P3A 2024 – 2025

This week in music we have been learning about the importance of music during Chinese New Year. As part of our learning we watched a Musical Storyland episode called ‘The Great Race’ by BBC Teach, where members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play a range of instruments and tell the story.  We saw a new Chinese instrument called a guzheng which is played by plucking the strings.  You can see all the instruments in the picture below.

Photo courtesy of BBC Teach

We also learned that this year is the year of the dragon and in the clip below, you can see us using scarves to move like the dragon dancers that perform at Chinese New Year celebrations.

Today P2 watched Author’s Live which featured authors Tom Nicoll and Ross Collins talking about their picture books There’s Nothing Faster Than A Cheetah and There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy. The class enjoyed listening to the stories and got a lesson on how to draw a cheetah and a Blobfish. 

Tuesday 30^th January 2024 was a special day at Sound Primary School as we were visited by both the Junior and Senior Jarl Squads of 2024.

The Junior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl Skeppare Nokkvesson (aka Oran McCulloch), were in fine voice during their time with us, supported by a group of young local musicians who did a brilliant job. ‘Yes Sir, I can Boogie’ was definitely a highlight! The clip below shows all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song.

The Senior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl King Harald Olafsson (aka Richard Moar) were also pretty spectacular both in sight and sound. A fantastic line up of local musicians provided the music for the Up Helly Aa song and also their squad song which made us all want to get up and dance! Here is a clip of all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song. The Jarl commented how loud and enthusiastic our singing was. High praise indeed from a ‘King’!

The Curriculum Information document below shows parents what learning is planned for the pupils this term.

The Family Learning Grid is optional tasks for you to do based on what learning we are doing in class. Our topic this term is Lerwick so several tasks are linked to exploring Lerwick. Please email me with any photos you have of your home learning or feel free to share your experiences with us.

gw14andersonclare@glow.shetland.sch.uk

P2 Optional Family Learning Grid Term 3

Curriculum Information P2A Term 3

Another snow day! Let’s hope this is the last one.

Here is Friday’s home learning grid. I hope you have enjoyed some of the activities that have been set this week. If you want to share your learning with me then my email is:

gw14andersonclare@glow.shetland.sch.uk

Thank you to those who have sent me pictures. They have made me smile!

Home Learning Grid Snow Day Friday 19th January

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