Author: gw19grahamclaire@glow

Last week we had the amazing Kate in teaching us to dance. She was so impressed by our moves and Miss Graham was so proud of our finished dance!

We practiced moving in lots of different ways. We become water, trains and trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then tried to move with a force field between us to show how powerful energy can be.

Before we put the dance together, we then practiced moving with partners and how to mirror each others movements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly we got to relax and think about all the hard work we had done throughout the morning.

 

If you would like to see our finished dance, we are performing it at the school show. More details on this to follow!!

 

Sam- We had fun with Kate inside the class.

Alizah- We were dancing in partners.

Inayah- We had the ladies lunch.

Aarv- We were dancing and inside and outside the class.

Jibraeel- We were being trees and trying to stop the Harriets from moving.

Talha- We were being water to help the Harriets.

Issa- We were dancing and listening to the drums.

Ajwa- The Harriets we’re coming through the forest and then the waves came to save them.

M Abdullah-We were using the force to dance.

Abdulhadi- We were using the Harriets to show how she escaped to a different state.

Zayn- The trees were surrounding the Harriets.

Arham- We were dancing.

 

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!

Another fantastic week in Primary 2!

So much fun and learning! This week in maths we were looking at money and what coins we can use to make values up to £1.

Our mental maths time included lots of different ways to make numbers to 10 using the bar model.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lulu – We can get 4 calculations from the model.

Abdulhadi – We were remembering what odd and even numbers are.

Subhan – We were adding £2 and £2 to make £4.

Inayah – We were learning about multiplication.

Issa –  Multiplication is like groups of.

 

During Health and Wellbeing, we practiced our listening skills. This is a whole class target we are trying to work on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ajwa – We were asking our partners what they were doing at the weekend so we could practice our listening skills.

Abdulhadi – We then asked them questions to show we were listening to them.

Ajwa- We learned that if you’re not listening, you cannot ask questions.

 

We then worked in pairs to show the importance of asking questions. One person had to draw something on their whiteboard and the other had to ask questions to guess what was on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abdullah – We were sitting behind our partner and asking question about what was on our boards.

Rida – We were drawing shapes for our partner to guess.

During our writing time, we were still focusing on Character. Some of us were re-writing a piece we had already written in order to improve it, and the other group working on the  iPads to animate our library books.

Deen – We were talking about Characters, and describing them using adjectives.

Subhan – We were describing characters using all the words that are needed.

During grammar we looked at singular and plurals.  We had a shot at writing words in singular and plural.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lulu – We write a ‘s’ at the end if there is more than one.

Subhan – Plural is more than 1.

Aarv – Singular is just 1.

During our outdoor PE slot we practiced our ball skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Innayah – We were throwing the balls to each other.

Abdulhadi – We were rolling and bouncing the ball.

Amer – We were passing and rolling the ball.

This afternoon we had such fun watching the Primary 4’s performance with Barroland Ballet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ajwa – They were telling us a story about a monster and that all stories don’t have a happy ending.

Innayah – They were doing cartwheels.

Alizah – They were doing handstands.

Amer – They were telling a story and mums were there.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and can’t wait to see everyone again on Monday!

 

Miss Graham

What a fun week celebrating Robert Burns!

We have enjoyed all areas of the curriculum this week and can’t wait to show you  what we have been doing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week in maths we looked at symmetry in patterns and shapes. We had loads of fun playing these Topmarks games:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

Abdulhadi – They were making symmetrical patterns.

Issa – When you fold the pattern it should match on either side.

Lulu – We used patterns and colours in symmetry.

In maths we also continued to look at Place Value.

Here is Ajwa describing place value to the class. Miss Graham thought her explanation was fantastic.

RV – She was hiding the zero to show it’s a ‘ten’.

Ajwa – I was being the teacher.

Arham – We were doing Place Value.

Ajwa – We were finding the numbers on 100 boards.

Zayn showed just how amazing he is by writing a sentence independently. What a superstar!

Zayn – I used my alphabet to spell my words and write a sentence.

 

On Wednesday, the BBC came to visit and we got to play some games from the show, Swashbuckle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arham – We were trying to get the beanbags into the correct box.

Deen – It was for the show, Swashbuckle.

Arham – We played games.

Talha – We played games that we had to listen.

 

All this week we have been getting outside and taking part in the daily mile with Primary 2/3. We walk or run round the MUGA as many times as possible before play time.

 

 

 

 

 

RV – We are exercising everyday.

 

As today is Robert Burns day, we celebrated Robert Burns in school by hosting a Burns Assembly. We truly were the stars of the show, introducing each class and singing a Scottish song.

We enjoyed learning our lines and practicing our song each day.

If you would like to see our performance of ‘If it Wisney Fur Yer Wellies’, it should be available via this link:

Abdullah Q – We did our part in the show and sang a song.

Rida – We were singing.

RV – We had lines to learn.

Innayah – We used the mic when speaking.

Abdulhadi – We introduced each class.

RV – Mum and Dads came to see us, it was very exciting.

Arham – All of the teachers were watching us.

 

Hope you are having a fantastic weekend.

Miss Graham

Second week back and our brains are still growing, and we are getting much better at giving others time to let their brain grow as well!

We looked at grids and how we plot points. We started to write down our co-ordinates and how these should look.

 

Abdulhadi – The grids can help you with where you want to go.

Abdulhadi – A grid has two axis’ and one has numbers and one has letters.

RV –  There is an X axis and a Y axis.

Deen – The Y axis goes straight up and the X axis goes to the side.

Deen – We remembered this by saying ‘Y reach for the sky’.

Rida – Inayah found the treasure.

Alizah – We played a treasure chest game.

We loved having Mrs Sheridan in on Monday morning showing us different ways to make numbers and looking at the value of these numbers.

Some of us even looked at the hundreds column.

Abdulhadi – We looked at hard numbers with hundreds, tens and ones.

Deen – We looked at numbers and used 100 boards.

Arham – We used Dienes Material to help us with our place value.

 

In literacy we have been looking at characters and how important it is to describe them.

Abdullah Q – We were drawing monsters to see if everyone got the same. ( Miss Graham described a monster and we wanted to see if they all looked the same, showing the importance of describing a character with lots of detail and adjectives.)

 

We continued our topic by looking at the journey Harriet Tubman made, plotting these points on a map of America. We also looked at her life story and all the amazing things she did for others.

Aarv – We learned more about Harriet Tubman.

Abdulhadi – We learned that because we look different does not mean we are.

Abdullah – Some of our skin looks different but we should be treated the same.

Lulu – We were writing about Harriet Tubman’s life.

Abdulhadi – We were writing about characters.

 

We also started reading the book: Handa’s Surprise.

Jibraeel – We read Handa’s Surprise. Her friend was happy at the end.

Inayah – We were writing about Handa.

Jibraeel – We were writing a sentence at the target table about the story. We then take our target off when we have finished.

Inayah – We were looking at the story in parts. (First, then and last)

As part of our topic we looked at the UN Rights of a Child and if the children in the book we are reading about Harriet would have had these rights. We had a very long discussion about what is right and wrong.

Abdulhadi – We looked at peoples rights and what we need and what is not important to survive.

Because of our amazing hard work and effort all week, Miss Graham gave us time today to relax and practice taking big, long deep breaths.

Attached is our Term 3 Plan and all the things we will be doing over the next term.

P2, T3 Planner

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and see you all on Monday!

 

Thanks

Miss Graham

Welcome back to everyone, and a happy new year!

We had such a fun start to the year, and we were so busy we didn’t get the chance to take as many pictures as usual.

During the week we worked lots on phonics and looked at all the sounds we learned before the holidays. We had lots of choosing stations to get our brains working again, trying lots of different activates.

Innayah – Deen made the word cat, with a new game.

Abdulhadi – He used a different new game to make words.

Aarv started off by sounding out the words and checking his answer was correct! Well done Aarv!

Abdulhadi – We took home books from the class library to read.

In our writing this week, we focused on character and how to describe them. We started off by describing ourselves.

Lulu – We were writing about our lives.

Inayah – We used adjectives to describe ourselves.

In Grammar we learned about the different types on nouns.

Issa -A proper noun is the name of something.

Aarv – There are also common nouns, these are people, places and things.

Lulu – A proper noun needs a capital letter.

We had an amazing performance from Baldy Bane of Wyliecoat the Wizard. WE LOVED THIS!

Jibraeel -My favourite part was the bad guy screaming.

Deen – My favourite part was when the guy ‘dabbed’.

Inayah – I liked the cat, because he was so funny.

Alvina – I liked the girl, because she was a princess, and she had to use a disguise.

Ajwa – I liked the part, when the wizard made the bad guy dance.

In maths, we looked at money and all the coins up to £2. We also focused on numbers: counting back and forwards and adding numbers together.  We tried using lots of different materials to help us with our adding, now we know the one we like the most.

Aarv- We were adding numbers.

Issa – We were writing numbers down.

Abdulhadi – We were learning how to use stuff to help us with counting in maths.

Subhan – We were using money.

Abdulhadi – We were playing with the money and using it to solve problems.

Aarv – We were matching money and their value.

Ajwa – We were adding money together.

We started to learn our song for our Robert Burns Assembly. We are learning the song: If it winsey for your wellies.

Ajwa – I loved learning the song about wellies.

Have an amazing weekend and I cannot wait to see you all again on Monday!

Miss Graham.

Our last week has been so much fun. We were amazing at our Nativity Performances on Monday and Tuesday. Then we danced away at our Christmas Parties!

We even managed to identify right angles in the classroom. We used the class iPads to takes pictures of each other identifying the angles.

We all looked amazing at our Christmas Party!! We must all have been on the nice list as we all got a gift from Santa!

Primary 2 have had amazing start to their year! I am so proud of every single one of them for their hard work!! Thank you to all of the parents who have helped out over the first two terms, the staff and pupils appreciate your time. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and I cannot wait to see you all again in January!

 

ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ

شكرا جزيلا

شکریہ

Thank you

Miss Graham

x

Another amazing week in Primary 2!

So much fun was had and we even had a trip!

As usual we had the Jeely Piece on Thursday morning and we got to play lots of fun games.

As part of our topic we made moving cars with old plastic bottles. Primary 2 put all of the plastic bottles donated to use and made a car to play with.

We celebrated book week this week by reading lots of different books!

We read the hungry caterpillar in French.

We even found some very silly places in the classroom to read!

 

We then finished off the day with the whole class reading and enjoying our books.

 

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Graham