This week primary 2b have continued learning their times tables with this week’s focus being the 3x table. We had some help from the Three Times Alien.

We had a special visit today from Badger the Mystical Mutt who even performed some of his magic.

I am very proud of how well the children did when reciting their Scottish poems, it was clear everyone had worked hard learning their lines.

P2B have also worked hard to create a lovely French colours display making colourful paint palettes and rainbows.

Hollie – Three times alien. Paper plates. And getting a certificate for doing good work.

Ruby – Being big star

Sofia – Saying my poem.

Daisy – I liked making paper plates and rainbows for French. Little star.

Jack C – Badger Visit

Isla – Three Times Alien because I drew it very well.

Ethan – Three Times Alien

Kai – Three Times Alien

Jack B – Three Times Alien

Mikolaj – Three Times Alien

Murray – Three Times Alien

Oliver – Three Times Alien

Hannah – I’ve liked everything. Getting a certificate.

Sophie – Three Times Alien

Anna – Three Times Alien and the paint palettes.

Thomas – Badger and getting my poem certificate and doing the rainbow and the alien.

Hope – The plates and the rainbows. And the dog coming. Being little star.

Lois – French and aliens.

Miss Cowan

This week we have been learning about writing newspaper reports. We wrote about the Viking attack at Lindisfarne. The Vikings stole lots of treasure, killed and captured the monks as slaves and burnt down the monastery.
In numeracy, we were learning about multiplication and different strategies, with a carousel of activities. We had to roll dice to multiply numbers. We also learnt to make arrays to help us with our multiplication.
In health and wellbeing we have been learning about cool in school. We have learnt about aggressive, weak and cool responses and we made posters to illustrate these. We hope that these will help us to solve problems in the playground and in school generally.
On Tuesday, Mr Glen from NYCoS came in to teach us some rhymes and games all to do with music. We played hot potato and an apple picker game. We were learning about the beat and rhythm of the music. It was good fun!
In French we were learning about classroom objects and colours. We had to listen to instructions and colour things in the correct colours.
We also had our class performances of our Scottish poems which will be performed at our Burns’ poetry competition. Mrs Mackenzie, Mrs Collings and Miss Graham have been very impressed by the performances and it has been a tricky job choosing our class representatives.
In Maths, we played a game using our knowledge of compass points.
Table of the week – 820

Learning partners of the week – Teigan and Grace

We have enjoyed beginning our learning about the Vikings.  We have been writing our names in Viking runes and exploring where the Vikings came from.

In numeracy we have been exploring different strategies to help us with multiplication and lots of us have been really challenging ourselves in our learning this week.

Please remember to bring outdoor P.E. kit on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

Happy New Year everyone!

We have had an exciting week back. This week we have been focusing on weather and weather instruments. We learned what the different instruments do and how they work. We then made thermometers, barometers and wind vanes. We will be using these in our weather station to record the weather.

In literacy, we wrote thank you letters to Santa or mum and dad.

In Maths, we learned about reading scales and started learning different strategies for subtraction and the language for it. We collated data about our presents and made a bar graph about our favourite types of toys.

In art, we completed our rainstorm picture using watery paint over wax.

We have had a very busy week after the Christmas holiday. Here are some of our highlights:

Aaron: I enjoyed maths because we were ordering 3 digit numbers.

Mia: I enjoyed learning about weather forecasts.

Jack: I enjoyed reading because we got a new book called ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator’. I liked it because it is a Roald Dahl book and I have been hoping we would get one.

Alex: I enjoyed spelling because we got to write sentences with our spelling words.

Ellis: I enjoyed reading because I got to read and write things.

Jude: I enjoyed topic because we got to present a weather forecast.

Carley: I enjoyed watching the other people presenting their weather forecasts because Max said “if you live in Scotland, you will have a miserable day.”

Holly: I enjoyed topic because when Olivia, Max and I presented our weather forecast, Max made me laugh.

Shannon: I enjoyed being a weather reporter.

James: I enjoyed reading because I got a book called ‘The Farmer’s Market’.

Amber: I enjoyed topic because we were being weather reporters and we got to present our weather forecast to the class.

Emily: I enjoyed reading with a partner.

Mac: I enjoyed mental maths and maths.

Millie: I enjoyed showing our weather forecast to the class because when it was Max, Holly and Olivia’s turn, Max made me laugh.

Leila: I enjoyed it when we did our weather forecasts. I liked working with Alex and Amber.

Scott B: I enjoyed reading because I got a book called ‘Explore the Poles’.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P3A

This week in Primary 2 we have stared our new topic of castles. We have been learning about the different features found in castles.

We have also revised the 2,5 and 10 times table.

The class enjoyed the stories we have read this week during milk and story time. We have read Winnie the Witch and Hugless Douglas.

Here are the children’s favourite parts of the week:

Kai – When we did science

Hannah – Reading Hugless Douglas

Mikolaj – Clocks

Oliver – Science when we watched videos about water and snowflakes

Sofia – Science when we learned about the water

Jack C –Science watching the water and the ice

Sophie – Hugless Douglas

Jack B – I liked when we did science because we got to watch clips of water and snowflakes and all different shapes of snowflakes

Lois – Hugless Douglas when he found a hug from his mum

Ben – When Jack came

Hollie – Castles about the drawbridge.

Anna – Learning about castles, learning about the parts around the castle.

Isla – Learning about castles, there’s water around the castle so the enemies can’t get in. The moat.

Hope – When Jack came.

Thomas – Doing castles, I like the moat, it’s a lake that you can’t get passed and the only way to get over is lower the drawbridge.

Ruby – Hugless Douglas because he got a hug from his mum.

Daisy – Hugless Douglas because he keeps trying to get a hug and science because I liked learning about water.

Ethan – When Jack came. Castles because they have a moat.

Miss Cowan

It’s been a busy term in P4a this term and we have thought about our own highlight of the term!
Sarah – I enjoyed making the fossils cause they were really fun.
Orlaith – I enjoyed teaching Echo about reduce, reuse, recycle!
Lucas – I liked the futsal because we learnt tricks!
Jude – I liked the Christmas party.
Sam – I enjoyed making different shapes out of card.
Elena – I enjoyed reading all the nice things my friends said about me in special person.
Alysheeya – I enjoyed playing the snowman game.
Teigan – I liked PE because we
Artjom – I liked the snowman game we played for our Champions Celebration.
Lexi – I liked Maths – all of it!
Lilyrose – I enjoyed futsal because it was fun.
Grace – I enjoyed our judo taster because we learnt new moves and things.
Charlotte – I enjoyed learning about Echo and the 3Rs.
Ehan – I liked RME talking about kosher food.
Lois – I liked futsal because we did match of the week and we also did keepy –uppy!
Hollie – I enjoyed writing this term because I liked writing about Echo.
Akasha – I liked Maths because I liked the shapes.
Daniel – I liked benchball because I liked standing on the bench and playing the games.
Alfie – I enjoyed learning about what happens to dead animals before they become fossils.
Alex – I enjoyed futsal.
Sara – I liked learning about shapes because we got to make stuff out of them.
Archie – I enjoyed helping Echo learn about the three R’s.
Emily – I really enjoyed Maths this term because I feel like I’m getting better at it.
Rosie – I enjoyed making the 3d snowmen this week.
Eva – I liked the judo because we learn to do different moves.
Luke – I really enjoyed learning about the soil in science.
Maddison – I enjoyed the school fair.
Kyle – I liked learning 3d shapes because at first I wasn’t very good at them and now I’m better!
Emma – I enjoyed making stained glass windows of the Christmas story in RME.
Table of the week –
with 210 points
Learning partners of the week – Teigan, Eva and Charlotte

This is the last blog for the year!
We have had a fun and action-packed week. We started off revising our grammar and writing proper sentences. We consolidated data handling and reading bar graphs, We wrote a story about an elf, did some mosaic maths and different mindful colouring activities. We looked at the world’s climate zones and what climate is. We used a map to identify where we would find these countries and what the weather would be like. We also looked at the Christmas story and sequenced it. We had our class celebration on Thursday morning. We all enjoyed a film with biscuits and juice and the Champions got to make slime! In the afternoon we had great fun watching the Panto; Dick Whittington. Today we enjoyed the service at church and are finishing the day off with some lighthearted fun and golden time!
Check out Twitter for the School Champions Picture for P3b.

Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year form P3B!

We wrote a story ” The Lost toy” for Creative Writing last week. Our Star writers were:-

Charlotte, Kyle, Orla and Brooke.

Well done all !

REMINDERS:

TUESDAY 18TH P2 CHRISTMAS PARTY.

THURSDAY 20TH CHRISTMAS PANTO.

Here are our best bits:

Lois – Learning about the brain.

Daisy – The nativity I liked singing all my songs. And being little star.

Ethan – Assembly because Jack got a certificate.

Hope – Nativity I liked all the parents coming and being little star.

Sofia – Being big star. And Miss Cowan painting Santa coming down the chimney for the door.

Holly – When my Mum and Dad came and saw the nativity.

Hannah – Donkey for Sale because I liked when we sang High on the Hill because we had to point and sing “Go to Bethlehem”.

Sophie – Donkey for Sale and Ernie fishing.

Isla – Being little star.

Jack – When I got a certificate at assembly.

Murray – Singing

Kai – When Jack got his certificate.

Anna – Watching all of the boys and girls who got their certificates and tried hard to do the four Balbardie values.

Mikolaj – Making the elves.

Thomas – Making elves. Mine was called Kipper.

Oliver – Making the elves. Mine was called Buddy, I used red, black and yellow and peach.

Miss Cowan