Day: May 21, 2021

Literacy

We have been practising our spelling words this week. We have been practising using our rainbow writing, playdoh writing and writing our words on a whiteboard with our eyes closed.

For writing this week, we were writing an explanation for the role of a firefighter. We had to take notes when we were researching the role. These notes helped us add detail to our explanation sequences.

 

Numeracy

This week, we began our new division topic. Dividing is a way of sharing something. We were learning about different strategies we could use to help us solve an equation. We could use our fingers to skip count. We would count the number of fingers we have up and that would be our answer.

We could also draw circles and then draw dots to share within the circles. We would share these equally and count the amount of dots in the circle.

 

IDL

For our world of work topic, we began researching the jobs we would like to have when we are older. We had to research the skills and attributes required for these roles.

 

For music this week, were we listening to L’hom Arme by Robert Morton. We had to identify the different instruments we could hear. We also discussed how this music made us feel.

What a week it’s been!  We enjoyed learning new concepts in Numeracy and Maths in the last five days.  We learnt to find percentage from any amount, calculated perimeters and learnt to measure volume.

Literacy, we enjoyed creating our own explanation text about weapons/ powers of the characters we made for our Sci-Fi comic strip.  We have been learning to find evidence from the text in order to fill in the blanks from a passage.  We have also been practicing our presentation skills by talking in front of the class about what heard in Newsround.

IDL, we investigated how the Earth was created and we made character descriptions of our Alien/ Sci- fi characters which we will be creating a story of in the next few days.

HWB, we have been learning to understand relationships and how we could identify being a ‘couple’ means.

We took homework this week which we need to bring in on Tuesday.  We have to create a book cover for 2 of our favorite books written by different authors.  Please remember to bring it in.  Have a lovely weekend everyone!

It has been a busy week in P2!

Spelling

We have been trying out some new spelling games to learn our words. Some of these include spelling tennis, dice spelling and squat and spell.

Maths

We are continuing to learn about telling the time. We played a game of matching pairs to help warm us up with both digital and analogue clocks.

HWB

We spoke about people we trust and people we don’t trust. We had to collaborate as a team to decide who was in our inner circle of trust and who was in our outer circle of trust.

Writing

This week, we were learning about the role of a firefighter. We had to take notes from a video to help us write our Explanation piece.

P.E.

Because the weather wasn’t great today, we did P.E. in the classroom. We were practising our football skills using bean bags, and even had the chance to turn the carpet into a football pitch for a few matches. Ethan was the class champion out of all 20 games!

 

 

Yesterday we took part in the ‘big grow’ and planted radish, beetroot, salad leaves, spinach and peas in our individual pots. We need to remember to water them regularly and sit them in the sunshine. We are hoping that the sun starts to shine a bit more!

We continued to learn about Ancient Egyptian times and this week we learned how Pharaohs made all the rules for people to follow. This lead to an entertaining discussion about what rules P4/3 would implement. Here are some of the suggestions;

” Only be nice” Joseph

“To able to leave school whenever you want!” Charlie

“Have everything for free!” Brendan

Literacy

We continued to practise explanation writing and this week we used our learning from Mrs Dobbie to help explain ‘How Paper turns into Trees.’ Firstly, we made notes to help us write our ideas in paragraphs. We are certainly improving, well done P4/3!

Numeracy

This week, we assessed our knowledge of multiplication. Assessment is a good way for Mrs Morrison to see what the children have learned, but also for the children to not only recognise success, but to identify areas to improve. Next week we will learn about division.

Enjoy your long weekend, hope the sun shines and I will post again next Friday.