Author: Mrs Dick

Happy World Book Day everyone!

We had a great time in class during World Book Day making book marks and drawing our favourite characters.  We even got to choose some new books for our class.

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This is one of our new books.

We made bunting out of our drawings of our favourite books/characters.

In numeracy we have been learning about estimating numbers on a number line.  Try out this online game using the link. Try estimating within 0 – 10 to start with and then increase this to 100 if you feel confident.  Have fun.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing-numbers-on-a-number-line

In Literacy we have started using a new writing resource called PM writing.  This is going to help us learn how to complete functional pieces of writing.  This week we are focusing on a recount.  We have already learned about the structure of a recount; title, orientation, sequence of events and personal comment.  Next week we are going to be writing our own recount of what we do in the morning before we come to school.

For science we have explored our senses and had great fun completing a range of activities prepared for us by Mrs Lauder.  The taste test was interesting as we had to first taste with our noses pinched and then taste again with out it pinched…what a difference it made!  The feeling/touch test really made us think how much we rely on this sense because we firstly had to feel in the box wearing a rubber glove and then do it again without a glove!  Fabulous learning through discovery.

Have a lovely week.

Mrs Currie

This week P2 have been amazing scientists.  They have been learning about GERMS.  They completed an investigation in how germs can be spread.  Christopher was our willing volunteer to be infected (hand gel and glitter mixture) on his hand and then he had to shake hands with someone in class.  We observed how the germs spread from one person to another.  We discussed how to sneeze hygienically, into a tissue or into the inside of our elbow.  We also talked about good hand washing.  We then became GERM BUSTERS and wrote some rules on how to reduce the spread of germs.  Super learning!

In numeracy we continued to look at fractions and we worked on finding half of a given amount.  We used our division (sharing) skills the we learned recently to help us do this.

In literacy we have been using ‘peer assessment’ in our reading, we have been listening to each other and giving positive feedback.  The children have also been using the traffic light system to self-assess their own performance in reading, they have been using the traffic light stamper in their green diary.

For Number Talks we have been using Maths Splats to discuss and share our strategies.  This involves counting a number of dots in a random pattern (when counting we look for dice patterns and we use a variety of strategies such as counting in 2s) and then a number of the dots get covered by a splat.  We have to work out how many are under the splat and explain how we worked it out.  Have a go at this one.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

We have finished our week with a real treat, we watched the dress rehearsal of the P3-5 school show…IT WAS AMAZING!

This week in class we have also been AMAZING learners.

As we had snow last week we wrote about snowflakes this week in our literacy learning, we created our own poems.  To write our poems we learned that we needed to start each new line with a capital letter and how to use a comma at the end of a line.  We also explored as many adjectives as we could to describe snowflakes and we used these throughout our poems.  The results were fabulous!  We wrote our first two stanzas this week and next week we are going to write the next two stanzas, wouldn’t it be great if we could have a little snow to help inspire us…but not too much !

In our numeracy learning we continued to share equally.  However this week sometimes we had one or two left over at the end that we couldn’t share between our groups because it would make our groups unequal!?  We learned that these left over amounts were called remainders.  Try out these calculations and see if there are any remainders,

15 shared equally between 2 groups

19 shared equally between 3 groups

Our historical person that we learned about this week was St John.  We found out that he was alive at the same time as Jesus and that he was one of his Jesus’ Apostles.  Our local hospital is called St John’s Hospital.

Next week we are starting our new Science topic and we will be starting with The Sun as our focus.  Have a think about what you would like to learn about the sun and post your idea as a reply.  I will then add your idea to our Pupil Voice planning sheet in class.

Everyone in class have finished setting themselves learning goals for this term and they have all been uploaded to each child’s OneNote profile.  Log in to have a look at your child’s goal and have a chat with them to help them achieve it.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

It has been a chilly week but P2 have been ‘hot’ with their learning!

One way we have kept our learning warmed up is by doing our counting in 2s exercises.  Use the following link to try it out at home.

Mrs Currie’s favourite move is the “slide”.  Leave a reply to tell me your favourite move.

Also in numeracy this week we have been looking at sharing amounts equally into groups.  This will form part of our home learning next week.  Lots of practical practise using concrete material will really deepen our understanding before we move onto written equations, also putting the problems into context helps us to see the links with real life and how we will be able to use these skills in the future.

For our writing we have been working hard over the last three weeks to create and build an imaginative story. It all started two weeks ago when we invented a character and wrote a character description.  Then the following week we made a plan for our character’s story and wrote a brief beginning, middle and end.  Then this week we tried to up level our plans by adding in more detail such as adjectives and conjunctions to extend our writing.  It was a real challenge but we have all achieved the outcome which was to create an original imaginative story.

Our historical figure that we have learned about this week was James Young.  One of our local high schools is named after him so it was great to find out about why he is so famous and important.  Ask your child to tell you one fact about James Young.

Next week in class we are going to be joined by Mrs Lauder who is a student teacher and she will work with our class for the next five weeks.  We can’t wait to showcase our amazing learning to her.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

P2 have had a busy week, read below to find out all about our learning.

P2 have been continuing to learn how to begin to join their handwriting, if you would like to continue to practise at home please google “Letterjoin” and then login with

USER NAME – ninians

PASSWORD – school

 

For our topic this term we have been learning facts about some famous Scottish people from history.  The people we are finding out about all have links with Livingston (places or buildings named after them).  So far we have learned about Sir Walter Scott; who was a famous Scottish writer, the names of the streets in Dedridge are all taken from people or places in his writings. And we learned about Saint Margaret; one of our local High Schools is named after her, she was a very kind and caring Queen in Scotland.  Look out for our future blog posts where we will share the next historical figures we are learning about.

In numeracy we have discussed the “Commutative Law”, we sometimes call them “switchers “as it is a little easier to say!  This law says that when you add or multiply numbers you get the same the same answer if you swap the numbers round.  For example,

                  3 + 4 = 7                               4 x 2 = 8

                  4 + 3 = 7                               2 x 4 = 8

We have been building and drawing arrays to show this, try drawing an array at home for the following number story,

4 x 3 = 12 = 3 x 4

Just a reminder that our PE days are back to normal next week, Tuesday and Thursday.  Thank you for your cooperation this week with the change of day.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Currie

Happy New Year to everyone.  P2 have been thinking about their hopes for this year and we all spent some time filling in three stars, a hope at school, a hope at home and a hope for the world!  It was a lovely way to start the week.

We also revisited our class charter and reminded ourselves of the three important school rules; READY, RESPECTFUL and SAFE.  We drew new pictures to show these rules in action and these will be displayed over the next week.

P2 have started to look at how to join up our writing we are using the programme Letterjoin to help us.  If you would like to try it at home google Letterjoin and the username is ninians and the password is school.  Happy joining 🙂

In  Numeracy we are looking at groupings and repeated addition to find out how many altogether.  This will lead us into learning about multiplication.  We are also looking at time as a Maths focus.  We will be revising O’Clock and Half Past and then moving onto looking at quarter to and past.

Next week we will start our home learning again so look out for the homework bags and jotter coming home on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

It has been a brilliant year! These are the highlights from the children about their first half of P2;

Oliver – I love everything about P2!

Milena – I really like Science.

Chloe – I think PE is great.

Thea – The best bit about P2 is getting to learn Maths.

Micah – My favourite thing about P2 is Mrs Currie.

Cooper – i like Number Talks.

Amelia – I really like Mrs Currie.

Christopher – I really like PE.

Jack – I like PE too.

Kayla – I like doing writing.

Dani – I like PE.

Evie – I like drawing.

Leon – I love PE.

Victoria – PE is good.

Hanna – Getting prizes.

Eve – I like learning Boost Words.

Jiya – I  like learning about maths.

Hannah – I like learning with my friends.

Yasmin – I like Science.

Riley – I like Fun 31 time.

Abigail – I like writing time.

Alasdair – I like Fun 31.

Ask your child to sing you this festive song that we have learned to sing to the school during our Sing-a-long on Friday.

Have a happy, safe and fun Christmas,

Mrs Currie

It’s behind you! Oh no it’s not, oh yes it is!  We all thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the pantomime on Thursday morning, such good fun and exhausting!

Christmas dinner was also such a special treat on Wednesday, the tables were decorated and we all enjoyed listening to the Festive tunes as we ate.

However the highlight of the week has got to be our Nativity Shows, all the children were brilliant.  The hard work and rehearsals were all worth it as the children all shone like stars on the stage.  They navigated using a microphone, spoke clearly and remembered all the words and actions to the songs.  What a great job everyone.  I have put a Nativity Memory on each of your One Note profiles, log in to see it.

In class this week we have been revising our learning in Numeracy this week.  We helped Teddy get ready for Christmas by counting the candy canes he put on the tree, working out how many presents he opened and making sure he got the correct change from the Christmas Market.  Super work.  Here is one extra challenge for you to try at home, remember to read the question carefully to work out what Number Process you need to use;

Teddy had put 20 Christmas decorations on his tree but 6 fell off how many did he have left on the tree?

We also revised our formation of letters, this is in preparation for after the holiday when we will start to learn how letters join together when writing words.

Get your party clothes ready for next week!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

We cannot believe it, but next week is our dress rehearsal on Thursday for our Nativity show.  If you have not brought in your narrators outfit (Black trousers/leggings and a white top) please have into school in a labelled carrier bag by Wednesday.

This week in class we have focused on the spelling pattern -ck at the end of words.  We noticed that the vowel in the middle of the words were single and short;

chick       flick       sock       clock          crack         black

Next week we will look at what happens if there is a long vowel in the middle of a word with the hard k sound at the end.

In Numeracy we have finished off looking at subtraction and addition.  Next week we will focus on working with money (we might even have to use our adding and subtracting skills to help us use our money too!).  The coins that we are using will be 1p, 2p 5p, 10p and 20p.

Our Christmas Fayre this week was a huge success and the fun does not stop here!  Next week there will be a Christmas game that will coast 50p a go, the children have to choose a box and then a winning box will be drawn and they can win a prize.

In Our Community topic this week we have learned all about Fire Fighters and the important jobs they do in our Community;

Micah – when someone is in a room and there is a fire the fire fighters will come and the people that are stuck will be taken out of the window.

Christopher – when there is a fire they put it out.

Kayla – they take you out of a car if you have crash.

Oliver – to help people or animals when they are stuck up in high places.

It has been wonderful listening to all the book reports this week.  The children have had their feedback put on their one note profile.  Well done everyone.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie