Day: October 9, 2020

Maths

In maths this week we were partitioning numbers. Partitioning is when we split large numbers into smaller. This can make it easier to solve maths problems.

Darby- “We were partitioning numbers this week”.

Lucy- “partitioning a number means to spit the number. If you were to split the number 35, you would get 30 and 5”.

 

Literacy

This week we been reading our new books. We then had to read the book to find the information to ask questions about the story.

In word boost, our story of the week was ‘The Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson. We were learning the meaning of our boost words and then identifying if these words were nouns or verbs.

Brianna- “I was spelling words with the sound ‘s’.”

Kyle –“We read every week and everyday”.

 

IDL

This week were we using the drama technique of hot seating. Hot seating is a strategy in which a pupil played the character of the witch from ‘Room on the Broom’. The other students would ask the witch questions and the pupil would need to answer them in character.

Robyn- “We were asking our friends questions because they were pretending to be the witch from ‘Room on the Broom”.

 

 

Hope you all have a lovely holiday!

We had a lovely week, full of fun learning.

Literacy- We learnt to take notes, spell contacted words and we learned how to make inferences.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning to multiply numbers multiples of 10, 100 and 1000.

We also practiced the column multiplication strategy.  Some of us are now able to multiply up to  4 digit number by 1 digit and a few of can multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers.

IDL

We  have been exploring the importance of Black history.

HWB

We explored what discrimination means and how it affects emotions/ self esteem.

Have a great October break everyone!

This week we worked hard in our reading fluency. We noted that we take a pause at a comma and at a full stop. This helps the reading make sense.  We spotted some people self-correcting when they read incorrectly and we realised that helps our understanding too.

Our P.E. outside continues to be great fun. There are lots of running games and our hearts certainly get a good work out.

Lewis  – I like the running best because I can run fast.

Shay – I enjoy P.E. outside because I can run really fast. It gives me so much exercise and makes my heart go really fast.

Ryley – It makes me feel better about myself because I am getting more fit and healthy.

We practised our note taking on Friday and then wrote a paragraph on a current piece of news. Mrs Lockhart thought there might be some journalists in the making!

Roman – We wrote notes about the news and then I chose to write about slavery.

Summer – It was really useful to take notes so we could remember all our good ideas.

Alyssa – I found it interesting and fun. The note taking was nice because it gave you a good plan and supported the actual piece of writing.

Happy holidays everyone.

Well we have made it to the end of term and what a fun, busy and hard working term we have had. All of the children have made progress in their learning and challenge themselves in everything they do, well done P4/3!!

As part of our learning about the BFG, we decided to use our creative skills and design dream catchers. We talked about the different job roles that use creative skills and some of the suggestions included ‘fashion designer.’ ‘artist,’ and ‘architect’. I think the children have done a great job, well done!!

This week in class our school value focus has been to ‘value’ each other and ourselves. I have to say Mrs Morrison felt valued by her class this week as all of the children made me ‘Best Teacher’ cards to celebrate National Teacher Day. Thank you P4/3 and Miss Taylor for helping to organise the surprise!!

Have a super holiday, stay safe and I look forward to seeing all of the children when they return.

We have had another great week here in P2!

Writing

Maddison – “We had to name and describe this minion”

Mark – “My minion was called Dave and he was sticking his tongue out”

Elizabeth “My minion was called Bob and he had blue clothes”

Numeracy

Max – “We learned about odd and even numbers”

Euan – “Even and odd numbers are opposites”

Jordon – “We had to sort odd and even numbers and they were all different”

Layla – “We used the random number generator to pick huge numbers like 5135 and we had to decide if they were odd or even”

IDL

Connor – “We finished our crayons”

Andrew – “We made some clothes and put arms through them”

Louie – “We dressed  our crayons in cool clothes”

Jacob – “Crayons are used for drawing”

Have a great October holidays everyone!