We got wrapped up warm and celebrated outdoor classroom day this week.

On Wednesday, we had great fun collecting twigs and branches we found in the playground and used them to spell out the letters in our names.

On Thursday, went on a leaf hunt to try and find as many different types and colours of leaves as possible. We were amazed at all the beautiful colours and noticed these were the same warm colours we had used in our health and wellbeing art lesson. We even found some giant mushrooms growing on the grass but we were very sensible and careful and didn’t touch them as we didn’t know if they safe. Once our bag was full of leaves we took them back to the classroom to make leaf stick puppets. It was such good fun!

P2/3 took lots of our learning outside to celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day. We had so much fun!

Literacy

We started with a walk round the school grounds to discover what we could see, hear and feel. The frost was probably the most talked about thing. The children talked enthusiastically about the patterns they found on the ground and the difference between the sunny spots and shady spots.  There was also much discussion around the frosted leaves, crunchy grass and melting ice.

Before we went out for a walk, we had got a message from Rosie the Bear.

We spotted Rosie’s picnic on the ground near the nursery and eventually found poor Rosie hiding up a tree. The children found lots of clues about what might have happened. Most thought it was the Gruffalo (or the Gruffalo’s child because Rosie wasn’t on a high branch), some thought a dog had frightened her, others a bird rustling in the trees and someone suggested it was us being noisy!

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at greater than, less than and equal to so this morning we worked in pairs to follow a range of instructions using words such as “big” “smaller than” and “the same size as”. Here are just some examples.

Hug something that is very big:

Find something about the same size as you:

Put three small things in a row:

Touch something big and small at the same time:

Dance around something that is bigger than a car:

We also used found objects to make number sentences using the greater than and less than symbols: < and >

Art

We ended the day with some nature inspired art.

For me, the best thing about the day was seeing and hearing the children as they talked to one another enthusiastically about the nature around them and the tasks they were working on, coming up with ideas, making links and working so well with one another.

The photos only show a fraction of the experience!

P2/3 got the chance this week to check out our fantastic new play area.

I observed so many fantastic interactions. These pictures will hopefully give you a flavour of the wonderful role-playing skills, creativity and social skills the children were demonstrating.

P2/3 have been learning about cold colours and hot colours over the last few weeks.

We began by linking our art to our work on The Little Iceberg at the beginning of the term. We used chalks and tissue paper to create our icebergs and we used crepe paper to make our cold colour fish.

We then looked at hot colours and used finger painting to blend the different colours together to create a painting of a campfire.

Finally, we combined and contrasted hot colours and cold colours .

They look really effective, don’t they?

Good afternoon all.

What a busy few days we have had! Yesterday we learned all about stamps and the children designed their own Christmas stamps (while listening to Christmas music). There were some fantastic designs. I hope you enjoyed seeing their ideas!

Today we were estimating and comparing weights…

And here are some photos from a couple of weeks ago of us using non-standard measures to see how tall we are and using metre sticks to find ‘things that are shorter/longer than a metre’.

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 2 had lots of fun learning about St Andrew today.

Look at the amazing tartan we made!

Primary 2 have lots of exciting things to look forward to this term. Take a look at our plan to see what we will be learning.

Sharing the learning Term 2 P2