October has brought gloomy weather, but it hasn’t dampened Primary 2’s spirits. We have settled into our new routine and classwork brilliantly. There have been lots of new challenges in Primary 2, but we are all working together to learn and develop each day. Primary 2 have begun preparations for their class assembly – we are very excited to be up on the stage performing for you all on Friday the 4^th of November!

Numeracy

We started the year revising our Place Value, and have looked at units, tens and hundreds. We loved playing lots of games to help us develop our fluency with place value and we now use what we have learned in all of our new topics.

Elliot says, “We have been counting in tens.”

Shea says, “We have been doing doubling numbers as well.”

Recently, we have been investigating Estimating and Rounding. We have been learning to estimate how many objects there are (without counting), where a number would be on a blank number line and we even learned how to round a number to the nearest 10.

 

We are so excited during our Numeracy lessons – let’s see what we get up to next term.

Literacy

We have been working so hard in our Literacy lessons; we have risen to the challenge of Primary 2 work and were very proud to show you our jotter and worksheet work during the Parent/Carer Evening.

In Reading, we have spent lots of time discussing our stories and completing written tasks about them. We know how to complete jumbled sentences, character evaluations, beginning, middle and ends and predictions. Ms Craig predicts we will continue to be superstar readers all year!

“We have been putting things in our jotters – bits of work,” says Kaitlyn

“Every time we have a new book we do prediction on it,” says Max.

In Phonics and Spelling, we have continued to use the strategies we learned in Primary 1. We are now looking at joined phonemes and have been using what we learned last year to support us. We also use our common word wall to help us with tricky words when we do our writing.

“We make some words with our letters and write them on our boards with our pens,” says Sophie.

“We do Dictation at the end of the week,” says Leah.

In our taught Writing lessons, we have been looking at Recounts. We know that we need to retell an event in order, using ordering words like ‘first’, ‘then’ and ‘next’. At the end , we say how the event made us feel. We have tried very hard to develop our writing and are having a go at writing tricky words using a shared word bank.

“We have been writing about the cat and the bird. The cat was on the chair and the cat went off the chair. The bird went in the bird bath,” says Halle.

“One of the words we used was ‘next’. We put that at the beginning of our sentences,” says Ozy.

“We need to remember a capital letter and a full stop,” says Lily. “And finger spaces!” says Shea.

PE

We have been splitting our PE timetable between using the gym hall and the outdoor quadrangle:

In indoor PE we have been developing our fitness skills using lots of rotation games like skipping, relay races and ‘be the teacher’. We really enjoyed ‘be the teacher’ because we got to tell our friends which exercises they could do. We measured our heart rates and talked about what we can do to make us fit and healthy.

In outdoor PE we have been orienteering and working as a group to follow design briefs to recreate pictures using gym apparatus.

STEM

We have been looking at the movement of the sun, Earth and moon. We have learned about new moon missions happening now and have developed our engineering skills by building with the KAPLA bricks.

Leah says she enjoyed using the Kapla blocks because, ‘I like building things.’

Ozy enjoyed finding out about the Artemis program to go back to the moon. He said, ‘I would like to go to the moon when I’m older!’

Sophie says, ‘I liked finding out about the Earth because I like Science.’

Jessie says she enjoyed doing Night and Day pictures.

Other Areas

We have been working hard to memorise our lines and develop our performing skills ahead of our Class Assembly. Our assembly will be all about Bonfire Night and Fire Safety. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to. Stay tuned to see how we get on with our big performance!