This week to finish off our money topic we have been counting money and finding change from an amount.
We know that you have to complete a subtraction sum to find out how much change. We found it tricky when we were buying more than 1 item at the shop because then we had to do an adding sum to find the total amount and a take-away sum to find how much change.
We loved playing the Pop to the Shops board game because it allowed us to use all of the skills we have learned so far in our money topic.
In numeracy this week we have been learning how to count in 3’s and recapping counting in 5’s.
At our independent station we completed a count by 3 dot to dot and a count by 5 ordering activty. The activities were really fun and helped us to practise our counting skills.
We really enjoy singing the count by 3’s song.
Last week we went to Purves Puppets and we completed puppet investigations and designs.
Following on from this we have been making puppets in class this week using different materials and by looking back on our designs from last week.
We have been using socks, pens, spoons, lollipop sticks, paper templates, wool, scissors and glue. We will be using our puppets in class during our structured play.
Ahmad-” We made Goldilocks and the three bears puppets. We worked together to do it by sharing the materials.”
In writing this week we wrote an imaginative story about being a princess or a prince for the day. Our stories were amazing and Miss Boyes loved reading them because we had worked hard to meet our success criteria. Our stories were interesting because we used lots of amazing adjectives. Here are some examples from our star writers.
For art we used oil pastels to create portraits of ourselves as a prince or a princess. We included different patterns in our drawings.
On Tuesday we went on a trip to the library at the Lanthorn. We love our library trips because we learn lots about the different books.
This week we learned more about the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.
Marcus- ” A fiction book is a book that tells a story and is not true.”
Julia-” A non-fiction book is not a story book.”
Abdullah-” A non-fiction books has facts which are true.”
We enjoyed returning our books and choosing a new book to read in class.
We love our fairyland structured play. We took part in lots of different activities for the curricular areas. Once we have finished our activity we evaluate it on our sheet by colouring one of the faces.
Here we are at our listening and talking station using our finger puppets.
We enjoyed the numeracy word problems with a fairytale theme. We worked in pairs to solve the problems.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and primary 2!
