Category: Primary 2

We have had another great week in primary 1 and 1/2.

We are really proud of our Fairtrade posters.  We included lots of detail including the Fairtrade symbol. We are getting really confident at spotting and sorting products that are Fairtrade.

Aayan and Arthur brought in Fairtrade wrappers to share with us and were able to talk about the logo and what it means. Harrison and Brendan brought in lots of examples to show on our Fairtrade wall. Well done boys!

Finlay- We worked really hard on them.

Elkie- I worked hard on my poster and I really like it.

Lucy- I liked drawing all the food especially the strawberries.

Charlie- I like my poster because I made myself buying a Fairtrade cookie.

 

We have even been making Fairtrade farmer faces from our loose parts. Lots of fun!!

Chloe- I liked the prickly things for his eyes. He is smiling because we are supporting Fairtrade.

Sophie – I drew a Fairtrade pineapple. It was really tricky especially the jaggy bits.

We have had a twit twooooooo  book week. We have been enjoying books about Owls. We have read Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and The Owl who was afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. We decided to write about things that we are afraid of……..mostly spiders! Darby and Sarah- Louise included lots of detail in their story.   We had a really good discussion about our school values and what made us feel safe in school. The boys and girls were able to share some lovely examples of what and who made them feel safe in school. We also drew some amazing owls, we think we could illustrate our own books!

   

Lucy- I liked the illustrations in the story book.

Roman- I liked using crazy colours for the owls . It made them really cool.

Maison- I think it was really fun to colour them in.

This week we have also been reading with our buddies. We were reading in the gym hall. We can read anywhere!!

Lexie-  I enjoyed sharing my story with my buddy.

Sophie- I liked reading my favorite book’ The Gruffalo’ with my buddy. It was fun reading in the hall but the floor was a bit cold.

Elkie- It was good to talk about the story with my buddy.

Joseph- My book was cool because it was funny and I could read the Title by myself.

We also took our buddies to our class to show off our amazing new toys and resources. We think the Primary 7’s enjoyed playing with them just as much as we do!

Aayan -enjoyed playing with his buddy and our new fire engine.

We have enjoyed playing Fire Fighters this week and unfortunately our house went on fire. Luckily we had lots of firefighters who knew what to do in this emergency and we had built our own firestation… PHEW!

We had a new teacher this week. Levente taught us how to say hello in polish         ‘dzien dobry’and to say some numbers. Well done Levente for leading the learning.

Levente- It was fun.

Homework Star of the Week- Skye

Well done Skye, what a lot of work and learning at home!!

 

We have had even more exciting new resources to explore in our classrooms. Kayleigh has used one of our amazing new writing logs to practise writing sentences and she has even included a describing word.

This week’s sound has been ‘d’ which has driven us dotty!! We hope you like our dotty d’s. We have had lots of fun building words and exploring the sound. We know we have to be careful not to be tricked with the sound b! We know that d has a tail just like a dddog.

The primary 2’s have been practising their dictation skills and writing sentences independently using d words. Well done Primary 2.

Scarlet  – I liked all the busy start jobs this week especially making d words with the play dough.

Ashley –  I liked practising writing my d’s on paper with a writing pencil.

Aayan – I liked my dotty d because it was really really spotty.

 

 

In numeracy we have been exploring number friends and counting in 10’s. We have had a great time using numicon to make 10 in different ways.

Lewis made the pattern 6 + 4 =10 using his numicon and Aaron was able to write all of the tens numbers up to 100. Wow! well done.

Daniel wowed Mrs Stevenson this week because he counted in 5’s all the way from 0 to 100.

Lexie – I liked counting in 10’s and making patterns with the numicon.

Aaron – I have enjoyed my  number work this week and found that counting in 10’s with the numicon is easy.

 

This week sees the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight. We have been exploring the symbol and learning all about where chocolate comes from. We read the story of Pablo the Fairtrade Super Banana and decided to create our own super hero bananas. Tadas thought it would be a good idea to include the Fairtrade  symbol in our class shop to help promote Fairtrade.

Aayan – I loved making my Super Banana, mine was a bit like Batman-  batbanana!!

We have been using our imagination in our role play areas. We have been performing fairy tales and using our voices to retell the story in a dramatic way and in the right order!

Sophie – I loved using the finger puppets to retell Little Red riding Hood. It’s one of my favourites.

Our Homework superstars this week are Harrison, Calvin and Sophie. They boys made fantastic mini beasts using recycled materials.  Sophie made her very own dot patterns and wrote the calculations to go with it. Well done everybody. Thank you to everybody who sent in pictures of your home learning, we thoroughly enjoy looking at them together.

 

 

 

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!

This week we have been learning about the Loch Ness Monster. We read the story ‘No Such Thing as Nessie!’ by Chani McBain and Kristeen Harris Jones.

Sophie- It is about a little boy who wanted to find Nessie.

Brendan- His sister Sarah was not very nice. She didn’t believe in Nessie.

Lucy- She was laughing and made him feel miserable.

Arthur- He found Nessie in the end.

We are very glad that it was a happy ending and didn’t know that Nessie liked shortbread!

We decided to do our own Nessie hunt. We went on the live Nessie Webcam and saw….

Rihanna-  I saw a green thing in the water. It looked like it had a green neck and spots.

Aayan- I saw something flying across the water.

Scarlet- I saw a net.

After our Nessie hunt we were still not sure if there was a real life Nessie. We had a debate and in the end we decided that Nessie was real and not a myth.

We made Nessie Puppets. Lucy added lots of detail including spots and a fantastic tartan hat.

Maison made a fabulous Nessie and described him using  three adjectives. He even wrote a sentence using a connective. Wow!!!!

In gym we are practicing bouncing and catching a ball.

Calvin- It was easy because I made my hands into a basket.

Skye- We have also been learning new games. I liked ‘Clear the Garden’

Sophie- I liked shark Attack. You had to swim to the islands without getting caught by the sharks.

Lexie- I liked the game ‘Frozen Beanbags’ We had to balance really carefully to keep the beanbag on our head.

Our sound this week has been u from Inky’s Vowel House. We made u for umbrellas to remind us of the letter shape. We can now read and write lots more words with u as the middle sound.

In numeracy Elkie had fun being the teacher and was leading our learning.

I think we will need to watch our jobs Mrs Stevenson, she was a bit too good!

Well done Elkie for being so confident!

Mark- We had to put the numbers from smallest to biggest.

This week Mrs Wood was very proud of Lewis for working so hard on writing his common words. Well done Lewis ….two thumbs up!!!

Homework Star of the Week – Sophie

Sophie shared her fantastic homework with the class. She shared that she was born in the year of the snake, that this is the year of the pig and had made a beautiful valentine card.

 

Primary 1 and Primary 2/1 have had another busy week in school.

Primary 1 got a surprise with their classroom getting a mini makeover!

Scarlet – I like the new drawing area.

Lucy – I liked that the tables have been moved.

Tadas and Charlie enjoyed sharing a dinosaur non fiction book in the new library area.

Aayan commented ‘I am enjoying my new book and I love that I can read it.’

This week we have been writing all about what we can and can’t do…..yet! We read the story of Giraffes can’t Dance by one of our favourite authors Giles Andrea.  The boys and girls have been working hard to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops and draw detailed pictures.

Calvin and Lucy did a great job!

Our sound focus this week have been the letter ‘g’. We made glittery golden g’s by gluing and sticking. Don’t they look gggggggg great!

As part of our Scotland learning, we found out about Scotland’s national flower, the Thistle. We looked at pictures and used describing words to say what we saw. We used pastels to blend the colours together to create a our own thistles.

Brendan said – I liked drawing the spiky flowers and I really liked making the spikes.

We learned a bit more about Scotland today from being part of an audience with the Scottish Opera. It was fantastic!

Kayleigh – I liked the opera, especially the songs. I was very proud of Ryan.

Maison – I liked the fighting scenes.

Scarlet – I liked when they showed off the baby Prince Charlie at the end.

A great big thank you to Ethan’s Granny who kindly planted a French Marigold for the class. We are going to take turns to water and care for it in the classroom. We are going on a name for our plant next week.

 

A special mention needs to go to Lucy and Grandma this week, who presented the class with an outstanding piece of homework. Lucy made a book for the class library called ‘Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad – Halloween’ based on her class reading book, Fancy Dress. Well done Lucy and Grandma we really enjoyed reading it.

 

We have been working hard in gym to improve our throwing and catching skills. We played clear the garden, practiced our under and over arm throwing and worked in small teams.

Lucy- It was easy, I could throw the beanbag really far.

Brendan- I liked catching. I was proud because I got to demonstrate my skills for my friends.

Tadas- I liked playing clear the garden, I liked throwing the pretend beanbag weeds.

Aayan – I liked balancing the beanbag on my head. It was tricky and easy. Bending up and down was super tricky.

We have been using our imagination in writing. We were pretending that we were in a secret hiding place or a place that we really like to be. Some of us were in our beds sleeping, some friends were on a beach and one friend was even in a pyramid!

Lucy – being in a pyramid would be very cool!

We have been working hard to make sure we hit all our targets in writing.  We are using the symbols to remind us what we need to do to be successful. This week Sophie and Lexie did a fantastic job at making sure they remembered all of their targets. Super work, well done!

Lexie- I am happy because I got everything pink.

Sophie- It was exciting to get lots of pink.

Have a read at their amazing work.

This week our sound has been ‘h’ for happy harry the horse. We have completed lots of fun activities. We are working hard to think about where we hear the sounds. We had fun with Mrs Fleming jumping into the hoops for each sound.

As part of our Scotland topic we wanted to make our own Scotland flags.  We worked in teams using collage to complete our flags.

 

We are getting better at our number talks and are even practising our own.

Lexie- I like when my idea gets written on the board.

Ethan and Tyler made their own number talk using the dot patterns. They made 10!!! Well done boys we are very impressed!

 

We have been learning all about Scotland this week. Tomorrow we have a special Burns Day assembly and we have worked really hard to learn a Scottish song called ‘Coulters Candy’.

Ethan- It has been difficult, there are lots of Scottish words and they are a bit tricky.                                                                                                                                    Mrs Stevenson learned some words too, she thought they were really hard to say but she didn’t give up!

We all want to say a BIG thank you to Mrs Buntin who helped us by playing the piano.

We were invited to be a quality audience for P3. We watched them dancing a Scottish dance.

Lucy- They had to do lots of turns, clapping and skipping.

We read the story of ‘Hamish the Highland Cow’ by Natalie Russell.

Roman was able to retell the whole story to the class.

Today we were visited by the dental team.

Scarlet- We were getting our teeth checked by the dental team.

Kayleigh- They were counting how many teeth we had.

Calvin- It was kind of weird …..we had to wear sunglasses….inside!!!!

Finlay- They had a mirror to see if our teeth were clean or not. They needed the mirror to see to the back.

Lexie- We all got stickers. I really like the colours on mine.

We have been learning number patterns of 5.                                                        Aayan- We were really good  and we found lots and lots of patterns.

We learned all about the add sign + .                                                                         Harrison was able to make it with his fingers.

We had an exciting morning today. When we came into school we got a big surprise. Our cloakroom has changed! Thank you Tom for all your hard word it looks fab!

Ashley- I like it because we have more room.

Brendan- It looks very colourful.

There will be more exciting changes coming soon….so watch this space.

Maison- We all wish you a Happy New Year.

Roman, Brendan and Rihanna got off to a great start and did some good work when we learned about writing the digits for this year.  We thought 2019 was a very big number with 4 digits!

We have been trying really hard to be ‘excellent illustrators’ we are making our pictures detailed, colourful and neat.

Skye- I hope you like our pictures.

Mrs Cochrane and Mrs Stevenson shared the story ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’ by Michael Foreman.

The children were really good at recalling the main events of the story.

Brendan- A greedy man cut down all the trees and made factories that puffed out lots of smoke. All to reach a pretty and shiny star.

Lexie- All the little animals and flowers disappeared.

Tyler- The world was untidy, messy , dark and stinky!

Ethan- Dinosaurs and the man saved the planet by sharing.

Lucy- They planted flowers and trees.

We decided to look after our special world at Deans Primary School.  The first thing we did was go on a litter audit of our school grounds.

We found lots of rubbish!

Sophie- I was shocked.

Elkie- I was really angry.

Sarah-Louise- I was very, very angry.

Scarlet- I was sad.

We found that the biggest problem was at the front of our school.

Aayan was really grumpy and Maison was shocked and couldn’t believe his eyes.

Even the trees and bushes had rubbish in them. We don’t think ‘Pot Noodles’ grow in trees! We are going to take action and be ‘litter Police’ to help look after our school environment. Even the smallest changes can make a big difference.  We sat down with the teachers and made a big plan together. We talked about what we wanted to do and what we wanted to learn about this term. Here are some of our ideas so far.

Aayan suggested that we should make signs and learn about how littering affects animals.

Mark- Wants to design real life litter heroes.

Kullyn and Kayleigh had the great idea of doing a litter pick.

Brendan- Wants to learn how we can keep our playground healthy and how to make bug hotels.

Lucy- Wants to learn where the rubbish goes.

Elkie suggested that we need to look after our paper and use it well. She would also like to learn the colours of recycling.

We found some planters and thought we might be like the dinosaurs and plant some flowers.                                                                                                                  Lexie- That will make our playground look nice and tidy and bees will come and make honey.

This week we have learned the ‘e’ sound and made e for Elmo.

We had a team challenge to see how many e’s we could write in 1 minute.  We then picked our favourite e from the other team. We were very proud of ourselves.

We had a go at making a giant e using our bodies and working as a team.

It was an eeeeeenergetic challenge and we think we did an eeeeeeeexcellent job.

 

This has been a busy and exciting few weeks.  It has been great fun rehearsing with our other friends in Primary 2 and 3. We are so proud of our show and hope you will be able to come and watch us perform.

Our first performance will take place on Thursday 13th Dec at 2.15pm and our second performance will be on Friday 14th Dec at 9.30am.

 

Today the ladies in the kitchen made our special Christmas lunch. It was delicious and there was even Christmas music to create a special festive atmosphere.

Lexie liked the turkey but wasn’t so keen on the sprouts. Elkie was impressed that there was a special treat of a little chocolate reindeer from the kitchen staff…Primary 1 and 2/1 say a great BIG thank you for such a lovely lunch. Tyler is already looking forward to next year!

 

We have been scientists this month. We have been learning how to take care of our teeth. The big science question was… Why are sugary drinks so bad for our teeth?  We conducted an experiment using eggs and made predictions  about what might happen to the shell on the egg when it is left in a sugary drink and also when left in water.

Lennon predicted that the shell would melt in the sugary drink. Scarlet said it might break in half. Kullyn thought the egg might turn black. Elkie said the egg would change colour.

Aayan predicted that the egg would stay the same in the water. Finlay said it would get mashed. Kayden thought it might break and Lexie thought it wouldn’t crack.

Primary 1 tried cola and water and primary 2/1 tried Irn Bru and water. We then shared our results.

The eggs in the water hadn’t changed at all but the results of the eggs in the sugary drinks was pretty yucky. The eggs in cola and Irn Bru changed colour and began to crack and after giving them a good brush they began to crumble. This made us think about the effects of sugar on our teeth. We decided sugar is nice for a little treat now and again but only if we remember to brush our teeth after.

Don’t forget….next week is another exciting and festive week with  our class parties. Dust off your dancing shoes! Remember to keep opening the windows of our school Kindness Advent Calendar.