Primary 2 have had another great week and are getting ready for Spring!
We have continued this week with our sounds and writing sentences using “the” independently or with little support. We have been learning “y” as the “ee” sound. This sound is found in many words such as happy, sleepy, cosy, rainy, baby, dirty, dusty, very, scary, crazy, lazy, city and many more…
As well as telling the time, we have started to investigate measuring using non-standard units, cubes, counters, sticks etc. We are starting to use standard units, thinking about centimetres when measuring length. We have also carried out a class survey to find out which modes of transport are the most and least common.
Great Green: “What went well…”
-We have been continuing to work on telling the time, using o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to, making links between analogue and digital. We have been playing a game in class which can be used to practise our skills! If looking to access the game, start on “1. Read time to the hour”, and only move on to “2. Read time to the hour and half hour” when comfortable with this.
-We have started to explore different modes of transport, making links with Science outcomes, we tested out toy cars on ramps with different materials. The children correctly predicted which material would allow the toy cars to travel the furthest. Our ramps were fluffy, rough, soft and wooden. We used a metre stick to measure the distance travelled in centimetres. The fluffy material made the cars travel the least and the wooden ramp made the toy cars travel the farthest.
Think Pink: “Even better if…”
-We are still working on our narrative writing, making sure we include adjectives to describe our characters and not to use a full stop before “and”. Next Friday, March 6th, we are celebrating World Book Day by dressing up as an adjective. Some examples are: sparkly, sporty, cosy, wild. Many of the children have fantastic ideas how to do this and I can’t wait to see their ideas come to life!
-We are going to look at data handling, using our transport surveys to create pictograms, we will also use the information from our forces experiment to create bar and line graphs.
Lead Learners:
Our lead learners next week are Callum and Annie for consistently working hard in all areas of the curriculum.
