Homework week beginning 16.11.20

Spelling

Use Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check to practise spelling your words in your homework jotter 3 times.

Group 1:

ring
wing
sing
king
is
you

Group 2:

Have a go at scribble spelling where you draw a scribble shape and write your spelling words in different colours in different sections. Here is an example below…

Reading

Story time

Listen carefully to this story about a shark called Clark. Imagine you were a sea creature in Clark’s class.

Draw a picture of the sea creature you would be. You might want to be a starfish, a crab or something else!
Give your character a name and label your picture.
Write a sentence about your character. What are they wearing? Are they friendly?

Tricky words

Listen, read and sing along to ‘Do you want to build a snowman?’

How many times can you spot the tricky words ‘is’ and ‘you’?

Maths

Practise saying and writing your numbers between 1 and 100. Have a go at saying them backwards!

11/13/2020

LEGO CLUB!

This week at Lego Club P2 had great fun taking on different challenges. Take a look at some of the great construction skills and creativity of our members…

Niharika ‘Here is our fashion catwalk.’

Grace ‘We made a slide. I’m going to test it using this pen lid!’

Evie ‘I built a staircase.’

Sophie ‘We made a beach. That is our beach hut!’

11/09/202011/09/2020

Homework week beginning 9.11.20

Spelling Homework:

Use the Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check to spell your words into your homework jotter 3 times. You should know what spelling group you are in. If you need a new homework jotter, then let your teacher know.

Challenge: Choose 1 of your spelling words and write a sentence for your chosen word. Remember a sentence starts with a capital letter and needs a full stop at the end.

Reading

As you are aware, we cannot send reading books home at the moment because of the Covid19 pandemic. However, we will continue to do reading in class and your child will have access to reading books at school. In the meantime, Oxford Owl have published some free digital reading books for children to read at home. Click on the image below to see the full library catalogue. All you need to do is register your free account to get started. Happy reading!

Tricky words search: Listen, read and sing along to this song. Each time you hear ‘to‘ ‘I‘ and ‘go‘ and ‘me‘ do the action for the word!

Number Time! Copy and complete into your homework jotter.

Science: Senses

Choose 1 task to complete. You can do more is you wish!

11/06/2020

Sharks

P2/1 made salt dough sharks.

“Angel sharks blend into the sea.” Ryan

“Sharks have 6 rows of teeth.” Adam

“Hammerhead sharks live in warm water.” Heidi

”Some sharks can eat other sharks.” Alex

”Sharks can’t swim backwards.” Kate

11/05/2020

Fantastic Fireworks!

Today P2/1 were learning about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. We also discussed how to stay safe when around fireworks and bonfires. We made our own bonfire and firework pictures!

“You have to stay back!” Jack

“I like to toast marshmallows in the fire.” Emeli

“Can you imagine if it did blow up? The world might have been different.” Noah

“What laws do they make there?” Ryan (referring to the Houses of Parliament)

11/05/202011/05/2020

P2 Outdoor learning and play project

Session 2: Healthy

During our second session of outdoor learning and play, our focus was ‘Healthy’, from the GIRFEC SHANARRI Wellbeing wheel.

We brainstormed the word healthy, and discovered it didn’t just mean how we ate, exercised and washed our hands, it also related to how we felt.

We then discussed how we felt outdoors.

We also brainstormed how our senses can help us to enjoy outdoor learning and play.

We practiced mindfulness outdoors and children used their senses to describe what they liked to touch, smell, hear, and see!

“I like the feeling of the tree, it feels rough”, said Tom.

“I like the feeling of the smooth leaf”, said Olivia.

“I like the smell of the water mint”, said Grace.

“I like to look at the pond”, said Chloe.

“I can hear the birds and the pond feels cold”, said Ryan.

We can practice mindfulness at home too by clicking on the following link:

In response to ideas suggested in Session 1, children used great teamwork and collaboration skills to tidy the garden leaves, by sweeping, shovelling them up and putting them in a bin bag. Tom said he felt like Santa, because the black bag was so full! Niharika suggested that we use some of these leaves to make compost to help us grow plants (which we did!). We also planted water mint in the pond, to attract more wildlife (thank you Mr Miller for donating!). We reflected on what plants need to grow (water, light and soil), and decided we needed to cut some of the branches down in our Magic garden as it was too dark. Children were supported to safely use garden loppers to do this, and we discussed that they should only use garden tools with an adult, to prevent accidents. The children all agreed we should use these branches for a den!

11/03/202011/04/2020

P2 Outdoor learning and play project!

Following the success of the P1 outdoor learning and play project, P2 children now have the opportunity to engage in this provision. This will run on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s every second week, and children will have the opportunity to develop a section of the school grounds based on their very own ideas and interests! For this reason could children please have an outdoor jacket and wellington boots on these days (if possible).

Each session we shall focus on 1 indicator from the GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) SHANARRI wellbeing wheel.

These include;

Safe

Healthy

Active

Nurtured

Achieving

Respected

Responsible

Included

On completion, children shall evaluate their experience using the 4 capacities from the SHANARRI Wellbeing wheel. This will include reflection on how they think they were;

Effective contributors

Responsible citizens

Confident individuals

Successful learners

We adopt a pedagogical approach to our outdoor learning and play provision to encourage your child to have a rich outdoor learning and play experience, develop their individual skills and enhance their wellbeing. We will also apply children’s learning and play to the Curriculum for Excellence (at their stage of development). You shall of course be kept up to date with our outdoor activities on the blog (those children who do not have photo consent shall have their pictures and comments blurred for their privacy).

Session 1: Safe

This week we brainstormed the meaning of the word ‘safe’.

We then brainstormed what a big and small risk is, and how we can reduce this.

These questions were asked to encourage children to think about outdoor environments and problem solve, to empower them to reduce risks, be safe and enjoy the benefits of being outdoors!

We then became risk assessors, and surveyed our garden for big, medium and small risks, which we coloured in red, orange or green accordingly, on our assessment sheet. We discussed how we could reduce these risks to stay safe.

After this we fully explored our garden safely, and the children shared lots of fantastic ideas for how they would like to develop the garden over the forthcoming weeks!

11/02/2020

Halloween Fun

P2/1 wanted to to a mini Halloween topic so last week they did their normal literacy and numeracy activities with a spooky theme. They had fun writing potions in the writing area, writing tricky words n pumpkins, making spooky cvc words, counting spooky objects and lots more! We even created our own magical pumpkins in Art and made our own vampire faces. We learned about the history of Halloween too!

“Halloween used to be called Samhain…means Summers ending.” Ryan

“People used to make jack-o-lanterns to scare the ghosties away…they don’t like the lights.” Noah

“We dress up no because it’s fun but in olden days they dressed up to scare bad people and evil away.” H

“Trick or treating used to be called guising.” Adam