Month: February 2020

We celebrated Pancake Tuesday by having a picnic in class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jibraeel- we ate pancakes.

Aarv- Pancake Tuesday was all about using up food. We used butter and jam.

Ajwa- We learned about why Christians make pancakes on Pancake Tuesday.

Sam- It’s so we don’t waste food.

Alizah- Ash Wednesday comes the day after.

Inayah- Christian give up something for 40 days.

Aarv- Miss Graham got ashes on her head.

We then made our own promise to try and either give some up, or trying something new for 40 days.

 

 

 

 

 

Lulu- We made a promise and made it into an envelope.

Arahm- We decorated the posters.

Jibraeel- We made them to put on the wall, so we could all check them.

Talha-  We made a promise.

Sam – We put them on the wall so we could check back.

We started a new science topic this week, we started to look at electricity.

Isaa- We were learning about electricity.

Talha-  We use electricity for our lights.

Arham- Electricity comes out of a Power plant.

Sam – Electricity can be dangerous, and you shouldn’t touch the wires.

RV- You’re not allowed to touch electricity.

 

We continued our topic and explored more about Harriet Tubman’s life.

RV- We learned more about Harriet. She was a strong girl.

 

We have been continuing to focus on character descriptions, and we are becoming experts in this.

Alizah- we continued to write about characters.

Subhan- we were using adjectives to describe the characters.

We enjoyed playing with our phonics game as a treat on Friday for having completed so much hard week during the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talha- We played literacy games.

Talha- We learned how to use Sumdog.

 

Our weekend task for this wee is to…. count the number of stairs, inside or outside your house.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Miss Graham.

During this very stormy week in Primary 2 we explored lots of different learning opportunities.

In Maths, we focused on volume. So on Monday morning, we made smoothies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rida – we made smoothies.

Jibraeel- We picked our own fruit to make the smoothies.

RV- We learned about Volume and they were full when they were made, then there would be less when we drank them.

Ajwa- We used the lists for the ingredients.

Abdulhadi – We were measuring the cups when it was the whole fruits and then again when it was blended.

Talha- We drank the smoothies.

RV- They started full, then they became half full and then empty.

Amna- We learned about the language of volume.

Arham- We were measuring things.

In Primary 2, we have tried to make the most of the horrible weather. We have placed out lots of different cups in the play ground and we are going to measure the rail fall.

Zainab- We left out cups to measure the rain.

Lulu- We are going to go back outside and see how much rain has fallen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inayah- We played maths games.

Talha- Playing games – snakes and ladders.

Sam- We played number games.

We have started to look at taking away concrete materials during maths, and tried to use different strategies in our head.

Abdulhadi – Looking at numbers that make 10.

Arham- We used the ‘counting on’ method when adding.

HWB

This week during Health and Wellbeing, we looked at the Food Pyramid and what types of food (and how much) we need to be healthy.

Aarv- Learned about healthy foods and the food pyramid. We put the correct foods into the pyramid.

Zayn- We talked about what our favourite food is

Abdulhadi- You stay healthy by eating Dairy, fruit and vegetables, protein and hats.

 

On Monday, we are looking forward to celebrating Aleena’s Birthday with some cake!

Primary 2 have asked to have weekend challenges are part of our maths homework: each week I will add the challenge to the end of the blog to remind you of the challenge.

This weeks challenge: Count all of the forks in the house.

Feel free to leave a comment at the end of the blog with any questions or messages. 🙂

Have an amazing weekend!

Miss Graham

Hi Parents and Carers

The whole school has had a re-vamp of homework. Here is Primary 2’s homework explained:

on Monday-

Reading: Jolly Phonics Book.

Spelling: Write your spelling words another 2 times into your jotter.

Maths: Practice your timetables.

 

Tuesday-

Reading: Jolly Phonics Book.

Literacy: Practice tricky words and sounds.

Maths: Practice Number Bonds and Task on Sumdog.

 

Wednesday-

Reading: Jolly Phonics Book.

Spelling: Choose an Active spelling method (attached at the back of Homework Jotter) for the spelling words.

Maths: Practice your Timestables.

 

Thursday-

Reading: Library Book.

Spelling: Practice Tricky Words and sounds.

Maths: Practice Number Bonds and Task on Sumdog.

Sumdog can be accessed online: https://pages.sumdog.com

Hope this helps!

If any parents could volunteer to translate the Homework grid into written Urdu, Punjabi or Arabic, could you please let me know in the morning or at the end of the day. Thank you!

 

Thank you

Miss Graham.

Over the last two week we enjoyed doing lots of different tasks! We loved creating our new group names for both maths and literacy!

Last week we were showing off our skills in maths by showing how different numbers are made up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arham –  We were counting numbers in 10’s.

Zayn – We were adding numbers together using cubes and beads.

Zainab- We were adding

We also continued with symmetry and had some fun with our portraits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shahmir – We were learning about symmetry.

Ismaeel – We learned how to do symmetry. It’s when it can be folded in half and its got a reflection.

Subhan – Last week we played a pirate game, and following directions step by step.

 

As we have been reading Handa’s Surprise and learning about all the different types of fruit, we thought we could make some smoothies next week! However that meant we needed to write Miss Graham a shopping list to get all of the ingredients.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abdulhadi – We listened to a book about Handa’s Surprise and we spoke about why Handa was surprised and then wrote a shopping list so we could make healthy smoothies.

Ajwa – We made a list for Miss Graham, so she knows what to buy.

Issa – We are going to make smoothies next week.

Sam – We made a shopping list for Miss Graham so we can make smoothies next week.

Aleena – We wrote a shopping list for fruit.

 

We have also still been focusing on desiring characters and how to make these character descriptions very interesting.

Talha – We read The Gruffalo again.

RV- Yesterday we used lots of good describing words about The Gruffalo.

M Abdullah – We were writing about characters and describing them using adjectives.

Ajwa – We used lots of nouns and adjectives in our writing

Alvina – We were reminding ourselves about nouns, they are places, things, people or animals

Harriet Tubman has still been a big part of our learning in our topic and we are enjoying learning lots about her life in slavery.

Aarv – We talked about Harriet Tubman, and she helped lots of people to escape to Pennsylvania.

Amna – Harriet Tubman saved over 100 people.

Jibraeel – Harriets name was Minty when she was born.

 

As it was safer internet day on Thursday we looked at how to stay safe when online and even learned a song to help us remember how to be safe.

Armaan – We drew a picture for internet safety.

 

Miss Graham brought in lots of  books from when she was a child and we picked one of them to start reading.

Lulu – We chose a new book to read in class.

Inayah – We picked Georges Marvellous Medicine to read.

During our health and wellbeing time, we looked at lots of different topics:

Ranvir – We talked about friendship.

Alizah – We talked about road safety.

Amer – We went litter picking.

 

Hope everyone had a lovely break!

Miss Graham!