Hello readers and happy maths weeks 🙂

This week has been very busy in primary 2A- we have been learning lots about how we use maths at home, in school and in our future job aspirations.

Health and Wellbeing

We have discussing what makes a good friend- we then filled in handprints with five qualities that make us a good friend. These are now displayed in our classroom as a friendship flower.

Maths

In maths we have been practicing our addition and subtraction in our jotters, we have been focussing how to lay out our work and answers questioning with missing numbers.

To celebrate maths week we read a new book ‘The Doorbell Rang’ – the book was all about sharing cookies amongst a varying number of characters in the group.

We participated in different task relating to our maths week book.

We practiced sharing cookies between the characters, we looked at sharing depending on the number of people at the table and practiced adding dice together to work out how many chocolate chips our cookie should get.

We have been setting ourselves maths targets at lunchtime to see how we have used maths in the dinner hall and the playground. For example: we counted 40 steps between the dinner hall and the playground, some people cut their sausage roll into 5 pieces, we counted how many hops we did in hopscotch. It was very interesting to see how we use maths out with the classroom.

We have loved maths week and discussing how important our maths skills are.

Literacy

In literacy we have been practicing our ‘ng’ sound and looking at the differences between ‘ong, ing, ang, ung’.

We have also been writing sentences, focussing on who, what, when and where. DLL has been continued this week with new books and new familiar reads- we love getting to read different books every week.

PE

We have continued working on our gymnastics skills and balances. We have been practicing balances on mats and the beams. We love trying new skills in PE.

IDL

Hallo readers. This week we took a short flight from Crookfur to the Netherlands! We learned all about the Netherlands, their traditions, food, sport, flag, school and landmarks.

We hoped on our bikes and arrived at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. We had to get our cameras out to take a picture of the beautiful Palace!

We then learned about Kings Day that is celebrated in the Netherlands- during this we learned a dance that was made for the celebrations.

We also got to try the traditional stroopwaffle- we loved them!

After a short and smooth flight we arrived back at Crookfur.

We can’t wait to continue our travels around the world next week… Where to next?

Thank you so much for reading our blog. We hope you have a lovely and relaxing September weekend. Come back next week to hear more exciting updates from Primary 2 A.