P2B had a busy week preparing for the Christmas enterprise, decorating our door for Book Week Scotland and continuing to learn our nativity songs.

This week’s Big Star was Jack – well done Jack.

Here are our favourite bits of this week:

Sophie – Doing the cookies

Daisy – Christmas enterprise, my favourite part was the cookies.

Sofia – Christmas cookies, I did a Santa and a tree.

Isla – Cookies, I did the Christmas tree and the angel.

Hope – Christmas enterprise, I did a Santa and a tree.

Murray – Christmas enterprise.

Jack – Christmas enterprise.

Kai – Winning the poster competition.

Oliver – The cookies.

Mikolaj – Cookies

Hannah – Cookies, I used every colour.

Thomas – Winning the calendar.

Hollie – Making the cookies and the cups for the snowman soup.

Lois – Making cookies and drawing on the cups.

Anna – My favourite was drawing the poster was Ruby and we got to use lots of different colours.

Ruby – Cookies, I did Santa and an angel.

What a busy week we’ve had!

This week was book week, so to celebrate this we started our new class novel; ‘Horrid Henry’s Underpants’. We learned about onomatopoeia and how it is used to add interest to stories, then, we created our own onomatopoeia. We decorated our door based on our class novel and our ‘sounds’. As it was also leading up to enterprise, we linked the two to make our own little book about Enterprise. We designed a front cover, wrote instructions on how to make candles, labeled diagrams and created a fire safety page. Our books are beginning to look really good! We also made comics about the story of Noah and the Great Flood. This was not very easy as a lot of us haven’t seen or read a comic before.

In maths, we have been learning about recognising and using money to help us with Enterprise week. We are really quite good with adding up different amounts of money!

As part of our topic, we learned about hurricanes and tornadoes and learned how to create a tornado using different materials. In art, we used cotton wool and card to make tornadoes and in science, we made tornadoes in a bottle.

The Christmas Fayre is tomorrow from 10am -12pm. Come by and check out the scented candles we made!

Have a great weekend and see you tomorrow!

This week has been very exciting as we have been sharing our love of books for Book Week Scotland. On Monday we designed and created the cover to our class book which is called “Mission Planet Protector” written and illustrated by P4a. Our book tells the story of an alien called Echo who is visiting earth to teach us about looking after our environment. We have learnt a lot about reduce, reuse, recycle. In this week’s chapter, Echo told us that he was returning to Planet X and that he was taking 6 children with him from P4a so that he didn’t forget how to look after his planet.
On Thursday we went to the school library to share our favourite books with our friends. A few people chose to read us a short paragraph from their book to ‘wet our appetites’ for their favourite stories! We heard excerpts from Mr Stink, The Butterfly Club, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Squash and a Squeeze and we read ‘Girls don’t fart’!
In Science we learnt about Mohl’s scale which is how rocks are graded from soft to hard. We tested the hardness of rocks by scratching them against each other and we discovered that the softest rock we had was chalk and the hardest was marble.
In Maths we learnt about tiling which is when shapes fit together without any gaps. We learnt to copy shapes and tile them and then we drew around geometric shapes to make different tiling patterns.
In Numeracy we are learning to subtract 2 digit numbers from bigger 2 digit numbers mentally. Some of us found this a bit tricky so we are going to practice a LOT!
Table of the week – 330 points
Learning partners of the week – Luke and Jude
Special award for kindness – Emily
Book Week Scotland award – Rosie

P2 have had a busy week of learning! We have been continuing to use our class shop and using our knowledge of giving change in our maths work. Next week we will be making money games to help us practise.

We have been busy decorating our gingerbread biscuits for Santa and we think they look great. You can begin to buy them now if you wish or wait till the Christmas Fayre on the 24th-A great bargain at £1. Next week we are excited to be making our Snowman Soup cups which you can also buy for £1.

Also next week is book week and we are looking forward to reading some great stories, decorating our class door and taking part in fun activities.

We hope to see you at the Fayre on the 24th of November 10-12.

With Mrs Mackenzie we learnt why Echo had come to earth. We discovered that Planet X is covered in rubbish and the water is polluted. We made a pamphlet about the 3 rs – REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! We are becoming planet protectors trying to protect our planet so that it doesn’t become as polluted as Planet X. Things we can do at home and in school include; washing and recycling cans and tins, plastic bottles and yoghurt pots and making sure that we use paper carefully. We can use sandwich wraps and plastic pots instead of plastic bags and cling film in our lunchboxes. We can use washable water bottles rather than single use ones. We can turn off lights when we leave rooms and we must remember to turn off the smartboard when we leave the classroom. When we grow out of clothes, we can pass them on to someone new or give them to the charity shop.

In anti-bullying week we wore odd socks to school on Monday and Echo had some odd sock combinations too!

We also read a story about it being good to be different, called Odd Dog Out. You can listen to it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUayOnHldv0

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning some first aid so that we can help people if we are the first people at an accident. We learnt about burns, choking, asthma attacks, bleeding wounds and broken bones.

In Science we looked at rocks and what is under the ground. We started thinking about what rocks can be used for and why certain rocks are used for certain things.

We were very proud of Eva who won the P4 float competition and Luke who was awarded the certificate for displaying school values.

We are looking forward to the Christmas fair and have been working on our stalls and our finances, trying to make sure we make as much money as possible whilst ensuring that all our customers have fun!

We are also looking forward to Book Week Scotland next week and having the opportunity to share our favourite stories and books on Thursday.
Table of the week – with 430 points

P2B looked brilliant today all dressed up for Children in Need! A great way to end another good week.

This week saw the start of our Christmas enterprise which the class thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into.

Lack of rain on Thursday meant a fun game of football with Mrs Laidlaw during outdoor gym.

This week and next we are continuing our money unit in maths and beginning to look at giving change.

Ben – My favourite thing was dressing up as Pickachu. He’s my favourite.

Thomas – The enterprise.

Hollie – Snowman soup.

Oliver – Dressing up for Pudsey. I got a certificate.

Murray – Dressing up for Pudsey.

Mikolaj – Playing football yesterday and chaos tig.

Hannah – Being Big Star

Kai – Dressing up for Pudsey because me and Oliver are twins.

Isla – Money because I’m getting better and better at it.

Anna – My favourite thing was being Little Star on Tuesday.

Hope – Playing football and dressing up for children in need.

Sofia – Pushing myself doing coins.

Daisy – Christmas enterprise on Wednesday.

Jack – Playing football.

Ethan – My favourite thing was dressing up for Pudsey.

Ruby – Dress down for Pudsey.

Lois – Being Little Star.

Miss Cowan

In literacy, we were learning how to use commas in a list of things. We found that you could use maths to work out how many commas you need to use! If you have 5 things in a list, you need 3 commas and an ‘and’. If you have 3 things, you need 1 comma and an ‘and’. If you have 4 items in a list you need 2 commas and an ‘and’. Can you work out the maths behind this?!
This week we wrote an acrostic poem and tried to use adjectives to make it more interesting.

In maths, we are continuing to build our mental maths recall, learning strategies for adding and playing games to help us with learning about grid references and co-ordinates.

In French this week we were learning about the names of the clothes we wear. We linked this to our topic and designed and dressed people based on the different seasons. We now have to label the clothes for our giant people.

In topic, we looked at different types of weather and took notes about them. We learned how the weather affects what we do, wear, how we travel and even our mood!

REMEMBER TO WEAR ODD SOCKS ON MONDAY TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ANTI-BULLYING WEEK.

Another busy week in P4a with blog contributions from each of our tables.
Red table – In writing with Mrs Mackenzie, we wrote comic strips of Echo arriving on earth and why he came. We discovered that his planet was beautiful and then became horrible because of the rubbish that was left on it.
Orange table – In numeracy we are working on partitioning which is when we make a sum easier by separating the numbers into their hundreds, tens and ones. You then add the hundreds together, the tens together and the ones together. Then you add all the different bits together.
Yellow table – We have started learning about rocks and soils in Science. We looked at different ‘rocks’ which were actually chocolate. We drew them and described them.

Green table-In RME we started learning about the food that Jewish people eat which is called Kosher. Kosher means ‘permitted’ and some foods are forbidden for Jewish people. These include; pork, lobster, shark, birds of prey and shrimp. They are also not allowed to eat dairy and meat at the same time.
Blue table – In Maths with Mrs Collings, we started learning about Chance. The likelihood of something happening can be; impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely and certain. The chance of Daniel going skiing today is unlikely. The chance of Akasha dressing up as Pikachu is even chance. The chance of Ehan playing golf in the dark is impossible. In health and wellbeing we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe with medicines.
Learning partners of the week –Elena and Artjom
Table of the week –
with 690 points
And lastly, don’t forget your odd socks on Monday for antibullying week!

REMINDER: On Monday 12^th November, children can wear odd socks for anti-bullying because it’s ok to be different. No money is required for this.

This week Primary 2b have continued learning about the war hero dog, Sergeant Stubby which they are thoroughly enjoying and looking forward to continuing.

We have also focused on counting coins and will be moving onto working out different coin combinations to make given totals.

This week’s Big Star was Hollie who has enjoyed receiving this award.

This morning was Balbardie Primary’s Remembrance assembly and 2 minute silence which P2B understood the purpose of in-line with our WWI topic. I was proud to see how respectful the class were throughout these times.

Best Bits

Ben – Being chosen for Little Star by Hollie.

Mikolaj – Yesterday we played football.

Jack – Doing the maths questions.

Ethan – Sergeant Stubby

Isla – Sergeant Stubby because he’s cute.

Kai- Remembrance Assembly

Oliver – Maths questions

Thomas – Hearing more about Sergeant Stubby

Murray – Maths

Hannah – I like learning about Sergeant Stubby.

Hollie – Sergeant Stubby and being Big Star.

Daisy – Sergeant Stubby because he is brave.

Sofia – Sergeant Stubby

Anna – Learning about Sergeant Stubby because he’s friendly and he’s very nice to the people who are on his team and he is very kind to everybody.

Hope – Learning about Stubby running into the war to save the soldiers.

Ruby – Being Little Star

Lois – Being Little Star

Miss Cowan