Month: March 2020

This week has been very different to normal but that hasn’t stopped Class 2 from learning lots while having some fun in the sun (and rain)!

We have missed our friends who have not been at school with us. Hope you are ok and enjoy looking at what your friends have been up to 🙂

 

Learning about the concept of division by sharing and grouping items and later in the week learning about the relationship between divide and multiply with picture sums

Revising nouns, verbs and adjectives and then taking notes on what our senses could find outside. We used lots of adjectives in our senses writing back in class.

Trip to Maxwell Park – some adjectives tennis, sprinting races, finding flowers (mini daffodils, crocuses and regular daffodils!), investigating the flooded pond and dusk within

We worked on a special project this week creating cards to send to the local care home residents who are probably feeling lonely due to being unable to have visitors. I’m certain these gorgeous cards will cheer them up 🙂

Doing some tables counting using our tennis skills outside while it is sunny!

We continued with our slavery topic this week reading Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt and then designed squares ourselves for our own freedom quilt recycling old fabric. Subhan chose to make his quilt square with the lightning bolt from Harry Potter when we learned about the character Dobby as a slave

Celebrating odd socks day a day early in school!

Aiyub has been having a fantastic time on his P7 residential trip this week. Here are just a few photos of some of the amazing things he got up to!

 

 

 

There will be no paper home school diary this week as the school is limiting paper that travels back and forth between homes and school.

I am happy to send you a daily email with the information I normally put in the diary. If you would like me to do this please email me requesting this so I have your email address.

My email address is – gw14hewittlaura@glow.ea.glasgow.sch.uk

The children’s homework pouch is being kept in school just now and no paper books or homework jotters will be coming home this week for the same reason.

The children have their spelling words on a scrap piece of paper so they can learn them this week ready for their test on Friday and this paper should be kept at home.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. You can comment on this blog post or email me.

Take care.

Miss Hewitt

 

 

Please find attached 2 images of social stories which we have been over in class but may be useful for you to reinforce at home with your child.

They may help explain why things are different just now and prepare the children for if there are any school closures in the future.

Here is a more general story about the virus for children –

Childrens-story-about-coronavirus

 

Here is some of what we have been learning this week –

• increasing our speed with mental addition and subtraction
• introducing the concept division through sharing objects
• discussing the types of words we have  -verbs, nouns and adjectives
• identifying nouns in the school
• choosing adjectives to describe given nouns
• alternative spellings for the ee phonic
• discussing new feelings greedy, selfish and generous in PATHS
• writing e and E correctly
• reading stories about Harriet Tubman and the Underground railroad and discussing these real life events in history
• working with scaling our feelings or actions
• continuing discussing and identifying non fiction features in text
• working on serving in tennis
• listening to and appraising different gospel music

Our writing focus this week

The problem we were given to discuss strategies to work out before being introduced to the concept of division

Some of the alternative ee words we generated

PATHS feelings summary at the end of the lesson

The different gospel songs we have appraised and identified their similarities

 

On Friday Mariam went on her first visit to her new Secondary school to attend a science event. Here are a few photos of her exciting activities!

On Friday afternoon we celebrated Ivo’s birthday and the children were delighted with their party bags that Ivo’s mum had sent in for them to enjoy! Thank you Liana 🙂

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

This week we spent a lot of time perfecting our performance for the class assembly on Thursday and all the hard work paid off! The children were fabulous. Thank you so much to the parents who made it along to see the performance, it means a lot to the children.

Mariam has been working on preparing for the ladies lunch which took place on Friday to celebrate International Women’s Day. She attended the event and enjoyed a delicious lunch, took part in games of bingo, answered questions about women in the quiz and did some dancing along with just generally helping out. Well done Mariam! 🙂

Venus won the house points competition and received their pancake afternoon award on Tuesday. Hector Mariam and Subhan seemed happy with the treat!

Literacy work this week continued with non-fiction reading skills and investigating question words and building questions of our own.

Maths work included multiplying 2 digit numbers and looking at different strategies to do this using concrete materials or mentally.

We had great fun in our Health and Wellbeing lesson on Friday conducting an experiment about sneezing. Turns out sneezes and the germs they expel can travel very far!

Another busy week in Class 2!

 

 

 

Some of our learning this week –

• punctuating sentences
• writing our own questions and exclamation mark sentences
• multiplying 2 digit numbers
• learning the lyrics to ‘Lean on me’
• learning our assembly script
• listening and appraising more gospel music
• developing our racket skills in tennis
• developing our knowledge of non fiction features
• answering comprehension questions on a text
• discussing strategies for making up with friends
• roleplaying situations using a variety of these strategies
• playing routines on the samba drums and accompanying percussion instruments

Strategies to make up with friends suggested by the class 

During the Ash Wednesday service Ivo and Hector got their ashes for the first time

Lots of active exercise and play at Adventure, including some role play of enslaved people and masters inspired by our topic

On Friday our Primary 7 pupils attended the ASL Super 7s event at the Emirates stadium. They were absolutely fabulous and performed faster than any other school attending! We are all very proud in Class 2 🙂