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Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing

Max – “We have been learning how to write an explanation”

Jacob – “We had to explain how plants grow”

Jayden – “Plants need lots of soil and water or they will die”

Numeracy

Charli Mae – “We have been learning how to tell the time”

Louie – “We made clocks to help us learn how to tell the time”

Euan – “We have been learning all about o’clock”

Archie M – “The big hand is the minute hand and the small hand is the hour hand”

HWB

Andrew – “We were talking about bad touch and good touch”

Elizabeth – “A hug is good touch”

Connor – “A bad touch is punching”

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Numeracy

We have started our new topic of time. This week, we have been focusing on the months of the year – how to read and spell them, and also the order in which they come.

Jayden – “There are 12 months in a year”

Euan – “2 months after January is March, and April is the fourth month”

Vrishti – “Halloween is in October”

Archie M – “There are different months in different seasons”

IDL

Our new topic for this term is World of Work.

Maddison – “We spoke about different kinds of jobs”

Ethan – “We looked at different job sectors and wrote the jobs that are in that sector”

Writing

We began learning a new writing genre this week – explanation.

Max – “An explanation is when you explain something”

Mark – “First comes the title, then the identifying statement, then the explanation sequence, then the summary statement”

Andrew – “A summary is when you say what has happened”

Fun in the sun

We have been out enjoying the sun this week. We were learning how to make daisy chains and found it quite tricky and fiddly! Some of us got the hang of it after a while!

Some of us were learning to assess risks by climbing a tree.

Jordon – “There were stable branches and unstable branches”

Louie – “We had to make sure we were testing the branches and only standing on the stable branches”

Charli Mae – “We couldn’t go too high up to the top because the branches were unstable”

Sophie – “I was happy but also scared because I had to make sure I didn’t fall off”

Have a lovely weekend in the sun!

 

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing 

Maddison – “We wrote an information report all about Spring”

Charli Mae – “Sheep have lambs during Spring”

Archie – “The bees and wasps start to come out when it is hot”

Outdoor Learning

Louie – “We went into the playground and flew our kites”

Andrew – “Flying my kite was so fun”

Kayden – “We made out kite out of paper”

STEM 

Euan – “We had to work with a partner to build a parachute for an egg. It was fun dropping them off the stairs”

Elizabeth – “We had to design our egg and we called it Sheldon”

Mark – “Next time, I would put more stuff around the egg so it didn’t crack”

Alfie – “Next time, I would put 7 layers of paper on Steve so he didn’t crack”

 

Have a safe and restful Easter Break! 

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week.

Class Talks

Euan – “We spoke about our favourite toy. I spoke about my football”

Charli Mae – “I spoke about my pengiun who loves to eat fish”

Writing 

Max – “We wrote an information report about frogs”

Andrew – “Frogs hop and make a noise”

Alfie – “Frog eyes poke out like flies”

Archie M – “Frogs are amphibians”

Numeracy

Layla – “We started learning to count in 5s”

Oliver – “We were multiplying”

IDL 

Jordon – “We listen to different theme tunes and spoke about how they made us feel”

Jayden – “We had to work as a team to make a theme song for Super Girl”

Louie – “Our song had to have a happy and exciting beat”

HWB 

Summer – “We had to design a balanced meal”

Sophie – “We needed 1 protein, 1 carbohydrate and 2 vegetables”

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Hello and welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

P.E.

Max – “We have been learning new balances”

Elizabeth – “It was hard but we will get better with practise”

Writing

Jordon – “We were writing an information report all about worms”

Archie M – “Worms have 5 hearts”

Euan – “If you cut off a worm’s tail 5 times it will die”

Numeracy

Charli-Mae – “We have been practising multiplication and chimney sums”

Maddison – “I like to use cubes to help me multiply”

IDL

Vrishti – “We made a pop art picture with our favourite toys”

Jayden – “We looked at Andy Warhol pictures and made our own in the same way”

Alfie – “We drew with crayons then we used watery paint to paint over the top”

Mark – “When we tried to put the paint over the crayon it wouldn’t go over it so you could still see our drawings”

Comic Relief 2021

Check out our crazy hair and crazy faces for Comic Relief 2021. Thank you very much for all of your kind donations, they are greatly appreciated!

Have a lovely weekend!

Here are some of the things we have been up to this week!

Kevin the Carrot

Charli Mae – “We watched Kevin the Carrot and had to finish the story”

Countries Around the World

Louie – “We learned about how different countries celebrate Christmas. In Australia it is really hot on Christmas Day. In one country, they hide a nut in the pudding and whoever finds the nut has good luck.”

A special visit from Santa

Euan – “When we came back from break, we saw Santa had been and left us a special letter! He wanted our help to decide if the Grinch should be on the naughty list or the nice list so we had to persuade Santa what we thought”

Making the Grinch’s heart grow

Archie M – “We were thinking of different things to make the Grinch’s heart grow 3 sizes bigger”

Grinch Art

Sophie – “We used red paper for the heart and the hat and then green paper for a body and head and we made the Grinch”

Handprints

Max – “We used blue and white paint to paint our handprints”

Andrew – “We drew snowmen on our fingers”

Tree Baubles

Jordon – “We made tree baubles with different colours”

Christmas Party

Ethan – “We made Christmas hats and other crafts for our party”

Emily – “We went outside in to the playground and listened to music and had a dance”

Layla – “My favourite song is the hippopotamus song”

Vrishti – “Santa sent us a special message and sent us a gift”

 

 

Have a safe and happy Christmas everyone. See you in the New Year for some more great learning!

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Christmas Story

Mr Welsh read us one of our favourite stories yesterday! We showed super listening skills and were paying close attention to see if we could hear our boost words!

Writing

During writing this week we wrote letters to Santa persuading him that we have been good this year. Some of our arguments include hoovering the rug, being kind and helping to do the dishes!

Christmas Lunch

We had such a delicious Christmas lunch on Wednesday! After our lunch, we wrote letters to the lunch ladies to thank them for our wonderful food. We tried super hard to use adjectives to describe our lunch.

STEM Challenge

On Tuesday, we began learning about the Christmas story. We learned that Baby Jesus was born in a stable. We had to demonstrate our collaboration, communication and leadership skills whilst working with the people next to us to build our very own stables! We had lots of materials to choose from but had to think hard about which materials should be used where. We discovered that the kitchen roll tubes were the best material to make the sides of the stable!

Salt Dough Hands

On Thursday, we each had a batch of salt dough and we had to print our hands into the dough. Once the dough has had a chance to dry over the weekend, we will paint them next week and bring them home!

Christmas Jumper Day

Look how great we all look in our Christmas jumpers!

Today we all said goodbye and good luck to Miss Hennessy as she is leaving to work in a new school. We are all very sad to see her go but wish her the best of luck and hope to see her again very soon.

Have  read to see the fun things we have been up to this week!

Fun in the snow

Max – “We were making snowmen!”

Charli Mae – “We were working in a team to roll the snow to make a snowman”

Jordon – “Don’t throw snowballs because it might be dangerous”

Elizabeth – “When I was outside in the snow I was happy because I was having fun”

P.E.

Connor – “We went outside to do circuits”

Mark – “We were running on the spot, doing star jumps, lunges, squats and windmills”

Jayden – “It started to rain so we went inside and did some yoga”

Writing

Andrew – “We wrote about why Christmas is important”

Emily – “Christmas is great because you get to put up your Christmas tree”

Vrishti – “Christmas is great because you get to put a star on top of the tree”

Louie – “Christmas is great because you get to eat candy canes”

Stop Frame Animation

Euan – “We went with Mrs Buntin to make a stop frame animation. We moved the little characters and then took lots of little pictures of them”

Sophie – “It was fun. I am looking forward to seeing it finished”

Wow what an exciting week we have had! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Read Write Count

Max – “We wore out pyjamas to school on Tuesday”

Jacob – “Read write count gave us a bag with books and other things in it”

Ethan – “Peter the Puppet came to visit us and was helping us make our rockets”

Alfie – “We read Rocketmole and had a whole day about the book!”

Andrew – “We were so nice and cosy all day in our jammies”

Numeracy

Euan – “Mrs Rodden came to our classroom to deliver a special letter from Rocketmole!”

Vrishti – “Rocketmole needed help add numbers to make his ship launch to the North Pole!”

Jayden – “We were having fun adding numbers to help make the ship launch”

Writing

Macy May – “We wrote about why reading is important”

Archie M – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read signs when you are driving”

Jordon – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read books”

Connor – “Reading is important because you need to read things at the shop”

Mark – “Reading is important because if you don’t read then you won’t know your words”

Word Boost

This week, we read “Cold Paws, Warm Heart”. Here are some of our boost words:

Mark – “Huge means really really big”

Archie P – “Confused means you don’t know what’s going on”

Oliver – “Crouch means you bend down low”

Vrishti – “Gulp means you take a big swallow”

Elizabeth – “Miserable means you are really really sad”

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week in P2.

Writing

Vrishti – “We have been learning about persuasive writing”

Archie M – “We had to persuade people about why school is important”

Andrew – “School is important so you can learn for when you grow up”

Numeracy

Jayden – “We have been finding efficient ways to bridge 10 in number talks”

Euan – “We have been trying to find the missing number in an adding sum”

IDL

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the sea animals into the right layer of the ocean. The dolphin went at the top in the sunlight zone.”

Macy May – “The sea animals all went in different layers.”

Sharing the Learning

In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a video all about our learning in P2 so far. This week, we became movie stars and began filming our sharing the learning.

Have a great weekend! Remember to wear your pyjamas on Tuesday the 24th November for our Read Write Count day!