Welcome to Primary 2! 

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FUN DAY 2021

Today we had a fantastic fun day. There were awards, games, bubbles, balloons, water activities, music and tasty food. We really enjoyed getting to have fun with our friends today. 

Dinosaur fun

We had lots of dinosaur fun this week in school. Have a look to see what we have been up to! 

Sports Day

This was Primary 2's first sports day and we had an amazing day. 

We all came running into school this morning so excited for our day of sports. We read a story about sports day and did some exercises in the classroom to get warmed up. After that, we went outside and got to watch all the different sports events. We got to take part in them too. There was the running race, marathon, potato and spoon, sack race, bean bag race and three legged race. We got some juice and biscuits at snack time to cool down and prepare for the rest of the races. 

Everyone in our class had dinners today. We all got some yummy chips and nuggets and afterwards we got some ice-cream. It was so fun being able to eat in the sun.  

Well done to everyone in Primary 2! You all did fantastic today. Well done! 

Click on this link to watch a video of us having fun on sports day. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_339htjFnq5HFCCdA9xU1558MnEcRedr/view?usp=sharing 

Dazzling Dinosaurs

Today we started our new topic called ‘Dazzling Dinosaurs’. We watched a video made by a real palaeontologist and discovered that dinosaurs are a special group of prehistoric animals that have their legs tucked under their bodies.

After this we pretended to be dinosaurs and tried to walk like a dinosaur with our arms tucked in.

Watch this video if you want to learn about dinosaurs too.

https://videocentralhd.lgfl.org.uk/premium_play.aspx?id=t1aQvDI86iW   

Daily Mile Challenge.

Today primary 2 boys and girls took part in the nationwide Daily Mile as part of the Daily mile’s initiative to promote getting active and looking after your physical and mental wellbeing! 

Before we got started, we discussed all the different reasons why exercise is important. We then discussed why we like completing the Daily Mile and we created some signs to wear during this extra fun event. Well done to everyone for taking part today.

Directions 

This week we have had great fun using the Beebots to help us learn about direction. We had to use our knowledge of left and right to help us tell the Beebot where to go so he could find the correct objects. We moved the Beebot around the mat to find different toys and we also played a Beebot game on the tablets. We had fantastic fun. 

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICECREAM. 

This week we have been learning about the ‘I’ sound. It can be spelt igh and y. We listened to a story to help us remember the igh spelling.

Watch this video to hear the story we learnt.

https://youtu.be/9BfmZmVIxX4 

Afterwards, Joanne pretended to be Mr I, we took turns pretending to be Golden Girl and Miss Cunningham pretended to be Harry Hat Man. If we were super quiet for Harry Hat Man, Mr I give us some Ice Cream. This was super yummy and helped us remember the new sound.

Pirate Treasure 

This week we have been learning about directions. We have been practising using left, right, up and down to help us navigate our way round maps. A pirate appeared in our classroom and left us some treasure. We had to use what we knew about directions to help us move around the map successfully and avoid the sharks. When we got to the treasure, we got to open it up to see all the jewels and diamonds.

Month of May

In Primary 2 we have made a lovely May altar. We worked really hard to decorate some flowers for our lovely tree. Thank you to everyone who sent in things to make our May altar so special. 

Cheeky Clown 

This week we had a cheeky clown in school to teach us about the th sound. She told us that she likes the th sound because when you say it your tongue sticks out. This sound is in lots of words we know like this, that, then, there, them and with. 

Wet Potatoes

This week Primary 2 have been learning more about capacity. We experimented with potatoes to see how many potatoes it would take to displace the water in the tub and make it overflow. We tried large potatoes, medium potatoes and small potatoes. We predicted what might happen and then we tested it to see if we were right. We discovered that it takes fewer potatoes if they are large because the large potatoes take up lots of space. The small potatoes only take up a small bit of space so we need lots of small potatoes to make the water overflow. 

Planting Fun

Today Primary 2 got a chance to get involved in some planting. We worked together as a team to plant lots of plants around the school. We carefully picked the plants we wanted to plant to make sure that they were plants that would help encourage lots of mini-beasts. We planted some Lavender and some Butterfly Bushes too. We even planted some wild flower seeds, tomatoes and strawberries too. We have lots of work to do over the next couple of weeks to make sure all these plants stay watered in the hot sun. 

Underwater Fun in the Sun!

Today we got a chance to get outside to play in the sun. We used the large outdoor blocks to build a submarine. We worked in groups to put the blocks into the correct places. We added engines, windows and even a periscope. We had great fun! 

Water, water everywhere

In Primary 2 we have been working hard to learn about capacity. We discovered capacity is the amount of liquid a container can hold. We did lots of things to explore capacity. We ordered containers of different capacities from smallest to largest, we measured the capacity of different objects and we even played some capacity games on the interactive whiteboard. 

Nature Walk

This week primary 2 went on a nature walk. The boys and girls wanted to discover what sort of plants, minibeasts and birds are around the school. We spotted a blackbird, crow and robin. We found daffodils, daisies and buttercups. We discovered worms, bees and spiders. 

Hedgehog Café

Today we worked as a class too make a Hedgehog Café to support biodiversity around the school. We used some bricks and a slab to make a hut to keep the hedgehog nice and warm. We then added some leave on the inside for bedding to make it nice and cosy for the hedgehogs and finally we added some vegetation for food. We really enjoyed creating this and hope that we might see some hedgehogs soon. 

Number Fun

This week in Numeracy we have been playing lots of games to help us practise recognising numbers instantly,  mental addition and subtraction. We had some fantastic fun. We spent 10 minutes playing each game and then we moved to a new game. We played lots of games in such a short time. 

Under the Sea 

As part of our topic Under the Sea we have been playing lots of games to help us learn about things under the sea. Have a look at the pictures to see what fun things we have been getting up to. 

Easter Fun

We had lots of fun getting read for Easter. We learnt about what happened Jesus during Holy Week. We made some Easter Bunnies, played Easter games, designed some Easter eggs, had an Easter egg hunt and got some Easter Treats too.  

Wellbeing Wednesday

I hope you all enjoyed Wellbeing Wednesday.

Have a look at the photographs to see what your friends got up to. 

Snowy P.2.

Today we worked really hard on the laptops. We pretended to be snowmen and we typed what we would say if we were a snowman. We had to use capital letters, full stops and spaces. We all worked really hard. Have a read of what we wrote. 

Christmas Singing 

Today we had a Christmas Concert. We had lots of amazing singers sing some Christmas songs for us. We really enjoyed listening to everyone sing. We also enjoyed getting a chance to sing for everyone too. 

Have a look at the video below to see a short clip of us singing. 

Christmas Panto

Today we were extremely fortunate to get to see the virtual Beauty and the Beast Panto preformed by the Southern Regional College. We really, really enjoyed this show. We thought it was fantastic. Well done to everyone involved. Primary 2 especially loved the songs. They even got up and had a wee dance. Have a look at the video to see our fantastic dance skills. 

We got some yummy Skittles when watching the Panto too.

Elf Treats

In Literacy this week we continued our work on instructional writing. To help us with instruction writing we made some ‘Elf Bread’. We even got to eat it! It was very yummy! We then started to write instructions on how to make it. Before we started, we planned our work. This was very helpful as it helped us to make sure we included all the important details in our writing.

WINTER PLAY

The Shape Fairy

Today we had a visitor in our classroom. :0

The shape fairy came to see us and ask for our help to build her a 3D house. She said her house had been destroyed in a storm. We worked in our groups to build a house for the fairy using 3D shapes. We then used some labels to label all the 3D shapes we used so that the fairy would know all the names for the different shapes. 

We showed great team working skills and really enjoyed building the house. 

We really enjoyed getting to eat our Snowball treats when they had set. 

Snowball Treats

This week we got a letter from Santa. Santa told us that the elves had been working very hard to make toys for all the boys and girls and that he wanted to give them a treat to thank them for their hard work. Santa asked us to write a recipe for how to make Snowball Treats so he could make some for the elves. 

We started by making some Snowball treats ourselves. Then we carried out some shared instruction writing. We discussed all the important features that we needed to included to make sure our instructions were clear to understand. We thought carefully about the time words and bossy verbs too. 

We then emailed our instructions to Santa. 

We hope our instruction writing helps him.  

3D Shape Sorting

This week we had a naughty elf in our classroom. Eve the Elf stole some 3D shapes from around the classroom and we had to sort them out into their 3D shapes. We talked about the names of each shape. We talked about the 2D shape faces that we could see on each 3D shape to help us sort them correctly. We had lots of fun doing this and even found some things that Eve the Elf stole from our tables.

LUNCH TIME FUN

Today we had great fun outside in the yard using chalk to draw some pictures. Have a look and see at all the different things we drew.

Miss Double! 

Today we learnt about doubles with the help of Miss Double who appeared in the mirror. We discovered that when you double something you get the same again. This is important to help us add and take away. We also learnt a doubles rap to help us remember these important maths facts.

 Subtraction Fun

This week we have been focusing on subtraction.

In order to help us subtract correctly we need to know how to count backwards from any given number. We practised this skill with the parachute. This was great fun.

Anti-Bulling Week 

This week is Anti-Bulling Week and in P.2. we celebrated friendships. We made some friendship biscuits and talked about the important qualities that we need to be a good friend.

To make the biscuits we needed a:

• Dash of honesty
• Handful of kindness
• Spoon of gentleness
• Dollop of love
• Cup of listening
• Bag of fun.

We talked about why all these ingredients are important for good friendships. We had some fantastic answers and the children also talked about times when they were kind in the yard too.

We got to listen to a lovely friendship story and then we got to decorate our friendship biscuits.

           ODD SOCK DAY!           

Season Play

This week we have introduced our new topic into our play. Our new topic is 'Seasons' and the first season we are learning about is autumn. We have been learning lots about autumn through play whilst also having fun. Have a look at what we have been up to so far this week.. and it is only Monday!! 

Leaf Trouble

Today we started our new topic Seasons. We listened to a story called Leaf Trouble and discovered that trees loose their leaves in autumn to try and save energy for the cold, winter weather. We then used some autumn leaves to make hedgehogs. Everyone's work was really beautiful.

Number Bonds to 5 

Today we learnt how to add numbers to 5 quickly. This is an extremely important skill and it is important that we can recall these number facts instantly as this will help us with mental addition of larger numbers. We played lots and lots of fun games to help us visualise the numbers and learn the addition facts. 

We fed the number monsters. We had to use the Numicon to balance the balance pan by making 5 on each side. We got to match the train shapes to make 5. We got to fix the ladybirds by putting 5 on their backs. We got to make 5 Numicon towers and 5 shape snails too. We were so excited and learnt lots. 

Woolly Hat Day 

Today we took part in woolly hat day to help raise money to support Mourne Stimulus.

Half Past

This week we have been learning how to tell the time when the clock displays half past times. We have a new display in our classroom to help us with this. We had to work as a class to finish the display and add the digital and analogue clock times to the correct play on the display. We also used our own clocks and played a game against Miss Cunningham where we had to make the times she called out on our clocks. This was great fun and we won AGAIN! 

Finally we played a game on the laptops where we had to read the analogue clock and click on the correct digital time. We loved this game and got a chance to use our earphones too! If you would like to practise this game at home you will find a link to it in the Numeracy Classwork section on Google Classroom. 

Making Connections

Today we started to talk about a comprehension skill called 'making connections'. This will be our comprehension focus until Christmas. We focused on the first part of this skill today 'text to self connections'. This involves trying to link the story to yourself. We read a story about Wemberly Worried. This story was about a mouse who worried about lots of things. We then made connections to ourselves by trying to think of times that we worry and who we talk to when we worry. We discussed the school safeguarding team and who in school you can talk to if your worried. Have a look at our pictures to see us making connections. 

Maths Week!

This week was maths week and we spent all week celebrating by completing lots of fun maths activities every day. We completed some problem solving challenges where we had to figure out how many animals were in the field, we made some shape pictures, played maths board games and completed challenge shape activities using lollipop sticks. We even had a quiz where Miss Cunningham competed against the P.2. children to do some addition sum and Miss Cunningham LOST! We really enjoyed maths week and we understand why maths is so important to learn every day. 

Hunting for shapes

This week we became detectives in P.2. and we went outside on a mission to find some 2D shapes. First, we put on our coats. Next we were given a tablet. Then we went outside and searched for shapes. Finally, we took pictures of all the 2D shapes we could see. 

When we came back into the classroom we got a chance to show the rest of the children the shapes we found. We loved getting to use the tablets to take pictures. This helped us to develop our ICT skills and maths skills too. 

Fun with Number 12

 Numeracy today we learnt about the number 12. We made 12 in lots of different ways and even got to watch a video to meet Numberblock 12. We all enjoy using the jumbo tweezers to put pompoms into the Numicon holes to make 12. We discovered 12 is made up of a 10 and a 2. After that we completed a worksheet on the number 12.

Mental addition of 1 

This week we discovered that when you add 1 to a number the number gets bigger and lands on the next number in the number line. We used the Rekenrek to help us visualise this. We practised our mental addition skills through playing a game with our partner where we had to race round the game board to get to the finish line.We really enjoyed playing this game. 

          Hold up a shape

Today we played a really fun game. Miss Cunningham called out a 2D shape and we had to race to hold up the correct shape. We also sang a 2D shape song and met some 2D animals. 

            Monster Shapes

Today we learned about 2D shapes. We practised our skills on the computer by feeding the shapes to each shape monster. We loved this game. It was great fun. 

Number 11

This week we learnt all about the number 11. We discovered that 11 is made up of a 10 and a 1. We made the number 11 using lots of different things. We used Numicon, counters, Numberblocks and a Rekenrek. We even got to fill out Numicon with 11 sweets. We found out that it doesn't matter where the 1 goes as long as 10 and 1 are together it makes 11. This was good fun. 

Counting on from a given number.

We have been practising counting on from a given number. This is an important skill to help us with addition. 

We played lots of games to help us. 

Time Traveller ED

We have been doing lots of work on recount writing this term. We have learn that recount texts are all past tense. So we decided we need to learn about how to write past tense words. Time Traveller Mr Ed helped us to learn about making verbs past tense. We discovered all we have to do is add 'ed'. Watch this video if you would like to learn about Time Traveller Mr Ed too. 

Mr Wolf

Learnt about recount writing by reading Mr Wolf's diary. We checked his diary to make sure it had all the important features and he did. He wrote his diary in the correct order, he used time words and he wrote about how he felt. 

Mr Wolf wrote us a letter to tell us he was innocent and he didn't blow down the 3 Little Pigs' Houses. We then discussed the question words 'who, what, where, when and why' and used these to help think of good questions to ask Mr Wolf to find out if he was innocent or not.

HFW Fun

Today we practised reading and spelling some of our HFW. We had some great fun and played lots and lots of different games! Have a look at our pictures to see what we got up to! 

Before, after and between.

Today in Numeracy we learnt about the words before and after. Miss Cunningham called out a number and then we had to find it on our number track and cover it up with our counter. We then had to tell her the number that came before and the number that came after. This was great fun and we even got to play in pairs afterwards. After our game was over, we each got a Party Number Hat. We got to wear the hat and then we had to try and put ourselves into the correct order. This was great fun! We didn't want to take our hats off!

Spooky Phonics

In the game we work together to pop the bubbles from the cauldron that had the correct letters. This helped us to learn what the sounds look like and also helped us learn what sounds the different letters make. As we added the correct letters to the cauldron, a magical creature started to grow.

Patterns

In primary 2 we have been learning about patterns. We started by making a pattern with ourselves. We create a pattern that was boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl. After this, we used lots of different materials to create patterns. We worked with our partners to create these patterns and learnt lots about working together and taking turns. After we had finished, we went on a parade around the classroom to see everyone’s work. This was great fun.

iPads

We have had a chance to use the iPads this week and we were very excited. We played two games. One game was called Phonics Pop. In this game, we had to listen to the sounds and pop the correct letter. The second game was called Shape Patterns. We had to finish the patterns on the trains. We really enjoyed using 5he iPads and can’t wait to use them again next week.

Chop,Chop,Chop!

This week we have been working on our cutting skills. We had to use scissors to cut along the lines on our pages. This allowed us to practise holding the scissors properly and cutting carefully along the line. This also allowed us to develop our fine motor skills which are really important for handwriting. 

Farm Play

This term our topic is The Farm. Our play this week has been based around the farm. Have a look at what we have been getting up to! We are having so much fun!

Ordering Numbers

This week we have been learning how to recognise numbers, recognise the matching Numicon, count forwards and count backwards. All the numbers 1-10 were mixed up on the washing line. We had to put them into the correct order. We had such good fun doing this. We also played a game which involved us putting our hand into a secret box and without looking, we had to try and find the correct Numicon shape. This helps us to visualise the numbers in our minds. 

What have you been up to?

This week we started to learn about recount texts. We learnt that recount texts have to be in the correct order, they use time words, they tell you what the person did and how the person felt. We got to recount our weekend to our partner. We used the recount chart to help us structure our oral sentences to make sure that we included all the important details that a recount text has. We enjoyed this because we got to hear about what P2 got up to over the weekend. 

SATPIN Play

We have been learning about the sounds s,a,t,p,i and n in school. This week we got to include this in our play and play games to help us work out the first sound in words. We played lots of different games and we had that much fun we forgot we were learning at the same time!

Numbers to 10
 

We have been working really hard to learn about numbers to 10. All week we’ve been practising how to write the numbers and count up to 10 correctly. We got to take part in some really exciting games that were focused on learning numbers. We really enjoyed it and learnt lots.

Rhyming Friends

This week in P2 we have been learning about rhyming words. We watched a video and learnt that rhyming words end in the same letters. We learned that only the first letter changes. We then got to take part in at dancing rap and match the rhyming words using special actions. Finally, we were given mittens with words on them. We had to walk around the room to find our rhyming friend. We really enjoyed learning about rhyming words and hope that it will help us Help us to spell.

Echooooo

This week we have been working hard on our listening skills and phonological awareness. We played a game where we had to listen carefully to the number of claps our teacher made. We then had to copy how many claps she did and we also have to think about how fast she clapped. We really enjoyed this and afterwards some of us got a turn at clapping too. 

Robots

In this game we practised our phonological awareness skills by speaking like a robot to help us break words down into syllables. We really enjoyed this as we got to move like a robot too.

Musical Sounds

We played this game to help us practice our phonological awareness skills. In this game one person from Our class had to hide behind a screen. They then picked one instrument and played it. Everyone else in the class had to try and guess what instrument they were playing. This helped us to develop our auditory discrimination skills.We really enjoyed experimenting with all the different instruments.

Teddy Bus

This week we have been spending some time recapping on numbers 1 to 5. We used counters and pretended they were teddy bear to help us put the correct number of teddies on the bus. We really enjoyed this and it was great fun taking the teddy bear on and off the bus. It helped us to visualise the numbers 1 to 5.

Super Soap

In Primary 2 we talked about the importance of washing your hands correctly. We listened to a story about a character called Super Soap who helped all the children in the class to wash their hands correctly. He even taught us a song to help us wash our hands properly. 

Over, under, round and through,
Don’t forget to add soap too.

Clean, clean, clean and then you'll know,
Down the sink the germs will go. 

Over, under, round and through,
Don’t forget to dry them too.

We then covered our hands in glitter to help us make sure that we washed our hands properly. This helped us to learn the importance of using soap to clean away all the germs. 

First Day in Primary 2

Today was our very first day back in P.2. and we all had a great day. We were so excited to get to see our friends again. Miss Cunningham was delighted to have us back in her classroom. We can't wait to have more fun tomorrow!