Mrs Wishart has been working with the children to help them learn about the days of the week/ months of the year and seasons. Please discuss these regularly with the children at home to increase their knowledge and understanding.
Homework: Week beginning 14.9.20
This week a homework jotter was given to your child. Please use this jotter to complete any homework tasks on the blog. This jotter should stay at home. Please do not return the jotter to school.
This week our sounds are ‘ee’ and ‘or’. Sing along and do the action.
Spelling/Literacy Tasks
- How many words can you think of that have the ‘ee’ and ‘or’ sound? Write them down and draw a picture to match your words. Watch Geraldine the Giraffe to help you:
- Either do bubble writing spelling, rainbow spelling, playdough or use shaving foam/bubble bath foam to spell the following words:
- bee
- see
- meet
- feel
- for
- horn
- born
- fork
- torch
Reading
This week week we are learning to use 2 new reading strategies: Sound Talk It and Don’t Forget Elephant.
When we are unsure of a word, as well as looking at pictures for clues and looking at the first letter or the word, we should also be sounding out each sound in the word. Also, we should be looking out for words we may have seen before. Keep revising tricky words at home:
READING TASK: Read and Draw
Read the following and draw. Use your reading strategies.
- hen
- ten
- men
- pen
- The men went to the den.
- Ten hens on a hill.
- My red pen is in my bag.
Maths Homework
This week we are going over More than and less than. When we talk about 1 more than, it means we add 1/ go to the next number. If we talk about 1 less than, we take away 1 or go back to the number before. Watch the video and then answer the questions below:
What is 1 more than:
- 3
- 7
- 9
- 13
- 17
- 19
- 21
- 29
What is 1 less than:
- 6
- 8
- 11
- 15
- 20
- 24
- 30
Mr Grinling
This week P2 have been reading ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We created our own amazing Mr Grinling pictures. As a class we thought of words to describe him and wrote them in our speech bubble like cross, old and grumpy!
Benjamin ‘I think Mr Grinling looks mad!’
Abbie ‘Mr Grinling looked shocked when the seagulls stole his lunch!’
Float or Sink!
Today P2 were scientists and tested out different objects to see whether they would float or sink. Before we put the object in the water we had a class vote to see what we thought would happen. We then completed a checkbox to record what we found out from the experiment!
Homework: Week Beginning 7.9.20
Hello and welcome to our new P2 online homework page. Due to Covid 19, no formal homework is being issued that would require it to be returned to school on a weekly basis. Therefore, each week, homework tasks, videos and games will be published on this blog for your child in order to continue to reinforce their learning at home. Update: Homework does not need to be submitted electronically, as long as your child is doing the tasks and practising reading and writing their numbers and letters.
Sound of the Week
This week we are revising ‘ie’. Watch the videos below and choose at least 1 task to do at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDimrhVZhA
Tasks:
- Go on a sound hunt. Look around your home and write and draw any objects you find or think of that has the ‘ie’ sound.
- Rainbow spelling. Think of some ‘ie’ words or use the list below to do some rainbow spelling. Firstly, pick a colour to write down an ‘ie’ word. Then choose another colour to go over the word. Choose another colour to write over the word again. You can keep doing this until you have used lots of colours! You can do this for tricky words too: the, and, he, she, I, my, we, be.
Reading
Revise your tricky words by playing the dino egg game:
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/dinosaurEggsHF/index.html
In class we are learning to use reading strategies to decode unknown words. This week we are focusing on ‘Sharp Eyes’ and ‘Mouse the Mouth’. This is where we look at the first letter of the word and use the pictures to look for clues. When reading stories at home, encourage your child to use these strategies to develop their reading skills.
Maths
Counting practice
- Practise writing your numbers out to 20. Can you write them back the way from 20-0.
- Click on the image below to play the caterpillar ordering game. Choose level ‘1 to 20’. For a challenge, choose level ‘1-30’. Can you order from largest to smallest?
Last Day of Primary 2!
Good morning! It is Friday 26th June 2020 and we have made it to the last day of term! How do you all feel? Drop us a comment, it would be lovely to hear from you.
We want to thank you and your families for all your hard work and support. It has been a strange year so far but you have all coped so well. We are very proud of you. Your Summer holidays will now start and we wish you a very happy Summer filled with lots of fun. Here are some activities below to keep you busy. Take care and all the best for the future!
Lots of love,
Miss Rai, Mrs Cheshire, Mr White & Mrs Neilson x
Crunchy Rainbow Pasta Salad Recipe
Fairtrade Fortnight Lemonade Recipe 
Monday 22.6.20
Good morning children! Welcome back to online learning, I cannot believe it’s our last week of P2 already! Let’s start the day with a cheerful song!
End of Term with Mrs Rossi 22nd June.
Capital Letters and Full Stops.
Copy these sentences in to your jotter.
Put in the capital letters and full stops.
- it is the end of primary 2
- we will be going in to primary 3
- it will be good to see my friends again
- i will have fun during the summer holidays
- i hope it is sunny
The Day the Crayons Quit
Comprehension questions/tasks
- Why is purple crayon upset?
- What does beige crayon color?
- Does green crayon want Duncan to use him
differently? - Click to Play online https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/material/day-crayons-quit-word-search
- Click to play https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/material/day-crayons-quit-memory-match
Shape Revision
What are 2D shapes? (click here)
Create a WANTED poster for a 2D shape. Draw it and remember to describe the shape. Use vocabulary like, straight, round, corners, sides, equal.
https://www.facebook.com/pathseducationuk/posts/1343523549180800
https://www.facebook.com/brioleisure/videos/325165101776218/
Friday the 19th of June
Good Morning Primary 2
It is Friday the 19th of June
Maths and Numeracy
Time
Today we are going to revise quarter past the hour and quarter to the hour.
Look at this powerpoint and YouTube clip explaining quarter past and quarter to.
Use the demonstration clock by dragging the hands to the times below.
https://www.visnos.com/demos/clock
Alternatively you could try this teaching clock on top marks by clicking on the buttons.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
- 1 o’clock
- 3 o’clock
- 6 o’clock
- 9 o’clock
- 12 o’clock
- 8 o’clock
- 11 o’clock
- 5 o’clock
- 2 o’clock
- 4 o’clock
- 6 o’clock
- half past 8
- 8 o’clock
- half past 10
- 12 o’clock
- half past 12
- 3 o’clock
- half past 7
- quarter past 4
- quarter past 8
1. quarter past 3
2. quarter past 6
3. quarter to 8
4. quarter to 10
5. quarter past 9
6. quarter past 12
7. quarter to 2
8. quarter to 1
9. quarter past 1
10. half past 6
Break time
Literacy – Writing
Find your story planner that you did yesterday. It will look something like this.
You used this to decide on your setting character and problem.
In your home learning jotter. Write sentences for each section.
- Describe about where the story took place
- Describe the character in the story. Include what they look like and what kind of person are they.
- Explain the main problem
- How did the character take to solve the problem?
- How does you story end?
Remember when you are writing you need to remember how to write a superhero sentence. If you are stuck on how to spell a word try and sound it out, say it slowly so you can hear the letters in the word.
Enjoy writing your story. 
Lunch time
Science
Storm in a Glass
We tried this experiment in class. Can you remember? Have a go doing this experiment at home.
Materials
- Shaving cream
- A large glass
- water
- Food coloring
- A spoon
Instructions:
- Fill the glass 1/2 full with water
- Spray some shaving cream on top of the water to fill the glass to ¾ full.
- Use your finger or a spoon to spread the shaving cream evenly over the top of the water. The top of the shaving cream should be flat.
- Mix ½-cup water with 10 drops of food coloring in a separate container. Gently add the colored water, spoonful by spoonful, to the top of the shaving cream. When it gets too heavy, watch it storm!
Watch Scientist Joe conduct the experiment here!
How does it work?
Clouds in the sky hold onto water. They can hold millions of gallons! The layer of shaving cream is our pretend cloud in this experiment. The shaving cream layer can also hold onto water. Clouds can’t keep storing more and more water forever, eventually they get too heavy. When that happens, the water falls out (precipitates) as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
Further Experiments
- Try more water and less shaving cream, or less water and more shaving cream. Which one looks more like a drizzle, and which one looks like a downpour?
Fun Card Game
This is a great game to play with two people. There are lots of versions – you could even create your own rules!
All you need is a pack of playing cards!
If you don’t have playing cards make your own!
Cut out 40 small pieces of card or paper with the numbers 1 to 10 written four times! Sorted!
Have fun! Click the link below to find out how to play!
Keyboard skills
Fed up typing with one or two fingers?
Try this wonderful early typing course from Bitesize.
Grown ups, you can try it too!
If you can’t access through the attached link, just search for Dancemat!
Let your fingers do the dancing!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr
