Author: Miss Borsbey

Good Morning Primary 2! Here are some fun activities for today.

Spelling

Please follow the link for your group which will take you to a spelling game.

Green, Purple & Pink – http://www.games.galacticphonics.com/othervowels/au/interactive/game/index.html

Yellow – http://www.games.galacticphonics.com/othervowels/aw/interactive/game/index.html

Blue – http://www.games.galacticphonics.com/blends/interactive/ccvcspell/ccvcspell.htm

 

Numeracy

Have a go at these subtraction sums to refresh your memory! Discuss the strategies you are using with someone at home.

6 – 4 =

10 – 6 =

15 – 7 –

17 – 3 =

20 – 11 =

Science

Here is an experiment all about bending water. Before you start, what do you think is going to happen when you conduct the experiment? This guess is called a hypothesis.

Once you have completed the experiment, have a think about your hypothesis. Does it match your results?

Send a picture of you conducting the experiment to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk so we can see your fantastic work!

Reading 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.

When you open the site, click the pink button at the top which says “My class login”. The class login details are as follows: username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey       Once logged in, click the button that says “My Bookshelf”.  This will take you to lots of ebooks. Please have a look below to find out which book to read. Once you have read the book, discuss what you have read. Can you read with expression?

Green group – Chicken Licken

Purple group – The Toys’ Party

Pink group – Ant and the Baby

Yellow group – Can you see me?

Blue group – Big Feet

 

Have fun Primary 2 and I’ll speak to you tomorrow again!

 

Miss Borsbey

Good Afternoon Primary 2! I hope you had a great break over Easter and are all happy, healthy and ready for our final term! You should now be moving on to your week 3 pack of learning that you have at home. Please work through this and I will continue to post daily blog updates with some more fun work!

Reading 

Every week, I will assign each group a new reading book online. These books are suited to the reading level to each group. I will post the link for the website, as well as the username and password every day to remind you how to access the books. Please see below for the details of this week’s book.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.

When you open the site, click the pink button at the top which says “My class login”. The class login details are as follows: username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey       Once logged in, click the button that says “My Bookshelf”.  This will take you to lots of ebooks. Please have a look below to find out which book to read. Once you have read the book, discuss what you have read. Can you identify the beginning, middle and end of the story?

Green group – Chicken Licken

Purple group – The Toys’ Party

Pink group – Ant and the Baby

Yellow group – Can you see me?

Blue group – Big Feet

 

Numeracy

Have a go at these addition sums to refresh your memory! Discuss the strategies you are using with someone at home.

3 + 4 =

7 + 5 =

9 + 4 =

11 + 5 =

8 + 10 =

Music

Listen to the well-known song “Into the Unknown” from the film Frozen 2. The lyrics to the chorus are below. Once you have listened to the song and sang along, can you answer the questions at the side? What is your favourite part of the song and why?

Have fun Primary 2 and I’ll speak to you tomorrow again!

 

Miss Borsbey

Good Morning Primary 2!

I hope you have had a fantastic second week learning from home! Don’t forget – in your folders you also have a pack of extra challenges, along with daily blog challenges and Education City games to keep your learning going.

Today your blog challenge is all about Easter!

Art

Boil an egg then use paint and pens to decorate it any way you like! If you don’t have an egg to boil, copy the template below and design your very own egg! I have attached some pictures for inspiration!

Have a look at this website: https://onelittleproject.com/easter-crafts-for-kids/. It has 40 different Easter craft ideas that you can try out – some of them look very cool and Miss Borsbey will be trying them out too!

I have also posted a grid full of fun activities for you to try at home! Please see the post titled “Spring Family Learning”.

Remember you can also take part in the Easter STEM Challenge! (Please see previous post titled “Primary 2 – Easter STEM Challenge” for details).

I hope you have a wonderful, safe and healthy Easter Holidays. Enjoy yourselves P2 and I’ll be back in 2 weeks with some more fun learning activities for you! See you all soon!

Miss Borsbey

Good Morning Primary 2!

Writing 

Something very strange happened last night! Miss Borsbey woke up and her dog had turned green!! Do any of you know why? In your blue jotter, can you write a list of reasons why the dog may have turned green? You can be as imaginative as you like! Remember to use bullet points in a list.

Spelling 

Miss Borsbey wrote out some sentences with the tricky words but they have somehow become all jumbled up and confused! Can you help her out and copy them into your jotter in the correct order, underlining the tricky words in a coloured pencil? Remember your tricky words are; have, said, new, are, by.

Remember you can also take part in the Easter STEM Challenge! (Please see previous post titled “Primary 2 – Easter STEM Challenge” for details).

Have fun with these challenges and I’ll speak to you all again tomorrow!

Miss Borsbey

Good Afternoon P2!

I have attached a document full of lots of super fun Spring family learning activities! Have a look through them and see if you would like to try any out. If you give them a go, send some photos to wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk so we can have a look and post them on our Twitter page!

Have fun!

Miss Borsbey

Spring Family Learning Grid

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Good Morning Primary 2!

Reading 

Please follow this link which will take you to a website full of Oxford Reading Tree books: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub.  When you open the site, click the pink button at the top which says “My class login”. The class login details are as follows: username – deansprimary2      password – missborsbey       Once logged in, click the button that says “My Bookshelf”.  This will take you to lots of ebooks. Please have a look below to find out which book to read. Once you have read the book, have a discussion about what you have read. Can you identify the beginning, middle and end of the story?

Green group – By the Stream

Purple group – The Ox and the Yak

Pink group – An Odd Bug

Yellow group – Big Feet

Blue group- Big, Bad Bug

IDL

Today is April Fools Day! Have a look at the PowerPoint below to find out all about what April Fools Day is and what people do to celebrate it. Can you pull an April Fools prank on someone in your house? Remember the rules from the PowerPoint!

April Fools Day PPT

Remember you can also take part in the Easter STEM Challenge! (Please see previous post titled “Primary 2 – Easter STEM Challenge” for details).

Have fun with your pranks!

Miss Borsbey

Good Morning Primary 2!

Numeracy 

Today, let’s revise what we know about counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. I have attached our songs for each of these number processes below. See if you can teach someone in your family each of the songs!

R.M.E 

Speak to someone in your family about the Easter Story and what you already know about it. Can you write down the things you already know and the things you might like to find out? This will help you during a task in Week 3. Draw your favourite part of Easter and have a look below to see what else you should do depending on your group;

Green Group; 3+ sentences about your picture including at least 3 adjectives.

Purple and Pink Group; 2+ sentences about your picture with at least 1 adjective.

Yellow Group; 2+ sentences about your picture.

Blue Group; 1+ sentence(s) about your picture.

Everyone should remember to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

IDL

Here is a super fun scavenger hunt for you to do in your garden!  If the weather isn’t great you could do it from a window or save it for another day! Have fun!

Remember you can also take part in the Easter STEM Challenge! (Please see previous post titled “Primary 2 – Easter STEM Challenge” for details).

Have a great day!

Miss Borsbey

Hello P2!

As it is Easter soon, here is a chance for you to showcase your creativity and innovation with an Easter themed STEM challenge!

Your challenge is to create an Easter Egg catapult! Below you will find photos of examples along with a link which shows you how to build the catapult. Can you make your catapult unique with your own creative designs? What else can you shoot from your catapult?

Take some pictures of you building and launching your catapult and email them to the school email address so we can post your innovative ideas on our Twitter page! (Email address below).

Here is the link which will explain how to build the catapult. https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/easter-catapult-stem-activity-kids/

Happy building P2 and remember to email your photos to: wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

 

Miss Borsbey

Good Morning Primary 2!

I hope you all had a happy, restful and healthy weekend. Please remember you should now be moving on to the ‘Week 2’ pack of learning in your folders. This week I will post additional learning activities here daily for you to have a go at again.

Remember Joe Wicks is hosting a daily P.E. class live at 9am every day on the following link. This can also be watched at a later time as they are saved to his YouTube channel; https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

David Walliams is also posting a free daily reading from one of his books! This can be found at the following link; https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

HWB

Today is a very simple task for health and wellbeing. Your task is to speak to someone in your house about how you are feeling. Lots of people are experiencing all different kinds of emotions at the moment and that’s okay. One of the best ways to understand our emotions is to speak about them. Have a chat with someone about how you are feeling and why you are feeling that way. If you are not feeling very positive, are there any small changes you could make that would maybe change how you feel? Do something that makes you happy today!

Spelling

Each group has a new spelling sound and tricky words for this week. Please complete the tasks as detailed on the Home Learning sheet. In addition to those tasks, I have attached links to games for each group to play.

Green, Purple and Pink – ‘oi’

http://www.galacticphonics.com/home/other-vowel-phonemes/oi/oi-word-attack/

Yellow – ‘ue’ 

http://www.games.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/ue/interactive/game/index.html

Blue – ‘th’

https://ec1.educationcity.com/content/index/34647/2/1/1

 

I’ll speak to you all tomorrow again!

Miss Borsbey

 

 

Good Morning Primary 2!

How have we been getting on with Joe Wicks? Exercise is great for the mind and body, especially when it may be difficult for us to get outside just now. Miss Borsbey is slowly beginning to find it a bit easier – how about you? Here’s the link again; https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Numeracy 

Today, it would be great if you could practise doubles to 20. I have attached a link below for ‘Hit the Button’. When in the game, select ‘Doubles’ and then ‘Doubles to 10’ and it will take you to the game we play in class. In addition to this, I have attached the doubles song. Sing it nice and loud for everyone to hear!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling 

Everyone in class loves the alphablocks! Below, I have attached videos for each group depending on the different spelling sounds you have learned so far. Watch your groups video and see if you can spot any of your spelling words!

Green, Purple and Pink – ‘aw’ revision

Yellow – ‘th’ revision 

Blue – ‘d’ revision 

Have a great weekend and I’ll be back on Monday with some more fun learning tasks!

Miss Borsbey