Over the last few weeks, it has been very busy in P2. We have almost finished our Scots topic! We read a lot of Katie Morag and practiced writing letters and postcards to her, to persuade Katie to come and visit us in Deans! We now know all about island life and we even created one of our own. We also learned about Scottish slang and traditional Scottish words. We read Scottish poems with our favourite being a Humphy-Backit Heron (which we performed at our assembly) and we made a Scottish dictionary to show what words we have learned.
In P.E we have been learning different ceilidh dances. So far, we have mastered the Gay Gordon and the Canadian Barn dance. Miss Beattie is very proud of us.
In Math’s we are still focussing on fractions and learning all about the relationship between division and multiplication. At the moment, we are focussing on halves and thirds. As well as looking at multiplying and dividing by 2’s and 3’s.
In science, we are learning about the lifecycle of a plant. Last week we planted cress and we had a share the learning event with our parents in attendance to help us understand more about the life of a plant. We put most of our seeds by the window so they could get lots of sunlight, and we watered them everyday. We also put 2 in the dark cupboard, 2 on the radiator and we left 1 without water to see in what conditions would the plant grow best. Of course, the cress by the window did and it grew very tall (5cm to be exact). P2 even got to taste the cress, some of us did not like it because it was a little bit too nippy on our tongues. We are now very efficient in looking after plants and know exactly what they need to grow. We even know the parts of a plant and it’s lifecycle. Pip and his friends will be very happy with us!
One of the highlights of this week was making shortbread! As our topic is Scotland, we thought we would incorporate some food technology into our learning. We baked some traditional Scottish shortbread and we even got to take it home to show our family (and then eat it of course!). Mrs Wood kindly helped us in the kitchen and we discussed where all the ingredients come from, as well as weighing them all out. Our numeracy skills really came in handy! Mrs Wood is an excellent cook and P2 are very grateful for her help. To follow on from this lesson, on Thursday, we wrote up a set of instructions on how to make shortbread so anyone who wants to make shortbread can do so!
