We had a great time at our class Christmas Party.
At the Deans Got Talent competition today, one of our singing and dancing entries won 2nd place – well done everyone for taking part.
We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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 🙂
This week I loved/ enjoyed…
SC- doing Christmas quiz against Mrs. Durano.
CM- we got to wear our jammies.
LJ- we got to play party games like paper dance.
SW-Â in pantomime, Aladdin kept sneaking up at his mum.
SA- we did Deans Got Talent and we got through to the Finals!!!!
AS- I’m happy cause I won the star award this week.
Monday 13th
Maths: we went back to look at measure, comparing centimetres and meters, and using these skills on classroom objects.
Personal projects: we started researching these by reading about them on the internet, books and making notes. SD, SU, AS, EY, MaD, CB, ShP, SS, KH, EC, SJR, JH and AD are all very excited about these.
STEM: for today’s challenge the class went outside to find maths in nature. We were able to identify symmetry in leaves, tessellation in tree bark and Fibonacci sequences, and spirals, in the pollen of a daisy, a pine cone and a snail’s shell.
Tuesday 14th
Maths: continue work on measure, measuring each other’s heights accurately, ensuring the meter rules were the right way round. One group continued work on converting meters to centimetres while another group worked on fractions. KM and SU exceeded in the conversion of decimals. SJR did exceptionally well with her fractions.
Personal Projects: we continued our background reading and research and worked on our note taking. EY excelled in this activity today.
STEM: our project for today was “Dancing Salt”. We used sound vibrations to make it dance. The louder the sound the more it danced.
Wednesday 15th
Maths: continuing work on measure, including estimating and decimals. MM and SU were very accurate in their estimations.
Literacy: we have been reviewing the spelling we have done so far this year.
History: the whole class are really into history, so we made a timeline of all the historical events that we could think of and discussed these. From these we identified what topics the class had already done and the next one they want to do: Tudors.
Silent disco: GREAT FUN!!!!
Thursday 16th
Maths: continuing work on measure and decimals, the class found the work that we have done so far very supportive and were able to complete today’s activity much more easily. SD completed the activity especially quickly. One group continued their work on fractions, looking at equivalent fractions
Literacy/History: lead by the class’s new found interest in history they were provided with sets history reference books that split history into nine different periods. They loved reading these and sharing the facts they learned with each other. They also re-enforced their learning from Wednesday of a history timeline by putting the sets in chronological order.
STEM: the whole class really bought into today’s activity which was to make igloos out of marshmallows.
Friday 17th
Pyjama day!
PE: mat work
Maths: practiced instant recall of addition, including decimals
Literacy: ensured that the Mr Topley publisher documents were “bumped up” and ready to print for display.
Spent time looking at the learning intentions for all the individual pieces of work on display.
Welcome to this weeks blog. The Deans Decision Makers have been busy creating STEM challenges for our school advent calendar. The first challenge was to go on a nature walk and look for patterns in the environment. The children took lots of pictures and identified lines of symmetry in a number of objects. On Tuesday, our challenge was titled “Dancing Salt” (sound waves and vibrations). We had to place clingfilm tightly over a bowl then put salt in the middle and place the speaker in different position around the bowl and watch the sound waves create vibrations. We discovered that salt was too light and rice was a good alternative.
On Wednesday the children had to make an igloo using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. This was tricky but as they worked together they managed to create small igloos. Some managed to make a roof and opening for a door.
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On Thursday the challenge was to use marshmallows and spaghetti to build and measure a tower.
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It got a bit tricky so the children made snowmen instead. It is nearly Christmas after all.
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Lots of good discussion, problem solving and fun had by all!
This week we read a beautiful book called Little Robin Red Vest. It is the story of a kind little bird who gives away his 7 vests to his friends who need them. On Christmas Eve he was cold and alone but Santa had been watching him and rescued him. Mrs Claus knits him a very special red vest and this is how the robin got his red breast. The children have drew robins for our winter display and designed vests. A lovely story well worth reading.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend . Not long to go now!
As part of the STEM challenge, we were learning about Fibonacci number sequences. 0, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55 ……. We have been outside looking for patterns in the natural environment. We found spirals in the bases of fir cones.
We made some lovely Christmas cards.
We were very excited to have our Digital Day! We experienced lots of digital activities all day – ‘it was amazing’!
Please follow us on twitter @MrsBuntinICT to see more of our digital learning.
Silent Disco
We had a great time during our silent disco.
Christmas Lunch
Emily – It was cool.
We got to wear our Christmas jumpers.
Miss Stanway – The macaroni cheese was delicious.
We have also been working hard too!
STEM Challenges
All week we have been completing STEM activities.
K-I liked building an igloo with marshmallows and cocktail sticks.
Art/Craft
We made a Christmas card based on a picture of the Grinch.
Debbie – I liked using the pastels.
Emily – I gave mine to someone in P7 and she said it was really cool.
Hope – Making the Christmas cards was fun.
RME
After watching the younger children perform their nativity (which was a recording) we chose to either draw a picture of the nativity scene or research Christmas traditions from around the world.
Bailey – I enjoyed the drawing.
Health
Debbie – I liked researching about Paralympians
Cameron – My Paralympian has 37 medals altogether. They are a swimmer.
Hope – We learnt they are proud, hard-working and resilient.
Emily – We researched Sam Kinghorn who was paralyzed at the age of 14 in an accident. She is a racer.
Rugby
Hope – We practised passing and this week learnt that you had to pass to the side or backwards.
Literacy
We have continued to read our group novels and practised our reciprocal reading strategies.
We had an interesting STEM challenge to complete on Wednesday. We had to design and build an igloo using only marshmallows and cocktail sticks!
There was a lot of discussion and planning to begin with. We looked at igloo images to inspire us. Then the building began……..
We had mixed results!
Good effort all round P.5!
This week in Numeracy we have been doing some Christmas Numeracy which has helped us to recap and reinforce our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills.
In Literacy we have been continuing our class novel ‘The Christmasaurus and The Winter Witch’. We are really enjoying this. Here are some of our thoughts so far:
Ciaran – It’s very exciting to listen to the second book!
Kayleigh – It’s really exciting because I like how the Christmasaurus helps Santa.
Jessica – It is fun to listen to Mrs Hillan reading the book because when she stops it is good to think of what will happen next.
Lewis D – I liked it when we met a new person called Sub-Zero!
Ariah – I like that we have read the first book and now we are getting to read the second book.
In Writing we have written some Christmas/Winter related narrative stories. Some of these are below for you to enjoy!
We also watched a Pantomime, which was Aladdin. Here is what we thought of it:
Chloe – It was funny when the boy dressed up as a girl.
Lewis R – It was a little bit funny because the girl was dressed as Aladdin.
Erin P – It was funny because whenever the mum came in, Aladdin went behind her doing silly things.
Gracie – It was funny because Aladdin was doing Tik Tok dances and the mum tried it but kept on failing.
We have also taken part in some STEM activities too. We worked alongside Mrs Hillan to create a snowstorm in a jar. This is what we had to do:
Mrs Hillan has said we will hopefully have a chance to do this individually/in pairs after the holidays when more people have brought in jars/bottles.
Sophie G – I think it was so cool that it looked like there was a snowstorm!
Rihanna – I think it was really fun to watch and to see the paint etc go up and mix.
Holly – It was really cool – it looked really cool in the jar.
We also completed a ‘Dancing Salt’ activity where we looked at the effect of vibrations created by soundwaves on salt which was sitting on clingfilm on the top of a bowl and then placed next to a speaker. We also tried this with sugar and rice.
Kayleigh – I thought it was really cool how the salt moved when the speaker was near playing music.
Jessica – It was cool to watch it dance.
Erin R – It was interesting how the rice didn’t dance like the others. This was because it was heavier than the others and more difficult for it to dance.
We also had our Silent Disco which was great fun!! Mrs Hillan was impressed with our dance moves!!!
It has been a fun week of learning this week!
Literacy
In literacy, we continued to develop our skimming and scanning skills when answering questions about the text. We are learning to write our answers in full sentences.
In writing, we had to persuade the reader that Christmas is the best! As a class, we brainstormed our arguments. Then, we had to use the correct structure of persuasive writing and add in bossy, powerful language to make the reader to believe our arguments.
Maths
This week, we continued to develop our addition skills. We developed our skills of using the column addition strategy. We were also learning to regroup.
IDL
We have been enjoying being on the stage to practice our nativity. We cannot wait to film it.
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