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Learning in P2/1

P2/1 had a really great time in their Judo taster session last week. Everyone was tired out at the end of it! The pupils enjoyed working together.


We were very excited to share our learning about Scotland with our parents and carers this week. We showed our jotter work, built Scottish castles, designed a Nessie and created tartans. We thought the tasting table with the shortbread and oatcakes was the most popular activity!

Yesterday was World Book Day. We could come to school dressed as a character from a book. We liked sharing our favourite stories with our classmates. We made our own mini books and could say that a front cover needs a title, the name of the author and the name of the illustrator. Some of us copied our favourite book.

Learning in P2/1

Last week was story-telling week and we had great fun listening to stories in our class library. We scanned QR codes to watch our choice of story on the iPads.

We’ve been learning about Scotland and used our problem solving and teamwork skills to design a Scottish castle. We had a choice of junk modelling with boxes, iPads or Lego. We presented our designs to the class. One our castles even had a hot tub!

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with parents/carers on 2nd March.

RRS Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.

Learning inP2/1

This week has been Scots Week at East Calder. P2/1 have enjoyed listening to stories about Katie Morag. We were really surprised and excited to receive a letter from her! She was asking us to design a new tartan skirt. Her one had been ruined when she was trying to deliver the mail. We used our fine motor skills to use a ruler and created these fantastic tartans.
In music we’ve been learning to keep a steady beat by clapping and dancing along to Scottish music. This is our favourite song:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/katie-bairdie-audio

We did a brilliant job of reciting our poems in Scots and are really looking forward to hearing all the winners at our Scots school assembly next Friday.

(Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.)

 

Learning in P2/1

We have been learning about money and have had a great time playing in our class shop. We are beginning to recognise different coins and starting to add coins together. We also love to play the ‘topmarks toy shop’ game in the iPads.

 We have been extending our vocabulary during our learning about the weather. We learned the words ‘condensation’, ‘evaporation’ and ‘precipitation’. We played one of our favourite games in class (corners) to help us remember the different words.

 

Book Week in P2/1

P2/1 have had a super Book Week. We’ve really enjoyed receiving our Bookbug bags (in P1) and our Read Write and Count bags (in P2). We were excited to have our parents and carers join us the school library! We loved hearing Mrs Robertson read us a story (and we also loved the juice and biscuits).
‘Scaredy Bat’ by Jonathan Meres inspired us to make our own bats. We like how they hang upside down on our washing line.

‘The Perfect Fit’ by Naomi Jones has lots of  different 2d shapes. We made 2d shape pictures with our partners.


We had lots of fun meeting our ‘secret readers’! Thank you so much to the parents who came into our class and read to us. We loved listening to some of our favourite stories and some new ones too.

Learning in P2/1

We have been learning about our bodies. We have been taking part in experiments to learn how we use our senses.

We did a ‘smell test’ to see if we could tell what was in the cup.
‘My favourite was the hot chocolate because it reminds me of the hot chocolate I get at home. My Mum makes it with marshmallows’. Belle


P1 created these super glasses when learning about the sense of sight, and P2  labelled the parts of an eye.

We had fun learning about the brain, lungs and heart. We placed the organs in the correct places on our body outline.

We’re really looking forward to presenting our learning at our assembly this week.

Learning in P2/1

This week has been maths week.

P2/1 were lucky to have three visitors!
Abby’s Mum is the owner of Abby J cakes and she told us how she uses maths in her job.
We had great fun learning about using money to buy the ingredients to make a cake, counting the ingredients into the bowl, turning the oven on, and lastly, making sure we shared the cake equally with all our friends! We came up with some fantastic flavours too!


Nola’s Mum worked as an environmental scientist. She told us all about ‘data’ and the numbers she looked at to make sure the water was clean. We loved her diagram to show how it worked and used our mental maths to see if our water would pass the test! If our number was too big, then the water wasn’t clean enough. We had good fun playing the game.

Norma visited us from the library. She told us how she used numbers in her work-spending money for the library and telling the time. We loved the story she read to us too.

We have had lots of fun learning maths outside. We learned about counting items and showing the numbers in different ways. Our favourite was the maths trail. We worked with partners to find the clues.

 

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