We have continued to learn about multiplication this week. We are learning how to complete repeated addition sums. We know that 5 groups of 2 is 2+2+2+2+2. This helps us find out the total amount, 10. We have been practising our counting in two’s with this fun, catchy song.
This week we went on a trip to the Library, we love our trips to the Library. The Librarian showed us lots of different books: paper back, hard back, fiction and non-fiction. She explained how the books are filed in alphabetical order on the shelves by the authors surname. After we had a short discussion about the books the lady read us a very funny story. The story was called Nibbles the Book Monster. This story was all about a Monster who ate his way through different story books. After we listened to the story the Librarian asked us to put some books in alphabetical order by surname. We had to hold the cards with the initial of each surname and stand in the correct order. We found this very tricky, we need more practise of putting letters in alphabetical order.
In writing this week we wrote a recount of our trip to the library. We had to try and use the connectives “and” “because” “but” in our writing. We impressed Miss Boyes with our ability to use connectives in a way that our writing still makes sense.
On Wednesday we celebrated World Religion Day by listening to a traditional Buddhist story called “The Monkey King”. This story sends out an important message that we should help, think and be kind to others rather than being greedy. After we listened and watched the clip of the Monkey King we took turns of being a character and acting out the story. This showed Miss Boyes that we had listened very well. We discussed what we thought the important message might be and then Miss Boyes showed us real mangos just like the ones from the mango tree in the story. Miss Boyes let us hold one of the Mangos.
Lilly- “The Mangos are heavy.”
Zoe- “The Mango is smooth.”
Miss Boyes cut the mango up and we each got to taste a bit of the fruit.
Wojciech- “It’s juicy.”
Lennon- “It tastes sweet.”
Follow the link below to find the clip.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cv3rq
On our topic plan we wanted to find the Isle of Struay on the map so Miss Boyes helped us navigate our way onto google maps on the netbooks and iPads. Miss Boyes told us that the Isle of Struay is a fictional island which is based on the real island of Coll. We searched for the Isle of Coll and then we also pinpointed Livingston on the map. This let us see the distance and the differences between each place. The Isle of Coll is surrounded by the sea but Livingston is surrounded by other towns and villages. For our topic we have been learning about physical and human features on the Isle of Struay. We discussed what defines a physical or human feature. In our groups, we each painted a feature of the island and discussed if it was physical or human.
Independently we completed a task where we had to cut the features out and categorise them under physical or human.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2.
You’ve had a great week Primary 2 and Miss Boyes.
I’m so glad that your library visits are going well. Alphabetical order is tricky but an important skill to learn.
I was really impressed to read some of your writing this week and see the connectives joining your sentences. Well done!
You are learning about one of my favourite topics – I think I have even got a book about a special person who lives on that Island. Maybe I could pop along and read it to you next week?
Angelina- “Thank you for your kind comments Mrs Purdie.”
Lilly- ” We would love if you came to read us a story.”
Julia- “The story sounds like it will be interesting.”