracy
We recapped using bridging and number lines with addition and subtraction

Scotland

This week we further explored Scot’s language, landmarks of Scotland and facts of Scotland. We rounded this off making tartan using card and thread.

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Writing

We are continuing with narrative and learnt how to plan a narrative text piece.

Wishing you a happy and fun filled weekend.

What an exciting week we have had.  It has been lovely to hear about  the holidays and see all the smiles.

We explored New Year traditions, making resolutions, reviewing the previous year and re-enacted the bells.

Maths

We explored shape and symmetry this week.

Numeracy

We revisited addition with missing numbers, we used counters, played daily 10 and engaged with problem solving. We also reviewed  the two times table.

Reading

We practised finding the main idea from our books. We then undertook challenges related to the main idea of our books.

Scots

This month we are exploring Scots. We have explored poems, Scots words and stories.  We have been  very enthusiastic with this topic and have been laughing a lot.

Have a safe and happy weekend. 🙂👍🏼

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!

December is going by so fast, but what fun we have been having.

The children decided upon some acts of kindness they would like to undertake for their advent countdown to Christmas. They have been incredibly thoughtful and have enjoyed bringing a smile to others.

We have undertaken a litter pick, gifted a tree decoration to each class, gifted flowers, made cards for our community, told jokes, given compliments and much more. The energy, positivity and gratitude the class have shown has been amazing.
They have created a gratitude tree on our window with baubles identifying what they are grateful for and another window display of gifts we give that can’t be bought from the shop e.g. friendship and working together.

We really enjoyed our Christmas party and our gift from the parent council.

We have continued to recap our learning through Christmas themed activities, crafts and Christmas mysteries we had to solve with clues.

We look forward to what next week shall bring.
Stay safe and have a lovely weekend.

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.