P2 News

Another busy week in P2.

This week was Inspirational Maths week.  One of the inspirational lessons we completed was “Piano Fingers”.  For this we numbered our fingers and then had to use the correct finger to press the numbered piano keys.  This inspired us to think about how we use our fingers to help us count.  When we count with our fingers we do not always just count in ones.  Sometimes we make each finger worth ten and count up to 100.  We use little tunes to help us do this, ask us to show you.

Here is a picture of us all trying to find different ways to make five with our fingers, the challenge was to try not have the same combination of fingers as the person next to us!

In our writing we have been focusing on using connective (joining words) in our sentences.  The two connectives we have discussed are “and” and “because”.  We learned a little story to help us learn how to spell “because”,

b-illy

e-ats

c-arrots

a-nd

u-sually

s-ome

e-ggs

This week we also had our special feast day Mass to celebrate St. Ninian.  We learned the story of St Ninian and how he grew up and travelled from Scotland to Rome to become a Bishop.  We even had an extra long playtime as a treat!  Luckily it was dry!

For handwriting we have focused on learning how letters can join using lead in lines and flicks.  We have practised l, i, t, c, o and a.  From these letters we now know how to join our writing for the word “cat” and “cot”.  As a challenge, what other small words can you make using these letters and try to join them up when you write them.  Good luck!