P2 were very excited to find out that our term 3 topic is dinosaurs! We wrote down all of the facts that we already knew about dinosaurs and then decided what we would like to find out about dinosaurs throughout the topic. We created a new dinosaur called Barney on the laptop and started to explore facts about dinosaurs in different parts of the world.

What did we learn this week?

Kiernan: ‘Dinosaurs run very fast’.

Niamh: ‘Some dinosaurs walk on 4 legs and some can walk on 2 legs’.

Tiegan: ‘Some dinosaurs have massive tails’.

Daniel T: ‘I learnt that a verb is a doing word’

Kieran: ‘I learnt to spell ‘ea’ words like ‘tea’, ‘pea’ and ‘scream’.

Maya: ‘I learnt that 5-2=3. Subtracting is fun.’

Leo: ‘I learnt that when you subtract you need to work out the difference between the two numbers’.

Well done to Matthew Watkins who is the P2 star of the week.

Well done to the class dojo champion Kieran Mackie.

P2 had a very relaxing Christmas holiday and are glad to be back at school.

• We wrote our New Year’s resolutions and made sure we all had the capital letters and full stops in the right place.
• In maths, we learnt how to take away small numbers from bigger numbers using cubes and sweets.
• Sachin and Jack learnt how to draw facial features by carefully considering the proportions.
• Ryan learnt that one type of dinosaur had a head that was the size of a modern car!
• Daniel learnt to spell ‘beavers’ when writing about his beavers club.

This week in P2, we began making our Christmas enterprise products. We had a lot of fun working together in our learning teams. We each have a different elf job in our team.

In class we wrote a description of how to make a christmas mouse. We were learning to use the words ‘first, next, then and finally’ to carefully explain each step.

Niamh enjoyed learning to count to 10 in Mandarin and Ayla learnt the hand signals for Mandarin numbers.

Sachin enjoyed playing cat and mouse in P.E.

Sandee enjoyed making the scrabble craft for our enterprise project.

A lot of children in P2 have tried really hard to be kind friends in the playground this week. Keep up the good work!

Well done to the class dojo champion, Andrew Meechan!

We started our new Christmas Enterprise topic this week. We voted on which products we would like to make and chose a name for our workshop.

We went outside for P.E with P2/3 and had a great time practising our jumping and balancing skills.

A lady from the SSPCA spoke to us about animals and let us try on some safety clothes. We got to test the equipment that is used to help rescue animals.

Kieran: ‘I liked trying on the climbing suit’.

Sarah: ‘I liked when the lady got the puppet out and Cole used the equipment to catch the badger puppet’.

Matthew: ‘ I liked when the lady was talking about different kinds of snakes’.

What have I learned this week?….

Cameron A: ‘ This week I learned how to spell ‘wh’ words like ‘whale’ and ‘wheel’.

Daniel T: ‘I learned how to paint a cherry blossom tree’.

Ayla: ‘I learned about the 4 different seasons: summer, winter, spring and autumn’.

Class dojo champion: Kiernan Hunter

Star of the week: Cameron Coward

This week we have been learning about 3D shapes and went on a 3D shape hunt around the school playground.

Niamh: ‘I learnt what a pyramid is.’

Jack: ‘ I found a stone in the shape of a cone.’

Kiernan: ‘ I found a cone on top of the pencil bin.’

Ask your child to spot 3D shapes when they are out and about this weekend.

For bonfire night we wrote a fireworks poem, designed our own fireworks and learned how to keep ourselves safe at a firework display.

Ayla: ‘We learnt to stay away from fires when wearing a baggy jumper’.

We used super wow words to describe fireworks such as: whizzing, brightly coloured, popping and exploding.

Well done to Ryan Brodie who won the class prize today!