We started our week by going our the months of the year because it was a new month. We talked about the four seasons and when each of our birthdays were. In maths we learned about duration in time, and counted how long something took if we know when it starts and finishes. We are practising subtraction from numbers up to 20 using number lines or counters. In the playground we worked in pairs to make a chalk clock with stick hands to practise telling the time. We wrote a recount of ‘The bird and the cat’ and are remembering to write our opinion too.
Thursday was World Book Day and we listened to the teachers read ‘It’s a Book’ on screen. We found picture book clues in the playground and started to make our own book. In health and well-being we learned that we have similarities and differences but are all unique. We made prints of our fingerprints to show that we are unique.
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P2 clocks
We have been learning to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks and today we learned about hours before and after. We made our own clocks to take home so that we can practise telling the time.
Our story corner has been turned into a bookshop and today some children made a food shop.
Our week back at school
We really enjoyed our first week back and are feeling tired out today! It has been great to play together again and we have worked hard on our learning. We have practised spelling common words and rhymes, read books, told the time, counted and subtracted.
Our story corner has been turned into a book shop where we have money to buy books, name tags and price tags. In science we talked about the different types of materials that things are made from and what makes them suitable materials. We even learned about a fibre glass bridge!
Our recount writing was about the story ‘Rosie Revere, engineer’ and we gave her great words of encouragement about not giving up so that she could share her talents and achieve her goal! We are also writing the days and months as we write the date each day.
Welcome back p2
Hello
It was great to welcome the children back into school today and they were very happy to see each other.
We were busy with rhyming ‘ad’ words from the story ’Bad day, good day’, reading books and spelling tricky words.
In maths we played number bond bingo, counted patterns within 100 and made subtraction stories from 13.
We talked about our goals in health and wellbeing and we drew and coloured an owl using pastels.
Everyone remembered our hygiene routines and why they are important.
Mrs Lloyd
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark Chapter 7
Hello P2
Here is the final chapter of ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’, chapter 7, ‘Dark is Beautiful. We hope you enjoy it. Perhaps you can think about the novel when you have listened to it all. Talk to an adult about
- Your favourite chapter
- How would describe Plop?
- Have you been afraid of something but aren’t any more?
If you were the author how would you write another chapter? You can use these sheets to plan and write an extra chapter if you wish.
Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark Chapter 5
Hello everyone
We hope you are enjoying the story. You can listen to chapter 5 and talk about these ideas.
1. The girl had one end of her sketch book for daytime creatures and the other end for nighttime creatures. Which creatures would you draw at the front and the back if you had a sketch book?
2. The hedgehog is prickly and Plop is fluffy. Think of another creature and describe how it feels.
3. A few characters in the story asked Plop to screech. They liked the way it sounds. You can listen to birdsong on this website.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/barn-owl/
Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp
Chapter 3 ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’
Hello Primary 2
Here is chapter 3 of ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’.
We hope you have been enjoying listening to the story about Plop.
Here are some activities you can do if you choose.
While sitting in the dark Plop spent some time remembering fireworks so that he wouldn’t feel lonely. What do you like to remember? Talk about a special time.
Dark is Fun! Can you read these rhyming words?
bun, fun, gun, nun, pun, run, sun, shun and stun
Can you make up some nonsense words (words that aren’t real words) such as ‘lun’
‘Campfires are fun’, said Plop. Think about how to keep safe around a camp-fire. Perhaps make a safety poster.
Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp
Home Learning
Hello Primary 2
Well done on how hard you have been working on home learning over the past two weeks, we are very impressed by your work that you have emailed to us. We have spoken to most of you on the phone and have enjoyed hearing what you have been doing. On Monday we will post a new learning plan for the next two weeks and will talk to you on the phone again each fortnight.
Have a good weekend!
Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp
Merry Christmas everyone!
We’ve had a very festive week leading up to the end of term, and have enjoyed many different Christmas celebrations.
On Monday we had a virtual message from Santa and Mrs Wilson, chief elf, delivered our class present. Here we are playing with the Geomagnetic set.
On Tuesday we watched ‘Hoodwinked’ dvd, an alternative Red Riding Hood story that links in with our Jolly Christmas Postman story. We dressed up and enjoyed party food too.
We made a moving gingerbread man using split pins, the last of our Jolly Christmas Postman activities. Children showed determination in putting the split pins in themselves!
On Wednesday we ate Christmas lunch together, and it was delicious! Thank you, Mrs Clyde.
On Thursday we watched the Kingsland Christmas message.
We made a calendar and Christmas cards to give at home.
In the afternoon we watched the online pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk and booed at the baddies! We had juice and popcorn too.
We also found time to write a three part story about a lost teddy!
Classes visited all of the decorated class doors and we also saw our hanging paper plate Santas with curly beards.
Wishing you and your families a healthy and merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Winter art in P2
We have decorated our classroom door to create a winter village scene. First, we made a collage house using tissue paper and gummed paper. Our challenge was to make a tiled roof and show something in the window. Next, we decorated a 3D Christmas tree. Then we looked at pictures of skating figures and talked about what they were wearing and how they were moving. We each drew a skating figure to go on the frozen village pond.
Our rhymes this week were ip and an, and we came up with great words such as ‘Japan, Peter Pan and Dalmatian’.
We are still enjoying ‘The Jolly Postman’ and we wrote a story about a parcel he delivered to another character.
Other activities were to use adjectives to describe Red Riding Hood and the wolf and to put a jigsaw of Humpty Dumpty back together again.
We are very grateful to Miss Muir who teaches us Signalong signs every week. Here we are signing ‘I see a reindeer’.
We painted a pink sky, and many of us have noticed these skies recently. We are very careful not to over mix the paints and make it all one colour. Then we cut out silhouettes of trees, snowmen and reindeer and finished off with glitter snowflakes.
In maths we are learning subtraction facts for teens numbers and have played Bingo to help us practise.
