Hi everyone!

What a week we have had…after the holiday week we came back to class and were surprised to find footprints leading towards our cosy corner!  We weren’t sure what had left the footprints or what clues we could find to help us work it out.  Here were some of our thoughts about who had left the things and the footprints:

Brandon – “It could have been a secret map in the scroll that a polar bear had left.  It would take us to a secret, invisible castle”

Ellie – “I thought it might have been a cheetah that left the footprints!”

Poppy – “I thought it was a tiger”

Teigan – “It was something very big that left the footprints!”

Liam – “It might be a big dinosaur, Mrs Mansfield would be scared a dinosaur would come to class”

Millie – “I thought it was a scary, scary, scary bad animal”

Leila – “The scroll smelled like fire!”

Max – “The scroll was like it had been in lava.  I thought it was a massive animal that breathed fire!”

Marley – “I felt sad because I didn’t want the dragon to make a mess with his footprints!”

Cameron – “I thought it might have been a crocodile because there were teeth marks in the paper”

Breghannon – “I thought it was a bit dirty, the paper looked a funny colour.”

Rory – “I thought it was a magic dinosaur because we could pick up the magic footprints!”

Emily – “I thought it might be an alligator.  I know what sound alligator starts with”

Regan – “I was happy because when I walked in I never knew it would be there”

Leah – “It was a cheetah and his tooth fell out when he ate the letter”

Jonah – “I thought it was from the flintstones time.”

Rio – “It was a tiger, the footprints were big”

It actually turned out to be a dragon that had left the footprints!!!  He had left us a scroll explaining that his home had been destroyed.  The Friendly Dragon needed help bringing Fairyland back to life, to do this we have to believe in our fairytales, read fairytales and complete jobs.  The first Fairy-tale we read was Jack and the Beanstalk – we practised sequencing the story, acting out as the characters and were able to talk and answer questions about the story.  It was all very exciting!  We are really looking forward to getting more ‘D-mails’ to help build Fairyland back up again.

Other Successes of the Week

• Rory – Pupil of the Week
• Cameron – Star Writer

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Just a reminder that auditions for the School talent show will take place next Thursday – please encourage your children to practise their acts (songs, dancing, jokes…the list goes on) before then.  Children do not need to take part if they don’t want to but I look forward to seeing what our future stars have prepared.  Have a nice weekend!)

We have really enjoyed this week in P2/1.  There have been lots of good bits but these have been our favourite:

Millie – “making the owl by cutting out shapes and sticking them onto black card”

Rio – “I liked going to church”

Breghannon – “I liked church too!”

Cameron – “I liked singing songs at th echurch”

Poppy – “Making a jigsaw with our P7 buddy”

Ellie – “Reading a story with Mrs Dunbar and telling her about our apple experiment”

Marley – “Mummy coming to the church.  I waved to Mrs Aitchison and my mummy and I loved maths this week.  I’ve had a good week!”

Emily – “I liked church because I liked the singing”

Rocco – “The best bit was making a jigsaw”

Romeo – “I liked making and cutting a jigsaw too”

Regan – “Coming out of the church and giving my papa a cuddle”

Teigan – “I liked church with Marley”

Jonah – “I loved going to church”

Keegan – “I liked the church”

Leah – “I liked making a puzzle”

Rory – “Church was really good fun”

Max – “My favourite bit was learning sign language, we learned the colours”

Liam – “Singing the rainbow song in our sign language lesson with P2s”

Leila – “I liked going to church, it was exciting!”

We started work on our P1 show this week, we learned the song Tapping Away and we even got the chance to be on the stage.  We were excited to hear what parts we are in the show.

Narrators  – Rory, Cameron, Poppy, Rocco, Millie, Romeo, Leah

Santa – Regan

Reindeer – Emily, Leila, Rio, Breghannon, Teigan

Ralph the Reindeer – Ellie

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – could all pink review jotters please be returned asap after the holidays.  These were due to be returned on Thursday, please let me know if there are any problems.  I hope you all have a lovely holiday and can’t wait to hear all of your child’s adventures from the October week!)

Important Assembly Date Change

Please note our class assembly date is now on Friday 28th of October and not on 11th of November as previously stated.

In maths this week we learned a bit more about 3D shapes and we split into groups to find out the properties of 3D shapes and we made some wonderful alien and animal 3D shapes to help us.  We were very lucky as Mrs Spence joined us for our maths lesson.

We continued to focus on our imaginative writing and wrote a wonderful story about a very helpful dog/cat.  We are trying to make our stories more detailed by adding lots of describing words.

We had a very special visitors to P2 as we had Digger the Guide dog, Lisa and Rosie’s Dad visiting us. Digger is a 8 year old black retriever and has been helping Lisa for 7 years.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week Artjom

Drama award of the month-Archie

Kyle has got a rainbow stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Emily has moved to level 4 in swimming

Luke managed to swim 2 lengths in swimming

Hollie is getting better at dancing

Akasha is on level 1 in swimming

Elena has been practising her cartwheels

Hello everyone,

What a week we have had in P2/1!!!   It has been a week full of adventures and surprises for us – here are our best bits from this week!

Regan – “Writing about the coffee morning in our jotters”

Keegan – “Dress down day is always good fun!”

Rory – “I liked assembly where they sang the songs”

Marley – “Mrs Dunbar giving me my certificate and getting all my stickers!”

Breghannon – “Singing songs”

Ellie – “I liked going to the library because we got to read nice books”

Millie – “My favourite part of this week has been learning about o.  I liked making the octopus”

Brandon – “Learning about phonics and how to use sounds to write words, I made a phonic flower with Mrs Mansfield”

Poppy – “When we were talking about the ladybirds we made and put them on the wall”

Leah – “When we were practising the church songs”

Max – “I liked doing the rockets when we learned about ck. It was a bit messy”

Rio – “I liked phonics this week.  My duck got put on the Wow Wall”

Emily – “Doing shapes, I liked learning about how many sides there are in shapes”

Leila – “I liked writing station this week because I got to practise writing in fun ways”

Jonah – “I liked maths, I made a shape pizza”

Liam – “Learning about squares.  I liked making and drawing the shapes”

Rocco – “Making a duck in phonics, the feathers tickled me”

Romeo – “I liked assembly because the class sang a good song”

Teigan – “When we went to the library”

Cameron – “I liked shared start because mum got to come to our class”

What a week!  Only one more Friday until our October holidays, we are looking forward to lots of busy learning before we break up from school”

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – thank you so much to all the parents/carers/family members that managed to make it along to our shared start on Tuesday.  I hope you found it beneficial to seeing how your child learns in our class – if you have any questions please feel free to catch me at the end of the school day! I hope you all have a lovely weekend!)

Important Assembly Date Change

Please note our class assembly date is now on Friday 28th of October and not on 11th of November as previously stated.

This week we have been practising our Being Cool in School activities.  We learned about Tom, Kit and Jen and how Tom dealt with his anger. He made good choices by taking some breaths and having some time out.  We think this is a great COOL strategy to use and we are looking forward to seeing what happens  next.

We have been busy learning our big numbers and counting up to 100.

In writing we wrote brilliant stories about a Magic Leaf using Emma’s fantastic colourful leaf that she found in our Autumn Walk.  We are fabulous explorers in P2A!

We had a fun visit from Angela and Sandra from the RNIB and Sandra has been blind from birth and she showed us how to read Braille and Angela showed us some talking books and we listened to some stories.  We had a fantastic time!  We are really looking forward to the Guide Dog visit next week too 🙂

Achievements this week

Archie has been busy practising his reading

Hollie has been practising her new dances

Eva has been busy in her cheerleading classes practising her moves

Luke has been showing the class how to do the splits!

Kyle has been working hard in Tae Kwon Do

Emma has been learning lots of fun things in her dancing

Pupil of the week-Hollie

Starwriters-Akasha, Archie and Elena

Hi,

In this week’s Circle Time we focused on Changes.  We realised that we have changed a lot since the beginning of the school year and that we have learned lots of new information and developed skills to help us as we grow.  We spoke about the thing that we have improved the most:

Max – “I have got better at counting and writing numbers.  I can sometimes do the red level!”

Liam – “I can do my best work now because my friends and teacher can show me what I have to do”

Leila – “I know how to read some words now and am starting to be able to write some words”

Emily – “I have learned how to use a ten frame.  They help me to learn my numbers”

Breghannon – “I learned about ten frames too! I like moving the counters to build ten”

We have also had a great time learning in other areas of the classroom!  Here are some of our best bits:

Teigan – “Counting with Pete the Dragon”

Marley – “I liked playing with new friends at the number station”

Cameron – “Mixing colours was really fun! It was funny when Mrs Mansfield rubbed paint on her hands to show us what happens when we mix colours!”

Regan – “I liked playing at role play, I liked using the real-life superhero puppets”

Ellie – “When we went outside to have some fun learning numbers and counting”

Keegan – “When we went outside and got to draw number bubbles on the ground”

Poppy – “When we got to play PE games with Mr Jeffries”

Leah – “When Mrs Mansfield took us for PE, I liked the new Shark Attack game where we practised travelling”

We spoke about keeping ourselves safe and using medicine properly, here are some of the things that we have learned:

Brandon – “Only adults that we know and trust should give us medicine because it can be dangerous if we take medicine that we shouldn’t have”

Rio – “Medicine can look like sweeties, we shouldn’t pick up things off the ground and eat them”

Rory – “The wrong medicines can make us very sick, we should only take medicine if a grown up that we trust tells us to – sometimes we don’t need medicine, we might just need a rest”.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Thank you!

Primary 2/1

Important Assembly Date Change

Please note our class assembly date is now on Friday 28th of October and not on 11th of November as previously stated.

This week in P2 we were very excited to get a visit from Diana the optician.  She told us a lot of information about her job, how our eyes work and what we can do to help our eyesight. We tried on lots of different glasses and lenses and had fun with all of the games.

We have had fun this week learning the days of the week in French and we will try to practise them every day.

In maths this week we have been busy practising our BIG numbers in our mental maths and next week we are looking forward to our Number talk activities.

Mr Bremner the minister,came to visit during assembly and we listened to his stories about the bible.

Achievements this week

Kyle has achieved his red belt in Tae Kwon Do

In swimming Lexi moved up to a higher level

Archie has been practising hard on his electric scooter

Lois has been practising her tennis skills

Luke and Hollie have been improving in his drama class

Emma is on step 4 in dancing

Hello,

We have enjoyed having a short week at school this week and have liked telling everyone about our adventures over the weekend.  We have learned about writing postcards, our new sound ‘i’, using ten frames and dot patterns to help our counting, 2D shapes and their properties and we have also had a circle time to extend our learning about feelings and way to express these.  In our ‘Balbardie Superheroes’ lessons we have been learning about what to do in an emergency!  We identified the real life superheroes that work in the emergency services and the Primary 2s were able to think about what equipment these people need for their jobs and how they keep us safe.

We spoke about what qualities real life superheroes must have to do their job.  This is what we spoke about:

Regan – “Firemen, policemen and ambulance drivers save the day, every day!”

Poppy – “The vet is a superhero because they help the animals when they are not well”

Leila – “The nurse is amazing because she helps people”

Millie – “The vet helps the animals, that is cool”

Brandon – “The dentist is a hero because they check your teeth and keep people’s mouths healthy so they don’t get sore”

Rio – “A doctor is the best real life superhero because they can help you when you fall or get really sick”

Ellie – “A policeman or policewoman is very brave.  They can help if a wee boy or girl gets lost, they can get them home safely”

Cameron – “Firemen put out the fires.  This makes them a superhero because they must be very brave”

Liam – “I like ambulance drivers because they help people in an emergency, grown ups too!”

Teigan – “Policemen help people.  They helped me when I got lost”

Breghannon – “Firemen help in emergencies like when there is a real fire.  There wasn’t a real fire at school this week”

Max – “The emergency services are very fast, they must be healthy!”

Marley – “Maybe when I grow up and work in McDonalds the firemen will need to come and put out the fires, the firemen will have jobs for years!”

Rory – “The lollypop man is an important superhero because they keep people safe when they cross the road”

Romeo – “Policemen can keep the roads safe – if someone goes too fast they can tell them to stop!”

Rocco – “Firemen can climb up ladders to help people if they are stuck.  They can’t be scared of heights”

Jonah – “Doctors are a special superhero because they help people and save lives”

Keegan – “Teachers are real life superheroes because they teach us everything we know!”

Leah – “A vet is my favourite superhero because they look after animals.  I would like a hamster, the vet would look after my animal”

Even though it has been a short week we have learned lots!  We are all looking forward to more exciting learning next week!

From

Primary 2/1

As part of our Senses topic, we have had fun looking at optical illusions.  We had fun making our eyes go a bit funny and some of of us were a bit dizzy! We paired up in our penny experiment where we closed one of our eyes and tried to judge where the penny would drop…Lots of us were really good at this task, Miss McDougall was very impressed.

We are continuing to get faster and faster at our mental maths and are enjoying our new maths games.

In writing this week we worked on Who, What, Where and When and we found out that Mrs Potato Head had a cold…we had to help her get better.

We are continuing to use our expressive voices in our reading groups and turbo boost our volume, well done P2!

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Lexi

Elena is really happy to be on step 2

Emily is on level 4 swimming and can ride her bike with no stabilisers

Daniel is moving to a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do

Luke is learning to practise balancing and do bridges

This week in class we have been learning about friendship.

In circle time we were thinking about kind words and nasty words and did an apple experiment to see how our words effect how someone feels. Both the apples looked the same on the outside but when we cut them open, the apple we had been nice to had a star in the middle.  The apple we had said unkind things to was bruised and yucky on the inside.

From this we learned that not everyone shows when they are upset, we need to try our best to be kind to everyone.

Here are some of the nice, kind things we have done this week:

Keegan – “I shared my snack with a friend”

Brandon – “I helped people in the playground if there was a problem”

Poppy – “I’ve helped my friends get their things ready to go home at the end of the day”

Marley – “I gave a big hug and kiss to my mum”

Rocco – “I helped my sister cook”

Regan – “I helped my friends and played with them”

Leah – “I played with Poppy”

Millie – “I helped Poppy in the playground when she had fell and hurt her leg”

Romeo – “I got help when someone chased my friend when we were playing at home”

Rory – “I helped my mum to load the car for when we go on holiday”

Ellie – “I’ve helped my friend when they fell and hurt themselves”

Teigan – “I made a cake for my mummy”

Liam – “I was really nice to my friends”

Leila – “I helped Emily when she fell yesterday”

Cameron – “I helped my mum make lunch”

Rio – “I helped my mum to clean the car”

Max – “I helped my mum to clean the car, it doesn’t have a single crumb on the floor now!”

Emily – “I helped Millie when she fell after an accident in the playground”

Jonah – “I helped clean mummy’s car out”

We hope you have a lovely holiday weekend!

From

Primary 2/1

This week in P2 we started our new topic of Mr Potato Head and his senses.  We had fun making our Mr and Mrs Potato Heads and they will help us with our challenges!

In writing this week we wrote about Mr Potato Head losing his eye sight and who would help him.  Well done to the Star Writers Luke, Hollie and Elena who wrote lovely sentences about his adventure.

We have been busy practising our mental maths with adding our numbers up to 20 and we are getting faster at the answers.

Miss McDougall is delighted that some people are nearly on Step 2! Excellent news 🙂

Achievements this week…

Pupil of the week-Luke

Emily has been learning to ride her bike without stabilisers

Archie went up to level 4 in swimming

Kyle is moving up to a red belt in Tae Kwon Do

Eva is nearly on level 4 swimming

Luke is getting his level 5 test for swimming

Teigan is moving onto level 3 in swimming

Hollie is trying hard at her dancing

Emma is on level 3 in dancing

We have had a busy full week in P2. We have been busy making our class charter and making up our class charter rules to help us this year.

We started off our reading groups this week and were very excited to find out our new reading books and what groups we would be in.

In maths work this week we have been busy writing and practising our numbers up to 100 using our new maths games.  We love using Ant picnic to help us to sequence our numbers.

We are looking forward to starting our senses topic next week and Mr Potato Head is going to help us learn about them.

We look forward to seeing you at Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 7Th September at 6pm.

Achievements this week

Well done to Elena for Pupil of the week and Kyle for getting a Tae Kwon Do trophy

We have had another great week in P2/1 and are settling well into being in our new class.

Literacy 

Our sounds this week have been m and c.  We have been using floam to make the letters and have also made a cow, a caterpillar, a m sound book and a monster.  Our tricky words this week are I and the, we are working hard to remember these!

Maths 

We have been practising our counting in maths and have been working on writing numbers with our buddies.  We need a bit of practice at this but our writing is definitely becoming neater!

Learning Across the Curriculum

We have been learning about the different powers that superheroes have and have been thinking about how special we are!  Here are the things that we think are our superhero powers:

Brandon – I can climb up a tree

Rocco – I am brave because I can touch spider webs

Regan – I am good at getting my breakfast all by myself

Romeo – I can touch spider webs!

Rio – I can climb mountains

Max – I can climb very high mountains!

Liam – I help mummy and daddy

Teigan –  I am good at playing with my brother

Leila – I am a football star

Jonah – I am good at making water balloons

Marley – I am good at playing with my car toys and my dinosaurs and going swimming.

Ellie – I am a great dancer

Breghannon – I am good at reading stories

Cameron – I can climb up a tree

Rory – I can climb up and touch cobwebs

Millie – I can count to 20

Keegan – I can go fast on my bike

Leah – I try hard at my swimming lessons

Poppy – I am kind to my cousins

Emily – I can swim

A note from Mrs Mansfield –

Please note that the Meet the teacher event will take place on Wednesday at 6pm, please pop along if you are free 🙂