Category Archives: Primary 2

P2 are shining stars!

March 31, 2014 User deactivated Leave a comment

Please note we wrote this on Friday! Only posted today as Mrs. Horne needed to add photos.

Today we brought in our Stars homework. As usual we didn’t just do what we were asked we went above and beyond. Instead of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, we have several Giza’s! We have built models, out of anything from clay to sugar cubes! Additionally, we have produced folders of work too. Now Mrs Horne has a busy time ahead looking over all our projects! She was so pleased with us she has decided we need to have another showcase for parents. So on Friday 25th April, we have invited our parents to come and browse through our class work and our homework.

“I liked my stars homework because it was lots of learning and it was fun.” Alexander.

“I liked doing my project.” Brooke.

“I liked making my pyramid because it was a lot of fun.” Zoe.

“I liked learning about Sekhmet in my Ancient Egypt book and Kelvingrove.” Isabel.

“I liked my stars homework because I built Giza and I painted the pyramids that were in Giza.” Robbie.

“I liked putting the sugar cubes together and then putting the sand on.” Amy.

“I liked building my shaduf, it was really fun.” Erin.

“I liked helping my mum colour in my project.” Carlos.

“I liked to research about the pyramids on my tablet.” Louise.

“I liked painting my pyramids.” Ryan.

“I liked painting my pyramid and drawing the canopic jars.” Keigan.

“I liked doing my stars homework because jewellery was involved in it.” Morgan.

“I liked building my pyramid with my granny.” Logan.

Stars Homework – Giza 2

We also had time to do other things this week. We spent a lot of time preparing for a special assembly for mummies and grannies. We drew portraits of our mummy’s and we wrote funny stories about our special ladies. We made them cards too. The assembly went well and our mummies and grannies laughed and cried during it. We love our mummies and grannies, and hope they have a great day on Sunday.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Primary 2

Death comes to Primary 2… Well Ancient Egyptian death masks that is!

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This week we have been learning a little more about the Ancient Egyptian practices for death. They believed that the soul went to the Afterlife and the body would meet it there so it needed preserved. They preserved the bodies using a process called mummification. This process involved removing internal organ and placing them into 4 special jars, called Canopic Jars. The body was then wrapped up in cloths to make the mummy. The final part in this process was to make a death mask originally these were made of wood. The rich kings’ ones were made out of gold.

Carlos: ‘I enjoyed designing my death mask.’

Brooke: ‘I enjoyed colouring in my death mask.’

Zoe: ‘I liked writing in my topic jotter about death masks.’

We also made Pharaoh head dresses, we were all Pharaoh’s for the afternoon!

Isabel: ‘I liked making my head dress.’

Ryan: ‘I enjoyed cutting out my head dress.’

Today we are wearing yellow for Fairtrade’s ‘Go Bananas’ Day. Isabel, Louise, Brooke and Samantha all appeared wearing the same top! So for today they look like quadruplets.

Primary 2

Another busy week in P2

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In art we have continued to look at Wassily Kandinsky’s work, we have begun to make collages using tissue paper, in the style of his ‘Circles in a circle’.

We put a large circle on a piece of paper and then smaller circles inside. Laura.

We displayed our earlier work, as one large piece. Here’s a photo:

We have learned that Egypt was created out of two kingdoms, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Some people have brought in Ancient Egypt books and items to help us learn more. We have thought about some more questions of things we would like to learn. We used the question words we learned in Literacy (when, what, where, why, who and how).

We also remembered to use question marks. Lucca.

Primary 2

P2’s weekly review!

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We have begun learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We have looked at where the U.K. is on a world map, and found Egypt in the continent of Africa! Also we have had our Stars Homework for only a week and already people are learning new facts.

‘I have learned where the pyramids were built and how they were built. I loved seeing pictures of mummies when my mum showed me them in my book.’ Isabel.

‘I have learned how Egyptians moved water, but I have forgotten the name of the machine!’ Zoe.

‘I learned that Egypt is very hot, I was there at Christmas!’ Alexander.

‘I learned about how the Ancient Egyptians found food.’ Carlos.

‘I know that camels live in Egypt.’ Ryan.

In art, we have begun to learn about an famous artist, Wassily Kandinsky, he is said to have been the first artist to develop abstract art. We enjoyed painting concentric circles.

‘We painted a circle and then painted other circles around it.’ Brooke

‘I liked the painting called Yellow, Red, Blue by Wassily Kandinsky.’ Lucca

‘He was born ages ago.’ Erin (1866)

‘We are going to use our circles to create a display on a tree.’ Laura.

In Maths we have been learning the Days of the Week and the Months of the Years. Also we have been working to improve our jotter presentation. Hanna had the best handwriting in her maths jotter so she got the Handwriting of the Week award.

In Literacy we have been learning to use better punctuation.

Primary 2

Primary 2’s first week of December!

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Well that time of year has come again, the children are all really excited and counting down to Christmas, we’ve been busy making sure our Nativity Show is progressing well and this week we have started to make our Christmas Enterprise, which the parents can find out about next week!

Isabel (dancer) says – “I love swishing about to ‘Left Out in the Cold.'”

Brooke (dancer) says – “I like to dance to the ‘Stars Shine’ song.”

“I love singing along to the nativity songs,” said Zoe.

“I like the end of the show, because we all dance,” said Louise.

Erin likes it when she is singing ‘Left Out in the Cold.’

On Tuesday, we all enjoyed our Christmas lunch,

Coben thought his turkey was good, while Brooke thought it was delicious. Rhys‘ favourite part of the lunch was his turkey.

Later this morning we are going to our Celebration Assembly, the children are excited waiting to hear who is getting an award and what for…I wonder who will be our Maths and Language Champions this term?

Today was the due date for our Stars Homework, the children return wonderful work, showing that they have learned lots about Nocturnal Animals. We have posters, written pieces and even some models! Fantastic work! Well done to those who returned their homework.

Matthew said – “I enjoyed making my bat.”

“I liked doing my stars homework because of the writing,” said Keigan.

Alexander liked making his model fox, while Carlos liked showing his project off in class. Lucca says, “My firework picture is a bit fancy.”

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Primary 2

Primary 2’s weekly review

November 29, 2013 User deactivated 1 Comment

One of our girls, Zoe was representing the school at a Gymnastics competition, she says “I was hoping that I would win a medal and I did – I got second place! I won a shield for the school.”

We learned about St. Andrew:

“Someone brought his bones to Scotland” – Alexander

“I learned that St. Andrew died on a cross.” – Ryan

We learned more about road safety –

“It is safe to cross the road when the green man is on” – Alfie

“You can cross the road at the lollipop lady.” – Brooke

In writing we have been learning about connectives, Isabel can remember some: “and, but and because”

And of course we’ve had fun practising our songs for the nativity.

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