P2 are cooking up great learning

It has been another superb week in P2, there have been a lot of interesting and valuable learning experiences.  Here is an overview of what we have achieved.

Topic – Science (Water); We have now all had a chance to do ice painting and observations of water in its three states.  To link this learning to real life skills we undertook the task of making Vegetable Pasta (with the help of Mrs Burchill – thank you!).  When we were making the pasta the children all observed how we use water in our every day lives to cook, they also were able to apply their learning about how heating water up can turn it from liquid water into water vapour.  The children were so excited when they started to see steam as they knew this was the water boiling (and boiling over oops!).  They then learned how to chop, peel and grate vegetables.  The best bit was the tasting!

Numeracy – We have started to recap our addition within 10 skills.  We focused on the number bonds to 10 and how we can show these using concrete material and pictorially on a number line.  We then asked the question, if these are number bonds to 10 how can we adapt them and add to them to make number bonds to 11.  Again the children used a wide variety of resources to show this.  We discussed switchers too, ask your child to explain to you what a switcher is.

Literacy – On Thursday we wrote some instructions about how to make our Vegetable Pasta dish and Mrs Smith joined us for this lesson and she was so impressed with our learning.  We focused on numbering our instructions and trying to start each instruction with a verb opener.  Look out for a consolidation home learning task next week about writing instructions on how to make your favourite breakfast (bowl of cereal, toast with jam, boiled egg etc).  This week we completed our first block of spelling lessons which focused on our P2 key words and today we completed a check up task to see how we are getting on, it’s great to know if we are making any mistakes because this is the best way to learn!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie