Category: Primary 2

An exciting week in Fairyland for Primary 1/2

It has been an exciting week in Primary 1/2 as we continue to build Fairyland in our classroom and have had exciting deliveries from our friendly dragon.

On Monday we had an unexpected delivery after lunch. A bag of compost, some seeds and a selection of plant pots!! We knew straight away that we needed to plant the seeds to grow our own mini beanstalks in the classroom. We learned all about how to care for our seeds to nurture them into proper beanstalks. We learned that all plants need water, sunlight, soil and the right temperature to grow. We have been very diligent when watering our plants every day and have been filling in a special bean diary to observe and record any growth.

          

Jordon was happy  to add the castles at the top of our beanstalks.

Nathaniel felt excited to plant his very own beanstalk.

The dragon also delivered a little pot of beans with all of our sounds written on them. We think he wants to help us get better at spelling, we have been having lots of fun spelling fairyland words with the beans.

Belle was practising her common words with the beans.

Euan had a go at writing speedy Gonzalez because he was watching it at home.

We were so excited to come into class and see that Jack’s beanstalk had appeared in our home corner. We worked so hard on creating different leaves and are very proud of how fantastic and realistic it looks. We think the dragon will be very happy with it and Elkie thinks it looks good.

On Tuesday we had yet another exciting delivery, Castle booklets and a trail of green glitter EVERYWHERE! He’s one messy dragon!! We couldn’t wait to get started writing in them. Mrs Stevenson even let us use the fancy pens.

  

On Wednesday we continued to practise our writing skills with a special focus on ‘listening carefully to the sounds in each word to help us spell independently. We thought about what magical things we would like to happen to us if we got our hands on some magic beans.

Georgia thought she would get a mansion for her family.

Ashley wanted her magic to make everyone in our school happy.

Erica’s magic beans would turn into an aeroplane to take her to the candy shop!

We decorated castles and wrote our magical ideas onto a special bean. Mrs Stevenson put them on display in the classroom and once again we are so proud of our learning.

It really has been a week of exciting deliveries, on Thursday yet more magic beans appeared. This time they were colourful ones, this got us talking about our favourite flavours of jelly beans! We decided to conduct a survey of our favourite flavours and then display the information on a class bar graph. It was really interesting to see all of our choices on the wall and we were able to answer questions like, what was the most and least popular flavour. Then we had a go at making our own bar graphs! This dragon really is helping us learn so much.

On Thursday we also had the added excitement of World Book Day. We thoroughly enjoyed wearing our comfy pyjamas, bringing our favourite soft toy and of course sharing our most favourite stories throughout the day. We enjoyed our library time with P5/6 and sharing our most favourite stories.

Archie brought in Goodnight Tractor because he likes the pages.

Robyn brought in The Stinky Sprouts and the Station Mouse because she likes them and they are very good.

We are very much looking forward to our Sharing the Learning event next Tuesday   (10th March) 2pm to 3pm and hope you can all make it.

 

 

Primary 2

Numeracy 

We started learning about money this week.

Skye – “We were putting the coins in the right order”

Darby – “We tried figuring out which coins were behind each box.”

Writing

We collaborated in teams to use technology to research interesting facts about Stirling Castle and turn these into notes.

Lexie – “We were learning to find the important parts of a sentence.”

Sophia – “We researched facts about Stirling Castle.”

P.E.

We started creating a gymnastics sequence involving jumps, rolls and balances.

Mia – “We were doing different kinds of balances and rolls.”

Brendan – “We used collaboration to do different balances to create a sequence.”

Science

We have been investigating which materials are bendy and which are not bendy.

Charlie – “We had to pass a ball and say different materials.”

Ethan – “We went around the classroom to see what was bendy and what was not bendy.”

Topic

We looked at different jobs people did around a castle.

Isla – “I applied to be a Marshal because it looked fun!”

Levente – “I wanted to be a Watchman because I like swords.”

A Mysterious Visitor…..

It’s been a very exciting week in Primary 1/2! On Monday a very curious and strange thing happened. During our wet lunch time we returned to the Primary One classroom where we found a sparkly glitter trail leading into the story corner! It was such a surprise! At first Mrs Fleming and Mrs Stevenson thought it was us children! Some of us even thought we had a ghost in the class. Tadas thought it was a glitter monster and Ashley thought it might be a robber! Upon further inspection we discovered a very smoky smelling and burnt letter addressed to us. This letter was from a very sad dragon who has nowhere to live,  his home Fairyland has been destroyed because people aren’t reading enough fairytales and believing anymore. It is so sad.  Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have decided to help this poor dragon out. We are going to help rebuild Fairyland and give the dragon and his friends somewhere to live one again.

We wasted no time in getting straight to work. In the letter, the dragon spoke of Jack not having a beanstalk anymore, so our first job was to read Jack and The Beanstalk.  We had  couple of different versions of the story which we have been reading and listening to over the course of the week, we discovered that there are many differences between each one. We definitely love the ‘Stinky’ Jack one the best. Euan loved that he had to sleep outside in the barn with Daisy the cow!

In Primary 2/1 we are all fantastic artists and very creative, so we decided to make Jack his very own beanstalk in our classroom. We used lots of different materials to create textured leaves to add to the vines. We even used fine black liner to add little beasties. Watch this space as our beanstalk grows over the next week, it is going to be amazing!

    

Reading the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk got us talking about whether we would climb a beanstalk or not, or what we would trade for some magic beans. I must say we are all very brave in Primary 1/2 as most of us said we would definitely want to climb up!

Belle wanted to see the view and Ashley fancied a golden egg so she would be rich!!  Kayden said he would trade his Xbox for some magic beans to be rich.  Nathaniel said he would trade his toilet!!! for some magic beans because he has two already!

We practised our writing skills and as we are focusing on extending our sentences we used the word ‘because’ in our writing to explain our reasons. We created a lovely display of our work by adding dangling legs and clouds to our pictures. We think Jack would be impressed. We also added some pictures of Daisy the cow to our display. We worked really hard on our listening skills to follow instructions to draw a cow step by step. Jordon thinks our display looks good and is excited to add more to it.

    

Later on in the week our friendly dragon delivered a shiny mail box to outside our classroom, we have had great fun writing letters and drawing pictures to him to help cheer him up.

In Numeracy and Maths this week we have still been working hard on our tools for subtraction. We are getting really good at using a number line to help us jump backwards to take away. The friendly dragon must want to help us with our learning too, as he left us a little maths measuring challenge. We had to find classroom objects longer and shorter than the giants footprint. This was a great activity for estimating and using a variety of non standard units and of course getting us used to using this mathematical language.

   

Other learning highlights this week.

Andrew really enjoyed making a castle in the Den this week, he used pencils and pens and made sure to colour in the lines.

Elkie loved building the leaves for the beanstalk, because she liked painting and even added ladybirds to hers.

Euan loved making the giants legs in our writing task.

Kayden felt really proud of himself this week for writing so many oo words by himself.

Belle really challenged herself when writing the oo sound and joining the two letters together.

We are really excited about what is going to happen in Fairyland next week.

 

A short week in P2

This week has been very short after the long weekend!

Numeracy
We have been continuing to learn about time. 

Tyler: "I'm good at time, I like that I challenge myself to get the correct answers."
Isla: "It's hard sometimes but I never give up."

Writing
We have been trying to use adjectives in our writing. 

Darby: "An adjective is a describing word."
Ethan: "Some adjectives are big, teeny and small."

RME
We have been learning about the Creation Story. 

Brendan: "We had to wear pictures and order ourselves to put the story in order."
Lucy: "Eve ate the fruit from the tree when she wasn't allowed to."

Art
We have been creating different kinds of lines by making 2D shapes. 

Aayan: "We had to use special dot paper to draw 2D shapes using a ruler."
Sophie: "We used lots of bright colours to colour each shape a different colour."

This week in P2

This week in P2 we have been learning how to take notes using bullet points. From these notes, we have been working on writing facts in our own words.

During numeracy, we have been learning how to calculate one hour after and one hour before on both digital and analogue clocks. Some of us have been learning how to calculate durations in whole hours.

We have also been learning about St. Valentine this week. We learnt why he is known and why Valentines Day originated. We wrote wonderful poems inside Valentines cards for our loved ones which we made by ourselves.

We even had the chance to see the baby guinea pigs! Ask us how cute they are and we will be happy to tell you!

P2 Update

Numeracy
We have been continuing to learn about time.
 
Scarlet - "We have been practicing quarter to and quarter past."
Brendan - "We know about half past and o'clock."

Writing
We have been learning about writing notes. 

Ethan - "You don't need full sentences when you write notes."
Lexie - "We have been learning to write a sentence from our notes."

P.E.
We have been learning different jumps. 

Isla - "We did bunny jumps over a bench."
Darby - "You need to bend your knees when you land."
   

Topic
We started our new topic of Castles. 

Finlay - "We learned the different bits of a castle."
Lexie - "There is a moat around the castle which is hard to get over because it is super deep."
Isla - "There are pointy towers."
Sophia - "There are tiny windows called arrow loops so that you could shoot arrows out of them."


Today was Participation Friday. We had a special visitor come in to work with us and help us begin the design process of our products for the spring fayre. Keep an eye out to see the finished products!

Primary 2/1 Weekly Update.

Let’s start off our blog with our learning highlights this week from the children.

Elkie – My highlight was making my Highland cow because  I loved making it.

Sai liked making his fact file about highland cows, his favourite fact was that their hair is so long it goes over their eyes, but it is there to protect them.

Jordon – I liked drawing Nessie because she goes under water.

Nathaniel- I liked learning about the sound x because it was easy to write!

Tadas – I like the daily 5 because it is easy for me!

Robyn – I liked learning all of our sounds, every Monday I look forward to seeing all the new letters for the week.

It’s been another busy week where we have been learning all about the Loch Ness Monster! We watched the Nessie cam but unfortunately didn’t catch a glimpse of her this time, why not have a look for yourselves at home!

Use this link       https://www.lochness.co.uk/livecam/

This led to a very interesting discussion about whether we thought Nessie existed or not….. Most of us are believers! We made our own Nessie to decorate our Learning Journey wall. We had to use our scissors very carefully and we came up with some amazing Nessie designs.

In writing this week we wrote postcards to Nessie, telling her all about ourselves and the things we like to do. We all wrote at least 3 sentences all by ourselves. After reading the story, Hamish the Highland Cow by Natalie Russell, we also designed and wrote our own fact files about Highland cows and created a pastel drawing using a smudging technique to create a ‘hairy’ effect!

   

We are still working on the topic of Time in Maths. This week we have been looking at how we measure time. We talked about seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. We discussed how long we thought it would take us to complete certain activities. We had a team work challenge where we had to match up activities with how long we thought they would last. 

Lennon thought this was a good challenge and Erica said it was lots of fun.

We have also been discussing the seasons and which season we like the best!

Euan’s favourite season is Summer because that’s when his birthday falls.

Jordon loves Winter the best because the snow comes out.

Ethan loves Autumn  the best because you can collect all the leaves.

Kayden loves Spring because you can start to play outside.

We designed some posters to show different changes  which take place in each season.

As part of our numeracy we have been examining how to double numbers. We are getting really good at doing this mentally and talking about our answers. One of our focuses this week has been how to use a number line to help us solve addition calculations by counting on. Its really easy when you know how!

Just a little reminder for the children to bring their red homework folders to school every day with their reading books. Many thanks!

Primary 2 this week

This week we have been learning about Scottish words for body parts. We created a life size picture of Katie Morag and labelled her body using Scottish words.

We have also been learning more about telling the time. We have started learning about quarter past and quarter to.

Brendan – “I enjoy working in pairs during maths.”

Mia – “I find it tricky but I’m going to keep trying and never give up!”

This week we went to the school library to explore all of the different books.

Sarah-Louise – “The library has so many interesting books for us to choose.”

Calvin – “I had fun reading all of the different books.”

In Science we went on a material hunt around the classroom to find different textures.

Lucy – “The carpet is rough.”

Charlie – “Some things were soft, like the library rug.”

Sophie – “The plants are a bit jaggy.”

Ethan – “The tables are smooth.”

 

Our P.E. days are now a Monday and a Tuesday. Please ensure all children have a suitable P.E. kit on these days. Thank you.

Primary 2/1 Weekly News

First of all thank you to all the parents and carers who attended last Friday’s Scottish assembly. We very much value all of your support.

Let’s start off our blog this week with a Homework Superstar. This wonderful model of Edinburgh Castle has been created with such attention to detail that all of Primary 2/1 think it deserves pride of place at the start of our blog. There are so many wonderful details which reflect all of our fabulous learning, from stained glass windows, the Scottish Thistle to Mons Meg the famous cannon! I think you will all agree that it is simply fantastic!

We have had an incredibly busy week in Primary 2/1 with all of our continued learning surrounding Scotland and our little friend Hamish. This week we got our thinking caps on and wanted to send Hamish off on another adventure. We all used our imaginations to think of places in the world that Hamish might like to visit.

Robyn wanted Hamish to visit Disneyland.

Ethan wanted him to visit the cinema to see Toy story.

Kayden wanted him to visit Legoland.

Here are some examples of our wonderful work. We are really getting to grips with writing extended sentences using full stops, capital letters and finger spaces and also being able to sound out the trickier words all by ourselves.

We have been working on a few new sounds, h, g and v. The boys and girls are all very eager to lead our learning when we are focusing on a new sound. We take it in turns to stand up beside the smart board and sound out each letter to help each other blend them together to make a word.

In maths we have been learning to tell the time to the hour and half past. Mrs Stevenson set us a challenge to make our own clocks to use. We worked together to position each numeral in the right place and to arrange the minute and hour hand correctly. We then had to change the hands to reflect the time which was called out.

Euan was happy with this activity because he took turns with his team mates, everyone having a go at writing the numbers and changing the time.

We then had a go at playing a whole class Time bingo game, it got quite competitive in the end, but it helped us to read the time with more accuracy and speed!

Robyn loved this game because everyone took turns.

This week we have also been busy applying our artistic skills. Lennon articulately shared the story behind the Thistle becoming Scotland’s national emblem. We had a go at creating our own thistles using chalk and a picture on the smart board as a stimulus. The end result looks fantastic and they are now proudly displayed on our classroom wall.

Elkie said that she loved her thistle once she had made it.

Ashley commented that she loved hers too and felt proud of her work.

Keeping with the same theme, we tried our hand at weaving to create a mini kilt effect. It was super tricky and really required us to use our fine motor skills and concentration. We really enjoyed the challenge and found that it was actually not that difficult. Some of us even created a pattern with the colours.

Sai found this task very very hard, but in the end he did a great job! Well done Sai!

Lastly, we have enjoyed joining in with  Primary 1 this week to take part in some Health and Wellbeing and some emotional literacy. We have been discussing ‘Success’ and what it looks and feels like. We all happily shared our own successes with each other and talked about how we can reflect this in the classroom. One of the main messages that came across was that we should never give up! We watched the story of Robert the Bruce and the spider who kept trying to build her web, it took her 7 attempts! It really made us think about when we find something tricky we should keep going and see it as a challenge! We then moved on to learn the Fischy Music song ‘Encouragement’ we enjoyed singing along and performing the actions. We were able to suggest ways in which we can support or encourage our own friends in the classroom.

 

 

This week in P2

We have had another busy week in P2.

In P.E. we continued learning more gymnastics skills. This week, we were learning different types of rolls. We learned how to perform a forward roll, a teddybear roll and a pencil roll. These are tricky skills to master!

In Art, we focused on primary and secondary colours. We learned what the primary colours are and then we were set a challenge to see what secondary colours we could make by mixing the primary colours together. We were amazed to see the colours changing as we mixed them together!

Our shell art from last week has now been framed and all of our work looks absolutely beautiful. We are so proud of how well we did. You’ll even find some of our creations in the display cabinet outside of the gym hall.

One of our topic lessons this week involved recreating a story through drama. We read “Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins” and then worked collaboratively to tell the story through our own dramas. We discussed what makes a quality audience and then provided each team with strengths and next steps.

This week in science we began investigating the properties of materials. We had to work collaboratively and our communication skills were really put to the test when we found that we had differences in opinion. We loved investigating all of the different objects on the tables.

We practised our knowledge of French numbers to 20 this week by playing a game of Bingo. We had to choose 9 numbers between 0 and 20 and when Miss Borsbey called out a number in French we had to circle the number if we had it. It was so much fun!

We are continuing to practise our skills when telling the time. We have been working on identifying o’clock and half past on both digital and analogue clocks. Have a look at us playing a super fun time board game with our friends!

We are also continuing to work on our spelling, with each group learning a different sound each week. We love doing active spelling tasks and building words using different resources around the classroom. Our favourite resources include magnetic boards, beads and scoobies, and letter jigsaws. We have also been using these resources to build upon our knowledge of the alphabet. We are becoming really confident with the order of the alphabet, the number of letters and the identification of the 5 vowels. We have decided to play a short game of quizmaster every day so that we can keep practising!

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