P2 have started the term in PE doing athletics.  On Wednesday we remembered that athletics is split into three areas, running, jumping and throwing.  We focused on jumping, performing in 7 different jumping activities.

• standing vertical jump
• 2 footed jumps following a directional pattern
• low hurdles
• standing long jump
• rebound jumps
• higher hurdles
• boxes of differing height to jump onto.

We were reminded that the standing long jump and rebound jumps are 2 of the 6 events we take part in at sports day.

Primary 2 – Term 4 – Curriculum Information

Our buddies helped us learn how to make friendship bracelets and how to tie our shoelaces.

We enjoyed our visit from the local Dogs Against Drugs Team. We played with all the equipment and got to pet the dogs. We learned a lot about what they do in Shetland.

We had great fun and learned to dance the Boston Two Step with our buddies in P6B.

The Jarl Squad were excited to let us try on their brilliant helmets. We are very good at singing the Up Helly Aa song and we can even play it using our building blocks in class!

The shields were very heavy but they helped us hold them! We had great fun making galleys with our buddies!

We have been continuing to reinforce our sense of steady beat using body percussion and we have also explored the relationship between beat and rhythm. A song that we have learned called ‘Pussycat Pussycat’ gave us an opportunity to learn about a question and answer style of song in music where we kept the beat by tapping while singing the questions and showing the rhythm of the answers by clapping.

We have also been learning about pitch – how high or low a sound is and we have been using our singing voices to match the pitch that we hear. We can also use out hands to show if the pitch is high, middle or low. The song ‘Rain is Falling Down’ is one we have learned that has three different pitches.

After using our hands to show the pitch of the song, we talked about which words in the song were at a high, middle or low pitch and we put them into three different sets of clouds to show how the pitch changed in the song.

Here is a recording of the class showing the pitch with their hand positions while singing ‘Rain is Falling Down’.