Primary 2 has been busy practising their reading, writing, adding and subtracting, and getting lots of physical exercise this week.

The children did some descriptive writing about a place, being sure to use as many describing words as possible. We also did more phonics work, reviewing some sounds and spelling patterns we learned last year, and looking at some new ones. We practised writing words with these sounds, and creating words using magnetic letters on whiteboards.

In maths, we reviewed some of the different vocabulary we use to talk about subtracting, such as take away, minus, find the difference between, and less than. We practised mental maths as well as written maths, and made sure we tried lots of different way to find our answers, including using number lines, rekenreks, or counting our fingers or objects.

In health and wellbeing, we talked about emotions. We looked at lots of different feelings we might feel, and discussed the sorts of things that might make us feel that way. In PE, we enjoyed running about on the Muga and doing some yoga in the classroom!

For our dinosaur topic, the class went outside with metre sticks and measured how long different dinosaurs were, marking the lengths with chalk on the ground. The longest dinosaur we explored was Brachiosaurus, at a whopping 26 metres long! The class did a great job of finding the information they needed from their fact sheets and using the metre sticks to measure on the ground. Well done! Below are some pictures of the children measuring outside:

Have a lovely weekend!