This week we wrote instructions on how to brush our teeth. Firstly, we brushed our teeth in groups following the instructions Miss Boyes gave us. Then we had to write our own instructions remembering each step that was taken.
Maya “I thought it was good because we were brushing our teeth round and round.”
Kornel “You need to remember to put tooth paste on your brush and do a circular motion”.
This week we learnt spelling words that had the “ow” sound.
Some of our words were “Owl, the ‘ow’ sound is at the beginning.”- Brooke
“How, has the ow sound at the end of the word.” – Andrew “Crowd has the ow sound in the middle of the word.” – Seamus
Miss Boyes has told us that Paolo the P2 puppet parrot said he finds numeracy tricky and asked if we could help him. We have been writing down our strategies for Paolo and we will be using our talking book to help him with his number work!
We used our own positive attitudes to develop Paolo’s growth mind-set. We wrote our positive thoughts on speech bubbles! 
We have been taking different steps to build our understanding of the concept of multiplication. We have been learning how to combine objects in a number of equal towers and say how many together. We are progressing really well! We have also been looking at arrays and marking the arrays along a number line to identify the multiplication sum. Marking the multiplication sum along the number line was quite tricky but because we have positive attitudes we will continue to work on it!
This week has been technologies week in school. We have had great fun practising our assembly. Miss Boyes was super proud of us for our fantastic singing and remembering our words. We spoke about gadgets from the past, present and the future at our assembly. We also showed off our boats that we designed and made in class. At the end of our assembly we received some really good questions from our peers in Primary 1, 2 and 3. They had been listening very hard and we answered the questions with confidence.
When learning about technologies we had to sort pictures of different gadgets under the headings past and present. For the heading “future” we had to use our imagination to think about the different gadgets we might have in the future and what they will be able to do.
We thought of… televisions that listen to you “turn to channel 2 please?”
We also drew televisions that float in mid-air with wings!
We have learnt about Alexander Graeme Bell. “He invented the first ever telephone with his assistant Thomas Watson”- Kate.
We watched a video clip about Alexander Graeme bell and then we had to use the information to decide if the statements were true or false. We enjoy visual literacy tasks!
We thought about how we use different pieces of technology. We had to identify which pieces of technology you can use to: listen to music, take a picture, write a letter and send a photo.
Hope you all have a lovely long weekend!
Well primary 2 I struggled to keep up with all the exciting work you have been doing this week! I heard that your assembly was a success, and I am delighted that you chose to do this on gadgets to link to technologies week.
As always you’ve had a great week! Enjoy your well earned rest on Monday and Tuesday and I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
Miss S😀