What a week! P.2 have had an extremely exciting time with Nativity performances, a Christmas ‘big play’ and a fun-filled party. We are very proud of the children for all they have achieved. Well done everyone.
Here is a link to some Christmas themed games to play at home:
P.2 have enjoyed lots of literacy learning throughout Book Week Scotland. We have shared our current favourite book, talking about why we like it so much, and redesigned the front cover. Using story maps, we explored the different parts of a story-the beginning, middle and ending. Our focus this week was on how to introduce a story. Producing correctly formed and neat handwriting continues to be worked on in class. Great to see how much effort the children are making. We were very excited to create our own individual mini-books in class on Thursday. What a range of subjects were selected! We had factual texts about marine biology, horses and Minecraft alongside fiction about unicorns, dragons and mermaids. We can’t wait to finish our books and publish them next week!
In phonics, we have been working on the following sounds:
Purple and blue groups: ur
Orange group: oo
Yellow group: b, f
Tricky word focus: you, one
Everyone of our P.2 children did St John’s proud when we visited Portobello Library this week. It was a chilly but beautiful day for a walk through our local area and we would like to thank all 10 of our parent helpers who accompanied us on our outing. Big thanks also to Ian and Paul at the library who entertained us with stories and informed us about the workings of a library. It was a great experience and we are looking forward to using our bookbags in school before taking them home next week.
Numeracy and Maths: We have been learning about subtraction by crossing out amounts and counting how many are left.
Here is a game to play at home. Select the subtraction sign on the train and adapt the level to suit your child’s knowledge of numbers eg. up to 20, up to 100.
P.2 have been investigating 3D shapes which will roll, stack or both and sorting them accordingly. We are more confident now in recognising, naming and writing the words for cone, cube, cuboid, sphere, pyramid and cylinder. Well done.
Nativity: Good progress has been made in preparing for our special P.1 and P.2 Nativity play. P.2 narrator parts were sent home in reading folders today so have a check please. Children decided for themselves if they wanted a speaking part or not. Everyone in P.2 will be singing as part of our choir and the songs are sounding amazing already!
Information about tickets is in this week’s newsletter.
On Thursday 31st October, we had a great time in school with a ‘big play’ session across the whole of P.1 to P.3. Children were able to select their own activities from a range of curriculum experiences. We were SO impressed by how well all the classes participated and it was wonderful to see the interaction between year groups. We are already looking forward to our next session in December!
P2 has been working hard on their phonics this October, with a special focus on tricky words “are,” “they,” “she,” “be,” “to,” and “we.” We also enjoyed writing about autumn and sharing what everyone did over the holiday, bringing their learning to life with personal experiences!
Numeracy and Maths:
In numeracy, we’ve focused on writing number sentences using the part-part-whole model and exploring addition fact families. In broader math, we’ve been learning to identify and name various 3D shapes, expanding our understanding of geometry.
Topic:
P2 kicked off October with an engaging autumn topic, creating beautiful autumn wreaths and themed drawings. We’ve been exploring the changes that come with autumn and enjoying a variety of tasks and play inspired by the season. In addition, we’re celebrating Black History Month, learning about authors such as Floella Benjamin and Malorie Blackman, discussing the characters in their stories.
