Hello!
Another busy week in Class 2 with lots of fun activities!
In Maths this week, we have continued learning about fractions, consolidating our understanding of halves and quarters. We are getting quite confident at finding one half and one quarter of a shape or a number and are now developing confidence in writing and understanding fraction notation for a half (1/2) and a quarter (1/4). We designed our own pizzas with different fractions of toppings.
Subhan – It was fun making the pizza fraction toppings
Bilal – I am feeling good about fractions
In Literacy this week, we have continued to work on using interesting adjectives to create character descriptions. We wrote or recorded a description of our Highland cow characters.
Kareem – the cow had lots of hair!
Ivo – the cow goes moo!
In Phonics we have been learning spelling patterns for words that end in a -y making an /ee/ sound. We noticed that all the words in our list had two syllables and the words with a short vowel sound had a double consonant in the middle.
IDL – Scotland and its Heritage
On Monday, we learned about the Scottish artist Steven Brown (https://www.stevenbrownart.co.uk/) and used his rainbow Highland cow paintings to inspire our own artwork.
Kit – I like his art
Hector – it is colourful!
We created our McCoo pictures using oil pastels and gave our Highland cows a name.
Bilal – that’s me with a McCoo face
We also learned a socially-distanced version of the famous Scottish country dance, the Gay Gordons. Sadly, the video was too big to upload.
On Wednesday, we listened and sang along to some traditional Scottish children’s songs in Music and had lots of fun in our Outdoor Learning session with Miss Cohen. We learned about Scotland’s history, flora and cuisine. We especially liked making and eating Cranachan – yum!
Subhan – we are looking for clues. The clues took us to the sensory garden and the eco garden – all over the playground!
Kit – Miss Cohen told us about animals that live in Scotland
Khadija – we ate raspberries
Today we made and decorated shortbread biscuits…
…and we had two very special visitors to say farewell to Ross, who will sadly be leaving us next week. 😢
Digital Literacy – we have been learning how to use the app Book Creator and have started work on an eBook all about ourselves. Hector made a fabulous example which he agreed to share with everyone…
His creation also earned him our Gold Star of the week award. Here he is getting his award…
Have a lovely weekend!
Goodbye for now.
Mrs Chapman
PS Unfortunately, we will have a few less pictures from now on, as we are running out of storage space on the Blog!
