Author: wlanna.prince@glow

Another busy week in P2A, we are setting a super example to the new Primary 1 children by behaving sensibly and we’ve earned lots of pegs for walking quietly around school. We are also getting quicker at our morning and end of the day routines.

On Monday our lovely P6 Pals came to see us. They helped us to practise logging onto the laptops. Some of us had time to play on this fun game called Build Your wild Self, this is a fun one to play about on at home:

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

In Maths this week we have been learning how to find numbers before, after and in between. We used a 100 square to help us. We enjoyed playing this game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

In Literacy we were working in our phonics groups; these groups are very flexible and mean that we are working on the digraphs we need to revise. We are focusing on saying sounds and using sounds in words. We practised writing our sounds in lots of different ways:

During IDL we learnt more about animals that hibernate – we know that hedgehogs, dormice and bats hibernate. We also learnt what animals do to survive hibernation – you could ask us about this at home.

This week we have been listening to stories by Beatrix Potter. We loved the story about Squirrel Nutkin!

We loved it so much that we decided that we would like to make squirrels in art. We learnt how to create texture by layering different materials. Miss Prince was very impressed with how well we worked with our partner to create a squirrel’s tail.

In PE we learnt some yoga poses and practised breathing deeply. We demonstrated resilience when we were learning the tree balance – it was tricky!

Here are some photos of our free play fun:

Looking forward to meeting you all at Meet the Teacher on Tuesday evening.

Have a great weekend!

Love P2A, Squirrel Nutkin and Miss Prince x

Hello and welcome to our first blog post of the school year! We’ve had a fantastic week getting to know Miss Prince and exploring our new classroom. Miss Prince is very impressed with how well we have settled in. We have done lots of work on our school values and we have received lots of dojo points for displaying our values in the classroom. Here are the actions (just in case the adults need a refresher!)

We have started reading ‘The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me’ by Roald Dahl, we are especially enjoying singing the rhymes and songs in the story. Here are the words to the window cleaners song if you would like to practise at home:

We will polish your glass

Till it’s shining like brass

And it sparkles like sun on the sea

We are quick and polite 

We will come day or night

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me!

Here are some pictures of what we’ve been up to in our new classroom:

On Monday we will get our new reading books. Please don’t hesitate to send me a dojo if you have any questions.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Love P2A and Miss Prince x

This week we have recorded what we have been up to every day in a diary. Here are some of our diary entries:

Monday:

This morning I did crocodile Cosmic Yoga and golf. At break time I had popcorn and a peach. I liked the popcorn because it was sweet and salted. The golf was hard because I kept missing the ball! In the afternoon we played toilet tig, I picked the game. On the computer I played a game called the healthy lunchbox game, it was very fun!

by IB.

Tuesday:

Today I did GoNoodle, hospital tig, terminator tig, football, yoga and the mile. I loved it! I want to do it all again!

by DG

Wednesday:

Today it was sports day and I hurt my eye on  a tennis ball. It was very stingy but I still did the races and I WON the running race! It felt amazing. Then we did the bean bag race and I came third.

by EH

Thursday:

Today we did yoga and the theme was Minecraft. We also did Springfield’s Got Talent. Me and Isabel did gymnastics, we got 12 points and the winners got 13 points. After that we made smoothies, they were yummy!

by LL

I am extremely proud of every single member of P2/3 this week; they have shown enthusiasm for all the new experiences on offer. Super to see so many confident performers in our talent show auditions too. Congratulations to EF, EH and OM who are going through to represent us in the Springfield’s Got Talent show!

Thank you for taking the time to read our blog,

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

Miss Prince is delighted with our Literacy learning this week. We have been learning how to use speech bubbles and some of us have even been writing speech into a sentence using speech marks. We know how to form speech marks correctly (remembering 66 and 99), we know to put speech marks around what the character is saying and to finish the sentence by saying who has spoken. As we love a challenge in P2/3, some of us even had a go at using words instead of ‘said’. Here is a selection of our fantastic work:

In Maths we have been continuing with our work on length. We made sensible estimations and accurate measurements of our hand span and foot length. We enjoyed problem solving, such as finding out the length all the way around our foot using a piece of string.

On Wednesday we had a drama filled IDL afternoon, taking on the role of an animal and acting out scenes from The Messy Magpie story. We had some special visitors who were very impressed with how we used our voices and bodies to become the character.

In Art we studied the environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy. We worked in teams and used natural resources to create our own natural art:

Thank you for reading our blog, have a lovely weekend!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

We rounded off our class talks this week with talks on everyone from Tim Peake to Gene Simmons! The standard has been so high, every child spoke confidently, made eye contact with the audience and showed great enthusiasm for their chosen hero. A big well done to all!

In Maths this week we started work on measure, focusing on length. We began by comparing the length of natural resources outside. Then we went on to measure with a metre stick and ruler. We found estimating tricky but we showed resilience and kept on trying. Some of us had a go at converting between cm and mm.

In Literacy we have been working on magic e and past tense verbs. We can identify verbs in a sentence and change a present tense verb to a past tense verb. For example; I am riding my bike. I rode my bike.

In Science we began work on  the senses. This week we learnt about taste, we learnt about the parts of the mouth we use to taste. We enjoyed tasting a variety of flavours…some more than others!

During our laptop time we worked on our typing skills. We played on Dance Mat Typing. The class really enjoyed this and whizzed through level one. This is a great free resource you can play at home too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

We have brought back the Daily Mile this term, running for an increased amount of time each day. Next week we will be working towards running for a full 15 minutes without stopping! We are learning to pace ourselves, not doing the ‘caveman’ run (the children will explain!) In Futsal we worked on our shooting skills. We are getting better at controlling the ball.

This week we have had the pleasure of having Peggy Bear. We won Peggy Bear by walking quietly around school.

Thank you for reading our blog, have a great weekend!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

After all the excitement of our class assembly last week we have had a calm and settled week in P2/3.

We decided to recycle our Blue Attenborough boat and create a boat trip role play area, we have a ticket office where you can buy your boat tickets, and a desert island to land on!

In Maths we have been using our knowledge of the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables to solve word problems. We are  very good at taking our time to read the questions and try out different strategies. We are resilient! We love playing buzz to practise our time tables.

In handwriting this term we are learning how to do joined up writing. We absolutely love the challenge of learning a new join and trying it out in our sentence writing.

Our IDL this term is Making Our Community Greener. We already have prior knowledge of the devastating effect plastic is having on the oceans, now we are going to dig deeper and look at how we can reduce, reuse, recycle in Linlithgow. Fun fact, did you know it can take up to 5 years for a banana skin to decompose?!

Class talk information sheets were handed out yesterday, every child has been given a date for their class talk, any questions drop me a dojo.

Have a great long weekend,

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x