This week P2 have been amazing scientists. They have been learning about GERMS. They completed an investigation in how germs can be spread. Christopher was our willing volunteer to be infected (hand gel and glitter mixture) on his hand and then he had to shake hands with someone in class. We observed how the germs spread from one person to another. We discussed how to sneeze hygienically, into a tissue or into the inside of our elbow. We also talked about good hand washing. We then became GERM BUSTERS and wrote some rules on how to reduce the spread of germs. Super learning!
In numeracy we continued to look at fractions and we worked on finding half of a given amount. We used our division (sharing) skills the we learned recently to help us do this.
In literacy we have been using ‘peer assessment’ in our reading, we have been listening to each other and giving positive feedback. The children have also been using the traffic light system to self-assess their own performance in reading, they have been using the traffic light stamper in their green diary.
For Number Talks we have been using Maths Splats to discuss and share our strategies. This involves counting a number of dots in a random pattern (when counting we look for dice patterns and we use a variety of strategies such as counting in 2s) and then a number of the dots get covered by a splat. We have to work out how many are under the splat and explain how we worked it out. Have a go at this one.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Currie
