P2 Have The Power Of Yet

P2 have had a great week.  We had our first successful trip to the local library, thank you to our adult helpers who came with us.  The children were all able to choose a book to bring back to school and they then used their book to inspire them to record a drawing or piece of writing.  Well done everyone.  In class we have also been learning about the power of the word YET when we are learning.  The children are recognising that they can achieve anything through celebrating mistakes and using them as an opportunity to achieve great learning…we don’t say I can’t do it! We say I can’t do it YET!

We watch this fun song before our learning to help us remember this valuable message,

Here is an overview of our learning from this week,

Literacy – We read the book “Billy Monsters Daymare” for our boost work this week.  We thought it was really funny when we discussed that it is the opposite of our lives; Billy had nightmares about children! The children were then challenged to try to use any of the boost words when talking to me, I was so delighted when Jack told me he had a “tiny” lunch! Well done Jack.  We have also been working hard on using a wide variety of spelling strategies to help us learn our sight words.  We particularly enjoy using worms and snakes spells was and sally anne is dancing spells said.  You and your child can try making up some of your own mnemonic stories to learn tricky spellings.

Numeracy – Which number is largest?  Which is smallest?  Put these numbers in order starting from the smallest. These were the questions the children were answering this week in numeracy.  The children were using the numbers to 100.  We applied our knowledge of place value and looked at the tens digit first when comparing or ordering our numbers and if the numbers had the same tens digit then we looked at the units digit for more information.  We have been using the game Coconut Ordering (Topmarks website) to help practise this skill.  Here is the link to this game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Science – Water water all around… We have been discussing water this week and looking at the three states of water (liquid, steam and ice).  We split into two groups and one group watched a short film about an ice festival and then used ice paints (poster paint and water mixed together and frozen over night) to colour some Artic animals.  The other group completed some practical work on observing water in its three states and learning the science vocabulary of SOLID, LIQUID and GAS to describe these states, we played a fun game outside to demonstrate the structure of a solid, liquid and gas (ask your child to explain it to you).  Next week the two groups will have a chance to swap over to experience both activities.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Currie