There are 12 bottles on the shelf but eh shelf can hold 20, how many more bottles do I need? Well you could draw a picture of 12 bottles to help you and keep drawing more until you get to 20. Or you could put 12 in your head and use your fingers to count on to 20 (12 + __=20). Also, you could work backwards and do 20-12. The answer is 8.

I have 20 ice cubes and I used 6 so how many are left. Again you could draw a picture and cross out the 6 ice cubes or you could do 20-6 and put 20 in your head and count back 6. The answer is 14.

P2/1 have been learning about rangoli patterns and made their own patterns using potatoes and paint. They used blocks and 2D shapes to make patterns and coloured in patterns!

Good morning Primary 2 and welcome back to a new week at school, we hope you had a safe and relaxing weekend. Your homework tasks are noted below. Remember if you need a new homework jotter, just ask your teacher.

Spelling Homework

Copy your words in your jotter on the left hand side. Remember to look at the word, say it, cover it, write it and then check it. Do it again for the same word and then for all the other words. 

Here are some more spelling ideas:

Reading

Remember to sign up for a free account to access free reading books if you haven’t done so already. Each book has comprehension activities and games too! To sign up or log in, click on the picture below. Happy reading!

Tricky Words

How many of these tricky words can you read? A tricky word list and a spelling strategies bookmark will be issued to you soon!

Count with Phonics Man!

Problem Solving Challenge! Can you work out the answers to these questions? Answers will be posted on Friday!

Copy and complete these number sequences!

P2/1 have been learning about Diwali and wanted to celebrate it. We learned about what happens during Diwali and listened to the story of Ram and Sita. This afternoon, we had a small food tasting session in class. We tried naan bread, vegetable pakora and sauce. We listened to some Bhangra music. We all enjoyed ourselves!

“I liked it, eating the naan bread.” – Robert

“The dancing was amazing,” – Noah

“I loved all the Indian food. I’m glad I tried it, it’s good to try new things.” H

“I haven’t tasted food like that before, it was nice.” – Kate

“Diwali is fun, I like the dancing.” – Sophie

“It was super good to have Diwali with my friends.” – Karam

“It’s about bad versus good, light versus darkness.” – Amelia

“Diwali means row of lamps. Just like when Ram and Sita followed them back to their home.” – Ryan

Here is a link to the Diwali story of Ram and Sita:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-diwaliperformance 

Session 4: Nurtured

In our fourth outdoor learning and play session, we focused on the wellbeing indicator ‘nurtured’.

We learned that the meaning of the word nurtured is when we care for and look after someone or something.  We brainstormed how we can be nurturing to each other and in our garden, and shared some excellent comments.

Next we checked on the fat ball bird feeders we made on Tuesday and saw that they were hard. In response to Ryan and Rhyann’s comment above, fat balls were randomly selected, and we took these out to our garden where the children who made them chose branches to hang them on. Ryan said he thought these should be “…high up branches so the birds don’t get scared”, so Mrs Mackey helped to put them on. We cant wait to see if the birds eat these (we shall try to get some pictures of them if they do!).

Next we turned our attention to our garden. Again, there were many Autumn leaves to sweep up with our big brush, and we safely used our loppers and a saw (supervised by Mrs Mackey) to cut down more branches for our den. Next week P3 will continue with this activity, and Mrs MacDonald has kindly donated a tarpaulin sheet and ropes which will help to weatherproof our den!  We can’t wait to see the results!

Session 3: Active

Our focus this session from the SHANARRI Wellbeing wheel is ‘Active’.

We brainstormed ways in which we can enjoy being active outdoors.

Grace suggested we could be active by making food for wildlife and Chloe said we could feed the birds. We discussed that the the season will be changing from Autumn to Winter soon, and it can be difficult for birds and animals to find food to eat. We agreed that making food for wildlife is therefore an excellent way to help them over this time, and will attract more to our garden. For this reason we made fat ball bird feeders.

In pairs, we mixed melted lard, bird seed and oats together. Mason did not like the smell of the lard, however it did give us nice soft hands!

We reflected on the 3D shapes we have been learning about in class and chose a sphere shape for our fat balls. We shaped this mixture with our hands. The balls were completed by a loop of string, to enable us to hang them from the trees in our garden over the Winter.

We have left them on the window sill to set, and we shall begin hanging these on the branches from Thursday, throughout the Autumn and Winter. Many thanks to Sophie who was able to instruct and help her class friends make the fat balls today!

In primary 2 we are learning about shapes with many sides. These are called polygons.  A six sided shape is a hexagon and an 8 sided shape is an octagon.  Look around the house to see if you can spot any hexagons or polygons.

Primary 2 have been learning about Diwali with Mrs Wishart. We made elephant gods and discussed how families celebrate Diwali.

Happy Diwali to our families who celebrated this weekend.

10 fabulous facts about Diwali!