Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’.  This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.  The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.  This term the class has chosen to talk about ‘My Favourite Toy.’

Some ideas to include in their talk might be:

What is your favourite toy?

Who gave you it or where did you get it?

How do you play with it?

What do you like about it?

How does it make you feel when you play with it?

Any interesting facts about your favourite toy.

The talk should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 12th  May. More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.

We look forward to hearing about their toy!

I hope everyone had a great Easter holiday and didn’t eat too much chocolate!

Literacy

This week P2 were learning the e_e phoneme as in these, here and even.  They explored how magic e changes the sound of ‘e’ in different words.

We practised our common words and for handwriting focussed on forming the letter k correctly.

The class also came up with ideas for their next ‘Big Talk’ topic.  They had a vote decide between my favourite place, toy or film.  My favourite toy won convincingly.

Numeracy

In numeracy we began learning about fractions.  We looked at how to half an object and discussed how a half is two equal pieces. As we are learning about halves we also revised our two times table, as it will be useful next week when we start to work on finding half of a quantity.

Learning across the Curriculum:

P2 enjoyed their walk on Thursday. It was a beautiful day and we went to the ball cage and played games with balls and hula hoops.

We also started our entries for the art competition at Catrine Show.  The theme is ‘on the farm’ and we drew pictures of tractors and trailers.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter Holiday!

Literacy

This week P2 were learning the a_e phoneme as in cake, bake and take.  They explored how magic e changes the sound of ‘a’ in different words. For our writing we wrote the middle of our stories , introducing a ‘problem’ for their characters to overcome.

Numeracy

For chance and uncertainty, we coloured our own probability jars to show the chance of choosing different coloured marbles. We also did more practise on our 2, 5 and 10 times table.

Learning across the Curriculum:

P2 had great fun decorating their eggs for the decorated egg competition.