Category: Primary 2

Literacy

We were using our echo reading skills to develop our expression and fluency skills. We were also developing our questioning skills. After reading our book, we had to think of a question to ask our friends about the text. Questioning skills help develop our understanding of the text.

For writing this week, we started our new genre of explanation. We were writing about how a plant grows. First, watched video about the germination process and had to use our note taking skills to help us with our writing piece. We collaborated in our groups to discuss the process of how a plant grows.

 

Maths

This week, we continued to learn about times tables. We were using textbooks and developed our skills of presenting our work neatly. We were also using problem solving skills to tackle multiplication word problems.

 

IDL

We started our new ‘World of Work’ topic. As a class, we discussed why adults have jobs and how we can develop skills to help us in the world of work. Additionally, we learned about different job sectors and the jobs within them.

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing

Max – “We have been learning how to write an explanation”

Jacob – “We had to explain how plants grow”

Jayden – “Plants need lots of soil and water or they will die”

Numeracy

Charli Mae – “We have been learning how to tell the time”

Louie – “We made clocks to help us learn how to tell the time”

Euan – “We have been learning all about o’clock”

Archie M – “The big hand is the minute hand and the small hand is the hour hand”

HWB

Andrew – “We were talking about bad touch and good touch”

Elizabeth – “A hug is good touch”

Connor – “A bad touch is punching”

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Literacy

We got our new reading books and we were using your clarifying skills to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. We also introduced echo reading this week. Echo reading is used to help us read with fluency and expression.

“We have been using echo reading this week. My teacher reads a page first and then I would read it back”.

“This made reading easier as it broke up the tricky words”.

 

We have been practicing our tricky words this week. We love to play games with our spelling words like quiz a friend.

“I have to look, say, cover, write, and check each word.”

 

In writing, we finished our information report genre. We researched and discussed Spring and then used this information to support us when writing our report.

 

Maths

In maths, we were continuing to solve times tables equations. We had to identify an effective strategy to help us calculate the answer. We all enjoyed using our skills to play times table snakes and ladders and times table bingo.

“Using pop its help me calculate the answer.”

 

“I used my fingers and counted in twos.”

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week, we started football for P.E. We were working on our dribbling skills, passing skills and keeping control of the ball.

 

“We were dribbling in and out of the cones.”

“We can to pass the ball to out team members.”

Literacy

We got our new reading books and we were using your clarifying skills to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. We also introduced echo reading this week. Echo reading is used to help us read with fluency and expression.

“We have been using echo reading this week. My teacher reads a page first and then I would read it back”.

“This made reading easier as it broke up the tricky words”.

 

We have been practicing our tricky words this week. We love to play games with our spelling words like quiz a friend.

“I have to look, say, cover, write, and check each word.”

In writing, we finished our information report genre. We researched and discussed Spring and then used this information to support us when writing our report.

 

Maths

 

In maths, we were continuing to solve times tables equations. We had to identify an effective strategy to help us calculate the answer. We all enjoyed using our skills to play times table snakes and ladders and times table bingo.

“Using pop its help me calculate the answer.”

 

“I used my fingers and counted in twos.”

Health and Wellbeing

This week, we started football for P.E. We were working on our dribbling skills, passing skills and keeping control of the ball.

“We were dribbling in and out of the cones.”

“We can to pass the ball to out team members.”

Welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Numeracy

We have started our new topic of time. This week, we have been focusing on the months of the year – how to read and spell them, and also the order in which they come.

Jayden – “There are 12 months in a year”

Euan – “2 months after January is March, and April is the fourth month”

Vrishti – “Halloween is in October”

Archie M – “There are different months in different seasons”

IDL

Our new topic for this term is World of Work.

Maddison – “We spoke about different kinds of jobs”

Ethan – “We looked at different job sectors and wrote the jobs that are in that sector”

Writing

We began learning a new writing genre this week – explanation.

Max – “An explanation is when you explain something”

Mark – “First comes the title, then the identifying statement, then the explanation sequence, then the summary statement”

Andrew – “A summary is when you say what has happened”

Fun in the sun

We have been out enjoying the sun this week. We were learning how to make daisy chains and found it quite tricky and fiddly! Some of us got the hang of it after a while!

Some of us were learning to assess risks by climbing a tree.

Jordon – “There were stable branches and unstable branches”

Louie – “We had to make sure we were testing the branches and only standing on the stable branches”

Charli Mae – “We couldn’t go too high up to the top because the branches were unstable”

Sophie – “I was happy but also scared because I had to make sure I didn’t fall off”

Have a lovely weekend in the sun!

 

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Writing 

Maddison – “We wrote an information report all about Spring”

Charli Mae – “Sheep have lambs during Spring”

Archie – “The bees and wasps start to come out when it is hot”

Outdoor Learning

Louie – “We went into the playground and flew our kites”

Andrew – “Flying my kite was so fun”

Kayden – “We made out kite out of paper”

STEM 

Euan – “We had to work with a partner to build a parachute for an egg. It was fun dropping them off the stairs”

Elizabeth – “We had to design our egg and we called it Sheldon”

Mark – “Next time, I would put more stuff around the egg so it didn’t crack”

Alfie – “Next time, I would put 7 layers of paper on Steve so he didn’t crack”

 

Have a safe and restful Easter Break! 

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week.

Class Talks

Euan – “We spoke about our favourite toy. I spoke about my football”

Charli Mae – “I spoke about my pengiun who loves to eat fish”

Writing 

Max – “We wrote an information report about frogs”

Andrew – “Frogs hop and make a noise”

Alfie – “Frog eyes poke out like flies”

Archie M – “Frogs are amphibians”

Numeracy

Layla – “We started learning to count in 5s”

Oliver – “We were multiplying”

IDL 

Jordon – “We listen to different theme tunes and spoke about how they made us feel”

Jayden – “We had to work as a team to make a theme song for Super Girl”

Louie – “Our song had to have a happy and exciting beat”

HWB 

Summer – “We had to design a balanced meal”

Sophie – “We needed 1 protein, 1 carbohydrate and 2 vegetables”

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Literacy

For reading this week, we have been focusing on using key words and phrases to find key pieces of information. We were highlighting the information in the text before answering our questions in sentences.

We have been sounding out our new spelling words. We look, say cover, write and check each word 3 times. Then, we write the word with our eyes closed on our whiteboard as this help us to remember how to spell the words accurately.

In writing, we were using our imagination to help us write a narrative text. We were writing a story with the title ‘Up Up and Away’. We were developing our skills of using adjectives to describe the setting and characters.

 

Maths

This week in maths, we were focusing on our 5 and 10 times tables. We have been practicing them through maths games and we loved playing times table bingo as a class.

We have also been solving multiplication equations using effective strategies. Some pupils were using arrays to solve the equations and others were using their fingers and skip counting.

 

IDL

For our topic of toys, we have been looking at plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is a big problem that we face as a society! We were discussing how plastic is a useful material as it is strong and cheap to make. However, it does not decompose and it is not getting recycled properly. Many plastic is in landfill and the sea and this is bad for the animals and the environment.

We had a class discussion about how many toys today are make from plastic. We were shocked to hear that McDonalds is the world’s biggest manufacturer of toys. However, these toys are often made from plastic and are usually throw away toys. We made posters to inform people of the issues created by plastic toy pollution.

Hello and welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

P.E.

Max – “We have been learning new balances”

Elizabeth – “It was hard but we will get better with practise”

Writing

Jordon – “We were writing an information report all about worms”

Archie M – “Worms have 5 hearts”

Euan – “If you cut off a worm’s tail 5 times it will die”

Numeracy

Charli-Mae – “We have been practising multiplication and chimney sums”

Maddison – “I like to use cubes to help me multiply”

IDL

Vrishti – “We made a pop art picture with our favourite toys”

Jayden – “We looked at Andy Warhol pictures and made our own in the same way”

Alfie – “We drew with crayons then we used watery paint to paint over the top”

Mark – “When we tried to put the paint over the crayon it wouldn’t go over it so you could still see our drawings”

Comic Relief 2021

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Have a lovely weekend!

Literacy

This week, we were practicing our tricky words. We were using rainbow writing and quizzing a friend.

For reading this week, we were given a passage and then answered questions by finding information from within the text. One of our passages was about Christmas trees as we learned about the history of the Christmas tree and how different counties have different traditions.

Maths

In maths this week, we were using the most effective strategy to solve addition problems. During number talks, we discussed all the different strategies we could use to calculate the answer to a sum.

IDL

This week for our Viking topic, we were learning about the Battle of Largs. This was the last battle between the Scots and the Vikings. The Pencil was built to celebrate the Scots keeping the land and to remember those who lost their lives in the fight.

Christmas Activities

We really enjoyed a variety of Christmas activities. We all worked very hard to practice our Christmas poem. We also designed and decorated Christmas baubles.  At our Christmas party, we got very excited about seeing Santa’s message.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas from P3/2!

Here are some of the things we have been up to this week!

Kevin the Carrot

Charli Mae – “We watched Kevin the Carrot and had to finish the story”

Countries Around the World

Louie – “We learned about how different countries celebrate Christmas. In Australia it is really hot on Christmas Day. In one country, they hide a nut in the pudding and whoever finds the nut has good luck.”

A special visit from Santa

Euan – “When we came back from break, we saw Santa had been and left us a special letter! He wanted our help to decide if the Grinch should be on the naughty list or the nice list so we had to persuade Santa what we thought”

Making the Grinch’s heart grow

Archie M – “We were thinking of different things to make the Grinch’s heart grow 3 sizes bigger”

Grinch Art

Sophie – “We used red paper for the heart and the hat and then green paper for a body and head and we made the Grinch”

Handprints

Max – “We used blue and white paint to paint our handprints”

Andrew – “We drew snowmen on our fingers”

Tree Baubles

Jordon – “We made tree baubles with different colours”

Christmas Party

Ethan – “We made Christmas hats and other crafts for our party”

Emily – “We went outside in to the playground and listened to music and had a dance”

Layla – “My favourite song is the hippopotamus song”

Vrishti – “Santa sent us a special message and sent us a gift”

 

 

Have a safe and happy Christmas everyone. See you in the New Year for some more great learning!