Time to show everyone what we have been learning and the skills we have been developing. We have been sharing into 4 groups to find a quarter of a number.

We could choose whichever method we wanted to do the sharing.

In the Learning Zone, we were practising sorting, examining, serving out and constructing today. What did your child learn today?

Today we used our notes about tornadoes to create our own piece of writing.  We had to make up our own sentences to write information about tornadoes.  I think you’ll be amazed at what we found out!  Have a look in our jotters when you visit us for parents’ evening.

Homework from 7/3/16 until 18/3/16

Language

French Practise saying the days of the week in French:

lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche and counting up to 20.

Phonemes

We are continuing to learn the phonemes which make the O sound in words.

This week we will be learning words with the ow phoneme as in snow and grow

Next week we will be consolidating the different ways to make write long o sounds – ow, oa, o-e. Why not try to make sentences with as many words as you can.

• Challenge – in your jotter, write a sensible and a silly sentence using some oa, ow, o-e phoneme words.
• Homework ideas:

http://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list.cfm?wordlist=249

Common sight words:

• Keep practising the words you have been learning to read and add in the new sight words

well        what        when      where      which       who

never      other        some        take          them      thing

again     always       book        cold         day         fast

ask         best         eat          find         gave     home

  don’t       fell         jump        long       people     right

each       find         men         room       soon       these

bring       keep      know     there     their     every 

time         took       under     school     wish     life

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

http://www.spinandspell.com/game.swf

http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html

 

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.

• Make a trip to/join the library to look at all their useful resources.
• Look at any non-fiction books at home and look at the contents, index and glossary pages if the book has them. Ask an adult to find information with you by looking for page numbers and highlighted words.

Number

This week we will be learning about measurement and will be starting by looking at length and height. Here are some ideas for supporting our learning in class:

Measuring the family – Your child draws their family members, putting them in order of height. Then they draw them in order of age. Talk about whether the two orders are the same.

Non-standard units at home – Give your child a list of 10 things they are likely to have at home, e.g. TV, magazine, toothbrush, mug, spoon. Your child chooses a body unit of measure such as their finger width or hand span to measure the lengths of five of these objects.

Here are some websites that you may find useful

Reading measures – http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm

Harbour measurements – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/length_and_weight/play/

Fish catch – http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/math/games/first-second-grade/time-to-move/

Interdisciplinary Learning

Climate Zones

We are going to learn about climate zones – arctic, temperate, desert and rainforest climates.

• Use any information books to find out about these climates and how people live there.
• We will be having another presentation at the end of this term, so start collecting any junk materials ready to make a model of the climate zone of your choice!!!
• Take a look at this website, it has some really interesting information:

http://climatekids.nasa.gov/

Weather

We have been learning about some extreme weather conditions and taking notes from what we have seen or heard.

• Challenge, why not try to take notes from watching information on this site.

http://kidsahead.com/subjects/5-extreme-weather

 

We have been looking forward to a sunny day so that we could do a real-life survey of the cars and other vehicles that pass the school.  We worked in pairs and used tally marks to record how many cars of different colours passed by.  We turned the information that we had collected into a block graph in our jotters.

We really enjoyed ourselves and lots of us want to do more surveys at home or during playtime.

 

The children are becoming very good at origami folding and like using origami to show their learning. Today we used 4 equal parts to make a flower pattern.

 

 

 

In in our non-fiction reading we have found out that some words are in bold because they might be topic words. We found out what hibernate mea.

ICT we used our learning about fractions to create fraction flags- there are lots of different ways of making the patterns! See the photos above.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

 

It was a busy day in Primary 2!! As it is World Book Day we listened to some extracts of  stories from the site

www.worldbookday.com/story time-online/

Have a look at some of the other resources or listen to some other extracts.

This morning we joined lots of our learning together to make a vegetarian Scotch broth.  We had to cut the vegetables in half which is a link to our fraction work and we had to think about how to use the knife safely which links to our HWB learning about safe/unsafe things in the house.

In our Scottish food topic we were learning about foods grown in Scotland, so our carrots, needs and parsnips were all local produce.

We had to measure out quantities of other ingredients carefully!

After the broth had been simmering in the kitchen (many thanks to everyone who helped) we all had a chance to eat the broth with some crunchy bread and butter. The broth was delicious and we saw how the barley swelled up as it was cooked. Well done everyone!!

The Learning Zone saw more exciting action this afternoon, with wild animals behind bars, explorers looking for wild creatures, sand mountains for animals, animal family sorting and a vet helping a chameleon in the middle of the jungle! What a busy day!

 

 

 

 

 

We have been splitting shapes into halves and quarters and today we have learnt that we can work out fractions of numbers.

We know that the denominator (bottom number of the fraction sign) tells us how many parts the whole has been split into, so we know that we can share into 2 groups.

First of all we shared people into groups – half of 6 is 3. Then we used the halving boards to make groups by sharing the correct number of cubes. We learnt that even numbers can be shared equally, but odd numbers mean that there is one left over.

In assembly we learnt about a Fairtrade Breakfast. Lots of our food is grown in countries a long way away and the farmers live in difficult conditions. When we buy Fairtrade products we are helping these farmers get a decent wage for their work and this allows their families to get clean water, food and an education- all of the Rights which we take for granted.

A small change for us can make a huge difference to the growers.

The Learning Zone is now Jungle themed, so we have been exploring!

 

Ask your our child which skills they were developing through their adventures today!

Spring is here, buds are forming and p2 are jumping around!  In the gym we were trying out different sorts of jumps.  We remembered to swing our arms and spring up to jump, and bend our knees when we landed.   We then linked up a balance with one of our jumps.

 

Today was a very special day because 29th February doesn’t happen every year.  We found out about why there is a leap year almost every four years.  We could link the information to our work on quarters in fractions and to the information we learned about the Earth orbiting the sun from Mrs Bacai.

We had some more practice with tally marks.  We have brought home our sheet and can teach you how to use tally marks if you don’t already know.  We did a virtual traffic survey in the class but we hope to do a real one outside on a warmer day.

 

We we had a great time watching the Taekwon Do demonstration. There were people of all ages in the display of moves to music. We then had the chance to have a go at some moves.

It was great fun and lots of us showed really good skills. We have been thinking about different jobs and careers. We have been thinking about all the skills that people need to do their jobs and we thought about jobs that we might like to do.

Then we carried on learning about fractions and the fractions that make a whole.

Enjoy you weekend everyone!