Homework from 25/4/16 until 6/5/16

Language

French  Continue to practise saying the numbers up to 20:

 

un       deux       trois    quatre    cinq      six        sept       huit         neuf       dix

onze   douze     treize   quatorze     quinze     seize   dix-sept     dix-huit   dix-neuf     vingt

Phonemes

This week we will be continuing to learn the phonemes which make the U sound in words and will be learning the ew phoneme as in grew and new.

For the second week, we will learn the ue phoneme as in glue and blue.

Why not try to make sentences with as many words as you can?

Challenge – in your jotter, write sentences using your phoneme and spelling words.

Homework ideas for interactive games:

https://www.spellzone.com/games/witch/index.cfm?wordlist=1193&speed=2

Common words:

Keep practising the words you have been learning to read and write sentences using them.

• Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

each     find         men         room         soon        these

bring     keep       know      there     their        every

time     took        under       school         wish          life 

         father   mother     Mr         Mrs       week     year

• Take the sight word challenge. How many words can you read confidently?

Reading

A new reading book will now usually be given each Wednesday. The days for reading are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so please make sure that pupils have their reading books in their bags so that they can complete reading activities.

• Try clapping out the syllables of words in your reading book.
• Challenge – which words have the least and which words have the most syllables?

Number

We are continuing to learn about measurement and have explored using different containers to measure capacity.

More/less cup – You will need to work over the sink. Your child chooses a cup and finds three containers that hold more and three that hold less than the cup. Draw pictures of your findings.

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/can-you-fill-it/

Mental maths

Continue to practise mental maths skills by using this site and use different games to develop skills

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/park_the_pods/big_sound/full.shtm

Maths – Time

This term we will be learning about different aspects of time – we will start by talking about days, months and seasons.

Collecting dates- Find out some key dates from your family and friends, e.g. Mum’s birthday is 5^th March; we go on holiday on 10^th July. Bring a few dates into school and we will create a group or class calendar of events.

Time devices at home – Find and record places that you see the time devices at home, e.g. alarm clock, cooker timer. Draw, write or take photos of these devices and in class we will discuss what they are used for.

Interdisciplinary Learning

There will be different ideas for each homework blog.

To link in with the Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, why not…….

• Design a new Olympic flag?
• Create a new Olympic mascot?

You could draw, write instructions, make a model or talk about an idea – the choice is yours!

We took part in some outdoor learning this afternoon. We joined Primary 7 for a walk around the area to look for some Beat the Street boxes. We thought about all the learning that took place: exercise, fresh air, enjoying talking about the environment, working with others, thinking about mapping skills, participating in a national initiative and getting vitamin D!

This is morning we started to learn about area. We tried to measure the area of a hotter using different 2d shapes but everyone got a different answer. So some pupils suggested we should use things that were the same shape and size to measure the area. We experimented using counters and unilink and in the end we used squared paper to draw shapes of different areas. Why don’t you experiment at home?

 

Taking advantage of the lovely weather, we started to learn about our athletic skills development by going out onto the pitch. We were throwing the foam javelin, throwing beanbags into hoops and running with batons (quoits).

It was great to work together in teams and help one another.

To celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday, we wrote some information using a pen! We had to concentrate really hard and you could hear a pin drop in the classroom. We are all really keen to get our pen licence, so tried really hard to form our letters correctly.

It was also a day for thinking about our targets for this term and we are getting very good at saying what we need to work on ourselves.

Keep up the great work Primary 2!!

When the weather is good it gives us chance to work outside which is great, especially for capacity work. Today we were comparing how much water different containers can hold and we used a yoghurt pot of water to fill them. We learnt that we have to make sure that the yoghurt pot is FULL each time otherwise we do not get the true number.

Have a go at home to find a container with a small capacity and one with a large capacity. Use the same cup to fill them and find out how many capfuls each one holds.

We were very excited to get our new reading books and can’t wait to practise using our reading skills, finding sight words and phoneme words in our stories.

Even after our long holiday, luckily no-one fell asleep in the class today because we wre having so much fun!  We were learning French colours with Mrs Downs.  We learned more about compass directions and had to answer some tricky questions about north, south, east and west.  We are getting better with our phonemes and were sorting words with oo, u-e, ue and ew.   The weather was dry but a bit windy so we practised our sight words with chalk outside.  We have brought our sight word list home to practise reading them if we have any spare time.

What a day! First of all we had an assembly to say goodbye to Mr McCrorie which was fun and sad at the same time. We all wish him luck in his new post but we will miss him.

This afternoon we had our learning party. Cutting cakes in half,

Sharing sweets into into groups and having a good time. We hope that everyone has a happy and healthy holiday and we will see you in the Summer Term.

 

Thank you so much to everyone who presented their climate zone models today. The models are fantastic and you presented your information very well. The class demonstrated great listening skills and were interested in their classmates’ creations.

Listening to the children chat about their models with each other was lovely as it demonstrated how questioning has progressed and the ability to answer giving lots of detail is improving all the time.

If anyone wants to present their climate zone model tomorrow, there will be time in the morning.

Continuing our work about capacity, we went outside to investigate what happens when we use different sizes of containers. It was lots of fun learning!

Where has the water gone??  We also used what we know about the water cycle to realise that the puddle of water had evaporated!!

 

 

 

This morning we found out that we are going to have a small party on Friday as part of our learning about number this term. We had to write invitations to ourselves so had to think carefully about the layout and the information we needed on the invitation. Then we peer assessed the invitations to check that they were well written.

For our reading activity we learnt about the word visualisation and how it helps us to think about our story- the characters, setting and the events. We will be having more practice using this strategy next term.

We started to learn about capacity which is the word we use for measuring liquids. We had to half fill a container with water, so we were using lots of maths skills.

Tomorrow is the Climate Zone Presentation day which I am really looking forward to. The children are very interested in the different zones and aspects of life in them. Ideas for the model include the weather, types of homes, animals and the types of clothes worn. 

These are examples of desert and tropical climate models to give you some ideas.

 

 

 

Today absolutely flew past – we must have been having great fun!!  As well as ICT and PE today, we used lots of the skills and knowledge we have learned so far to write, create, practise and perform a newscast and weather forecast in groups of 3 or 4.  We even filmed them.  We did very well but realised that they would have been even better if we had practised more.  Unfortunately the video files are too large to put on the blog.

Also today we learned to use some special words to describe probability or the likelihood that something will happen.  This is something we will learn more and more about as we go through the school.  Today we had to decide if events were likely, unlikely or impossible.  We had to run to the correct heading in the gym.  It was fun.

 

 

Wow- our balancing skills are developing very well and lots of us walked along the thin part of the bench successfully!!

This morning we were learning about estimating being a guess which has thought to it but does not need to be exact. We tried to estimate how many board rubbers, pencils and lunch bands were in the different containers. It can be tricky, but when we thought about what we already know, our estimating began to improve. This is a great website for practising estimating:

www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/estimation-game

We had a go and we’re getting better all the time!

Have a lovely Easter break everyone and we’ll see you next Tuesday.