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Busy week for P2!!

On Monday we watched the video of The Snowman afterwards we had to sequence the story. This helped us learn that stories have a beginning, middle and end. Also it has shown Miss Boyes that we listened well to the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dYQNAl48E0

To follow on from this we wrote our own story about our adventure with the snowman.

Leo “My snowman went on the Polar Express with me so I could go to the North Pole.”

Marcus- “Me and my snowman went to candy land.”
Ana- My snowman came with me to a big sunny paradise.”

In numeracy we have been showing Miss Boyes how much we have learned about subtraction. We worked hard to complete our subtraction check-up.

Zoe- “I know that when you subtract the numbers get smaller.”

Vanessa- You always start with the biggest number when you take-away.”
Ana- Another name for subtraction is take-away.”
An example of a subtraction question by Julia- “2 less than 7 equals 5.”

Also in numeracy we have continued with place value. We had a total number and we had to find the addition calculation by splitting the number into tens and units.

An example from Aaron “39= 30+9”
An example from Ahmad- “47= 40+7”

This week we have also completed a measurement assessment to show our understanding of area, cm, volume, length and weight.

We have really enjoyed learning how to measure in different ways.

This week we have continued to practise for our nativity show “Busy Busy Bethlehem”.

Lennon “We are practising to speak and sing with good volume.”

Alice- “We have been practising our actions for our songs.”

We can’t wait for you all to see our Nativity next week.

In art with Mrs Thomson we have been creating Polar Bear pictures. We have created our pictures by using crepe paper and glue.

This week in class Miss Boyes has put up our Christmas tree. We love the twinkling lights and the decorations.

On the Altar we now have a stable to represent the Birth of Jesus; we discussed the significance of the stable.

Today is our Ninian’s Natter and we will be reflecting on our learning in term 2 and our aims.

Bonnie Bairns in P2!

In Numeracy, this week we have been learning all about place value. We understand that a whole number can be split into tens and units. We had to identify the whole numbers from their tens and units or we had to split the whole numbers into tens and units. We used the visuals to support our understanding.

Whilst learning about place value we engaged in our number talks, this allowed us to speak through our reasoning for identifying a number.
We really enjoyed our independent stations too. At one station, you could spin a 0-9 spinner twice. The first number represented the tens and the second represented the units.
You had to build the number and check if you had it on your bingo board to cross off.

We really love this counting to 10 song that we have been singing in class.

In Mathematics, we have been finding the area of a shape. We had to draw our own areas and identify which shapes would fit into which areas.

At our independent carousel station, we used the cubes to cover the area of the different shapes.

In literacy, we focused on how to describe the setting of a story. We used our knowledge from topic to write the setting of the North Pole. We are improving our ability to use capital letters and full stops in the correct place independently.
We had some super ideas of what to write about.

On Wednesday, it was St. Andrew’s Day, to celebrate St. Andrew we learned all about his story. After listening to the story of St. Andrew we sequenced it in our groups to show our understanding. We know that St. Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland so we learned more about the country we live in.

The National Flower of Scotland is the Thistle, we constructed our own Thistles using wool and a pipe cleaner. This was a fun activity, we had to think about all of the steps to making the Thistle. Miss Boyes was very impressed by how realistic they looked!

To finish off our Scottish theme we learnt some words in Scots. Miss Boyes sang us Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes.

We followed her actions and identified that the words were Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. At first we found it funny and really enjoyed learning the Scots words. To show Miss Boyes that we had understood the Scots words we drew a picture of a person and labelled them.

Learning more about the nationality of the country we live in links to Article 7 where it states that children “have the right to a nationality (to belong to a country).” We understand that we all have our own nationalities.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P2!

Primary 2/3 Weekly News

It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3! Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley are really proud of the children and all of their hard work.

The children would like to let you know about some of their highlights:

Maya liked learning the colours in Spanish and using them to play a game.

Levente, Annayah and Zuzanna liked learning about gravity when we investigate how a helter skelter works in our Funfair topic.

James has enjoyed joining letters in handwriting.

Oma loved learning about 3D shapes in maths.

Andrew and Rachel loved exploring money in our Funfair topic and deciding which coins to use for different rides.

Carly liked writing an imaginative story about a visit to the Funfair. We thought about sights, sounds and smells and everyone produced fantastic writing!

Maeve liked when our surprise visitor, ‘Terence’ popped in to our class on Thursday to help us with our writing.

Aaron liked learning about Advent and painting an advent wreath.

Matthew loved talking about maths to our visitors during our numeracy review on Wednesday.

Alishba has loved rehearsing for the Nativity play and thinks that our Primary 2s are doing a great job!

Calvin has enjoyed skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s during our maths lessons.

Chloe really enjoyed yoga because she thinks that it helps her learn better.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3

Singing stars in Primary 2!

This week we have been learning how to measure in centimeters with a ruler.

Zoe- You have to make sure the zero is placed at the beginning of the object you are measuring then you read the number which is at the end of the object you are measuring.

We understand that Centimetres are marked on a ruler as CM and we have been writing this when recording our measurements.
Here are a couple of photos we took of each other measuring with the iPads.

Our aim this week in writing was to use adjectives to describe the Train Conductor. We have thought of lots of interesting describing words for his appearance and his character.

Here are some examples.

To help us practise our spelling words we have been making them from playdoh.

Through our topic, we have explored how Polar Bears stay warm, we completed a Science experiment to find out more.

Our experiment involved us putting our hands into a bowl of water full of ice cubes.
One of our hands had a special glove with oil in it which acted as the blubber.
We had to write down our predictions and our results.
The result of our experiment was that our hand in the oil was warmer than our other hand. This helped us to understand how the Polar bears blubber keeps it warm. We also watched a video clip which explained this further.

In class, we have been practising singing jingle bells and this week we went along to record our song. This was a super experience and we loved all singing together into the microphones. Miss Boyes said she loved listening to us sing as our voices were amazing.

We have been singing lots this week as we have been practising for our nativity show. We love all of the songs and we are learning to all sing at the same time and with good volume.
Our Scottish Country dancing is looking great in PE, this week we practised the Virginia Reel. Here we are showing off our dance moves.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!

Cool to be Kind week in Primary 2

This week was cool to be kind week. We have been learning about children’s rights, with a focus on child refugees. We looked at pictures of children who flee their homes to go to safe countries. We discussed the journeys that they make and how they might feel on their journey.

In class we drew a picture of our own journeys and discussed how we felt on our journey. We learned that the child refugees are not always protected and safe so drew and labelled pictures of things that would help to keep them safe. Here are a few of the things which we included.

Lilly- “Food”.
Ryan- “A house for shelter.”
Madison- “Medicine in case they get sick.”
Wojciech- “A blanket to keep them warm.”
Marcus- “Clean drinking water.”

Afterwards we made Our rights Posters.
The rights which we included on our rights posters were:

“The right to food and clean water.” Leo and Ana
“ The right to play.” Marcus
“The right to learn.” Aaron
“The right to see a doctor.” Lilly
“We have the right to a name.” Alice

After talking about our rights, we also sang the “I’ve got Rights” song.

Also for Cool to Be Kind week we wrote a kind comment about 1 of our peers. We all wrote lovely comments about one another.
This week we have been learning how to differentiate between measurements using the language “more than and less than”. We measured water into the jugs and had to look closely to decide which had more or less of an amount.

In writing we wrote interview questions that we would ask the boy from the Polar Express. Our learning intention was to put question marks in the correct place. When we finished our writing, we read it aloud in class and Miss Boyes recorded us.

We came up with great questions
Josephine- “Have you seen Santa at the North Pole?”
Wojciech- “Have you built an igloo? Is it melting?”
Elenta- “I love the Polar Express, do you?”

To practise our spelling words, we have been completing different activities.

Poppy- “We made our spelling words with the pipe cleaners.”
Ana- “We have been writing our spelling words on the iPads.”
Angelina- “We have been finding our words on the word searches.”
We have enjoyed all of the activities and Miss Boyes will be checking our spelling test scores on today.

We loved dressing up in our pyjamas today with our crazy hair and face paints all for a great cause! Running in our pyjamas made the daily mile extra fun!

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2

Saving the Planet in P2!

It has been another busy week in P2!
In maths we have been understanding the language of about when measuring.

Vanessa- We have been measuring with cubes.

Lennon- “We measured a book, a ruler, a cereal box and a pencil.

Aaron- The longest was the cereal box.
We have enjoyed using the cubes to measure the different objects this week and discussing the differences in lengths.

In writing we have wrote instructions on how to build an igloo. To stimulate our ideas for writing we watched a video clip of a man building an igloo.

We had to use our listening skills to take note of the steps. Our aim was to use different sentence openers.
Wojciech- “I used the the sentence opener next.”
Zoe “The word last is a good sentence opener.”
For topic this week we learnt about Global warming and how it impacts the Polar bears.

We watched a video clip that explained Global warming and it told us all of the ways we can help to stop the ice melting.

Wojciech- “I have learnt different ways we can stop global warming and help the Polar Bears.”

Angelina- “It is important to remember to turn off the electricity when you do not need it. Turn off your lights and tv.”

Lilly- “Remember you can cycle instead of driving everywhere. Turn off the car engine!”

Ava- “Remember to recycle. Put your waste in the right bin. We use green, black, blue and red bins in school.”

After watching the video we made our own poster to share this information. Our posters are on our North Pole display wall, hopefully people will read our posters and help save the Polar bears too!

In art with Mrs Thomson we have been creating our very own Train Conductor masks. To make the mask we painted the different parts and then placed them all together. We sneaked back into the classroom after art with our masks over our face to surprise Miss Boyes.
Our masks are displayed on the wall for everyone to see! Miss Boyes thought that instead of the children returning from art lots of little train conductors had came to visit her because the masks look so realistic.

In PE we have shown that we can commit to be fit! We have continued to work hard at our circuit training. This week we enjoyed using the hurdles and ladders.

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend,

From Miss Boyes and P2!

Fantastic P2/3

It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 with lots and lots of fantastic learning.

We have reached the last chapter of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and we have loved listening to the adventures of Plop, the little barn owl. Ask your child what their favourite part of the book was and let us know in the comments.

We celebrated All Saints’ Day with a lovely whole school mass. It was great to have so many parents joining us for this special feast day.

In Spanish we have been counting to 20 and having great fun challenging ourselves to learn the trickier numbers.

In maths we have continued our work on telling the time. In numeracy P2 have been adding doubles and near doubles and P3 have been adding teen numbers.

We are so excited that our new topic is The Funfair! We had a busy and creative planning session on Thursday when we worked in groups to plan our topic. Our first challenge was to create a price list for a Fairground food stall – you can see our creative price lists in our Learning Journals.

Everyone has been busy setting their targets in literacy, numeracy and health and well-being. Our targets are all in our online learning journals – please log in and have a look.

In writing we thought about firework safety and created rules to keep everyone safe at the weekend. Look out for our stories appearing on our Learning Journals.

The highlight of our week was the multi-sports festival at James Young High School. We tried badminton, rugby, basketball, football and a mini assault course and we loved all of the activities. It was great to try so many new skills!

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and P2/3

ALL ABOARD in P2!!!

In Numeracy this week we have continued to learn about subtraction. We have been learning how to take 1 single digit away from a teen number.

To help us learn about take-away sums we have been taking part in roleplay to find how much change we should receive in the P2 shop. We will continue to practise this and gradually increase the amount of money we use at the shop.

We have really enjoyed working out how much change we should get from our money when buying things at the shop.

We took our spelling outside this week and wrote our words with chalk on the ground. This has helped us learn our spelling patterns for the week.

Marcus- “This was fun because it was good for our learning.”

We also found our spelling words in the sand pit, we read the words and wrote them out on our whiteboards.

Our writing lesson started off with an exciting stimulus.
Mrs Gardner brought us a letter from the school office at the start of our writing lesson. The letter was addressed to Primary 2 and it was from the Train Conductor of the Polar Express. He has asked if we can learn about the North Pole (Arctic) and he would like to learn with us. So we will keep him up to date with what we learn each week.
The train conductor also asked how we would feel if we ever had the opportunity to climb aboard the Polar Express. After watching a video clip from “The Polar Express” film we then wrote a letter in reply to the Train conductor. We had to make sure that we formed our letter correctly.

We sat at our tables which Miss Boyes had turned into little steam trains with a sign at the front.

On our topic plan we have shared that we would like to learn about the weather in the Arctic. So, this week we took a thermometer outside with us to record the temperature. We have learnt that you have to read the numbers up the side to find out the temperature and that the numbers on each side mean something different (degrees and fahrenheit). We took turns to read the temperature and found out that it had dropped quite a bit from leaving the classroom. We will be comparing the temperature of Scotland to the Arctic and looking at how the weather affects the Arctic (Climate change).

In PE we have continued our fitness block, we have been training and exercising our muscles at different stations. This will allow us to work on different muscles in our body. We have really enjoyed the different stations, here we are doing some step ups.

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!

STEM week for Primary 2!

In numeracy this week we have begun to learn about subtraction.
We have been checking that we know how to subtract 1 single digit from 1 single digit. Whilst learning about subtraction we have been learning about the language associated with subtraction (minus, difference, less than, subtract and take away). We will look out for this language when completing subtraction word problems.

We really enjoyed playing the Minus Mission game to practise our subtraction. The link is below to practise this at home.
http://www.arcademics.com/games/mission/mission.html

To finish our Transport topic we learnt the history and future of the Forth road and rail bridges and the engineers who designed them.

We understand that men or women who build or design bridges are called civil engineers.
In groups we built bridges using different materials.
Lollipop sticks, playdoh, gummy sweets and marshmallows.

In science we have been learning all about solids and liquids and how they change state.
We have completed different science experiments for STEM week.

To test how quickly ice can melt we put our ice balloons in different places around the room.

In our groups we chose to put our ice balloons under a table, beside the radiator, in hot water, at the window and we kept 1 piece of ice in the balloon.

We all made predictions and even wrote our own Science reports.

The ice in the hot water melted the quickest.

Miss Boyes froze water and paint over night, the next day in class we melted it and we used the paint to create different patterns.

To record our Science experiments we have completed Science reports in writing. We had to include 1 connective in our report.

We either used the connectives because or and.

We wrote super science reports that explained our experiment and our predictions. We made sure to use capital letters, full stops and fingers spaces too.

To finish off STEM week we learnt more about solids and liquids through food technology by making ice cream.

This linked well to our new maths topic (Measure) because we had to help Miss Boyes measure out the Ingredients.

We used scales to measure in grams and we used a measuring jug to measure in milliliters.

You can find the recipe and ingredients for homemade ice-cream online so you can try this science experiment at home.

In RE we have been reflecting on God’s family and how we and our Parish are members of God’s family.

We also reflected on the importance of our own family and how they love and care for us.
We drew some beautiful pictures of our family members.

I think we have lots of little future scientists and engineers in Primary 2! Have a lovely weekend, Miss Boyes and Primary 2!

Taking off in Primary 2!

This week in Numeracy we have been learning how to find the missing number in addition sums. We have taken time to discuss the strategies we have used to find our answers.

Something add 2 equals 10.

Abdullah-“We start at the 10 and jump back 2 places on the number line. The answer is 8.”

Leo- “If the missing number is in the middle of the sum we start with the number at the beginning and jump up to the total number.”

Zoe- “2 add something equals 10. Start at the 2 and jump up til you get to the number 10. The answer should be 8.”

The game we have had for homework this week is a great game to learn how to complete missing number sums.
We have also been using it in class.
http://v7.k12.com/sample_lessons/activities/images/swfs/building_expressions_final.swf

Also in numeracy we have been learning about doubles and near doubles. At our ICT station we have been playing this really fun game which helps us build our understanding of near doubles. Here is the link so you can play at home.
http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurDentist/

We have begun brushing our teeth in class. We brush our teeth once a day. To show our understanding of how important it is to brush our teeth we made posters in writing. We had to use appropriate language for our posters so as part of our smart start we recorded words which we associate with brushing teeth.

We think everyone will make sure they brush their teeth after seeing our posters. Here are two examples below.

In topic we have been learning about the force of air on an object. We created our own rockets and we used a rocket launcher to launch them into the sky. The air from the pump pushed against the rocket to lift them off. We loved going outside to launch our rockets.

We asked to learn about the speed of cars. So we decided to test how fast a toy car would go on different materials down a ramp. We took to push the car down the ramp. We also took turns to use the Ipad to record it and to time the speed.

To learn about Road Safety we went for a walk outdoors to observe the traffic that passed by. We discussed the different types of traffic we saw, how to be aware of oncoming cars and we also counted the traffic.

In PE for a warm up we practised our hula hooping skills. We loved using the Hula hoops.
Poppy ”I can spin the hoop really fast.”
Maja “I can spin the hoop for a long time.”

It has been another fun filled week of learning in Primary 2!

What a terrific term it has been, Miss Boyes has enjoyed every minute of it and I look forward to seeing you all after the October break.

Wishing you all a lovely holiday!!

From Miss Boyes and P2!