For today’s literacy lesson, we focused on writing super sentences! Our new Talk for Writing story, ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’, uses lots of fabulous describing words, and we wanted to magpie a few of these ideas to make our sentences very exciting for the reader.

Shreddies used some adjective cards to place a picture prompt, write a list of adjectives and then swap with a friend who wrote a sentence to describe the picture using the adjectives they were given.

Coco Pops picked some picture prompt cards and worked on writing sentences with connectives – we had lots of super ideas!

Rice Krispies had a super time learning  tricky words through lots of active spelling techniques.

Primary 2 have been very busy bee’s today!

Literacy 

In today’s literacy lesson, we focused on this week’s spelling words, and used some active spelling strategies to work on these. We made our ‘magic words’ by writing our words in white crayon and colouring over them to make them appear, and we used some magnetic letters and beads for even more practise.

We also completed our dictation for the week – Miss Morrison reads some words with these weeks spelling sounds, and then some sentences, and the children write these into their Jolly Grammar work books.

Play Based Learning

We had a super time in the open area! We practised our tricky words by making some alphabet soup, made a big story map for our tale ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’ and had lots of role play opportunities!

Primary 2 have been busy bee’s this week! Through our Talk for Writing story this term (‘The Magic Porridge Pot’) we will be focusing on adding description into our writing.

We played some fun games as part of our literacy lesson to practise using adjectives – some groups played a ‘heads up’ game, where they held up a card and their partner had to describe the image until they could guess what their card was. There were some super descriptions and great team work 🌟 We also played an adjective board game, where children picked a word card with an adjective, and looked at the game board until they found a picture that they adjective could be describing, and covered it with a counter.

We have been working on our new story each morning, and adding lots of great description into our sentences when writing.

As part of this terms RME focus on the Easter story, we learned all about Palm Sunday and discussed why the Palm Leaves are an important symbol in Christianity today.

We made our own Palm leaves by drawing around our hands, cutting them out and putting them together to make our own branches 🌿

Primary 2 have been practising this week’s spelling words and working very hard for Miss Morrison! We used some magnetic letters and letter beads to form our new words.

We then wrote some super sentences using our new words and had lots of fun using the materials to help us spell them 🌟