Category: Primary 2/1

Please use the link below to access the Primary 2/1 learning overview for Term 4.

P2&1 Termly Learning Overview – 4

Miss M 🙂

This week, Primary 2/1 celebrated World Book Day!

We explored one of the World Book Day £1 books, ‘Charlie McGrew & the Horse that he Drew’ by Rob Biddulph. The story follows Charlie, a little boy who isn’t able to have his own pet, so draws one instead! The book is interactive and encourages children to add their own drawings – I think it would be a great use of the £1 book token!

In the spirit of the story, we created our own pet horses, some of which you can see below.

Congratulations to Murray, who was awarded his own copy of the story to take home and enjoy!

Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been up to!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂

Many thanks to all of the parents/carers who joined us on Wednesday for our class assembly – I really appreciate you taking the time to come!

Please use the link below to watch the video of our talking self-portraits (they really are fantastic!):

Miss M 🙂

This week, Primary 2/1 were learning about shapes!

We explored examples of solid 3D shapes and discussed how they were different to flat 2D shapes. We were also able to identify real-life objects that were 3D shapes. Primary 1 children learned the correct names for 3D shapes and Primary 2 children were classifying shapes using their own criteria.

We linked our new knowledge of shapes to castle building and recognised that some parts of castles were 3D shapes (e.g. a cylinder as a tower, a cone as a turret roof, a cuboid as a drawbridge). We then worked in teams and used construction blocks to create our own castle models.

Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been learning!

Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂

This week, Primary 2/1 did some topic-based planning!

Miss McLaughlin gave us a set of clues and from these, we had to work out what our new topic theme was. Can you guess?

That’s right – we will be looking at castle life! Using the clues, we came up with an ‘I think…/I know…/I wonder…’ grid to help us shape our topic.

I think…

• Soldiers needed to protect castles.
• Knights needed to protect the king and queen.
• Knights were used to fight dragons.
• Horses were used to help protect the castle.

I know…

• That inside a castle there is a huge hall.
• That I have been to Balmoral Castle.
• That castles were built using stone and wood.

I wonder…

• How castles were built to be secure?
• If stone was used to build castle towers?
• Who lived in a castle?
• Where food came from in castle times?
• If castles were cold?
• How crowns were made and who would wear them?

Check in with us again to see what else we have been learning!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂

 

Please use the link below to access the Primary 2/1 learning overview for Term 3.

P2&1 Termly Learning Overview – 3

Miss M 🙂

This week, Primary 2/1 were learning about symmetry.

On investigation, we learned that symmetry was like a ‘fold’ and that both parts of a shape/pattern/object had to match each other. We also learned that symmetry is an important part of nature as lots of insects have symmetrical bodies/patterns.

We took part in play-based activities linked to symmetry and created our own symmetrical ladybirds.

Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been learning!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂

Just a short message to say ‘thank you’ to all the parents/carers and family members who came to the ‘Wriggly Nativity’ performances on Thursday. We really appreciate you taking the time to come and support us.

We were thrilled with how both performances went – the time and effort that children have put in is really something. It has been one of the best nativities I’ve seen/done in my twelve years!

Thank you again and Merry Christmas when it comes!
Miss M 🙂

This week, Primary 2/1 were writing to persuade.

We have been learning about exposition writing, where we are trying to persuade someone our point of view is right. As we had made/decorated beautiful Christmas biscuits for the Fayre last week, we decided to write in order to persuade people to buy them (many thanks to those of you who purchased biscuits from our stall!).

We also took part in some play-based activities linked to our writing theme:

• we watched/listened to the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’
• we used construction materials to build a trap to catch the Gingerbread Man
• we made our own gingerbread designs using different craft materials.

A reminder that the performances of ‘Wriggly Nativity’ will take place on Thursday 14th December at 9.30am and 2.00pm. We hope to see you there!

Check in with us again soon to see what else we have been up to!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂