Today the p2 boys and girls were using mirrors to explore shapes and find the lines of symmetry. It was pretty tricky but we all worked it out in the end.  It was also really good fun to make funny reflections by moving our mirrors around.

The class are working on will, with, that, this, then,them as spelling words this week. They LOVED having to stick out their tongues at their teacher to make all those th sounds!

Today everyone has been learning well and putting great effort into their activities.

We worked with our partners to help us decode new words.

Then we read to our partners.

We drew learning maps to help us think about the ways that we learn.

In in the afternoon we learnt that sound is made by vibrations. When an object vibrates it moves the air around it.  We saw the ruler vibrate and could hear the doooyng noise it made. Listen for different sounds this weekend – are there sound that you don’t like?

Today we have been doing different work about fireworks.  We were learning about firework safety and we were working with a partner to work out new words.

We were thinking of firework words and then the computer programme made a firework display for us – it was really exciting!!

The board is shaking, that is why it is not very clear, but the effects and noises were brilliant.

To stay with the day’s theme, our number work also involved fireworks.

We we are practising jumping when we add to get the correct answers.

Have a happy and safe Bonfire Night and well done to everyone for being so cool when seeing the nurses today. I am very proud of you.

We had a busy day learning more about different types of words. We built on our learning from last Friday to add adjectives to our nouns. The book title ‘The Ghost in the Castle’ is a bit boring so we thought of adjectives to make it more interesting. ‘The green ghost in the haunted creepy castle’ sounds much more interesting, doesn’t it??

We looked in our reading books to find nouns and adjectives. Some of us found loads of nouns, but had to think of our own adjectives like a silver moon, a symmetrical bay, a black tree.

We we had to find our jigsaw partners – one had an adjective and one had a noun . The pieces were hidden in our trays!

This afternoon we started to learn about sound. We thought about how sounds are made playing different instruments. We can pluck, tap and blow to make sounds and learnt about the word vibration.

We had a go at tapping the boom whackers. The longer tubes make lower sounds then the smaller tubes. We need to experiment more with these cool instruments!!

We looked at pictures of fireworks, noting their shapes and colours.  We tried to recreate them using oil pastels on black paper.  The results were fantastic!

P2 have started revising and developing their knowledge and understanding of symmetry.  We had great fun today at our symmetry stations.  We made symmetrical designs by folding and cutting paper.  We used peg boards to make colourful symmetrical designs with a partner.  We also matched halves of houses to make a symmetrical house.  We started using words like symmetry, fold, same, opposite and symmetrical to talk about our maths.

• Homework from 2/11/15 until 16/11/15

Language

Phonemes

We have been learning the phoneme a-e (magic E; the e tells the vowel to say its letter name). Continue to practise wh and ng phonemes.

Homework ideas:

• It is Bonfire night this week, so why not use these phonemes to help you write a short poem or piece of writing.
• Make a model of a firework using junk materials.
• For example – use the words whizz, bang, sprang, whirr for a firework poem.
• These are fun websites to practise the phonemes and how they are used
• http://fun4thebrain.com/English/magice.html
• .http://www.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/a-e/interactive/aecloud.htm

Common words:

will, with, that this, them, then

• Keep practising previous words and add in your new ones.
• This is a great site for recognising sight and spelling words.

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

Onset and rime

• We have started to revise – “in” words e.g. pin, shin, chin, win, etc and making up silly “in” stories. Next week it will be “ab” words,so you make up a silly story to share with us. How about using – fab, grab, dab, crab and so on in your sentences

Reading

• A new reading book will usually be given each Friday. 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.
• Can you find any words with our phonemes in them?
• Where is your story set? Tell an adult about the setting and how the setting can change in the book.

Number

We have been practising our number bonds to 11 (11 + 0 = 11, 5 + 6 = 11 etc) and adding and subtracting within 11 and 12. These are fun games to help you practice: http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/colquiz.html

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

Symmetry

Have a look for symmetrical patterns or shapes in your house. Draw them into your thinking jotter. Why not try creating symmetrical patterns at –

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/reflection.swf

HWB/Interdisciplinary Learning

We have been learning about keeping healthy by choosing healthy foods to eat. Why not try some of the activities here – http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?contentId=56&sectionId=61&siteId=14

Remember to tell us about any games you have played on the computer or any other ways that you have been developing your skills for homework.

We used the Halloween theme to practise adding and subtracting within 11 and 12.

If if we had the sums correct, the bat showed up well against the orange background.

We started to learn about NOUNS. We thought about Halloween things, people(characters) and places.

Can you think of any more Halloween nouns?

Have a fun, safe weekend and we will see you in November!!

Thursday 29th October.

In literacy we tried out some new activities: making silly sentences, spelling words using picture clues and letter sizes and making word jigsaws.

This afternoon we acted out our little plays about things that are fair and unfair. There was some great expression and the acting was very realistic- I think that some of our class are destined for the stage!!

Looking forward to working out who you are tonight. I am just going to make sure my broomstick is ready to fly tonight! See you later my pretties_ ha ha ha !!!!!