At the Optician’s

• Paula came to talk to us about eyes.

Certificates.

• Everyone had great fun participating on Sports Day

Beautiful butterflies

• We used the app Explain Everything to create colourful butterflies.

Steve the street sweeper from Belfast City Council gave a talk to P2

• Keeping our streets clean costs a lot of money.

Planting seeds.

• We planted dwarf bean seeds. We took them home to plant them out.

• More planting.

Preparing for our Spanish assembly 🎼💃🏾🇪🇸🇨🇴

• We learn Spanish through music making and singing.

Our paintings inspired by our trip to Castle Espie. 🦆

• Look at our fabulous paintings! 🦆🎨

Look out for mini beasts ,diving ducks, dabbling ducks and great colour mixing in our finished work. 🎨🌤🌈🕷🐞🦆

• We observed many aspects of wildlife in the wetlands at Castle Espie.

Our trip to Castle Espie

• We fed the ducks and geese, went pond dipping, hunted for mini beasts and finally made “smelly pots”.

• Snack time for us

• Feeding time

• Pond dipping now.

• The forest walk, mini beast hunting and the “smelly pots”.

Estimating and measuring✏️📏

• We estimated, then measured how many cubes would cover the giant hand. 🖐

More estimating and measuring.

• We drew around our feet 🦶 and estimated their length using cubes. Then we estimated and measured the length of a giant foot.

More music

• Mrs Brady played “A Million Dreams”

Music in P2J

• Mrs Brady played the cello for us

Dinosaurs 🦕 and Dragons 🐉.

• We are learning about dinosaurs 🦕 and dragons 🐉.

• Making play dough fossils and drawing dinosaur skeletons.

• We even learn about dinosaurs in PE! We worked together in groups to make ourselves into dinosaurs. 🦕

Happy Mother’s Day 💐

• Wishing all the mums a very happy Mother’s Day! 🌸🌼🌺🌷🌹

Our Recipes for Spring! 🐣🐇🌷

• We wrote recipes for Spring.🌦

Our Spring Paintings 🖼 on display!

• Our Spring Paintings 🖼

Celebrating World Book Day

• We dressed in character and read from the book.

Irish Dancing☘️

• We had good fun learning Irish Dancing.

🌼🌈⛅️Spring has arrived!

• Painting daffodils and hyacinths.

Ice hand experiment ❄️ 🖐🔎

• We were scientists 🥼this week. We made an ice-berg by freezing coloured water in a glove. The next day we observed what happened to our ice-berg every hour.

Using iPads. 📲

• We are using the Explain everything app and green screen as part of our Polar lands topic work. 📲❄️

Small world play. ❄️☃️🌨

• We are learning about the Inuit people and the animals that live in the polar regions.

Polar Lands ❄️

• We are learning about the Arctic and Antarctic 🌨💨❄️

Play dough ❄️

• We are making polar animals, igloos and whales with play dough.🐳

Maths games.

• Sneaky snakes is fun to play. We have to think of ways to beat our partner using our addition skills. Maybe we should call it “sneaky adders” 🐍

Paired reading with primary seven children.📕

• We enjoy reading our class library books with the primary seven children 📚

Finger-print Snowmen

• We had good fun finger-printing and painting. ⛄️

Our finished Finger-print pictures.

• We added features and accessories to our finger- print snow people. ⛄️❄️

Playtime in our Christmas shop. 🎅🏽🤶🏻🎄

• Christmas fun. 🎄🎅🏽🤶🏻

Christmas cinquain 🎄

• During shared writing we learned how to write cinquain. 🎄

High Frequency Word Games 😀

• We had good fun playing bingo. 😀

Gymnastics 🤸🏽‍♂️

• We enjoyed using different body parts to travel on the gym equipment.

Wax-resist Night-time Pictures 🌗🌙✨

• We used oil pastels and paint to make our night-time pictures. 🌃🌉

We made puppets to retell the story of The Owl Babies. 🦉

• We enjoy using the puppet theatre.

Our Owl Display. 🦉

• We enjoyed making our owls. Look at the different eye colours. We can tell if the owls are nocturnal, diurnal or crepuscular. 🦉

World of Owls

• Mike brought a barn owl and an Eurasian eagle owl

Measuring.

• Making longer and shorter sticks using cubes.

Owl Babies

• Hot seating. Bill and Sarah Owl taking questions.

ICT in the computer suite

• We entered data to create a graph

Music time.

• Hallowe’en is coming!

More memories 4

• Wonderful Me boxes

More Memories 2

• More Wonderful Me boxes

More memories.🏝

• Our memory boxes

Outdoor

• Activity time

La clase de español

• Liliana teaches us Spanish

The Baby Clinic

• Dr Convery, Aisling’s mum came to examine the “babies”

• The doctors and nurses were busy in the Baby Clinic today.