Category: Primary 2

Good Morning Everyone.

Happy April Fools Day – did anyone get caught out this morning?

Here is a little clip giving you some information about why April Fool’s is celebrated throughout the world.

Reading

I hope everyone managed to have a read of Kipper’s Diary yesterday and were able to complete the follow up activities. Here is the link again as we are going to be using the book for a follow up task today.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/oxford-owl-ebook-collection

In your home learning pack you should have a copy of  Roll, Read and Find. Here is another link in case you have misplaced it.

roll read and find sheet

With the help of an adult, read through Kipper’s diary and select any words which you have found  a bit tricky, such as went, day, was, sunny, windy and hot. Write these in pencil into the boxes numbered 1-6 ( so you can rub out and use the sheet again)  then roll a dice ( or number bits of paper 1-6 if you don’t have a dice) and whatever number you get, read the word, then search through the book to find the word, you could even get an adult to challenge you to write them down without looking.

Phonics

We are not going to be introducing a new sound this week but focusing on consolidation of the oa and ai sounds from previous weeks.

Get an adult to challenge you to writing some words containing these sounds. Don’t forget to use the join we learned last week when writing the sound.

Have a go at sounding out and writing

l-oa -f       s-oa -p        t -oa -d       c -oa -t      b -oat -t     r-oa -d

w-ai-t         r-ai -l          m-ai-l       m-ai -d      p-ai -d       n – ai – l

Can you draw some detailed pictures to go with your words. Don’t forget to green for growth, tickle pink and write the date on your work.

Numeracy

Here are your daily Five for today. Remember to share with an adult how you have solved the calculation and what tool you have used.  Let’s have a focus on doubles today…

5 + 5 =                2 + 2 =             4 + 4 =            3 + 3 =        1 + 1 =

I found this fun youtube clip called Dancing Doubles to support you..

If you are finding the daily Five too easy and want a challenge, this is a super website which I have used with classes before.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

There are options for addition, subtraction and ordering numbers. Start at level one and see how you get on.

Maths

This week we have been focusing on 2D shape.

Here is a great online game which incorporates not only shape but repeating patterns too (something which we focused on way back in term 1).

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

I would suggest starting at level one and working your way up to level 2 depending on how confident you feel.

Don’t forget you can visit Education City and play the game Bar -B shapes from yesterday’s tasks.

Health and Wellbeing

Yesterday I set you the challenge of designing a poster to display why and how we can keep ourselves safe from household products and medicine. Well done to those of you who completed the poster, I look forward to seeing them. Don’t forget you can email your efforts to our school email address.

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Today I would like to ask the question, which are safe/unsafe for you to use. Can you come up with a list of household objects which are safe/unsafe. For example…

  Safe                                                                      Unsafe

tablet                                                                        bleach

teddy bear                                                              kettle

You can draw/write these into your purple jotters.

 

RME

With Easter fast approaching I thought it might be a good idea to focus a little bit of our learning around this Christian celebration.  What is Easter? What do we do differently during this holiday? Why do we celebrate Easter? Share your ideas with an adult.

Here is a link to the Easter story for you to watch.

Good luck with all of your home learning for today.

A little shout out to the kind friend in our class who sent in some writing for me yesterday, it made me smile so so much! A big thank you for brightening my day.

Oh and I found out yesterday that Amazon has made all their stories online free to stream. Audible Kids is fantastic, we started listening to Winnie the Pooh yesterday. Here is the link, there are so many books to choose from. Enjoy!

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

One last thing! Mrs Anderson wanted me to remind you to keep going with her 30 day yoga and mindfulness challenge.  Here it is again in case you have forgotten.

Happy Learning,

Mrs Stevenson

 

 

 

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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 Everyone!

I hope you all had a great Monday and are ready for Tuesday’s tasks. Remember to keep working through the at home learning packs  (week 2) and checking in here for any extra activities.

Reading

For reading today I thought you could explore this website.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school/oxford-owl-ebook-collection

I have set up a class account for us  –

Username: deans12   password: mrsstevenson

There are lots of super ebooks for you to practise your superb reading skills with our favourite characters Biff, Chip and Kipper! I thought today we could all have a go at reading ‘Kipper’s Diary’ (level 1+) and complete play activity one and two as a follow up.

Remember to be good readers we always –

• Follow the words with our fingers
• Use our word attack skills to sound out tricky words – (look at the first letter, chunk the word into syllables/chin drops)
• Use the pictures to give us clues

Seeing the book is all about the weather and how normally part of our daily routine in class is recording the weather,  why don’t we all have a go at being meteorologists? Look out of the window everyday and record what the weather is like in your purple jotter. Don’t forget the date and even challenge yourself to write a sentence, for example,

Today the weather is cloudy and I am going to go and play in the garden.

Numeracy

The Daily Five

Here are your daily five for today.  Pop your answers into your purple jotter.

Remember to look at the symbol and choose a tool to help you find the solution. You could even make your own number line to help you.

10 – 5 =             5 – 5 =            3 + 2 =

6 + 1 =              5  + 0 =

Maths

Yesterday I sent you all on a 2D shape hunt. I would love to see any pictures you made. Remember you can email photographs to the school email address

wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

I know that Mrs Stewart is going to tweet any examples of excellent home learning! So get snapping and emailing anything you are proud of.

Today I would like you to have a go at naming 2D shapes and identifying how many sides they have. Here is a shape word mat to help you.

The first activity asks you to write the name of the shape and complete how many sides it has. Some of the shapes are what we call irregular (they look a bit different, but we can identify them by counting their sides) Have a go! Again you can print this page or simply copy into jotters.

2D name the shape

Finally just for fun I have added a colour by shape worksheet.

2D colour by shape

I have added another game to our class section on Education City. It is called Bar -B Shapes to help you recognise and name 2D shapes. You will find it under our home learning section. Good Luck!

 

Health and Well being

Yesterday we began to look at household products and how they should be stored and used in a way that can keep us safe. Today I would like you to think about the question –

How can we stay safe at home?

Talk to an adult and share your ideas together. You could even design a poster displaying your ideas on how to keep safe at home. For example, drawing a locked medicine cabinet or keeping household cleaning products in an out of reach cupboard.  I have attached a template for you to use below.

-being-safe-around-medicines-design-a-poster-activity-sheet-english

Here is brief  youtube clip about medicine safety as a little reminder.

I hope you all have a great day.

Don’t forget to do your daily workout with Joe Wicks, listen to a read aloud from the link yesterday and get some time outside in the fresh air.

Has anybody been counting the rainbows and teddy bears in the windows on their daily walks?

I would love to see any pictures of your windows if you have made a display for your local community.  Speak to you all tomorrow.

Mrs Stevenson

 

 

 

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

Good Morning Primary 2!

Did you manage to do Joe Wicks P.E. lesson this morning? Here is the link again in case you need it; https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Spelling 

Miss Borsbey has typed up some sentences but missed out the tricky words! Can you copy these sentences into your jotter and add in the correct words? Remember your tricky words are: day, away, always, today.

French 

Let’s practise our numbers to 20 in French! I have posted the link below to the French number song that we all love in class! Can you go around your home and see how many different numbers to 20 you can find and then say them in French? Look in places like food labels, the TV screen, newspapers, books etc.

I hope you are all well and having a good day!

Miss Borsbey