Month: January 2020

Some of our learning this week  –

• what is a complete sentence, part of a sentence and run on sentence
• creating a table on the I-pad and inputting data
• creating a pie chart to display data on the i-pad
• discussing what we know about the topic slavery
• investigating the character Dobby from Harry Potter as a enslaved person
• listening to gospel music and discussing the link of this music style to slavery
• finding and keeping the pulse in a song
• reading, spelling and writing with the ‘ar’ phonic
• writing the letter r and R correctly

Reminding ourselves of the different types of sentences

Creating a pictogram with the information we had gathered in our table

Our initial thoughts about slavery

Learning how to use the numbers app on the I-pad to create a table and then a pie chart

Completed edited tables and pie charts

Some of our ‘ar’ words

Doing some keeping the pulse activities in music

 

 

Here is a maths resource we use in school.

This is helpful with many aspects of number work such as number recognition; numbers before, after and in-between; counting backwards, counting patterns etc.

It can be used to practice these skills at home if this is something your child finds difficult and to support with homework.

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/hundredsquareadvanced/

This week we spent a lot of time learning and perfecting our performance of ‘Touch the Sky’ for the Burns assembly. We worked with our friends in P6/7 for this and those of you that were able to make the performance will know we were fabulous!

Watching Primary 3’s dance performance

Our performance of ‘Touch the sky’

Some of our other learning from this week was –

• punctuating sentences correctly using full stops
• creating bar graphs with a tittle, scale and labels
• investigating pictographs
• counting in 2s, 5s, 3,s and 4s
• learning the er phonic sound
• developing our throwing, catching and rolling skills with a tennis ball
• creating a warm watercolour sunset picture

Warm watercolour background, blending the colours

Our amazing collection of er words that we spelled correctly ourselves 🙂

 

 

 

 

Here is our planning map for term 3 which outlines what we will be focussing on this term in Class 2. The learning varies from child to child but this gives you a general overview.

 

 

Following on from our learning of the lyrics this week in school we are now practising singing ‘Touch the Sky’ with this video which does not have vocals so we can hear our lovely voices better 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoeO7u9z5LU

 

It has been a busy week again in Class 2. Here is some of what we have been learning this week –

• thinking of rhyming words
• reading information from tally charts
• creating graphs from information in tables
• collecting our own data using a table and tally marks
• discussing where full stops go in sentences and punctuating a passage
• tennis ball skills
• counting in 3s
• getting faster at doubles and near doubles sums
• learning the lyrics and tune to ‘touch the sky’
• spelling and reading ue phonics and writing sentences with these words
• completing our morning and night time routines with daily hygiene tasks
• revising  and acting out our comfortable and uncomfortable feelings
• reading and answering questions in what we’ve read to show our understanding

Some of our thoughts on our new maths topic

 

Gathering data on our table using tally marks

Our completed tables which we will use to create a graph next week

Some of the PATHS feelings we discussed and acted out this week

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

 

 

 

There will be a whole school assembly on Friday 24th January. All classes will be performing Scottish songs, poems and dances.

Class 2 are working with P6/7 learning the song ‘Touch the Sky’ from the Disney film Brave.

Homework over the next 2 weeks is to practices singing this song. There is a paper copy of the lyrics in your child’s homework pouch. Below is also a link to the song with on-screen lyrics that you can sing along with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvR9YOpDG4A

 

 

Hope you all had a lovely holiday and have had a good start to 2020!

We were all excited to see each other again this week in Class 2 and have been doing some super learning to start the year!

Some of what we have been learning this week is –

• evaluating our goals for last term and setting new ones for term 3
• counting in 3s
• working on our times tables
• investigating place value of tens and units and doing some partitioning
• revising our phonics and spelling strategies
• building some spelling words outside (wet & windy work – see photos below!)
• identifying hot and cold colours
• creating a cold colours watercolour background
• reading our new books and answering questions to show our understanding
• setting up our new iPads
• discussing hygiene and routines to help with this
• enjoying a performance of Wyliecoat the Wizard

Some outdoor spelling

Creating our cold watercolour backgrounds for our winter themed art

 

Being a good audience for Wyliecoat the Wizard

 

The multiplication gang – amazing work on times tables this week 🙂