Day and Night

P2 and 3 were lucky enough to have a visit from Generation Science, who came to help them understand the difference between day and night and why there are different time zones.

They had great fun with Benny and Jack, and some were even lucky enough to hold the Sun!!!!!

Earth, Sun and Moon

This term P2 have been learning about the Space, looking at the Sun, Moon and Earth
Have a look at the wonderful work they have done !!!!

Primary two topics

Sunset Pictures
P2 painted sunrise pictures bursting with colours. They had so much fun making them.
Well done P2, you did a fabulous job!


P2 Stories

P2 have written stories about a lost teddy. Here are some examples:














Rocking Horses

P2 have painted pictures of rocking horses with bright colours. Don't you think they are amazing!

P2 friends

They have also painted pictures of their friends and written the name of their friend at the bottom. e.g. Erin has painted Maryam. Don't you think they are lovely?    Take a Look!!!!

Written by P5 website club and Mrs Philip

TOYS

Hello Everyone!

We have started our topic on Toys! The children prepared a short talk about their toy and used chalk and oil pastels to make wonderful pictures.

By Emma

By Ryan

By Oliwer

By Katie H

Talking about Snowy
 




By Calum

Talking about Scarfy and Moira

 

Keep clicking on the links in the last blog, there are really good games to play!

Language games!

We have been learning all about words with magic e the past few weeks. We have have been learning
a-e words such as game and tame
i-e words such as kite and bike
u-e words such as tube and huge
o-e words such as hope and bone



This is a link to a game to help us practise spelling our different magic e words.

http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html

(it also has options for practising spelling words with some of our other sounds too).


This link allows you to enter your own spelling words to practise:
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html



Here are some links to other games you might like to play too:

CVC word games:
http://www.ictgames.com/machine.html


http://pbskids.org/clifford/games/index_puppyletters.html

Numbers!!!!

We have been working very hard on different aspects of numbers. We have been counting forwards, backwards, counting up to 100 in fives and tens and learning the numbers before and after. It has been a lot to remember!
To help us we have been using songs and games. Below you will find links to some of the songs and games we use.

Songs:
Counting backwards from 20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srPktd4k_O8

Counting in fives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awKlEMyleA

Counting in tens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYRTtwZGwj8


Games:
Counting ten more than:
http://www.ictgames.com/100huntplus10.html


Putting numbers in order from smallest to largest:
http://www.ictgames.com/caterpillar_slider.html
  

Smiley Shark!!!

We have been reading the story of "Smiley Shark" in our friendship topic. It is about a smiley shark, who has no friends because all the fish are afraid of him. But when the other fish get caught in the fisherman's net it is Smiley Shark that saves them and they all become friends.

We were painting the characters  from the story for a wall display and making our own underwater characters as well.

 

Numbers to 100!

We are very busy learning all about numbers to 100 in Primary 2. We are learning to count to 100, identify numbers before, after and in between AND we are practising counting in tens and units.
Here are some games we have been using to help us grow in confidence in these areas.

Finding numbers on the 100 square:
http://www.ictgames.com/100hunt2.html


Counting in tens and units:

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/sharkNumbers_v5.html

Welcome to Primary 2!!

P2 have been very busy settling into our new class. We have been working hard on our sounds and our numbers. We had some time to make some beautiful art to decorate our new class. We created pictures of ourselves and decorated them.


                                                Meet the P2 class 2014.

Primary 2 are scientists!!!

Primary 2 have begun a joint project with Primary 6 in which we are participating in a national British survey. It is a survey by the British Science Association and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to gather data and investigate the diversity of bumblebees in the UK. They asked schools to join in and help test the hypothesis that the diversity of bumblebees is affected by their immediate surroundings and the wider landscape.

The children have already begun going out to our newly potted lavender plant with P6 pupils (and Mrs. Robson) to observe the movements of the bees. P6 have been helping us collect the data and upload it online.

If you would like to partake in the survey with your child you can request an observation worksheet from Mrs. Baxter. Each observation requires a minimum of 5 minutes and we welcome you to complete these observations before school begins or just after school has ended. Completed observation sheets can be returned to Mrs. Baxter and we will help her upload the information.

Please help support our experiment.

Time

We have spent the past few weeks learning about time. We have been learning about analogue and digital clocks. We have been learning to tell the time at o' clock and half past. Learning half past the hour was a little tricky because the hour hand points in between two different numbers.

This is the link to a game we have been playing in class to help us identify times on digital and analogue clocks.

http://resources.oswego.org/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html

Katie Morag

Since Christmas our topic has been about Katie Morag, a little girl who lives on a fictional island near Scotland. We have learned about how to get to the Scottish islands, what kind of buildings they have and what kind of wildlife they have.
"I learned that the Isle of Struay is really the Island of Coll."  - Hana

"I learned that there are lots of farm animals on the Isle of Coll"- Loukas

"I didn't know that there are bottlenose dolphins near the Scottish islands" -Anita


We worked in groups of four or five to make a short film to share some information about Katie Morag and life on a Scottish island, although our writing was beautiful it hasn't come out very clearly on the videos. We hope you enjoy watching our Katie Morag videos anyway.

Please watch them and leave us some comments.

Counting Songs!

We have been learning to count in groups. We are practising counting in 2s, 3s , 4s, 5s, 6s and 10s.

"We like counting in 6s best because my brother  likes it too" - Matthew G.

"I like counting in 10s because it is easy" - Oliwier

"I like counting in 10s because we count up to 100"- Alicia

"I like counting in 5s because I like singing the song" - Hana

Here is the link to songs we use for counting in5s and 6s in class.

Counting in 5s

Unfortunately the song we have been using is no longer available online. We hope to find another one soon.


Counting in 6s:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpbc-1a7lMo

Welcome back!

Welcome back from your Christmas holidays!! We have returned from our Christmas holidays and have been very busy. As you will have seen from the homework recently we are practising ordering and spelling the months of the year. Here is a link to a game we have been using to help us in the class.

http://www.abcya.com/months_of_the_year.htm

Also well done to Mrs. Lawrie for answering all of our riddles - she will be receiving a special sticker from Primary 2.

Challenge Time!!

We have been learning about "What Am I?" riddles in Primary 2 this week. We worked really hard with our friends to write a "What Am I?" riddle about different Christmas items. We have a challenge for all the mummies and daddies - we would like to see who can answer some (or all) of our riddles. Please write us a comment with your answers.

                                                                        1.

 

 

                                                                              2.

 

 3.

 

 

4. 

 

5.

                                                                      6.

                                                                         7.

                                                                        8.

P2 Toy Museum!

What a fantastic day! We had so much fun showing our mums and dads some of the things we have been learning about in our Toys topic. Our Jack in the Boxes were a great hit, and well done to all the mums and dads who joined in our hobby horse races. We had great fun making them but even more fun racing with them. All the boys and girls were great tour guides, explaining all the different activities and things we had learnt about. Thank you to all the parents who came to visit our class and well done to all the boys and girls for all their hard work.

Educational Games

Listed below are the links to some fantastic educational games sites to practise and consolidate skills, knowledge and understanding.


Literacy


http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-owl/expert-help/phonics-made-easy- Information for Parents about a synthetic approach to teaching phonics and reading

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html- Phonics - recognising real and nonsense words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saF3-f0XWAY– Early level Phonics Song

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-initial-sound-game-1.html- Initial sounds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/index.shtml- First Level Phonics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/postcard/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/magicpencil/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/print/index.shtml- Printable worksheets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/

http://www.ictgames.com/phonemeFlop_v4.html- Early and First Level Phonics

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html- Phonics Games

http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames.html- Grammar Games

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games- More Grammar Games

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm- Grammar and Punctuation activities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/- Spelling and Grammar activities

Maths

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/index.htm- Maths games

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/- First Level Maths games

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/- More Maths games

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Primary 2!! We were so excited because it was Halloween today. We thought it was very funny that Mrs. Baxter , Mrs. Robson and Ms. McKenzie all dressed up like witches. We wrote Halloween stories about a silly ghost in the morning and in the afternoon we had lots of Halloween activities. We made spiders using hand prints and paint, we coloured some spooky pictures and we played puzzles on the smart board. What a fun day!!!

Numbers to 100!

We have been working really hard learning our numbers to 100. We have been learning what the numbers are and look like and how to identify the number before, the number after and the number between two other numbers i.e. What is the number between 80 and 82? Answer: 81. This can sometimes be tricky though, so we are trying to use tools to help us such hundred squares, and the class number line on our wall.


This is a link to a game to help us practise recognising numbers to 100 and identifying their correct place on a hundred square.

 

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/mend.shtml

We are also working hard on finding 10 more than. This is a link to a game we play at school on the Smart board. The game times us while we identify 10 more than as quickly as we can. We like trying to beat our time. The best time in the class was 2 seconds!!!!

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/numbers.htm

Our Class Assembly!!!

P2 Assembly- Be Yourself!

Friday 25th October 9.45 am

St. Cuthbert's School Hall

We are all very excited about our class assembly tomorrow. We have been so busy rehearsing lines, practising dances and making costumes and props. We hope to see lots of Mummy's, Daddy's, family and friends there to cheer us on.