P2 Weekly Update

A short week, jam packed with exciting learning!  Here is an overview of our week.

Literacy – Mrs Young worked with the children on Wednesday and focused on the last Charlie and Lola story “Whoops but It Wasn’t Me!”.  From this the children made some Charlie and Lola puppets and then wrote a story about a time when they accidentally broke something.  Our star writers were Micah, Robert and Oliver, well done!  Next week we will be visiting the local library and we will be able to borrow a book to bring back to school.

Topic – Our class focus on The Charlie and Lola stories has now finished and we are looking ahead to next week when our science block of work begins.  Our Science work will initially focus on water, so the children have been sharing their ideas as to what they would like to learn about water.  Here are some of the suggestions;

Thea – find out what is in water (what it is made of) and why it is clear?

Abigail – how much water does it take to fill a cup? (measuring)

Jack – how to be safe with water and when doing science, using goggles and things like that.

As part of our core learning within the topic of Water we will be investigating water in its three states.  This will involve using investigation skills and linking our learning to real life.  One planned lesson is to show how we use water in cooking and we will make a vegetable pasta dish.  The ingredients will be dried pasta, olive oil, carrots, onions, mushrooms and red and green peppers.  If for any reason your child cannot eat any of these ingredients please send Mrs Currie a note and we will adapt the recipe to suit.  Discuss the topic of water at home with your child and please leave a message if you or your child have any other suggestions of activities or research/investigations that we could carry out as part of this topic.

Maths and numeracy – the children are now looking at ten frames in their Number Talks.  Here is an example of a ten frame Number Talks, you can try this with your child at home.

We have also explored partitioning a 2 digit number into its tens and units.  The children have learned that in the number 25 the 2 tens digit stands for 20 etc.  Here is an example of partitioning,

Now try this one.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie