Wow what a fun week we have had in P2 for the last week of term!
On Monday, we joined with P3 and worked collaboratively to use instruments to play Christmas songs. We experimented with various instruments including glockenspiels, tambourines and maracas to accompany Mrs Buntin on the piano. We learned about playing in a certain key and about how some instruments are bangers, some are blowers and some are scrapers.
We all had the chance to take home some books from our classroom to read at our own leisure. Miss Borsbey set out over 100 books for us to choose from and we all got to choose 4 books each. We put a lot of thought into our choices and chose based on the front cover and our personal preferences of genre.
Some of us used the blackboard in class to challenge ourselves to count forwards and backwards. We managed to count in 2s, 5s and 10s! This is such a big improvement since the start of Primary 2 and Miss Borsbey is so proud of how everyone’s number work is coming on.
We have done lots of Christmas craft activities this week! Our salt dough hand prints finally dried out, giving us the chance to decorate them. We had to be really careful and try our hardest not to mix the paints together but this was a super tough challenge as the salt dough was very hard to paint.
We also had one of the P4 pupils come into our class to teach us how to make paper snowflakes. This activity really put our scissor skills to the test but we managed to produce some absolutely beautiful snowflakes after a few practices. Ask us how to make them and we will be happy to teach you!
Instead of using paint brushes to paint, Miss Borsbey brought us some forks and we had a discussion about what and how we might be able to paint using forks. We all agreed that with some support we would paint Christmas trees using the forks. It was very tricky but the results were lovely!
Another method of painting we tried was using our hands! We all painted one of our hands and then made a hand print on a piece of paper. Once dry, we turned our hand paintings upside down and used colouring pens, pencils and crayons to make our hands look like Rudolph. Look how well they turned out!
During choosing time, some of the pupils had an idea about using their bodies to make shapes. Look at us making a Christmas tree! See if you can spot who is the star, the branches and the trunk!
On Thursday, we had our Christmas party. The pupils all looked absolutely fabulous in their party clothes! We had the chance to dance with our friends, play some party games, have some party food, and we even got to meet Santa! We had such an amazing afternoon!
Miss Borsbey and Primary 2 would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Merry Christmas and New Year! See you all in January for some more fantastic work!
