Author: Mrs Keegan

Primary 2 Blog

Overview

This week we have a new Word Boost story. We compared words with ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ in them and continued working on fractions.

Parental Involvement

Our Word Boost words are below. Talk about what they mean and try to use each one in a sentence.

· Assist

· Escape

· Favourite

· Instantly

· Invent

Pupil voice

Michelle – I remember we did clouds yesterday. We chose something we were proud of to put on them.

Mara – In the play area I made a pirate ship with Scott.

Amelia – We did writing about what we could be famous for.

Liam – I liked doing maths with Mrs Kerr.

Joshua – Our topic this week was good. We learned about people in the past from Livingston.

Logan – We went out in the garden. We did story out there.

Anna – We did PE. It was basketball.

Shea – We did drama with Mrs Kerr and had snow.

Paul – A group of us made a robot this week.

Learning Overview

Maths

This week we have continued our learning in multiplication by using the strategies of ‘repeated addition’ and ‘known facts’.  Everyone loved creating their own number problems for their learning partners and recording their answers once they had carried out investigations using concrete materials.  We’re all looking forward to beginning work on division next week.

Literacy

This week’s boost words are – sink, wreck, consult, rattle, havoc and advice.  In writing we created book reviews of our very favourite books on World Book Day and we have worked on the skills of analysing and evaluating in reading.  Our focus in handwriting has been capital letters and everyone did a great job of self-assessing their work and identifying strengths and next steps.  We have also loved listening to audio books on the World Book Day website as part of our World Book Day celebrations.

IDL

One of our highlights this week was drama when the children worked in groups to create instant images.  We worked on using facial expression and body position, with fantastic results. We have improved our fine motor skills through sewing activities, which everyone loved and we began to develop typing skills using the BBC Dance Mat

Parental Involvement

Encourage your child to develop their typing skills using the BBC Dance Mat typing activities

Set a challenge to use boost words at home –  sink, wreck, consult, rattle, havoc and advice.

Next week we are learning about Viking shields so you could do some research on Viking shield designs at home.

Improve multiplication skills with this Topmarks game  –  Coconut Multiplication game.  

Pupil Voice

 

Joshua – I loved celebrating World Book Day.  We brought in favourite books to write about and you got to bring a book to lunch.  We listened to Cookie and the Bolds and I Want My Potty on the World Book Day site.

Victoria – I loved writing this week.  We wrote about our favourite books. My focus was capital letters and full stops.

Dylan – I loved celebrating World Book Day. I loved writing about my favourite book.  I wrote about the Christmasaurus.   My target was to write in paragraphs.

Kayla- I loved it when Father Kenneth came to visit and we all talked about Reconciliation.

 

Overview

This week we enjoyed starting fractions and celebrating World Book Day and Fairtrade Fortnight. P2 wrote all about Fairtrade and continued learning a new spelling pattern. Today we enjoyed some time in our garden and read our story there.

Parental Involvement

Try the word problem below at home:

You should eat five pieces of fruit or vegetables a day. How many fruit or veg should you eat in 10 days?

Pupil voice

Michelle – I liked our boost words. One of them was scoop.

Amelia – We did writing about Fairtrade.

Scott – It was an exposition type of writing.

Roma – We had tennis. It was so fun.

Emilie – We did drama with Mrs Kerr and got to pretend to jump over a river.

Logan – We did the ‘ill’ ending in spelling.

Liam – I liked PE with Mr Cumming. We were throwing and catching.

Amelia – For throwing first you swing. Then you step and after you throw.

Shea – To catch you have to reach, catch and pull.

Overview

This has been a short week and an exciting one for P2. The class have welcomed Mrs Kerr as our new teacher on a Wednesday. P2 have learned body parts in Spanish and are focusing on the exposition genre in writing.

Parental Involvement

We have been focusing on spotting ‘igh’ in words in spelling, such as night and might. Ask your child what letters make up this sound and try to think of words with this sound in it.

Pupil voice

Liam – I liked using my robot to help me with times tables.

Michelle – We drew pictures about loving your neighbour in RE.

Mara – I liked playing with Scott and Igor. We played a game with cars and airplanes.

Paul – We put dye in water and made it green. We changed the temperature of the water too.

Connor – I liked Spanish body parts with Mrs Kerr.

Lucy – We had real life word problems with multiplication.

Anna – We worked out change for money in maths.

Emilie – We did bear time reading and I like it because we spend time with cuddly animals and read a book.

Shea – We had a reading challenge and we had to follow instructions to colour in ice creams.

Learning Overview

We have started our new topic on the Vikings and have worked together to create some exciting learning plans!

We finished our Science topic by writing reports on Alexander Fleming and did a great job self-assessing our work.  Capital letters have been the focus of our handwriting lessons and we’re trying hard to keep our letters neat.

In numeracy we have begun to explore multiplication by multiplying using skip counting and in maths we have investigated measure through weighing a range of objects.

Pupil Voice

Mark – I liked planning our Viking topic.  I really want to learn about the dragons at the front of the Viking ships.  I also enjoyed doing gymnastics in PE.  I liked swinging.

Seren – I liked writing about Alexander Fleming. He was a scientist who discovered penicillin.  We used pink and green highlighters to self-assess our work.

Riley –  I liked coding during Smart Start.  I used digital technology skills.  I also liked skip counting in maths.  We used skip counting to help us multiply.

Home Learning

Keep working on skip counting to 100 at home.  This TopMarks activity is good for developing digital skills whilst the children work on number strategies https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares .

In maths we have been exploring measure by using scales to weigh objects.  Try following a recipe and weighing ingredients to bake or cook.

In Literacy we are working on writing capital letters.  See how many capital letters you can spot when out and about.  Try painting capital letters, drawing capital letters with chalk, making them with pipe cleaners or beads etc.

In Health and Well-Being we are continuing to develop strategies to help us to build resilience.  We know that everyone encounters a wide range of emotions every day.  We have been thinking about ways to help us cope such as breathe in, breathe out, blowing bubbles, going for a walk and art/ colouring in.  Try some of these activities at home and record your learning in your OneNote profile.

Have a lovely weekend.

From P3, Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Learning Overview

Literacy

This week we have been focusing on writing explanations and we wrote about the life cycle of a plant.   The writing was really impressive with fabulous openers, paragraphs and topic vocabulary.

Our Word Boost book was Black Dog and our boost words were demand, agree, follow, shrink, barricade and opportunity.

In Spanish we have learnt about weather phrases and days of the week.

Maths

In numeracy we have used think mats which have helped us to use pictures to solve problems and in maths we have explored length. Everyone has had great fun measuring tables, doors and each other!

STEM

This week we have explored the science of flight, programmed Beebots to travel around the classroom, investigated the work of Steve Jobs and written code to solve Minecraft puzzles using code.org 

Pupil Voice

Abu Bakr – I liked learning to code on code.org  We had to watch a video to find out what to do then we used programming skills to move a Minecraft character and solve challenges.  We set the target of writing 10 lines of code.  We managed to write 21 lines of code!

Victoria – I liked creating x-ray pictures of my hand.  Xrays are a medical invention.  We created x-ray pictures with blac-k paper and paper straws.  I was proud of my work.

Milena – I liked learning to programme Beebots to travel in a shape.  We chose a square.  We could record our learning using an iPad.

Home Learning

Keep working on addition and subtraction using this game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Try writing some code at code.org

Next week we will be learning about Internet Safety. Please take time to discuss internet safety with your child https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2020

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Caskie, Mrs Keegan and P3

Overview

This week we have been busy learning all about game design and jobs you can do to be involved in creating games. We had our trip to Pizza Express where we learned about how to make a pizza and secret ingredients that make it delicious.

In maths we have continued to learn about money and were trying to work out how to buy more than 2 items at a shop with only a certain amount of money to spend.

In Spanish we are learning about colours and made little Spanish colour flowers for our literacy working wall.

Parental Involvement

We have been using Voki to create characters. Have a go at home: https://www.voki.com/site/create

At the shop try to encourage your child to help pay with small coins or read totals on shelves.

Our Word Boost words are:

· Return

· A clump

· Remove

· Wonderful

· Suggest

Discuss the meaning of each of these with your child.

Pupil voice

Anna – We made characters on netbooks. My character was a fairy.

Emilie –We learned about jobs to make games. You can be a sound artist, a writer and loads more.

Shea – We did recycling too.

Roma – We went to Pizza Express. We made our very own pizzas.

Mara – We wrote about friends. It was an exposition.

Amelia – We learned about technology. We learned about coding too and had to code each-other.

Lucy – We used Voki on the computers. That’s what we used to design a game character.

Liam – We did loads of work on gymnastics in PE.