Its great fun to have a little dance from time to time:

Today we enjoyed dancing to the happy song from “Despicable Me”.

See how heavy the toys are by putting them on the scales in simple scales game  or balance the pans in number balance ks1 :http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html

Enjoy this game and practise naming and finding the 3D shapes:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/shapes_shoot.htm

If you want  to practise 2D shapes, then try this one:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/shapes.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZEVEALIh90

You may have noticed your child already coming home with one of our new and exciting RWI ‘bookbag’ books (and if not, they soon will be!) These books directly link to the RWI phonics storybook your child is working on in school and are specially designed for a family environment to promote and encourage reading for enjoyment and build understanding and speed when reading independently.  The short video above has some information for parents about these new books.  However, if you have any questions regarding these, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Our children deserve the best!  As a school we have invested quite a sum of money into ensuring all children love to read both at school and at home and these books will help with this.  We ask for your support in ensuring they are enjoyed, shared but also returned to school by the specified day (your child will know when this is).  The books will be given to children in a nice new plastic wallet to help keep our lovely new reading material looking fabulous!   Enjoy reading them together as a family!

Miss Thompson

On Tuesday we added features to our castles, including a symmetrical garden:

We are very creative in Primary 2!

Try this game to identify and sort flat (2d) shapes and solid 3D shapes:

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/castle_shapes/eng/Introduction/StarterActivityPart2.htm

P2 have been learning all about solid shapes. We have experimented with using these shapes to build.

Many of us chose to make castles.

We needed to find items to make a necklace for a castle dweller. The items needed to be the same weight as the rod or cubes we carried.

We used our hands as pan balances and checked the weight of the items once we returned to class.

We made a collection of items which weighed the same as a 10 rod or 5 cubes.

Then we calculated how much the necklace would weigh if it contained all the items we had found.

So many castles. so much imagination and so much fun!

We listened to a story about Jesus and made models or acted the story in the sand tray with lego figures to remind us of the story.