With Christmas fast approaching we have been very busy in P2/3 practicing for the nativity. We have been working on our songs and lines and have shown great enthusiasm and confidence when rehearsing. Next week we will begin our Christmas crafts for the Christmas fayre on Friday 7th December. We were very excited coming into school on Friday wearing our Christmas jumpers.

In topic we have been learning about the foods that are produced, made, grown and harvested in Scotland. We have been enjoying learning about where in Scotland they come from and plotting the location on a map. Next we will be comparing the foods made in Scotland with food from other countries like chocolate.

We had lots of fun during French this week playing ”Bonjour Circles”. We listened to some French music as a toy was passed around the circle. When the music stopped the person who had the toy was to welcome the class, introduce themselves and then say goodbye. We were also very lucky to have some French ambassadors who came down from Primary 6 Thursday afternoon to teach us some French vocabulary and play games with us. We have been enjoying this a lot and it helps us to expand our knowledge.

In numeracy we have been learning about the place value of numbers and have been working on partitioning/ splitting a number into units, tens, hundreds and thousands. This helps us to explain the value of digits in a number and will also help us with our addition and subtraction.  We had an opportunity to explore the Dienes materials and played some games as a class to consolidate our learning.

We have been continuing to work on questioning and prediction in reading and are enjoying exploring both fiction and non-fiction books.