Category: Primary 2

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

Writing

Louie – “We did Mrs Stewart’s spelling challenge”

Connor – “We were ordering words to make a sentence”

Vrishti – “We were describing crayons”

Maths

Max – “We have been practising writing and ordering numbers”

Kayden – “Mrs Wallace brought Archie the puppet to help us do maths and he was picking his nose!”

P.E

Macy May – “We have been running relay races”

Mark – “We warmed up with duck duck goose”

Outdoor Learning

Jayden – “We were finding nature”

Andrew – “We went to the field”

 

We have had another great week and are super excited for our long weekend!

Literacy

Calvin- “We have been practicing tricky words this week”.

Sophia- “In Writing we were learning how to describe people”.

Lucy- “We have been learning the meaning of words during Word Boost”.

Mia- “We have been learning about verbs and nouns”.

Maths
Robyn and Lucy- “We continued learning about place value. There is only 1 digit allowed in the tens and ones column”.

Harrison- “We were learning about tally marks with Mrs Lockhart”.

Sophia- “We have been adding”

Health and Wellbeing

Emma – “We have been discussing how to keep yourself safe at school”.

Aayan- “We have been sharing our feeling with your friends”.

Calvin- “We were writing in hand prints about how to keep yourself safe in school”.

We have been super busy in P2 this week!

Writing

Vrishti – “We were describing our friends”

Summer – “Miss Taylor showed us a big book”

P.E

Ethan – “We were exercising and doing push ups and sit ups”

Max – “We were doing star jumps”

Louie – “We were exercising like Joe Wicks”

Outdoor Learning

Jayden – “We went to the field to find different things to make flowers”

Sophie – “We were looking at nature”

Maths

Euan – “We did some addition colour by numbers”

Mark – “Number jacks have been helping us learn”

 

Layla – “My favourite part of this week was drawing crayons in topic”

Andrew – “My favourite part of this week was reading the book”

We have also been speaking about how to be sensible in the toilets.

 

Come back to check in with us next week!

Maths

“In maths this week we were learning about place value” Darby.

“We were looking at tens and ones” Kyle.

“You can only have one digit in each column. The highest number in each column is nine” Mia.

 

Literacy

“In writing this week we were writing about a day in the life of the Gruffalo” Aayan.

“We were describing how the Gruffalo was feeling” Lucy.

“We also were describing how the Gruffalo looks” Tyler N.

“In our story we added in one or two main events”Arthur.

 

Health and Wellbeing

“In health and wellbeing this week we have been learning about emotions and feelings” Robyn.

“We check-in every day and share our feeling with the class” Sarah-Louise.

“We also have been identifying the emotions of the character in Julia Donaldson’s stories” Sophie-Leigh.

We have had a busy week here in Primary 2! Here are some of the things we have been doing.

Numeracy 

We are continuing to look at numbers before and after a given number. To help us with this, we have been thinking about our daily routines and what order we do things throughout the day.

We have also been working on dot patterns and coming up with strategies for seeing numbers in different ways.

Euan – “The number after 7 is 8.”

Macy May –  “We did dot patterns with a partner.”

IDL

This week, we have read all about grey and white crayon. We created our very own emotion crayons and the results were fantastic! We came up with so many different emotions! We also discovered that white crayon felt rather useless as nobody ever seen him. We had a discussion about how white crayon is very useful and then used paint to investigate what happened to different colours when we added white to them.

Jordon – “We mixed white and blue to make light blue.”

Vrishti – “White and red makes light pink.”

Writing

We have started to look at descriptive writing. This week, we discussed the “describing bubble” and how this will help us in our writing. We had a think about all of the different describing words relating to colour, shape, size, number and doing words.

Archie P – “We drew doing words like jumping.”

Louie – “Eating is a doing word.”

Summer – “I know pink is a colour word.”

Max – “Five is a number word.”

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

We have been doing lots of different things in and out of class.

Outdoor Learning

Euan – “We were counting the trees”

Mark – “We were looking for nature”

Ethan – “We were looking at butterflies. We learned the work symmetrical”

Writing

Macy Mae – “We wrote all about ourselves. We wrote our hair and eye colour”

Numeracy

Jayden – “We are counting to and from 20”

We are also practising the days of the week and the months of the year

P.E.

Maddison – “We have been running to warm ourselves up”

Vrishti – “We have been practising skipping”

Summer – “We are learning why it is important to exercise”

Check back in with us next week to see what we have been up to!

This week has been super fun in our class.

Euan – “I liked using fish to order numbers to 20.”

Mark – “I loved drawing a bogey picture after beginning our new disgusting story!”

Jordon – “I liked learning about the red crayon in our new topic.”

Maddison – “I liked putting numbers to 10 in the penguin bellies.”

Vrishti – “I liked doing the alphabet.”

Max – “I enjoyed doing numbers.”

Macy Mae – “I liked writing different letters.”

Ethan – “I love the 100 song!”

Please ask us about our favourite part of our week when we come home today! We can’t wait for next week!

Good morning Primary 2! I really can’t believe this is our last day in P2! Here are some activities to finish off your year.

End of the year questions

Here are your final 2 questions for reflection!

1. If you could experience one part of the year again what would it be and why?
2. What has been your highlight of Primary 2?

Alphablocks

We have watched lots of different Alphablocks videos throughout the year. Today, I would like you to re-watch your favourite video! Have a think about all the sounds we have learned this year and the Alphablocks videos that went with them. You can find all the videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qs3c0ehDvZkbiEbOj6Drg

Throw a party

I would like you to throw a party at your house to celebrate the end of the year! Here are some things you may need to do to prepare for your party:

• Make invitations for your family
• Create decorations (paper chains, banners etc)
• Bake some yummy party treats
• Choose music which is great for dancing to

Remember to choose your best party outfit and dance the day away!

It has been a pleasure to teach you all this year and I wish you all the best of luck for Primary 3. Stay safe and have a fantastic summer everyone! I cannot wait to see you all again in August!

Miss Borsbey x

Good Morning Everyone!

Happy Thursday boys and girls, today is my last day posting on the blog for you. I’m feeling so so sad that I can’t see you all in person and have an amazing end of term celebration with you all in our classroom together. I am going to miss you all next year and hope to see you all around the school and hopefully hear a about the amazing things you will be achieving with your new teacher. I wish you all the best of luck and please know that I have had the best year working alongside you all and helping you to learn, grow and be the best you can be. You are all superstars!! Have an amazing summer holiday, keep safe and healthy and most importantly have lots and lots and lots of fun.

So to finish off our last day (blog) together let’s have fun on day 5 of our virtual trip to Disneyland. I don’t know about you but this has really made me want to visit Disney with Noah at some point! The rides all look amazing.

Disney Day 5!

IDL

Look at this picture from the movie ‘Moana’.

Only 1 in 1000 turtles live to be adults, they need our help!

Can you help the baby turtle to get to the sea by pointing out all of the obstacles.

What do humans need to do when they are on the beach to keep turtles safe? I love going to the beach but am sometimes saddened by all the things which can spoil such a beautiful place. How can we keep our beaches a wonderful place to visit for not only us as humans but for all the wildlife too?

Can you make a leaflet or poster to tell beach-goers how they can protect the environment?

Learning Intention: I am learning to care for the planet and its animals.

Success Criteria:

• I can identify risks to the turtles.
• I can explain what we can do to look after the turtles/planet.
• I can present my ideas clearly through a recording or poster/leaflet.

Reading

Watch the clip from ‘Moana’ and answer the questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGqBfyQFG_g

What did Moana find on the beach?

Where did the turtle go?

Why did Moana want to go back to the beach?

P1: Make sure you write your answers in sentences. You could think of a question to ask somebody else, to check that they were watching carefully! Can you remember what a question word is? Share them with your adult.

Learning Intention: I am learning to answer questions about what I have seen/heard.

Success Criteria:

• I can watch and think carefully about what is happening in the clip.
• I can answer questions about what I have seen. 

P2/1 challenge – create your own questions about the video and challenge your adult to answer them. Write them out and don’t forget to use a question mark at the end.

Writing

Enjoy the Toy Story ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqkZbkZ6gg

The Toy Story characters are all very good friends. Can you write a letter to one of your friends? You might want to tell them a piece of news, or what you enjoy doing with them. Do you have a special memory that you share with them from this year in school?

Learning Intention: I am learning to write a letter.

Success Criteria:

P1: I can use “to” and “from”. I can sound out words. I can draw a detailed picture. 

P2: I can write in sentences. I can use “to” and “from”.

Health and Wellbeing

Watch the video of the parade. Can you join in with any of the dancing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR-KP8KH1Ng

https://youtu.be/rR-KP8KH1Ng

Why not have a go at making up your own dance. Choose your most favourite song and try out some dance moves! Have fun!

Learning Intention: I am learning to follow movements that I see.

Success Criteria:

• I can follow movements.
• I can create my own dance.

Finally to finish off our virtual trip, create your own souvenir photo using the templates below.

I hope you have enjoyed these type of posts for the last 2 weeks of term and been able to use some of the skills we have been learning and practising throughout the year. Mrs Lockhart will be posting tomorrow for the last day before the holidays, as I’ve already said, enjoy your summer and have lots of fun before starting back to school in August.

Mrs Stevenson xx

 

Good morning Primary 2! I hope you are all having a great week! We are almost at the end of term, and I am so proud of how well you have all done during these strange times. Here are some activities for your second last day in P2!

End of the year questions

Here are today’s questions for reflection!

1. What is something that you did this year that you will remember for the rest of your life?
2. What are you looking forward to doing over the summer?

Numeracy

Here is another fun game for the day! This game is called ‘Salute’ and is very similar to the game ‘heads up’.

What you will need:

1. Two people
2. Cards numbered 1-10 (or larger numbers for a challenge). These can be made from pieces of paper or post-it notes

How to play:

1. Player 1 should stick a number card to Player 2’s head (Player 2 shouldn’t see the card)
2. Player 1 should give Player 2 clues so they can guess the number (e.g. your number is double 7)
3. Once the number has been guessed correctly, swap roles and play the game again.

To make the game harder, increase the value of the numbers and use word problems as clues.

Get moving

Let’s get up and moving with Jack Hartmann! See if you can get everyone in your house to join in!

Memories

I would like you to use the template below to draw 4 things that you remember from this year. You can either print this template or draw it on a piece of paper. Once you have drawn your memories, I would like you to write at least 2 sentences about each one to describe it. Send your completed memory sheet to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk so I can see your highlights of the year!

Have a super day everyone!