Welcome to P2/3S!

P2/3S

Welcome to P2/3! Our teacher is Miss Stevenson and our classroom assistants this year are Mrs Rogers and Mrs Frazer.  We have been settling in nicely into another school year.  We have made lots of new friends and we are engaging in lots of learning.  Take a look at what we have been up to so far this year.  

Term 1

We have been working hard in our maths lessons with the P3s learning about place value up to 100 and P2 have been working hard on their addition skills.  We got to enjoy the warmer temperatures at the start of term with an outdoor maths session in the playground alongside the other P3 class.  We enjoyed rolling a dice to make 2 digit numbers, using sticks and pine cones to represent the tens and units in numbers up to 100 and P2 had a great time using pine cones and chalk to add within 10.  

We have been working on developing our phonics and spelling skills.  P3 have been building upon their experience of vowel blends and digraphs to help learn their spellings and to write sentences independently.  P2 have been working on spelling CVC words and also attempting to recognise the beginning and end sounds of a range of different words.  We have also been learning rhymes to help us spell tricky sight words.  Did you know that big elephants can always understand small elephants helps us to spell because?  

Our topic this term is 'Houses and Homes'  we have been learning about different types of houses, how they are built and learning about houses all around the world.  During our topic play we have been busy building houses from playdough, creating our own houses with opening doors and windows, making a collage of items you would find in different houses, junk modelling different house types and building Lego houses.   We also love using the doll's house and the role play area to act out scenarios at home.  

As part of our 'Houses and Homes' topic we studied the work of Paul Klee and discovered how he used a range of 2D shapes to create pictures representing houses and towns.  We had a go at using the pastels and 2D shapes to recreate his artwork and make our own little town full of houses.  Don't they look great?  

P2 have been busy sorting lots of different items for different criteria.  So far we have learned how to use a Venn diagram and overlapping Venn diagram looking for a range of criteria.  

We have been making the most of the mild Autumn weather and have been outside for a combined outdoor play session with P2N/C and P3M.  We had so much fun and were able to build our own houses using larger play materials. 

We have loved taking part in a lot of practical activities to celebrate Maths Week. We have investigated shape, pattern, symmetry and fractions. Check out some of our activities below. 

In the run up to half term we celebrated by making delicious chocolate apples. We could not wait to eat them.

Our final day of term was lots of fun with dressing up and using chalk and pastels to create our own pumpkin art.