We had a very special visitor this morning: Emma from The Dog Trust. Emma brought along her furry friend, Harry, to teach us all about looking after dogs and how to be safe around them.
Emma chose some enthusiastic volunteers from our class, to help show everyone how we should treat dogs. Here are a few photos of our class helpers!
Kyle learned how to use a stethoscope and how to spray the dog to prevent fleas. Aaron learned how to check a dog to find out if it has been micro-chipped. Patryk learned that he should ask the owner before patting a strange dog.
This week in P2 we had our first set of Lead Learners.
Well done both Kerr and Sophie, they definitely lead by example by working hard and displaying super manners and attitude in class.
To follow on from our book study (which focused on the South Pole) we have decided to follow up with the theme of Hot and Cold Climates. While we were discussing this new topic we had a lot of amazing ideas to learn about,
Ephriam – “Deserts”
Lucy – “Egypt people”
In numeracy we have been looking at numbers before, after and between within 100. We have used our class technology to help us with this
We also have been finding out more about partitioning of numbers and using concrete material to show this,
We also had an interesting homework task which asked us to sort emojis and then challenge ourselves to find things in the house to sort. A lot of us used class dojo to send Mrs Currie our photographs, she was super impressed with our hard work and amazing ideas for sorting into different categories using set criteria. Kayla even brought in a sorting box to class and some of us helped her sort her items out.
Next week will be very exciting as it is Inspirational Maths Week! So look out for more amazing Maths news next week!
What a busy week of learning it has been in Primary 2/3!
Everyone took their new reading books home and worked really hard on their literacy skills.
On Wednesday everyone was so excited to work with Mrs McCabe and Mrs Stewart to make fruit kebabs. We tried so many different fruits including greengages and pomegranates. We’ve already planned toppings for our pizzas next week – you can read our ideas in our talking book.
Writing was a focus for us on Thursday and we wrote about how we made fruit kebabs in Food Technology.
In IDL we continued to read The Enormous Crocodile and then thought about healthy and unhealthy foods for the crocodile.
In numeracy we have been working on numbers to 10, 100 and 100. Today we thought about how each of us learns best to help us plan our maths learning for the term. Some children like to use technology, some like to use counting cubes, some like to play games. We were all amazed by the range of ideas.
We were so excited when the UN Ambassadors arrived in our class today to share the fantastic news that we have been awarded the Level 2 RRS Award. Well done everyone!
In PE we worked on co-operative skills and learnt two new games – Video Games and Capture the Treasure.
Our Spanish focus this week was asking our friends what their name is in Spanish then telling them our names. We were so confident in our language skills!
Another amazing week for P2. We are well and truly getting back into the swing of school and have achieved a lot this week.
At the beginning of a day we work from our Smart Start boxes, which are filled lots of interesting activities linked to our learning, for example Snakes And Ladders; linked with our numbers to 100, word searches; linked with our topic about penguins, handwriting; handwriting sheets practising the letters we have covered and much more. We can choose which ever activity we would like to use which helps develop our personalisation and choice in our learning.
We also continued to learn about penguins this week and we used a variety of different types of sources to learn information such as power points and videos. Here is the link to the video we used to get some of our information.
Using this information we then created fact files.
In numeracy we continued to count up to 100 and look at how numbers are made. We learned the big word “partitioning” which means splitting a number up into it’s different place values. Ask us about the magic trick that helped us partition the numbers.
We also all started taking home our reading books this week and everyone was so enthusiastic about their new books. Mrs Currie was very impressed.
We have been using the books Lost And Found and Up And Down by Oliver Jeffers as our stimulus for learning. With these stories we have discussed friendships as well as learning about penguins. As a result our classroom is filled with penguins.
In Up And Down we stopped the story at the point that the penguin rushed off to find a way to learn to fly and we had some amazing ideas,
For our numeracy work we had juggling penguins which helped us with our number bonds to 10.
We also looked at numbers to 100, have a go at this game to help you with ordering numbers up to 100.
This week we had a visit from the vet. She kindly came into our class to tell us all about her job role.
The vet showed us lots of different instruments which she uses when checking the animals or during surgeries.
Wojciech- “She brought a toy dog with her and showed us how to put on a bandage and a muzzle.”
Alice- “You put the muzzle around the dogs mouth to stop it from biting you.”
Angelina- “The vet showed us lots of different x-rays and we had to guess which animal it was.”
Leo –“She showed us little insects that can make animals sick, they were called ticks and worms.”
Maja- “This week we had sports day on Tuesday, we completed different stations on the field in our house groups and races.”
Ahmad- “At sports day we had a sack race, egg and spoon race and dribbled footballs.”
Filip- “Our class split into their houses and had a tug of war. The teachers also had a tug of war against the parents.”
Lilly- This week we went to meet our new teachers and completed some activities so that they could get to know us more.
Vanessa- “It was a great because it was nice to spend time with our new teachers.”
Madison- “We had a house treat at the beginning of the week.”
Ana- “The treat was an inflatable which we got to play team games on.”
Kayden- “The inflatable was great fun.”
We can’t believe that next week is our last week in Primary 2, it has went in super fast and we have had such a great year. Miss Boyes has loved watching us grow and learn, she will miss teaching us so much!”
Ahmad- We have been playing the fractions pizza game again this week. We had to read the challenge cards and then cover the pizza with ¼ or ½ of which ever topping it asked for.
We have been learning about the link between halves and quarters.
Angelina- If there is 12 cubes and you find half of the 12 cubes then you will get 6 then you need to half the 6 which gives you 3 and that would be 1 quarter of the 12 cubes.
Leo- We have been finding 1 quarter of a shape. We need to be careful because not all shapes with 4 parts are cut into quarters because they aren’t the same size.
Wojciech- I really liked our writing lesson this week because we had to describe a creature/animal which our special cloud made.”
This video clip was a great stimulus for writing and we had a fantastic discussion about the images from the clip before we started which helped us to understand the story.
Julia- “I thought the video was really funny because 1 of the clouds was different from all of the other clouds. This cloud was grey and I think it was grey because it felt sad about giving the stork only dangerous animals.”
Here is the clip so that you can watch this at home.
This week we had a special visit from the fire service who came to talk to us about their job and how to stay safe if there is a fire.
Angelina- “They showed us their special uniform which keeps them safe if they have to enter a burning building.”
Alice- “They told us that the red hose is used for big fires and the black hose is used for smaller fires.”
Poppy- “We all got a turn of sitting in the fire truck and I got to sit in the front seat.”
Lennon- “We all got to use the black hose, it was really powerful and we had to try to knock down a cone. The fire fighter told us we used up all the water in the black hose.”
We loved our visit from the fire fighters because they taught us so much and we would love to have another visit from them because it was fun to go into the truck and use the hose.
We discussed Global Goal 7 this week which was Affordable and Clean Energy. We watched a video which taught us that some children in other countries have no electricity for cooking or lights.
After watching the video we thought about what we use energy for and categorised this into heating, cooking and leisure. It is important to save energy by turning things off if we are not using them.
The Rights Respecting School visitors came to see us this week to talk to the children in our school about their rights and responsibilities. Marcus went to discuss what we have been learning about our rights and responsibilities in class.
Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!
It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 and the children would like to share some of their learning highlights.
Kuba – I liked the Daily Mile because I was running really fast.
Alishba – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.
Calvin – I liked art when I drew a chicken. It looked fantastic!
Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I finished my challenge and I got a new animal.
Andrew – I liked Big Writing because we thought about what would happen if we had no toilets after learning about Global Goal #6. My story was funny.
Pawel – I loved Ninian’s Natter because my mum was there and I showed her the pink and green in my learning. My mum loved my writing.
Levente – I liked working in groups to make posters showing where food comes from.
Kasia – My highlight was maths because we were adding and taking away within 100.
Chloe – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.
Annayah – I liked the Daily Mile because I got a dojo for running so fast.
Maeve – I liked writing a story because we were writing about the toilets closing and mine was really funny.
Zuzanna – I liked maths when we were doing bigger and smaller numbers. I hit a dip but I used a number square and I asked a friend for help and I got out of the dip.
Matthew and Maeve – we liked talking to the Rights Respecting Assessors and we heard at assembly today that we might have a chance of getting our Level 2 Accreditation!!
Rachel – I liked when we prayed together.
Harry – I liked doing the Daily Mile because I was fast!
Brooke – I liked getting ready for the Talent Show.
Angelina- “We know that if a shape is in quarters that it is in 4 parts.”
Filip- “If the shape is cut into quarters each quarter has to be the same size.”
Leo- “I know that 2 quarters is the same as 1 half”.
Kyle- “If a shape has 2 parts they can only be a half of the shape if the parts are the same size.”
This week we have been ticking the shapes with halves and shading in 1 half. We will continue learning about fractions next week.
In reading this week we read a piece of text about what Doctors do and then we had to answer the questions to show our understanding of what we read. We had to write our answers in sentences so that it made sense.
In writing this week we wrote a re-count of our favourite parts of health week. Our success criteria included using conjunctions to help our writing flow. We all feel much more confident about using conjunctions in our writing.
In drama this week we had to use different expressions for different roles. We took on the roles of different people who would help us in the community. Our peers had to guess the role and give us feedback on our use of expressions and our actions. We also discussed global goal 5 which is Gender Equality, we reflected on the job roles and whether they were for males, females or both.
At first most of us thought a fire officer was a boys job and a nurse was a girls job.
However Miss Boyes has explained that the job roles for People Who Help Us in the community can be for males and females and that everyone should be given equal opportunities to apply for jobs no matter what their Gender is.
In art with Mrs Young we have been making beautiful flowers.
Ana- “To do this you need to have four hand prints with a mosaic pattern and scissors to cut the hands shapes out.”
Marcus- “You have to colour In the mosaic pattern and then you join the hands together to make a flower.”
Miss Boyes has put our flowers up in the classroom and they make a lovely display.
Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!
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