Mrs Chapman’s first week with Class 2! – Class 2; 2020

Hello !

It has been wonderful to finally meet all of the children in Class 2 this week. It has been a busy week with lots of exciting learning. Miss Cohen, Mrs Crosbie, Mrs Bennett and the children have been very helpful in showing me routines in Class 2.

In Maths this week, we were beginning to learn about fractions, especially recognising one half and one quarter of a number and shapes.

Kit – it was an interesting game

Subhan – the pizza game was fun!

In Literacy this week, we have been looking at Character, and we made some Chatterpix videos about familiar characters from our reading books and class novel;

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Ivo – they have hats on!

In Phonics this week, we were learning the ‘ar’ sound. We played snakes and ladders with ‘ar’ words, and some card Snap/pairing games.

Here’s Kit doing some Comprehension tasks on his Reading book – ‘It’s not fair’; a book all about how girls are fighting for their rights to dress up as knights!

IDL – Scotland and its heritage.

As we are looking at traditions around the world, we thought we would start exploring St Andrew’s Day and Scottish heritage before the end of November. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄

We discussed tartans – and how certain tartans could be traced back to particular clans and surnames in Scotland. We made our own tartans, through weaving paper together to create a “sett”. We also went outside on Thursday to create our own tartans with oil pastels and watercolours. It was nice to finally enjoy some sunshine!☀️❄️

Here’s a link you could use to see how Scotland was divided into clans and their associated tartans;

https://www.scottishfinegifts.com/tartan-clan-finder.irs

Ross – I’m doing my kilt in this picture.

Khadija – we used paint to make the tartan

Kit – I’m putting a tie on.

Bilal – This is tartan!

Ivo – I am dressed like a man

Kit – It was freezing cold outside!

When the rain stopped, some of us went outdoors and spent time on the trikes and scooters on the MUGA.🚴🏼‍♂️🛴

Kareem – I am riding a bike.

We also got a new resource delivered to the school…a slackline! Ross and Hector trialled it out this week, but we all can’t wait to have a turn ASAP!🤟🏽😍

Our School focus is Book Week Scotland. Here are some funny photos below which Kit and Hector entered into the ‘Reading in a unfamiliar/funny place’ competition! I think they must have been bats in a past life…🦇

We used our I-pads to read and listen to Ebooks using the suggested websites in the previous blog post. We then completed book reviews using the mark-up function on our photo editor, and air-dropped them to Miss Cohen. What a tech savvy class you are!📲💻

Subhan – I watched my book on the couch