In numeracy we have been completing activities to show our understanding of counting in tens.
Wojciech-“I think counting in tens is just like counting 1, 2, 3, 4 but you add a zero onto the end of each number.”
This week we started to learn about division by sharing. We shared the cubes out into different boxes to get an equal amount in each box.
Marcus- “At our independent station we had division word problems on playdoh mats. On the mats with the cakes we had to make a total number of candles and then share them equally.”
In writing this week we wrote Wanted Posters for the Big Bad Wolf.
Vanessa- “Our learning intention was to check that our sentences made sense.”
Lilly-“I read over my sentences to check for capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.”
Leo- “We wrote about where the Wolf was last seen, how much the reward would be and what he looked and behaved like.”
This week we received another letter from the Dragon and he also left us some magic jelly beans.
Madison- “The giant asked us to grow a magic beanstalk for fairyland.”
This letter came at a perfect time because this week has been outdoor learning week at school. We went out to the Garden, to plant seeds.
We had soil, magic beans, sunflower seeds, water and a plant pot.
After planting our seed and magic bean we went back into class to complete a sequencing task of the steps to take to plant a seed.
We read the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ this week so that we understood who would need this beanstalk in Fairyland. We had to read the text and then answer different questions to show our understanding.
We love this fantastic Jack and the Beanstalk story/song.
Since we wrote Wanted Posters for the Big Bad Wolf we decided to go on a Wolf hunt.
Before we left to go on our wolf hunt we listened to the story of “We’re going on a Bear Hunt”. We changed the word ‘bear’ in the song to the word ‘wolf’ and we sang it the whole way to the woods and the whole way back.
Here is a link to the story read by the author Michael Rosen.
We had a discussion before we left about how we could stay safe when on our nature walk. We said that we had to be careful with what we touched, not go to close to animals, stay away from the Pond, look at where we were walking and stay with one of the adults.
When we went back to class we completed a 5 senses sheet and had to record our findings with a peer.
Angelina- “We all saw the ducks and swans at the pond and we spied a bird’s nest in the tree.”
Ryan “We heard the birds singing.”
Alice- “The trees felt rough.”
Julia- “I could smell the flowers.”
For spelling this week we went out to the garden to do a tricky word hunt. Everyone had to try to find the tricky words and then we had to read the words which we found.
Once we found the words we made a tricky word trail by writing the words with chalk onto the ground.
In PE we had races outside and we also completed the daily mile.
We have really enjoyed being outdoors lots this week.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend from Primary 2 and Miss Boyes.
