In Numeracy, this week we have been learning all about place value. We understand that a whole number can be split into tens and units. We had to identify the whole numbers from their tens and units or we had to split the whole numbers into tens and units. We used the visuals to support our understanding.
Whilst learning about place value we engaged in our number talks, this allowed us to speak through our reasoning for identifying a number.
We really enjoyed our independent stations too. At one station, you could spin a 0-9 spinner twice. The first number represented the tens and the second represented the units.
You had to build the number and check if you had it on your bingo board to cross off.
We really love this counting to 10 song that we have been singing in class.
In Mathematics, we have been finding the area of a shape. We had to draw our own areas and identify which shapes would fit into which areas.
At our independent carousel station, we used the cubes to cover the area of the different shapes.
In literacy, we focused on how to describe the setting of a story. We used our knowledge from topic to write the setting of the North Pole. We are improving our ability to use capital letters and full stops in the correct place independently.
We had some super ideas of what to write about.
On Wednesday, it was St. Andrew’s Day, to celebrate St. Andrew we learned all about his story. After listening to the story of St. Andrew we sequenced it in our groups to show our understanding. We know that St. Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland so we learned more about the country we live in.
The National Flower of Scotland is the Thistle, we constructed our own Thistles using wool and a pipe cleaner. This was a fun activity, we had to think about all of the steps to making the Thistle. Miss Boyes was very impressed by how realistic they looked!
To finish off our Scottish theme we learnt some words in Scots. Miss Boyes sang us Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes.
We followed her actions and identified that the words were Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. At first we found it funny and really enjoyed learning the Scots words. To show Miss Boyes that we had understood the Scots words we drew a picture of a person and labelled them.
Learning more about the nationality of the country we live in links to Article 7 where it states that children “have the right to a nationality (to belong to a country).” We understand that we all have our own nationalities.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P2!
I really enjoyed visiting your class this week and was blown away by your knowledge of place value. It was great to see you all supporting one another and leading the learning in your classroom. Well done everyone!
What a lovely way to celebrate St Andrew’s Day! I’d love to join in Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes.
I hope you taught it to your families?!
It’s great to read about the way you are developing your learning skills across lots of different areas of the curriculum. I can also see from your smiles that you are having fun and that’s an important part of our curriculum adventure.
Keep up the great work Miss Boyes and P2!