Author: Miss Hewitt

Another busy week in Class 2. We have had more visits in class from our Serbian guests and there was an assembly to celebrate their 2 weeks on Friday. Friday was also our mass to celebrate St Albert The Great, who our school is named after.

Here are some of the things we have been learning –

• learning about the hours within a day and the seasons in a year linked to the movement of planet earth
• ordering months
• matching months to seasons
• exploring more connectives in writing
• space quiz using our knowledge so far
• researching using the internet and books
• using contents and index pages to find information
• naming the planets in order
• skipping and burpees in P.E
• summarising our stories in our reading books
• answering comprehension questions
• the diagraph ‘th’ in phonics
• discussing the feeling guilty in PATHS
• beginning work on telling the time

Taking turns being the sun and the earth to understand days and seasons

 

Sorting months into seasons

 

Space quiz results

Internet and book research about our planet

Ordering the planets correctly

 

We have been busy bees this week. Here is some of what we have been learning –

• what connectives are and using them in our sentences
• quick recall of our doubles sums
• working out the missing numbers in patterns
• what planets are in the solar system
• giving a reason for the choice we make using evidence we know
• recognising ordering and spelling days of the week and months of the year
• working out some anagrams
• discussing celebrations that happen in specific months
• how to plank
• correct formation for the letter h and H
• thinking about different points of view
• discussing the importance of the ‘think’ step between ‘feel’ and ‘do’
• the ‘sh’ digraph
• counting the syllables to help spell words
• discussing listening and turn taking as important things that friendships need
• acting out some different scenarios

Ordering the days of the week

 

Ivo working hard to learn the days of the week

Spelling – using syllables to help us remember how to spell the days and months

Some of the connectives we discussed and used in our writing

Some anagrams work as the challenge task in maths

Our sh words

Recording our doubles sums before testing ourselves with the flashcards

Class 2’s thoughts on what is important in friendships

 

There are 8 visitors from Serbia at St Albert’s for the next 2 weeks and they will be visiting all the classes to learn about education in Scotland.

The children met the visitors at assembly today and they have shared this video link for you and the children to learn a bit more about their school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lKHEDDy6UI&feature=youtu.be

 

In spelling this week we were learning about syllables, which are the chunks or beats in a word. This is helpful when learning to spell longer words. We counted syllables in lots of different words and practised clapping out the different parts of the word. This is one of the many different activities we can do at home to practise our words, if they are longer. It is not a very helpful activity to learner shorter 3 or 4 letter words.

We continued revising addition and subtraction sums this week in maths and also began work on our new time topic. Firstly we are working on longer periods of time – days, months and seasons. This will also be linking in with our space topic which we will be starting properly next week. We have been enjoying our class novel Flat Stanley in Space at the end of each day.

On Tuesday we completed our technology lesson building our spider webs using twigs, string and glue. There were a variety of strategies used by the different children, creating some really great interesting webs!

We learned the ch sound in phonics this week and thought of LOADS of words! Ch is a very common sound in so many words we know.

With David we were improving our punching and kicking skills in karate.

Of course it was Halloween this week and there was lots of spooky things going on…

Wednesday was the Halloween disco after school

On Thursday we had a class party and a parade to celebrate Halloween

A very busy week again! Happy weekend and see you next week 🙂

 

Welcome back!

We have been busy with lots of learning in our first week back including –

• writing in the past tense
• using a variety of openers in our writing to vary our sentences
• pyramid writing in spelling to help us learn our words
• revision of addition with carrying and subtraction with borrowing
• creating some Halloween themed art
• completing a KWL grid for our new Space topic
• reading and spelling our oo phonics words
• learning about scaling of feelings in PATHS (this week as like and love)
• beginning HIIT fitness work in P.E
• self and peer evaluating our goals from term 1

Some of the ‘oo’ words we thought of and Kayden showing off his drawing of roots

Gathering resources for our art & technology lesson

Miss Hewitt did not give the children instructions how to make the spider web – they were shown pictures and were to try and problem solve how to secure the sticks and string together independently… to be continued next week!

Well, that is term one finished already! A great start to the year in class 2 with lots of great learning already.

We finished off the last week of term with a trip to the Science Centre yesterday to watch ‘A beautiful planet’ at the I-max, which will link in very well with out STEM themed topic next term. We also had some time to explore the science malls before the film which the class thoroughly enjoyed!

Thank you all very much for coming to parents night this week, it was great to see you all. Have a fabulous holiday and I will see you in term 2 🙂

This week was outdoor learning week at St Albert’s. We continued working on our current topics but incorporated the outdoors into our lessons. Thank you to those of you who were able to join us for the parent open afternoon for outdoor learning on Thursday.

Some outdoor mental maths – writing 2,3 & 4 digit numbers, finding numbers with a certain number of tens or units, finding numbers before or after, finding odd or even numbers

 

Preparing the skills we needed for our trip to the shop to work out some totals and change

 

Putting all our different basketball skills together to play a game on the MUGA (fabulous photography by Hector on Miss Hewitt’s iPad)

 

The ng words we hunted for on our trip to swimming, plus some other we thought of back in class

 

Trip to the local shop to spend £1 – adding up to find the total of the things we wanted and counting on to work out change. Then enjoying our purchases 🙂 

 

We were learning about y and Y in handwriting this week and did some of this outdoors using chalk and making the letters out of twigs

Photographs we took on our ‘Children’s Rights in action’ hunt. We found evidence of 9 different rights that children were receiving at St Alberts 🙂

 

Tuesday was Huzaifa’s birthday and we celebrated this with a party in class on Friday afternoon including some fabulous dancing for musical statues 🙂

On Thursday St Albert’s went on a whole school trip to the zoo!

It was a very busy day including games on the bus on the way there, spotting different animals in the enclosures,  finding out interesting facts about the animals, getting lots of exercise walking up the hills, fun time in the play park, using our money skills to buy souvenirs in the gift shop and some sleepy people on the bus home!

If you have any of your own photos, those of you that went off to explore by yourself, please share them in the comments 🙂

 

This week we have been learning  –

• past and present tense verbs
• predicting what is going to happen in a story
• the ee phonic sound
• about the place value of numbers
• partitioning numbers
• passing while dribbling, defending and attacking  in basketball
• what children’s rights are
• how to write u and U
• how to solve problems using the 3 steps for calming down

These were our initial thoughts on what Children’s Rights are. We will be working on this topic until the end of term and build our knowledge on this topic.

Our ee words

We worked in pairs to think about the similarities and differences we all have and took some photos of those we noted down 

Here are a note of some of the differences and similarities we discussed. Some similarities and differences we can see but others are invisible. 

Hector enjoying Friday clubs!

We have been learning –

• the ingredients of a sentence
• dribbling and shooting skills in basketball
• speed answering mental maths questions (we bet our records, see photo!)
• identifying the value of digits in numbers
• partitioning numbers
• 10 more and 10 less
• the ‘ie’ diagraphe in phonics
• problem solving strategies
• about internet safety
• how to approach challenges using our growth mindset

We bet lots of records in our speed challenge mental maths games this week!

Investigating place value

Dribbling and shooting practice on the MUGA at P.E

 

Some of our ie words

Some amazing climbing skills on show at Linn Park this week!