Learning through letters in Primary 2!

Our blog name was created by Marcus this week with a little support from Miss Boyes.

 

Julia- “In money this week we had to show Miss Boyes how you could use the coins in 2 different ways to find the total amount.”

Marcus- “If the amount was 57p you would have to show 2 ways to make 57 pence.”

Vanessa-“You could use 50p, 5p and 2p.”

Wojciech- “Or you could use 20p, 10p, 10p, 10p and 2p 2p, 2p, 1p”

 

Also this week we have been learning about odd and even numbers. Miss Boyes let us listen to the story of Odd Todd and Even Steven.

We also learned special rhymes to remember the odd and even numbers.

 

Aaron- “The rhyme for even numbers is “0, 2, 4, 6, 8 even numbers are great!”

Angelina-“The rhyme for odd numbers is “1, 3, 5, 7, 9 I love odd numbers all the time.”

 

Miss Boyes explained the difference between odd and even by showing us gloves. We had to lay out the gloves every time each set had a match it landed on an even number. If one did not have a match that would make an odd number.

 

We played fun games on the netbooks to help us with our learning.

http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/number/oddandeven/

 

We had to sort the numbers into the correct category at our independent station.

Leo- “When I was at this station I kept repeating the rhymes in my head to help me find where each number had to go.”

Do you remember when we told you that we had sent a letter to Muck Primary school? This week we received their letters in return. We were super excited to read all of their letters. There are only 8 children in Muck Primary School so it didn’t take us too long to read the letter. They told us all about life on the island and it sounds great! They also asked more questions so we wrote them a letter.

Here we are with their letters.

 

Angelina- This week “we had a magical post box arrive outside our classroom.”

Leo-“The mouse left us a message to tell us to go outside and look in the post box.”

We all went out and opened it together. Inside there was a special letter from the Dragon.                 

The letter asked us to help the Dragon save Fairyland. He has been to our classroom and thinks it would make a fantastic Fairyland. To make sure we understood the letter Miss Boyes gave us different parts of it and we had to cut them out and stick the text in order.

 

We are really looking forward to our school trip on Monday and will keep you updated on our new Fairyland topic.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!