Author: Miss Orr

17/01/2022

Maths

The children have started a new topic in maths this week with Mrs Lockhart. They have been learning to tell the time with a key focus on o’clock.

Yoga

We are continuing to work on Yoga in the classroom to help us focus on our work. There are many different Yoga poses for us all still to learn.

Writing

We are doing two writing slots a week now! A recap of the learning they previously did with Mrs Lockhart and our new genre. I am so impressed at how much the children challenge themselves and so many are trying to work independently to develop their writing skills. Please ask your child to share what their writing was about. We do writing on a Monday afternoon and Thursday morning.

Sharing the Learning

We have been very busy recording our learning to share with you next week. We hope you enjoy watching!

What a very busy start to the new term! We have welcomed three new pupils into Primary 2 so it has been a very exciting week!

Writing

We have moved on to our next genre in writing which is narrative. The children have worked very hard to create their story about ‘The Lost Puppy’. We are trying to remember a capital letter, finger space and full stop in all of our sentences.





PE

We are now doing basketball for PE. This week we have worked on dribbling, chest passes and have started trying to shoot into the basket, which is a challenge! The children have really enjoyed basketball and cannot wait to play a proper game.






Topic

We are doing a mini topic on Scotland. We have discussed this week what we already know about Scotland and what we would like to learn about. We also sang ‘Heid, Shooders, Knees an Taes’ as we were looking at Scots language. They found Scottish slang very funny as they think it sounds very ‘weird’. Just in case you hear any slang about the house!

I am extremely proud of how hard the children have worked this week.

Have a lovely weekend!

We have had a fun filled week in Primary 2! From our Talent Show auditions to the Spaghetti Challenge!

STEM Challenge

The children were given the task, from Mrs Stewart, to create the tallest tower they could using only spaghetti and marshmallows! The children had to work as a team to see who would win! We measured each tower and the children ranked them from smallest to tallest!

 

Christmas!

We got to watch the Panto this week and enjoyed singing and dancing with Aladdin!

We have been playing different Christmas games and the top two are Musical Bumps and Musical Statues.

We have made some lovely Christmas Cards, which the children will bring home next week! We also enjoyed a full day of games and wearing our Christmas pjs!

P2 party is on Monday!

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Orr & Primary 2 🙂

Literacy

We have continued to work on our stations during ELF. We were working on our spelling sound of the week, tricky words, sentence structure, comprehension and reading! (Yes, we are very busy!) The children have worked hard in their final week of ELF.

Topic

The boat test!!! We are happy to report that all boats were able to float for the 10-second challenge. The children identified some things that they would like to change so we might revisit this challenge next term.

   

We also created some very colourful Turtles in relation to our topic. The children are very proud of their work!

I hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂

Topic

Our ‘Under the Sea’ topic is ending, so this week the children had to make boats from a range of materials. Next week we will test them in water to see if they float or sink!

Advent

We have started our advent in class. Each child will have a turn to unwrap a book and that will be our story for the day. Yesterday, in ‘Careful, Santa!’, Santa lost all the gifts and his little mouse helper! Thankfully, he found them and was still on time to deliver the presents. A few of us were a bit worried he would not make it!

We also have Santa’s beard to count down the number of sleeps until Christmas. (This is something the children started).

Novel

Our class novel is ‘The Christmasaurus’ which we have just started. It is a fun story and a little bit silly! We will have some fun activities linked to our novel when we have read a little bit more.

Deans Decision Makers

Our Deans Decision Makers have been very busy planning lots of different activities for us throughout December, so ask your child what we have done in class each day as part of our whole school Christmas activities. On the 1st December, we had to think of things that make us happy and put them in our ‘happy box’.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

 

We have had another busy week in Primary 2!

Numeracy 

We are still working hard on subtraction. The children are using different strategies to support their learning and are trying so hard.  

Literacy 

In writing this week, the children did a piece of persuasive work. They had to provide reasons why their choice of pet was the best. The children came up with great arguments. 

Music 

The Nativity songs have started! (I am sure you have heard them all at home!) The children are enjoying singing ‘Down in the Stable’. We look forward to performing the Nativity in December.  

Numeracy

In numeracy this week, we have been working on subtraction. It has been tricky but the children have enjoyed our numeracy stations. This is where we spend 10 minutes at each table working in our workbook, games to support our learning, laptops and much more!

Literacy

In literacy this week, we have been continuing with summarising. We have been summarising the key points from our reading books. It is Scottish Book Week, so we picked our favourite word boost book, Manfred the Baddie, and created our own ending for the story.

School Challenge

At the beginning of November, the whole school were set a challenge to collect as many crisp packets as possible. We are then going to turn them into survival blankets for the homeless! I am so proud to say that Primary 2 collected 224! Thank you for all your support and sending them in from home.

Have a brilliant weekend :).

Primary 2!

Hooray! Primary 2 are finally up and running with the blog after some technical issues!

We have had such a busy week. In number this week, we have been focusing on place value. Some of us have been looking at tens and ones and others have been working on hundreds, tens, and ones. We have been challenging ourselves with different numbers and adding them together.

In literacy, we have been very busy working on sentence structure using our core writing targets. We are working very hard to remember a capital letter, finger spaces and full stop in all of our sentences. We have also been looking at summarising the key parts of our reading book and adding detail to our pictures.

In writing, with Mrs Lockhart and Mrs Morrison, we have been working on persuasive writing. Last week we argued why fireworks are dangerous and this week we argued that dogs are good pets.

We have also taken part in Yoga this week and are working on moving our bodies in different ways. The children enjoyed acting out different animal poses and being the teacher!

Our word boost book this week is ‘Manfred the Baddie’, which is the children’s favourite book so far. Manfred is a baddie that turns good but is still a little bit naughty! Ask your child what their favourite part of our word boost book is.