Cool to be Kind week in Primary 2

This week was cool to be kind week. We have been learning about children’s rights, with a focus on child refugees. We looked at pictures of children who flee their homes to go to safe countries.  We discussed the journeys that they make and how they might feel on their journey.

In class we drew a picture of our own journeys and discussed how we felt on our journey. We learned that the child refugees are not always protected and safe so drew and labelled pictures of things that would help to keep them safe. Here are a few of the things which we included.

Lilly- “Food”.
Ryan- “A house for shelter.”
Madison- “Medicine in case they get sick.”
Wojciech- “A blanket to keep them warm.”
Marcus- “Clean drinking water.”

Afterwards we made Our rights Posters.
The rights which we included on our rights posters were:

“The right to food and clean water.” Leo and Ana
“ The right to play.” Marcus
“The right to learn.” Aaron
“The right to see a doctor.” Lilly
“We have the right to a name.” Alice

After talking about our rights, we also sang the “I’ve got Rights” song.

Also for Cool to Be Kind week we wrote a kind comment about 1 of our peers. We all wrote lovely comments about one another.
This week we have been learning how to differentiate between measurements using the language “more than and less than”. We measured water into the jugs and had to look closely to decide which had more or less of an amount.

In writing we wrote interview questions that we would ask the boy from the Polar Express. Our learning intention was to put question marks in the correct place. When we finished our writing, we read it aloud in class and Miss Boyes recorded us.

We came up with great questions
Josephine- “Have you seen Santa at the North Pole?”
Wojciech- “Have you built an igloo? Is it melting?”
Elenta- “I love the Polar Express, do you?”

To practise our spelling words, we have been completing different activities.

Poppy- “We made our spelling words with the pipe cleaners.”
Ana- “We have been writing our spelling words on the iPads.”
Angelina- “We have been finding our words on the word searches.”
We have enjoyed all of the activities and Miss Boyes will be checking our spelling test scores on today.

We loved dressing up in our pyjamas today with our crazy hair and face paints all for a great cause! Running in our pyjamas made the daily mile extra fun!

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2