Category Archives: Winter Ready P2

Forget The Beast from the East. Ice Art from Harbin Anyone?

CREATIVITY IN THE SNOW ANYONE?

Have a go at making an igloo? With help from adults you can make snow bricks and a great den. How will you decorate the interior?

The Scandinavians have long dark winters but try to create warmth with candles, blankets etc What is Danish hygge?

Check out images of Harbin in China and their amazing snow and ice sculpture event for 3-D ideas.

Go to new places to enjoy the snow and the views. Take some pictures of wintry trees and then use these as an art inspiration. Victoria Crowe is an artist who has done just that. Google her.

What can you make with icicles? What can you make with powdery snow or another kind of snow.

Il neige. It is snowing in French. How many other languages can you say that in? The winner wins an ice-cream. Try making a fun-flavoured ice-cream outside!

If you can get on skis and sledges and swish through The White Stuff!

 

P2 Winter Ready Activities

Good Morning Primary 2

I hope you are all having lots of fun in the snow with your friends and family.  Here are some activities for you to try today.

Literacy

  • Write a story about your adventures in the snow. Illustrate your story with some pictures, or take some photos.
  • Can you invent a fantastic new machine to clear all the snow away now? What does it look like? How does it work? What special features does it have? Draw a detailed picture and label it neatly and accurately.
  • Read your favourite story. Draw and describe the main character, or even make a puppet of the character using an old sock, or a wooden spoon or a .  .  .
  • Why not visit the World Book Day website and watch the Biggest Book Show On Earth (Illustrator Extravaganza)

http://www.worldbookday.com/biggest-book-show/

http://www.worldbookday.com/

  • Or perhaps you would enjoy a Reading Challenge?

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Maths and Numeracy

  • Play a number game such as Guess My Number e.g. my number is an odd number, it is a teen number, it is more than/less than etc.
  • Go on a 2D and 3D shape hunt around the house and see how many of each shape you can find. Can you make some 3D shapes from snow?
  • Play a game like Snakes & Ladders, Dominoes or Ludo
  • Log in to Sumdog and take part in our Primary 2 Snow Day Competition

 

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This week we started to look at life in Roman times.

Use your research skills to find out more about Roman homes. What materials were used to build houses? How were the walls and floors decorated? Were the homes heated?

Next week we will be investigating the clothes they wore and the food they ate. Perhaps you can find something out and be ready to share it with the class.

Winter Ready Homework: Primary 2 and Primary 3

Please find attached the P2 and P3 Burns Poems for our Annual Burns Competition. The pupils can select one of the poems for the competition. As part of their reading homework this week the pupils should learn as much of the poem that is appropriate for them (they do not need to read the whole poem). They should be able to read the poem without using the sheet and use expression. We will hold a mini Burns Competition in class on Friday 13th January. The winning pupils from both P2 and P3 classes will go through to the school Burns Competition on 20th January and their parents will be invited along.

As part of our Winter Ready preparation to show that you can access our blog, can you please leave a comment below to say which poem your child is learning.

Good luck!

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P2 Winter Ready Activity Mr Nelson’s Class

P2 Winter Ready Activity

Log into your Purple Mash account (remember your username and passwords are in your homework jotters). Click on the Home tab, then select the ‘My 2dos’ tab. Please play the ‘Bubble Bond’ game. Start at challenge A….how far can you go?

Please leave us a comment  on the blog to let us know how you got on. :)

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/midcalder-EH53

P3/2 and P3 Homework ….It’s Purple Mash Time!

On Monday 11th January, log into your Purple Mash account (remember your username and passwords are in your homework jotters). Click on the Home tab, then select the ‘My 2dos’ tab. Please play the ‘Bubble Bond’ game. Start at challenge A….how far can you go?

Please leave us a comment  on the blog to let us know how you got on. 🙂

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/midcalder-EH53