Primary Two had to put their detective hats on this week as they used their inference skills to determine which mischievous character stole our Easter Eggs. Primary two were provided with some clues about the event and then had to use their existing knowledge to infer who the suspect was. The children did such a fantastic job and everyone worked together to uncover that the cheeky chick was the culprit! 🐥🪺

This week P2 enjoyed using their ICT skills to create a Pic Collage  with lots of describing words to describe a chosen setting. The boys and girls worked incredibly well together to design, edit and create their posters. Well done! 

Primary Two had so much fun this week engaging in World Book Day activities relating to one of our favourite authors Julia Donaldson. The children created their very own paper dolls, explored the library like Detective Dog and made some delicious and prickly Gruffalo buns! The children had so much fun dressing up and appreciating some of our all time favourite books! 📚

Check out all the fantastic activity based learning that the children took part in relating to the Ch, Sh and Th digraphs. Some of the activities included forming the ch digraph with chocolate playdough and exploring the sh sound with shaving foam. Such hard work by all! 

This week the children learned all about the importance of capital letters! We know that we use capital letters for the start of a sentence and for proper nouns (like our names!) The children completed some fantastic worth matching the uppercase letters to the lowercase letters. Miss Walsh made the activity extra challenging by encouraging the children to pick up the letters with our tweezers! This helps to build important skills for writing. 

Primary Two have taken some time this term to perfect their blending and segmenting of CVCC and CCVC words. Lots of practical learning has helped the childrens’ confidence in this phonics area flourish! Super work! 

Rhyming Word Fun!

Primary Two have been developing their awareness and understanding of rhyming words through a range of activity based learning. We have played a game called Rhyming Rockets and even participated in a silly 'switch your seat' if it rhymes game. Well done P2! 👍

Reading and Writing CVC Words🔤 

The adults in Primary Two have observed the children growing in confidence throughout Term One when spelling and reading CVC words. Look at all of the practical learning we have completed to help us become super readers and spellers! 👩‍🏫

Jolly Phonics - Ww, Vv, Yy 💦💛🚐

Primary Two impressed Miss Walsh so much this week showing such independence when completing their practical learning activities relating to our sounds of the week: Ww, Vv and Yy. The children enjoyed painting yellow Yy and searching for Ww letters in our water tray! Primary Two have shown such dedication to their phonics learning throughout the course of the year and are beginning to reap the rewards in their spelling and reading of CVC words! Well done children!

Bb, Jj, Zz Jolly Phonics ⚽️🧃🦓

Furthering our phonics learning this week the children explored the Bb, Jj and Zz sounds. Primary Two worked together to complete a range of practical activities which included: 

• Forming Bb using buttons.
• Writing Bb on our blackboards.
• Using Jellybeans to form Jj.
• Making Zz using zebra print.      
  Just Brilliant!

Independent Write: How to Carve a Pumpkin🎃

To complete our instructional writing topic and in the spirit of Halloween, the children helped to carve a pumpkin and write a set of instructions explaining it. 

First, Mrs Hanna cut the top off the pumpkin.

Then, Primary Two scooped out the seeds.

Next, the children drew a face on the pumpkin.

After this,  Mrs Hanna carved the pumpkin.

Finally, we put a candle in. 

Happy Halloween from Primary Two!🎃

Dd, Gg, Oo, Uu, Ll, Ff Sort 

Primary Two enjoyed using our interactive whiteboard this week to complete a sorting activity on the sounds Dd, GG, Oo, Uu, Ll and Ff. A fantastic effort by all! 

Jolly Phonics- Uu, Ll and Ff ⛱🍂🪶

Check out Primary Twos amazing work exploring the sounds Uu, Ll and Ff. As per usual the children worked brilliantly to complete a range of activity  based learning which included forming Ll using leaves and Lego and making Ff with fruit pastels and feathers. Well done children!

Jolly Phonics- Dd, Gg, Oo🐶👻🐙

The children continued with their phonics learning this week by exploring the Dd, GG and Oo sounds. The children formed upper and lowercase Dd with dices and dominoes, 

played a guess the  Gg object game and created octopus and Oo using cheerios. 

Great work P2!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: How to Make Porridge🥣🐻👧🏼

​​​​​​This week as the children continued to explore their instructional writing topic, they made some delicious porridge for The Three Little Bears. They then worked together to create a list of ingredients and tools needed to make their tasty porridge.  

​This list included: 

​​​​​A Spoon 🥄 

​​​​​​A Bowl 🥣 

Oats 🌾

Milk 🥛

Sugar 

Well done boys and girls! Miss Walsh is certain that Goldilocks and the Three Bears would love your porridge! 🥣

National Poetry Week- Refuge⛺️

This week was a very special one, it was National Poetry Week! This year's theme was 'refuge,' which encouraged the children to have very thoughtful discussions about shelter and safety. To further explore this year's theme, the children decided to go to the outdoor learning space to build their very own shelters. They then created sensory poems to describe their safe spaces. The quality of poems produced were wonderful and Miss Walsh thoroughly enjoyed listening to the children discuss their ideas! 

Jolly Phonics Recap- Hh, Rr, Mm 🏠🌈🐭

The children displayed such dedication this week completing a range of activities relating to our sounds of the week: Hh, Rr and Mm. Some of our learning included: 

• Hunting for Hh letters in our dolls house.
• Making Mm letters with money. 
• Completing Rr rainbow writing. 

An excellent job Primary Two! 

The Disgusting Sandwich

This week the children read a very funny story about a very disgusting sandwich that a very hungry badger wanted! The sandwich is dropped, squashed and slithered over by everyone from a squirrel, to a fox, to a group of slugs. Feeling inspired by our shared reading text, P2 decided to take themselves outside with their partner and make a disgusting sandwich to rival the stories. The children presented their disgusting sandwich to the class and verbally gave instructions on how to make the sandwich. P2 also used an impressive range of describing words to explain their sandwich such as, revolting, gross and hideous! We wonder if the badger would like a bit of some of our sandwiches?  🥪

Jolly Phonics Recap - Cc, Kk and Ee 🧁🪁🥚

Furthering on from our single letter sound revision, this week the children explored the Cc, Kk and Ee phonemes. The children completed a range of activities including: 

• Sorting capital and lower case Ee eggs. 
• Using the tweezers to place magnetic Ee letters on fried eggs.
• Forming Ee with elephants. 
• Making Cc Cupcakes with our playdough. 
• Forming Cc with conkers. 
• Creating our very own kites. 
  
  Excellent work P2! 

Little Bo Peep Sheep Shortbread- Modelled Writing 🐏

This week as Primary Two explored instructional writing they focused on the use of bossy verbs such as ‘spread’ and ‘cut.’  Taking inspiration from the nursery rhyme ‘Little Bo Peep,’ the children and Miss Walsh wrote a set of instructions for decorating sheep shortbread, taking our time to make sure they were clear and contained lots of different bossy verbs. We then followed our instructions to create our very own delicious shortbread! Look at all the fun we had. 👩‍🍳🐑

Jolly Phonics Revision- Pp, Ii and Nn🎃🦟🪹

This week the children continued to recap on some of their single letter sounds from P1 by exploring Pp, Ii and Nn. The children loved revising the letters’ Jolly Phonics songs and actions, and  also were able to discuss a considerable amount of words which began with the sounds. Some of our practical phonics learning included:

• Forming the letter Pp on Peaches and making Pp with Playdough and Pom-Poms. 🍑
• Writing the letter Ii on igloos and constructing an igloo for our penguin friends.❄️
•  Making our own Nn letter necklaces.  📿​​​​​​​

Fantastic participation from all- well done Primary Two! ​​​​​​​

Instructional Writing- Problem-Solving stage 🍞

This week as Primary Two further investigated their Instructional Writing topic, they made toast! The children firstly helped Miss Walsh to compile a list of everything we would need. They then helped to develop a set of instructions. 
 

First, we put the toast in the toaster. 
Then, we spread the butter using a knife. 
Next, we spread the jam using a knife. 
Finally, we eat and enjoy our tasty toast! 
 

The children loved being independent and following the instructions themselves with limited adult support! Well done Primary Two.⭐️

Instructional Writing- Familiarisation Stage🐷

This week with the help of The Three Little Pigs, Primary Two enjoyed familiarising themselves with our new writing topic- instructional writing. The children completed a listening activity where they had to follow Miss Walsh’s instruction to place the pigs in the correct position. Some of our instructions included, “Place the pig between the straw house and brick house” and “place the pig above the stick house.” The children demonstrated such fantastic listening skills and Miss Walsh was thoroughly impressed! 🐷🐷🐷

SAT Phonics Revision 🐍🍏🎾

Children enjoyed a range of activities relating to our sounds of the week Ss, Aa and Tt. We firstly reminded ourselves of the Jolly Phonics songs and actions, and  then practiced careful letter formation. Some of our activity based learning  included: 

• Tracing Ss in the sand and s​​​earching for Ss magnetic letters.
• Completing ‘I Spy’ the Ss picture.
• Carefully painting a dip-a-dot on the letter Aa​​​​​ and on an apple​. 🍏
• Brushing the Tt letters off teeth.
• Using sorting teddies to form Tt.

What a fantastic effort by all!