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P2/3 Blog January 2022

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Hello everyone and welcome to 2022. This is going to be a very busy term for us but we’d still like to tell you a little bit about what we’ve been doing and what we hope to do in this term:

 Numeracy

We have started chimney sums in maths which we use to make hard sums like 63+15 easier. They are a bit tricky to write but we are practising hard. The pupils like how they turn what seem like very tricky maths into easy maths (maths is all about tricks like this!).

We have now moved on from skip counting and have started our times tables properly. We are doing the 2, 5 and 10 – soon we will be starting the 3 times table and we will be learning the 3 times table song which you can find here (it’s very catchy!):

Three Times Table Song (Cover of Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars) – YouTube

Finally we are also starting to work to 100 which means counting backwards and forwards in 2s 5s and 10s! Counting backwards is particularly tricky but we’ll keep practising!

Finally, we’ll be continuing to practise the months of the year, timetables and telling the time to the quarter hour – What a lot of work! 😎

Literacy

We do dictation on a Friday which helps us with our spelling.

We also still love the Mr Men books and we use them to help us with our writing and spotting phoneme words:

 

We do news every week where we tell what we have been doing at home. Now we are trying to put lots of detail to make our writing more interesting:

 

 

We have been learning how to write reports. We are learning that we just put in the basic facts and how this is different to a story or a description.

 

We’ve also been learning some tricks for spelling words – like because which uses a special rhyme “big elephants can always understand small elephants”.

Other Areas

We have been growing plants with Mrs Barnes. We planted bulbs outside our classroom. They are going to grow in the springtime – we will look out for them and take pictures when they start to grow.

 

In art we painted some new pictures. We were painting trees, houses and snowmen in the snow at night. This was tricky because we had to mix paint gradually to make the night sky look like it was in moonlight.

 

In gym we are starting gymnastics – it we are really good. We are hoping to get out the apparatus which includes the wall bars!! Last week we pretended to be different animals which was tricky – especially the crocodile.

 In computing we have started using Scratch which is a coding program. We made a cat go across the screen and make meow noises. By the end of the term we will be making all sorts of cool things.

Last Friday it SNOWED! So we got our coats on and went out into the playground – we made a really cool snowman – if it snows again we’ll make an even bigger one.

 

Finally, keep an eye out for the P2-3 assembly. We’ll be recording it and showing it virtually – once it’s ready we’ll post it on Google Classroom.

Mr C, Mrs S and P2-3.

P2/3 Blog Oct ’21

Hello Everyone,

We have been very busy in P2-3 and would love to tell you about some of the things we have been doing. All of these comments are directly from the boys and girls of P2-3.

Numeracy

We have been learning about number families. These are special numbers that fit together. We have also been doing doubles within 20 and using Hit-The-Button to beat our records.

We have been learning our number bonds to 10 and 20. We play maths games like ‘Around the World’ and the ‘stand up sit down’ game.

We have started learning to count in twos and tens which will soon lead to us starting our times tables which we will use all the way through school.

Almost every day we learn time. We have been learning to tell the time to o’clock, half-past and quarter past. Soon, we will be learning quarter-to as well.

Literacy

The school now has lots of reading nooks where we can go and read our favourite books. We also have our reading buddies who are cuddly toys we can snuggle with whilst reading.

We have been learning lots of new sounds in Literacy. Sometimes we get to see Mr Monkey and if we get it right he does the Monkey Dab.

At the start of the day we get a story. We have been reading lots of Mr Men books – our favourites are Mr Jelly, Mr Greedy, Mr Sneeze and Mr Tickle.

We also write our news on a Thursday, which lets everyone know what we’ve been doing.

On a Friday we do dictation which is where we check to see how well we have learned our new sounds.

Other Areas

We have been learning some new games in PE. We have been learning about pirates and listening to instructions. We learned that the bow of a ship is the front.

In art we made snake bookmarks using coloured paper with Mrs Brock. We did pointillism art with Mr Connor – which is where you use cotton buds to make lots and lots of dots.

In computing we have been learning to log on all by ourselves – after that we get to play Sumdog and sometimes if we are lucky we get to use Friv.

We went litter picking at the nature trail and we picked up wrappers and all sorts of rubbish that people had left behind :-(. We also go climbing and exploring in the bushes. We have been looking for a unicorn but we’ve not seen her yet (probably because we’ve not been quiet enough!).

On Fridays we go in the big playground for Friendship Friday where we get to play with the big boys and girls.

At the end of the day we can also go on the climbing wall and we’ve all got very good at it.