Term 4

What a well deserved rest we had after a very busy term, however, before we went on holiday, we enjoyed our end of term reward.  We enjoyed having a magician visit us and loved his magic tricks, especially when he got the teachers up!

After our holiday, we came back to an exciting first week.  We had a trip to the National Museum of Rural Life where we enjoyed looking at all the farm animals.  There had been lambs born that day and we loved seeing them with their mums.  We didn't enjoy the smell of the cows, as you can see from the picture!!!  We also enjoyed looking at all the old farm machinery and the garden exhibition.

This week we have been walking around the park for our sponsored walk and enjoyed being out in the fresh air.

We have a busy last term, and will be learning lots of new things in maths and language.  Our new topic is the dinosaurs and can't wait to find out all about them.

Term 3

What a busy term we have had. We moved back to Ard Road and absolutely love our 'new' school. We enjoyed exploring it and learning in our new classroom. We have had the chance to transform our new classroom into the farm and having an open evening to show off our work to our family. We learned a lot about farms and plants, so we were able to totally transform the classroom. Miss Breslin is so pleased with how hard we have worked and is very proud of us.

We have also had active month, walking to school (even in the rain - thats dedication!!) as well as getting a karate lesson and doing aerobics. We were very hot and tired by the end of it.

Gladigator paid us a visit, to remind us about keeping our teeth clean and left us new toothbrushes and toothpaste. we were very lucky because we then got the chance to go on his inflatable obstacle course.

We have worked very hard and are looking forward to the Easter Bonnet parade where we get to perform Easter songs for our family. We are also looking forward to the end of term reward - a pyjama party, what fun!!

Term 3 Continued

Wow, not even halfway through the term and already we have been so busy, working on our joyning the learning topic. We have been learning lots of new and exciting things and are enjoying transforming our classroom. Miss Breslin has been so impressed with how keen we are to learn and help others in the class learn.

As well as that, we have had the opportunity to show our family around our new school. Some of our mums and dads were so embarassed to see pictures of them when they were pupils in the school, but we found it funny. We were so proud and excited to show them our new school and where we are having fun learning.

We have been on a welly walk around the school grounds, looking for signs of spring coming. We found lots of buds forming on trees and flowers beginning to grow. It was so exciting, even Nathan our bear had fun!!

Gladigator visited us to remind us about the importance of brushing our teeth. He got lost in our new school as he hadn't visited us here before. It was so funny. However, when he arrived in the gym hall, he helped us remember why we need to brush our teeth. We were very lucky, because after that we got to play on an inflatable obstacle course. Miss Breslin got lots of funny pictures of us.

We had an aerobics instructor come into the school to do some aerobics with us. Miss Breslin was impressed with how hard we worked, we were even sweating by the end of it!

We have lots more coming up, including our open evening and end of term reward. We can't wait!!

Our New (Old!!) School

Wow, what a start to term 3. We started back after Christmas, excited to see our friends again, and also saw our lovely new school. We were shown around and were so excited and impressed. Mums and dads will be impressed when they see it aswell. We have a lovely new classroom that looks new and fresh, much better than our old classroom, and Miss Breslin is especially happy with her new teaching wall.

We are now looking forward to doing our secret JtL topic, and changing how our classroom looks. We have already started and Miss Breslin is so impressed with how much we already know and the fabulous ideas that we have had about how we can change our classroom. She can't wait to see how our ideas tranform our classroom.

Miss Breslin and the other P2 teachers are arranging a trip that is about our topic, where will it be!!!

We have already been busy, revising our maths and we are now learning about 1/2s and 1/4s. Miss Breslin is pleased with how hard we are working and we are going to keep working this hard. We are looking forward to doing lots of co-op group tasks.

We are looking forward to our open evening and showing our mums and dads our new school.

The Run Up To Christmas

What a busy term, P2 have had. We have been preparing for the Christmas Nativity, learning speaking parts and the lyrics to 8 songs. We worked with primary 1 and the other primary 2 classes to put on a fabulous show for our parents. The last performance was today and Miss Breslin was extremelly proud of us.

We all got to see the Baldy Bain panto. This was our end of term reward and we had so much fun booing the baddie and helping all the others. Miss Breslin was not surprised at how loudly we could shout!

We still have our Christmas party to look forward to, we can't wait to dance and see Santa.

In between all our rehearsals for the nativity, we have been doing our maths and language work. We have been looking at numbers to 100, area of shapes, rounding to the nearest 10 and odd and even numbers. We have been reading Six Dinner Sid and doing lots of writing about it, describing Sid and retelling the story. We made bar graphs and a venn diagram about Sid and his life. We enjoyed doing work about Six Dinner Sid.

We have also been learning about Martin Luther King and his dream for everybody to be treated fairly. We worked in our co-op groups to create posters showing what our dreams are for this.

We have had a fabulous term and are excited about Christmas. After Christmas, we are back in our Ard Road building. We can't wait to see how fantastic the school looks and exploring it!!

The End of an Exciting Term

It is now the end of term 1 and Primary 2a have had so much fun. We have been enjoying working in our co-op teams in maths, language and our topics. We did a lot of co-op learning in our topic - Caring and Sharing. We learned about our rights as children, how we help elderly people and those with additional needs. Aswell as that, we looked at people who help us, their jobs, uniforms and the equipment they use. We really enjoyed this topic and learned a lot.

We are now looking at the Sun, Moon and Stars in our science topic, amazing Miss Breslin with how much we already know and how keen we are (some went home and did some research at home - WOW!) We learned about shadows and how to make shadow puppets, aswell as looking at a planetarium to see some of our stars.

We are working hard in maths and language, working on numbers up to 100. In language we are doing a lot of writing and are progressing well in our reading.

Thursday 13 October was the exciting culmination of football training from Ross, who works for St Mirren. Every Tuesday, Ross came in and taught us the skills used and needed by professional football players. We have had so much fun doing this. This resulted in us going to St Mirren football stadium and getting a tour of the trophy room and dressing room. we saw all the trophies St Mirren have won! We then had the opportunity to play on the football pitch. We had so much fun, and impressed the football coaches with our skills.

We have really earned our end of term reward and will enjoy our DVD afternoon.

Term 1 in Primary 2a

We started P2a in August and met our new teacher Miss Breslin. She took us on a really exciting bear hunt to find our new class friend. We found him and named him Nathan. Some of us have been really lucky and we have been able to take him home for the weekend. The rest of us are really looking forward to getting the chance to take him home. We wrote to Nathan, making a class book, telling him about ourselves and we also wrote about what Nathan was like.

We also learned about The Gruffalo and drew him. We retold the story in our own words. Miss Breslin was very impressed. We showed good recall skills and were able to notice the rhyming words.

We have been doing addition and subtraction aswell as money in maths. We are working really hard.

For our Caring and Helping Topic, we have been learning about Rights and Responsibilities. We have been finding out about the rights of the child and the UN Conventions of the Right of the Child. We know that to have our rights we also have responsibilities. From this, we made a class charter that shows our rights and our responsibilities in making sure we meet these rights. We have also been learning about helping others, especially pensioners. We have impressed Miss Breslin with how much we know and how keen we are to learn.

After our topic we will be learning about the Sun, Moon and Stars in Science and Harvest in RME. We can't wait to find out what we will learn in these new topics.

We have become part of Co-op teams, working with our group to ensure we complete a jobsuccessfully. We take on roles in these tasks. The roles are - time keeper, materials manager, air traffic controller and encourager. We are going to keep using these roles and become even better at them.