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Home Learning in P2M

Hello everyone,

I hope you and your families are well and have enjoyed taking part in some of the Health Week activities this week. Well done if you have taken part in the virtual Sports Day and earned points for your house. Thank you for all the home learning you have sent this week. It is lovely to see so many people working so hard during lockdown. You should all be so proud of yourselves! I am very proud of you. Here are some more examples of your fantastic home learning.

You used numbers on your magnetic easel to calculate how many days you have left until Primary 3. This is fantastic addition and subtraction Phoebe. Well done for choosing a creative way to practise Numeracy.

A few weeks ago, you used your toys to create your own enchanted woodland. This is so creative and looked like you had lots of fun. Well done!

After watching a “Let’s Go Live” episode with Maddie Moate and Greg Foote, you used your learning to create your own volcano model. This looks amazing and I can see you worked very hard on it. You look so proud of yourself and you should be. Well done!

A few weeks ago, you created this lovely poster to show your support for our fantastic NHS. I hope you displayed this proudly because you did a great job. Well done!

Keep sending me examples of your learning Primary 2. I really enjoy seeing all your learning and the interesting things you have been doing at home. Thank you to everyone who has been sending home learning so far. Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Marra

P2M Home Learning

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you have all had a good week and have been enjoying the lovely weather. Thank you so much for all the home learning you have sent me again this week. I always enjoy having a look at all your hard work and effort. Here are a few examples of some more of your amazing learning.

You have been working hard to practise telling the time. It looks like you have been enjoying the nice weather too which is fantastic. Well done!

You have been looking after butterflies since they were baby caterpillars and you released them this week. This is a lovely project Farah and I am sure you managed to learn so much. Well done!

Please keep sending your home learning by emailing the school office. I will be able to reply to you and you might see your hard work feature on the blog. Stay safe everyone and have a great weekend!

Brilliant Home Learning in P2M

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you and your families have had a great week and have enjoyed the nice weather. Thank you again for the home learning that has been sent this week. Here are some more examples of the hard work you have all been doing at home.

Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.

Your artwork you have been working on in your garden is fantastic Marcie. Well done for all your hard work!

You have been working hard to practise telling the time using o’clock, half past and quarter past. Well done Toby! Look at all this hard work!

You have been watching “Let’s Go Live” with Maddie and Greg. You have learned some interesting facts about dinosaurs. Well done for all your hard work Luca!

You have been working hard reading the Collins Big Cat Literacy books. Jess the cat looks like she enjoyed reading about the Titanic too. Well done for all your hard work!

Well done everyone! Have a lovely weekend.

From Miss Marra

P2 Home Learning Grid

Good morning everyone! We hope you had a lovely long weekend and had lots of fun at home. Here is our home learning grid for this week. Please see the attached activities including new Spelling words for each group. You have magic e or CVC words.

You will find that the name of each group in P2M and P2W are included; for example, Crocodiles in P2W and Lions in P2M have the same words. When we teach magic e we explain to the children that the “e” at the end of the word makes the vowel in the word say its name.

There are also a few pencil activities attached for your child to work on if they wish. If you have any questions or queries, feel free to email via the school office. Apologies for the slight delay this morning. The blog decided it was going to be very slow when uploading all the documents.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Marra and Miss Walkingshaw

Grid 8

Spelling Words

Lions Rainbow Writing

Giraffes Rainbow Writing

Zebras Rainbow Writing

Elephants Rainbow Writing

Quarter past and Quarter to Analogue

Quarter Past Digital

Quarter to Digital

Fantastic Home Learning in P2M

You have been so creative making your own puppet theatre, Isla-Mae. It looks amazing and I am sure your baby brother loves your puppet shows. Well done!

This is a great idea for a “vegetable hero” Callan. Supper effort with your capital letters and full stops too. Well done!

You have worked so hard to make your own 10 square Finlay. Now you can practise counting on and back to add and subtract numbers up to 100. Well done for this amazing effort!

You have been growing your own rainbow vegetables that you got as a gift for your birthday. You love Science and it is great to see you are enjoying learning more about the world at home. I can’t wait to see how these look soon. Well done for all your hard work!

Have a lovely weekend everyone. Your fantastic learning might appear on the blog next week. Stay safe and have fun!

Miss Marra

Fantastic Home Learning in P2M

Good morning everyone:)

Thank you so much for all the amazing learning you have been sending me. You have all been working so hard and I am very impressed with all your efforts. Well done everyone! Here are a few more examples of the fantastic learning that has been going on during lockdown. Stay tuned for more learning on the blog at the end of the week.

Stay safe and have a great week:)

You worked so hard making this board for Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday. You should be very proud of all your hard work. Well done!

You worked really hard to make cakes for your family. They look delicious and you look so proud of yourself. Well done!

You worked so hard to practise multiplication Phoebe. Well done!

You did a great job creating your own picture of a badger for Topic. I can see you have put so much effort into this Paul. Well done!

P2 Home Learning Grid

Good morning everyone!

We hope you had a lovely long weekend and had lots of fun!

Here is your home learning grid for this week. As this week is a short week, there are less tasks to complete. You will also notice one of your Literacy tasks is to access the Collins Big Cat ebooks. Please see the additional attached document with more information. You will also find the username and password in this document:)

Here are the Collins levels for each group across both classes. These are just the starting levels and could change as you progress through the books.

P2M

Lions – Gold

Giraffes – Orange

Zebras – Yellow

Elephants – Pink/Red

P2W

Crocodiles – Gold

Zebras – Orange

Giraffes – Green

Koalas – Pink/Red

Grid 5 Final

Collins Big Cat Reading blog

Have fun and we look forward to seeing some of your amazing learning this week!

From Miss Walkingshaw and Miss Marra

P2M Learning Update

We have been so busy with all our learning in Primary 2M! We have decided to blog more often so we can share all our hard work with everyone. We would also like to blog with Miss Marra so we can share how we feel about our learning.

In Literacy, we have been working hard to learn our sounds. These are the sounds we have recently been learning: au, aw, ew, nk, ng, st, ft and mp. This week, we are learning to read and write words ending with rk, nd and lt. Some of us are also learning to sound out and blend CVC words. One of our favourite learning activities in Literacy is Hangman on a white board. We enjoy learning to recognise the sounds in our words with a partner. We are also enjoying our target task because we can challenge ourselves and learn to complete a pencil activity independently.

Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.

One of our highlights of the term so far is our Topic on The Romans. We have already learned so much about Gladiator battles, Roman soldiers and life as a Roman child. One of our favourite learning activities was using paper to make a Roman fort and a Colosseum. We also learned about the toys Roman children used to play with and we found it very interesting that they often made their own toys. We worked independently or with a partner to make our own Roman toys. We made toys including figures, dolls, kites, swords, shields and toy cars.

Roman children played with many toys that we enjoy playing with. However, we were shocked to learn that Roman children were not taught about gender equality. Girls were encouraged to play with dolls and boys were encouraged to play with swords and shields to practise for future battle. We know girls and boys can play with the same toys, do the same jobs and be anything we want to be. This helped us to understand more about how different life was in Roman times. We are looking forward to learning more.

Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.

Roman Creations in P2W

Today we had been learning even more information about the Romans. This afternoon we were lucky enough to learn about the Colosseum and had a chance to create our own.

We were set a task to create our own Colosseum using only one material from the list below: