In just 30 days, Primary 2 have been as busy as they possibly could, from the minute they stepped through the school gates. Firstly there were two new teachers to meet, a new classroom to navigate our way around and new routines to learn and perfect. Peer play with P1 is a frequent and familiar part of each day, with our P2 children now acting as role-models and partaking in imaginative, creative, focussed and busy play. The playroom concentrated on important skills of pouring, filling, rolling, moulding, mixing, sticking, acting and pretending while the classroom saw lots of building, small-world imagining, numeracy and literacy consolidation, fairy tale retelling and many creative opportunities for display.
Our class topic on fairy-tales involved Snow White and the names of the seven dwarves, the characters of Cinderella, using Just2Easy to draw a picture and summarise the story of the Ugly Duckling, create candy houses from Hansel and Gretel and also share the stories of The Nutcracker, The Frog Prince, The Emperors New Clothes and Sleeping Beauty. We are concluding this enjoyable theme by visiting ‘The Imaginarium’ in Newry before Halloween.
Numeracy and Literacy saw the revision of all of our initial sounds, common high frequency words and looking at the structure of fairy tales. We are taking time to form all our letters correctly and leave spaces between words in a sentence as well as checking if our work makes sense. We know the properties of 2D shapes, can name them in our environment and gather information to represent as a pictogram. Counting to 30 is improving as well as our recall of number stories and the number before and after within 20.
We explored the idea of being individual superheroes for both the front display board in school and our first class assembly before Halloween. Here we shared our talents, how we can help those who need help around us and were introduced to the importance of resilience where we don’t give up and have faith in ourselves to try again. Watch this space for our performance of this before Halloween for the school community and our parents. Finally we learned a little about “life down under” and created a good luck message for Mrs.Higgins who is spending some time in Australia.
No wonder we are tired when we get home in the evenings!
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