On Tuesday we had the most amazing afternoon where we celebrated Scottish poems, songs, music and dancing.

Our P2A poetry winner felt scared but proud when she was performing to the whole school. Our P2 teachers are both very proud of the winners and the efforts that all of the other boys and girls put in when they were reciting their Scots poems. Well done! Many of us really enjoyed the sword dancing and Highland dancing.

It was exciting being piped in by our pipers.

Saying the Scots poems and sharing them with P2B

Maths is challenging but, I can still do it.

Saying my poem to an audience.

When I am joining up my letters in handwriting it looks much neater now.

I was pleased to be one of the five winners of the Scots poetry
competition in my class.

One of the P2A boys worked very hard at the weekend with his Dad and brother to make this amazing bridge from lolly sticks.

How many lolly sticks do you think the bridge has?

Our topic is weather and what an exciting week we had last week. This helped us to think about some of the questions we were asked at the beginning of the topic.

How can we predict the weather?

What can we do to prepare for different types of weather?

Do we have to wear special clothes in different types of weather?

What happened to our school week when it snowed heavily?

Was it all fun in the snow or could it be dangerous? How did you stay safe?

Today P2 buddied up with P5 classes. We introduced ourselves to each other then we shared our favourite books.
The best part ? Having playtime together with our buddy.

In class and at home we have been learning two poems and exploring the Scots language.

We are enjoying learning our poems, sharing them with others and taking advice to help us to improve our performance.

We have also been learning how pace, expression and gesture can make a big difference to the success of our recital.

A big thank you to Colin and Alan who kept P2 entertained with a question and answer session about the Sun, Moon and other areas of the Solar System.

We also had the chance to look through a huge telescope.

What do you think we saw?

Here are some questions we asked:

How many stars can we see? Roughly 2 thousand

Do the stars only come out at night? No, they are in the sky all the time. We only see them when the sky is dark.

How cold is the Moon? The Sun heats up the Moon but, it is still too cold for humans to survive there.

How big are stars? Many stars are bigger than the Earth.

What is the Earth made of? The core of the Earth is liquid iron.

How wide is the Sun? About I million Earths could fit inside the Sun.

Fact : The red stars are the coolest and the blue stars are the hottest.

Both classes found out the answer to this question when we formed a bright Sun – wearing our hi-viz vests. Then we had four people in a hoop to represent the Earth and they had to rotate or turn round. On the outside we had one pupil representing the Moon. The Moon circled the Earth and we discovered that it takes a whole month to do this. How long does it take the Earth to rotate around the Sun? It takes a whole year?

After this lesson we made moving picture models to show how the Earth rotates around the Sun and how the Moon rotates around the Earth. We will add labels of facts we know to our pictures then share them with other groups.

We have been making calendars to use in 2018. Our design was a Sun and Moon and we added lots of interesting patterns. Then we used oil pastels in bright colours for the Sun and cool blues for the Moon. We are looking forward to using them in the year ahead.

P2 had a VIP in their classroom today…………..

Santa took some time out from his busy day and personally
delivered presents. We were so excited and we really look forward to playing with the new games he gave us. He even knew what our
Topic was!

A big THANK YOU SANTA for the lovely presents. We really
enjoyed your visit to our classes.

We hope Rudolph was behaving when you returned to the car park.