P3A 2024 – 2025

Here is another grid. I hope you are all enjoying the snow. My email address is on the bottom of the learning grid for anyone who wants to share any of their home learning with me or let me know how you are getting on.

Home Learning Grid Snow Day Thursday 18th January

Here is your grid for Wednesday. I hope you are all enjoying the snow.

Home Learning Grid Snow Day Wednesday 17th January

Here is your grid for today.

Home Learning Grid Snow Day Tuesday 16th January

Here are some activities for you to do at home.

Home Learning Grid Snow Day Monday 15th January

Enjoy the holidays P2!

From

Mrs Anderson

I didn’t get many photos, too busy having fun. Thank you to Mrs Ritchie for organising the games for us.

We also had a visit from the sneaky elf who had tied up some of the infant wing toys and had eaten all the chocs from the advent calendars. The class had fun drawing a picture and writing about his antics.

Our topic this term has been Night and Day.

This has included:

• What happens at day and night
• Nocturnal and Diurnal animals
• Light sources including natural and artificial lighting
• Learning about the moon
• Electrical circuits to switch on a bulb for light
• Being safe in the dark
• Being safe around fireworks and bonfires
• Materials that help us to be seen in the dark
• Shadows
• Hedgehogs including their lifecycle
• Reading ‘The Owl that was Afraid of the Dark’

On Friday it was Christmas Jumper Day and we came to school wearing our Christmas jumpers.  We really enjoyed playing the Christmas jumper game on Topmarks. The link is below if you want to have a shot.

Christmas Jumper Designer (topmarks.co.uk)

We liked the Christmas tree game too.

Decorate the Christmas Tree (topmarks.co.uk)

We had a visit from Chloe, she works at the Shetland Library. We did some nursery rhymes with her. We did Incy, Wincy, Spider and Baa Baa Black Sheep and some more. We read two books with her. They were fun. The cat in the book was very cute. We did a few songs including The Big White Bus.

This term we have been continuing to develop our knowledge and understanding of pulse, rhythm and pitch through rhymes, action games and singing games. In the video you can see our performance of a rhyme called ‘Engine, Engine Number 9’. We kept the pulse of the rhyme using our hands and arms to be the train wheels moving along the track and look out for how we show the rhythm of the last line of the rhyme the second time through.

This week we have played lots of numeracy games. Bingo was the favourite. Here is the spinner we used if anyone wants to try it at home. You just need to write 6 numbers down and get spinning.  0-20 spinner – Random wheel (wordwall.net)

We also played whiteboard games, board games, did lessons from Lloyds Bank on money, did our Chaos in the Snow challenge(see post further below with photos on this), loop cards and we loved having the grown ups in to talk to us about their jobs and do our number notion packs together. Our play areas were all set up with tasks that involved number. We had weighing and measuring, a shop to use money in, matching, ordering, connect 4, shapes, building using blocks, calculators, letter formation and stories using numbers.

Here are some of the games we have enjoyed this week.

Place Value Basketball – Dienes Game for 5 to 8 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Shark Numbers || To know what each digit in a 3-digit number represents – mobile friendly (ictgames.com)

As part of Numeracy Week we had a whole-school challenge to help the elves. Our elf had been caught in a snowstorm and needed somewhere to shelter. The pupils had to make him a shelter to keep him warm and dry. We had to plan our shelter by drawing a diagram of what we wanted it to look like and list the resources we needed. We had to make sure our shelter matched the criteria the elves had given us.

• The shelter must protect the elf from the wind.
• The shelter must keep the elf dry.
• The shelter must stand on its own.
• The shelter needs a doorway to enter and exit.

Here is your optional family home learning grid for this term.

P2 Optional Family Learning Grid

Curriculum Information P2 Term 2

We had fun making pumpkins, playing a halloween corners game and decorating the mummy with toilet paper. There was lots of giggling and screeching!

As part of our Night and Day topic we have been learning about nocturnal animals. We are reading about an owl in ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We made our own owls in class out of paper plates and cupcake cases.

We enjoyed learning about the gingerbread man. We watched an orchestral performance of the story as well as hearing it read by Mrs Anderson.

Here is the link if anyone would like to hear it again.

BBC iPlayer – BBC Philharmonic – The Musical Story of the Gingerbread Man

We also made gingerbread men and got to taste them at snack time the next day. We were all brave and tried it. Most of us liked the taste.

We also designed our own gingerbread man and got to play a roll the dice game to build up the parts of the gingerbread man. We have been very busy.

We have had fun learning this Fairy Tale. We have had drawing club based on this tale, including a focus on the character, setting and then a drawing club where we got to use our imaginations to decide what we would do if we had to cross the bridge. We used playdoh to make our own bridges.