2M Cults Primary School

A big well done to all the boys and girls who have completed their homework collage.  These are really looking fantastic and there has been a lot of effort put in.  They will make a fantastic display!

If you have not yet managed to access Sumdog for homework please do that this week.  This will really help with mental maths and make your child more confident completing Big Maths on a Friday.   This is a good site to use on a regular basis.

This week in class we are learning the different colours in French.

P2 M are really beginning to get to grips with basic French and are enjoying learning new vocabulary week on week.  They have been counting to 20, learning the days of weeks and are now learning about colours.

A useful website for you and your child to go onto is the BBC, Schools, Primary Languages.   As well as games there are songs, videos and short audio clips to help with pronunciation.   Please find the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/

Some of the boys and girls in P2 M have started to look at the concept of division.  The children had to take a total number and see how many ways they could group the items.  In the example above there was 4 groups of 5.  The children had to make sure that each group had an equal number.   Here are some more pictures of the children working on dividing a total into groups.

Here the children were playing with the linking elephants.  They had the number 14 and made 2 groups of 7.

Here the children were using gems.  They had number 20 and made 5 groups of 4.

The children were also able to write out their calculations using the words ‘groups of’.

Another group of children within the class were learning about multiplication.  Working as part of a team they made posters to show their understanding.

This really helped them to understand what 5×5 means as they had to break the sum in to parts(5+5+5+5+5 or 5 groups of 5).  As well as this they had to take turns and listen to one another to work successfully as a team.  The pictures below show the children working together, as part of a team, to make their posters.

We can also use the computers to do problem solving activities.  Here is one of the girls playing a Function Machine’ game. She had to choose a target number and make that number using multiplication and addition.

P2 M have been enjoying paired reading activities with P6 S on a Wednesday afternoon.  This is a good chance for your child to share their reading book and other stories with the older children.  During these sessions the older children also read to the younger children.  This helps the children to see how expression can be used to tell a story.  They can also work on decoding and sounding out words together.

As well as all this it also helps children to develop their love for literacy.  Enjoying and telling stories together!

In number work we have begun looking at repeated addition and multiplication.  This is something you could begin to work on with your child, explaining that the multiplication sign (x) means groups of.

At this stage it is really important that your child can understand what the sum really means.  Using concrete objects will help them to see and understand what is is they are doing.  You could use coins, smarties, raisins…

Example-

3×4=?

Means 3 groups of 4

4+4+4=

Primary 2 had a fun day last Thursday, taking part in activities set up by the, ‘Happy Puzzle Company.’  The focus here was on team work and problem solving.  They really had to listen to one another and take turns to complete the activities.  Talk to your child about what they were doing in the different activities shown below.

The children also worked in small groups and teams within and across the three P2 classes.  These activities all involoved problem solving.   They were using technology, programming beebots, completing puzzle challenges (borrowed from Satrosphere) and solving an alien mystery using clues.

This week the children enjoyed creating their own acrostic poems.  They worked with a partner, creating some fantastic work.  They managed to use some great WOW words!

Wajeeha and Ben writing their ‘Rocket’ poem

Gregor was proud of his writing and picture

Gregor showing his work

In maths we are continuing to learn about time.  This is something that you may wish to work on with your child.  Starting with o’clock, then half past and then quarter past.

Here are some links to games you may wish to play, with varying difficulty-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/dynamo/den/clock/index.html

http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html

There are also games in the previous post, ‘Welcome Back’.

Wajeeha setting the clock to 10 o’clock

Some of the children playing a game of bingo. Here they were learning about o’clock and half past.

Euan enjoying a game of bingo he was one of the winners!

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In reading we have been learning about characters.  This is a good thing to discuss with your child at home when reading.  Here are some questions you may ask:

1. Can you name the characters in the book?

2. Who is the main character?

3.Who is your favourite character?

4. Can you describe your characters apperance?

5.  Can you describe your characters personality?

Thank you for taking the time to look at the class blog! Here are a couple of pictures of the children playing in the sand tray.  They were having great fun pretending this was the surface of the moon (flour, baby oil, tin foil scrunched up and little gems).

We have started a block of gymnastics with our P.E. specialist, Miss Mair.  This week we were learning to do forward and backwards rolls.  Every week Miss Mair chooses a, ‘PE Star of the Week’.  This week it was Oran, for working really hard on his forward and backwards rolls.

Kayleigh P2 M

Lewis P2 M

Ewan P2 M

Gavin P2 M

Oran being awarded, ‘PE Star of the Week’

Every PE star gets their name on the wall