Monthly Archives: October 2020

Halloween Week! WB: 26.10.20

This week we have had lots of fun in p2b with Halloween themed activities!

Speedy Skills

‘There were sweeties with words and if they were right you had to put them in the treat tub and if they were wrong you put them in the trick tub.’- Cameron

‘I was making a potion and I used the cards. It was to make a wizard.’

‘I was writing my words in slime.’- Sofia

‘We were playing a game to see who got the most cards. It was subtraction. It was a bit like Around the World.’- Ben

‘I was threading in the right order from 0 to 20.’- Magnus

‘We were making our own really really hard questions. You picked two balls and you looked at the board and added the numbers together.’- Alexander

Literacy

‘I was reading out a Halloween book that I made about a witch.’- Willow

‘You had to choose a diagraph and write words to make a spider.’- Ashley

‘qu was our sound. I was writing quill.’-Sofia

‘I was reading Horrid Henry. I like him because he does all the naughty things.’- Josh

Numeracy

‘We were finding the missing numbers. You had to close your eyes then someone took some away.’- Ethan

‘We were seeing which alien was the smallest. We were learning about measure.’-Harry


‘We were getting items and we were measuring the size of them and then we had to put ourselves from smallest to biggest.’-Caleb

‘I was measuring whose water bottle was bigger. Harley’s was 9 cubes and Ben’s was 13 cubes.’-Ibrahim

PE

IDL

‘We were making crowns. Ashley showed me how to make them.’-Kayla

‘I brought in a crab to show everyone. You could make it’s pincers move,’-Charlie

‘I made a shoe box with under the sea things.  I use string and sellotape and some things to make coral.’-Matthew

‘We heard a song called Danse Macabre.’-Amelia

‘You had to write down whatever you hear. I could hear skeletons.’-Myles

‘I heard a keyboard. It was a good tune.’-Rory

 

‘I made a giant pumpkin and a tiny pumpkin.’-Harley

‘I was using some cotton wool and I was getting some paint and then I dabbed the cotton wool in water and put it on the paper. It was a background for my picture.’-Mia

 

‘We were doing subtraction word problems. We were working as a team.’-Aaron

‘We were reading our spooky spells. They had to be rhyming words. Ours was to turn someone into a cat.’-Miller

Woodland Cafes, exploring 3D objects and a pizza party! WB: 05.10.20

Welcome to our latest blog!

We have had another fantastic, busy week in Primary 2b- I am sure the boys and girls are ready for a well deserved holiday and a rest now!

 

Speedy Skills

We have had lots of new morning activities to try this week. Noughts and Crosses was a big hit, with pupils having to read their common words before they could choose a space!

‘I was making maths questions and they were a wee bit tricky but I could do them!’- Alexander

IDL- Under the Sea

‘I drew lots of kind of sharks and I was making a poster with information about them.’ -Kayla

We also made an Under the Sea food pyramid!

‘An octopus is a secondary consumer. It eats fish.’- Matthew
‘A crab is a primary consumer. It is an omnivore.’- Aaron

 

 

Literacy

This week everyone received their first reading book of Primary 2! It has been a joy to see everyone’s passion for reading. The children have been working to develop their independence by following a task board and managing their own time when completing follow up jobs.

‘Me and Myles were reading our book. I liked when the mouse ate the cheese.’- Aaron

Our sounds this week have been ‘wh’ and ‘th.’

In writing, we started using our jotters! The boys and girls were challenged to write sentences with; capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and to extend their sentences using ‘and.’

‘I was writing. I had capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.’ – Archie

We have also tried using our new handwriting jotters to practise neat formation!

 

Numeracy

We have had a big focus on naming, identifying and describing 3D objects this week.

The children sorted 2D shapes and 3D objects and labelled them.

‘I was sorting the shapes and  helping  Kayla to write the names of the shapes. My favourite shape is a sphere because it’s round like  circle.’ -Eva

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We played a game of ‘guess the shape’ pass the parcel!

‘When the music stopped you got to feel in the bag. There were shapes inside and you had to feel them and tell everyone what they felt like and how many sides. Then had to guess what shape it was.’ -Willow

We experimented with shapes to see if they rolled, then sorted them into categories.

‘We were looking to see what things roll and what didn’t roll. Then we put it in the hoops.’ -Rory

We explored the properties of 3D objects and worked in teams to make informative posters!

‘I was putting numbers in the table about the cube. It has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 vertices.’ – Ethan

Woodland

This week at woodland lots of people were creating their own cafes and menus!

   

‘I was making an ice cream list. It had chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. You could get donuts too.’- Oliver

‘I found a foot shaped log. I think it was from a giant.’- Mia

We had some very brave tree climbers!

‘I put mud on my face because I was being an army man!’- Harry

PE

We have continued to practise our three types of pass this week; bounce, chest and javelin!

 

Reward Afternoon (Pizza Party!)

I am very proud of the hard work and effort everyone has put in these first few weeks, which has resulted in another reward afternoon!

The boys and girls helped to count all of the house tokens in the full jar- there were over 300! That meant that there had been outstanding behaviour, kindness and effort shown over 300 times in the last few weeks- WOW!

‘I was making stacks of ten with the house tokens. We were seeing which group had the most.’ -Amelia

 

This time the children voted to have a ‘pizza party,’ and watched a sea themed movie- Finding Dory!  We made sure we were using equipment safely like graters and knives and worked hard to keep our work station and utensils clean and hygienic.

 

‘I was eating my pizza. I liked the baby peppers.’- Theo

‘ We were making pizzas because we were having a reward for getting the jar full. It was great, we had some orange juice and blackcurrant.’- Zack

 

Have a brilliant October break and I will see you all on Tuesday 20th October!

 

 

Maths Week Scotland Week Beginning 28.09.20

This week was Maths Week Scotland 2020!

This year there was a focus on outdoor maths and we explored lots of exciting concepts like addition, subtraction, measure and shape!

 

Every morning the boys and girls have some ‘speedy skills’ activities and games to try when they come in to class. These were all centred around maths this week.

‘We were trying to balance the scales. You have to make the same number of gems.’- Zack

‘You had to write calculations and they had to have the same answer.’- Cameron

‘You need to double the numbers.’ -Ashley

‘You roll the dice then you double the number. You put a cube on the number.’- Kayla

‘You had to pick a cube and then you had to roll the dice. What you got you move that number. Then you add the number on the dice and the number on the card.’ Charlie

Theo was the winner!

‘You get a calculation on a peg. You have to find the answer. You peg it on the right answer.’ Rayna and Miller

Numicon City

‘You had to put the numicon on to the buildings and match them. Then you count the windows.’ – Ben

‘You had to find the buildings that were the tallest, shortest, widest and had the most windows.’ -Caleb

‘There were cups and you had to figure out if the calculation was true or false. Then you put it in the right cup.’ – Ibrahim

‘You have to find the calculation and then make a tower of the calculation. Then you put it on top to show the answer.’ Josh

‘We were doing the crab drive. Each number on the dice was a part of the crab.’- Rory

‘First you needed to roll a 6 because you had to start with the body.’ -Magnus

‘If you have done all the numbers up to 6 and made a crab then you are the winner.’ -Harry

 

In pairs, the children used natural concrete materials to answer numeracy questions. Once they had the answer they used the numbers to crack the code! Everyone worked so well together, showing excellent focus and team work.

‘You had to crack the code. You had to do the calculations with leaves, sticks and stones. Then you use the answer to crack the code.’- Alexander

‘The code said ‘turtle!’- Archie

Ethan and Matthew worked well as a team to get some house points and crack the code together!

We tried some more speedy skills games and resources later on in the week.

‘I used the shapes to make a gnome. I used a square, a triangle and some rectangles.’ -Aaron

‘You had to get the tokens and put them into one cup. You shake the cups together then see how many is in each cup!’ – Mia

‘You had to put the pom poms at the mirror to see how much it makes. It showed you the double in the mirror.’- Ethan

‘You use the stretchy things (elastic bands) to make stuff like animals.’- Myles

‘You can make squares or rectangles.’- Rayna

On Wednesday, we had a whole day all about measure!

We were thinking about words like tallest and shortest. We measured Miss McCann and Miss Goodwin to see who was the tallest!
We ordered ourselves from tallest to smallest in the class.

‘We put things in order form the longest to the shortest. The aeroplane was the longest.’- Matthew

 

After this we started to explore using a metre stick! We looked for things that were taller than 1m, about 1m and the smaller than 1m.

We then took part in some measure problem solving!

‘There was bridge that you need to go under to go to a party. It was 1m tall. We had to make characters that were smaller than 1m and taller than 1m to see if they could go to the party.’- Harry

 

On Friday morning, we filled in a table about things in the class. In pairs, the children looked for items to measure that were taller than 1m, about 1m and smaller than 1m.

‘My pencil was 13 cm.’- Charlie

‘I was measuring my water bottle. Mine was taller than Ibrahim’s.’- Harley

We linked our measure learning to our Under the Sea topic!
The children helped to order sea creatures in metres from smallest to biggest.

‘You had to start with the smallest sea creature. I was the giant clam.  Then went to the biggest.’- Willow

‘We put them in length order.’- Cameron

Our final Maths Week challenge was to draw our sea creatures to scale outside! In partners, everyone drew their creatures with chalk, wrote how long they were, their name and drew a picture of them!

‘I was working with Kayla to measure how long a whale shark is. It is 18 metres.’- Amelia

When everyone was finished, we took a learning walk to compare the sizes of the creatures! Some boys and girls wanted to lie down to see how big they were next to their sea creature.

‘ We drew a giant clam and it was 1m and 50 cm. The line is the size of the clam. The clam was bigger than Archie.’ – Zack

Sumdog has been a big hit for Maths Week too! Well done to everyone who took part in the competition!

‘I liked playing Sumdog for maths week.’ – Theo

‘I liked that I completed all the challenges on Sumdog and I liked working with other people to do maths things.’- Eva