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We were discussing all the fun times in primary two. The pupils had so many times to talk  about, we ran out of space on the white board and had to use some mini- whiteboards to add all our ideas on to.

Some of the highlights of the year were:

• Outdoor learning – we have done lots but the favourites were the stoney beach and the burn
• Baking – pancakes and gingerbread men
• Fruit testing
• Parties
• Play
• Map making
• Swimming
• Museum visit
• Bookbug visits
• Going to the library
• Story time
• Having parents in to do maths games
• Making circuits
• Gym time

We made acrostic poems on our favourite experiences.

We have been learning more about the zones of regulation and we have been using a few fun songs to help us get into the green zone which is the zone we need to be in to be ready to learn.

Numbers Song Let’s Count 1-10 New Version (youtube.com)

Shake Break Exercise Song for Kids | Pancake Manor (youtube.com)

 

We did maths outside yesterday. We have been learning about tally marks so we went outside to record the variety of coloured cars we could see. To record it clearly and accurately we used tally marks. We have been learning that it is important to use a finger space between each group of 5. We know we can read it clearly if it is neat and has a space. We saw lots of white cars! And hardly any pink, purple or brown cars.

Meta skills we covered were focusing, communicating, curiosity and collaborating.

We had a visit from Cheryl and Naomi from Morgan Sindall to speak to us about plants. The pupils loved the videos of the exploding seeds. We saw tiny seeds and a picture of a coconut as that is the biggest seed.

They have left us resources so we can do our own planting in the next few weeks. Thank you!

We had outdoor plans for Thursday afternoon but it was REALLY wet so we decided to have an afternoon of games. What a lovely idea for a rainy day.

We read this lovely story today. It is called Amazing Me Amazing You by Christine McGuinness.  We spoke about how we are all unique and we have some similarities and some differences but we all like that we are our own people.

We loved getting fruit for snack! Lots of pupils were trying blackberries, cherries, kiwi, melon and plums for the first time. I was so impressed with how keen they all were to try new fruits.

Thank you to Grays and Tesco for the yummy fruits!

We had great fun in PE today, taking part in an obstacle course to develop agility, stamina, coordination, balance and many more skills athletes need for all sports.

P2A have been using visual information to help them compose drawings of under the sea. They will use wax crayons to colour some details and paint washes for the sea and sand.

We have been making Road Safety posters in P2a.

We looked at this website first to have a go at the challenges and watch the videos to remind us of what we learned in term 2 about Road Safety.

Click on the link below to have a look at the useful website and play the games.

First (P2, P3, P4) – Road Safety Scotland

 

We had a great time orienteering in the wildlife area today. We had to look for 8 fruits and could only do one fruit at a time. We all had fun! The winners were Conan and Tymon finding all the fruit fastest!

This kind of task certainly covered a few of the meta-skills we are thinking about at Sound School. We were focusing, adapting, using our initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, sense-making and critical thinking.

We’ve been learning a song called ‘Frog in the Meadow’ and keeping a steady beat by using our bodies. In the song, there are four beats at the end where we had to jump like a frog. Each time we sang the word ‘glumph’ we had to show one beat of music with one frog jump. This led us on to the popular song of Crazy Frog which the class absolutely loved! Here we are doing some movement activities to the song.

What a glorious day!

We went up the Sound Brae and cut in to the Quoys Burn and walked down it. We took time to listen to the relaxing sounds, to smell the amazing variety of smells and to really look around at all the different colours and things we could see. It was very chilled out. It is a private garden so we had to be respectful and use quiet voices, this helped add to the excitement of it all.

Then we went to the playpark and the bairns had some crazy time running around! After a little play we walked down to the road and saw where the water goes under the road. We took time to blow dandelion clocks. We followed the burn down to the stoney beach and talked about where the water started and where it ended up.

A big point that I made to the pupils is that they should always have a grown up with them when visiting the beach or the burn as playing beside the water can be dangerous. 

Our outdoor learning sessions we cover a lot of areas of the curriculum and give experiences to the children that are just not the same as learning in the classroom.

We have been looking at Meta-skills at Sound School. Some of the Meta-skills that this walk included are:

• focusing
• communication
• collaborating
• feeling
• curiosity
• sense-making
• critical thinking

One of our school values for this term is happiness. There were certainly a lot of happy bairns today.

We have been collaborating in experiments on different ways of producing sound from vibrations, we looked at how to change the pitch of sound. We used cups on string as phones to talk to each other and made harmonicas using elastic bands, straws and lollipop sticks. It was tricky to get the vibrations right to make the sound.

We have been doing Athletics in PE.  We have been performing in events from the 3 categories running, jumping and throwing, focusing mainly on our sports day events.

                    

We went on a trip to the stoney beach.

The children highlighted the benefits of outdoor learning:

• You can find things.
• Enjoying being outside and being able to skip and run around.
• You can find a lot of stuff in the sea and can play with what you find.
• You can explore the different areas including the rock pools and paddle in the water.
• Exercise while walking there and back.
• We  saw lots of animals including sheep.
• We saw some dead animals including the whale, sheep and crabs.
• We saw a sea anemone and a star fish.
• We had to balance and be careful when walking over the rocks.
• We shared what we found with each other and the other class.

 

Here is what we will be learning in term 4.

P2a Term 4 Curriculum Info

We have been learning about doubles in the classroom. We have done games, whiteboard work, practical activities, laptop games and written work on doubles. We then went outside to see if we could see doubles in nature. We spotted trees with double branches, bunches of daisies that were doubles and we used sticks to show doubles too. It was a lovely sunny day and we enjoyed exploring numbers in nature in the sunshine.

We have been using rackets in PE.  We have developed our skills using different equipment, including balloons, fluffy balls, hand paddles and various different rackets.  We loved hitting balloons.  Because they are slower, we had lots of time to get the racket in place.

P2 have been learning about some famous artists. They have made sunflowers inspired by Vincent Van Gogh paintings by using drawing , collage and painting skills.