Category: Primary 2
P2/1 What a first week!
Welcome to everyone in P2 and P1. It has been an amazing start to the session. The children have all come in and settled well.
This week we have been reading the book A Squash And A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson. We learned that this story actually started off as a song by Julia Donaldson which she then turned into a book. Click this link below to hear the song.
P1 have been learning how to complete their rainbow learning activities during their free play and they have also completed some pencil control activities to help develop their fine motor skills.
P2 have started to revise their letter formation of the letters a, b, c, d and e. We have particularly focused on b and d and the sounds they make and what way they face. We have been using the “bed” strategy to help us with this.
P1 have focused on the formation of writing the number 2. P2 have been writing the numbers 11 – 20.
Super work from everyone!
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Currie
Primary 2 Blog
We have had a super first week in Primary 2.We did a classroom tour and got to catch up after our summer break.
Spanish
Anna – “I enjoyed learning numbers up to 20 in Spanish”
Logan – “I liked Spanish too. There was a funny robot song to help”
Classroom
Lucas – “I liked drawing all the things we wanted on our Class Charter”
Rojin – “I made a bear for the wall that I missed when I was off in June”
Liam – “I like our class bear. He is nice and fluffy and called Mr Hedgehog”
Connor – “I like the walls”
Roma – “We have a ‘Wow Work’ wall”
Paul – “Our classroom looks amazing”
Emilie – “We have a calm corner now in our classroom. I liked putting a worry on paper in the worry monster’s mouth and he ate it up so my worry went away”
Shea- “We have squishy things in the calm corner”
Lucy- “There’s rainbow string to do things with”
Number Talks
Luke – “We started number talks. It was fun when the dots looked like numbers on a dice. Mr Hedgehog watches us do our work”
PE
Freya – “Mr McCurdy won against us in the first round in PE. We won twice after though”
Literacy
Amelia – “I liked the ‘b’ and ‘d’ work. They almost look the same”
Scott – “Practising handwriting was hard at first”
P2/3 Weekly Update
This week our highlights have been sports day, moving up morning and harvesting our crop of potatoes. It was lovely to see so many of our families at sports day when the children worked so well together, displaying lovely sporting manners and team work. We’re all looking forward to the final week of P2/3 – what a fantastic year it has been!
The children would like to share some of their highlights from the week with you:
Casper – I loved taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition.
Mark D. – I loved Free Writing Friday.
Joshua – I liked playing with my friends in the big playground.
Wiktoria – I loved meeting my new teacher on Moving Up morning.
Nathan – I loved making potato soup.
Marcel – I loved meeting my new class.
Abu Bakr – I loved showing our visitors around the school.
Bernice – I loved sports day because I won the race.
Poppy – I liked making potato soup.
Lloyd – I liked digging up our potatoes. I got a big one!
Paul – I liked making my initials with my new teacher.
Seren – I liked making potato soup.
Abigail – I loved listening to the story of the Bolds.
Freda – I loved Free Writing Friday.
Rafay – I loved sports day.
Aiden – I loved using the play room.
Daniel – I liked PE because we played dodgeball.
Blake – I liked grating potatoes to make soup.
Have a lovely weekend.
From Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and P2/3
P2 News
This week we have enjoyed Sports Day and Transition Morning.
It was a pleasure to watch the children during Sports Day, they displayed lovely sporting manners and behaviour. Well done everyone.
For Transition morning the children were given the opportunity to visit their new classroom and meet their new teacher for next session. This is a very important part of the preparation for moving on and allows the children to put into action their resilience learning as they face changes to their routines. The children were all buzzing with excitement when they returned to class.
In class this week;
Numeracy – we have been consolidating our knowledge of missing number calculations as well as working out the answers to word problems.
Literacy – we finished all our class reading books and also looked back at our previous topic of Charlie and Lola stories. We watched a story called “I can do everything absolutely on my own”. In this story Lola thought that she did not need any help to do things but in the end she realised that there are some things (like playing on a seesaw) that you need help with. We all wrote about this story in our writing jotters and linked this learning to our Building Resilience programme of work by discussing how it’s OK to ask for help and how important our Back-up Team is.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Currie
P2 Weekly Round Up
It has been an amazing, fun (and tiring week)! We have been learning all about being healthy and how to have good wellbeing. Read on to find out what we did each day.
Monday – Relax Kids came into school and we learned how to be relaxed and calm by taking part in lots of different games and activities. We also learned all about teeth; molars, incisors and canines.
Tuesday – We started the day with yoga and finished the day with Synergy Fit (this was exhausting!). In class we were learning about God’s Loving Plan for us all; how to show love and to celebrate families.
Wednesday – For Walking Wednesday as a class we went on a long walk all around the school grounds, we went to parts of the playing field many of use have never been to before, everyone was tired after this. In the afternoon we learned some golf techniques and then completed the Tough Mudder course (this was a very wet experience for all but ended up being the highlight of the week for most of the children!).
Thursday – We were thoughtful on Thursday and used our Keep Connected unit from the Building Resilience Pack to help us to develop our Two-Way conversation skills when there is conflict or a difference of opinion. We then learned some Taewkon-do moves, some new dance moves from St Margaret students and finished the day with the amazing Parkour (this was the other favourite activity).
Friday – Today we had Fun Friday, we had our Fun 31 time, assembly and then watched the teacher/pupil Netball and Basketball matches.
I’m sure you’ll agree we have had a very busy week!!
Have a restful weekend.
Mrs Currie
P2/3 Health Week News
Wow! What a super busy week we have had. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan are exhausted never mind the children!
Here are the highlights of health week in P2/3.
Rafay ” Golf was my favourite.”
Aiden ” Tough Mudder was the best.”
Rutendo ” I liked Parkour.”
Blake ” I liked dance with Miss Stryke from St Margaret’s.”
Daniel ” Capture the flag with P 3 was my favourite.”
Paul ” Tough Mudder was the best.”
Mark K ” Taekwondo was my favourite.”
Wiktoria ” Dungeon keep fit was the best.”
Isla ” Parkour was fantastic.”
Seren, Mirren, Oliver ” We liked Parkour the best.”
Poppy ” I loved Tough Mudder because I got all messy and wet!”
Abigail ” I loved everything.”
Freda ” Tough Mudder was my favourite as it was really tough!”
Lloyd ” I loved Parkour because I liked hanging off the really high bars.”
Marcel ” I loved doing Fit and Flex.”
Casper ” I loved capture the flag.”
Mark D ” Tough Mudder was the best.”
Joshua ” I loved everything.”
Bernice ” I liked doing capture the flag.”
Abu Bakr ” The golf was really cool.”
Abby ” Dancing was my favourite.”
Nathan ” Parkour and football were my favourite.”
Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan and P2/3.
P2, P2/3 and P3 Health Week Challenge 1
Try out this 5 minute exercise routine at home tonight. Good luck.
- Jog on the spot for 1 minute
- 10 star jumps
- Jog on the spot for 1 minute
- 10 squats
- Jog on the spot for 1 minute
- 10 rocket jumps
- Jog on the spot for 1 minute.
Well done if you have completed this.
P2 Post
It was brilliant sharing our learning with so many of you on Wednesday at our showcase. We had worked so hard to create our books for you. We hope that everyone also learned something new about owls too. If you would like to learn our song that we sang for you on the showcase click this link.
Our books have shown you all that we understand about front covers, contents pages and different genres. The genres we showcased were a personal recount, an information report and a poster, they were hootastic! We loved all the five star reviews that we got too. Thank you.
In numeracy this week we have continued to revise our learning from this session by answering questions using the four maths processes. We also learned how to “read” a pictograph. We worked out different information from a graph about favourite food and then created our own pictograph about favourite vegetables. It turns out we have a very healthy class.
Next week we continue the healthy theme. Please remember to come to school ready to be active every day, wear appropriate clothing that can be adapted for indoor and outdoor work. We will also cover our God’s Loving Plan programme next week as part of our Health and Wellbeing learning.
I can’t wait. Have a lovely weekend.
Primary 2/3 Weekly News
The children in P2/3 would like to share all their highlights from this week’s learning adventure with you.
Aiden – I liked joining letters because I am working hard and getting better.
Casper – I liked writing an information report because I shared it at our showcase. My mum thought it was amazing.
Freda – I liked reading because I am really good at it.
Wiktoria – I liked learning to type using BBC Dance Mat typing.
Joshua – I liked the showcase because I showed my mum my book and told her all about owls.
Abu Bakr – I liked doing maths with my talk partner. Sharing strategies makes us more confident.
Abby – I liked RE because we got to perform.
Poppy – I liked BEAR time because I love reading to my bear.
Bernice – I liked PE because we were throwing and catching.
Mark D. I liked building in smart start.
Rutendo – I liked handwriting because I’m getting much better at it.
Oliver – I liked sharing the story of the Owl Babies with my grandad and my brother.
Marcel – I liked doing maths when we were doing division. I love doing maths.
Seren – I liked doing my reading task when my work went on the Wonderful Writing line.
Daniel – I liked using the play area.
Mirren – I liked the showcase. My mum gave me a 6 star review!
Mark K. I liked listening to the story of The Bolds. It makes me laugh.
Abigail – I liked learning new Spanish.
Paul – I liked working with my talk partner. Working with my talk partner helps me learn better.
Nathan – I liked creating in the play area.
Have a lovely weekend!
from Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and P2/3
