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. 

We have been very busy since we came back after Halloween. Our new topic is Pirates and we have been learning all about pirate ships, famous pirates and imagining what it would be like to be a pirate. . 

In ICT we used the iPads to transform ourselves into pirates. We used DoodleBuddy to take a selfie and then used the drawing accessories to make our pirate transformations. After printing out photos we used them to make pirate wanted posters. Don’t we look fabulous? 

In maths we have learning about money. P2 have been setting out amounts up to 15p and looking at the quickest way to make amounts of money. P3 have been working with money up to £1 and have been totalling amounts and calculating change. 

Recently we took part in the annual Santa Fun Run. We had so much fun with the other P2s and P3s and loved dancing and exercising in the playground with our friends from Skills School. 

We loved taking part in Nativity this year. We learned lots of songs and enjoyed acting out the story of Christmas. This year was extra special as we performed at St John’s Hall. 

We have been winding down after all of our hard work for Nativity. In maths we worked in mixed P2 and P3 groups to complete Santa’s Reindeer escape room. We had to solve 6 different maths puzzles, using the clues, to work out the secret code to unlock the reindeer in time for Christmas. 

To finish off our pirates topic we celebrated on the last full day of term with a pirate day. Everyone came to school dressed like a pirate and we took part in lots of fun activities like making a treasure map, making a pirate telescope, a pirate party with food, a treasure hunt and we learned how to dance, sing and talk like a pirate. Shiver me timbers!