Category: Primary 2

 

 

 

 

This week in numeracy we have been learning about communicative pairs.

Leo- “We know that 2×3 is the same as 3×2”

Aaron- “Another example would be 2×5 is the same as 5×2”

To help us learn about communicative pairs and to help us understand that the total would be the same we have been using cubes.

 

We have also been playing a game to refresh our memory of equal groups. The link to the game is included below
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=multiplication

We have been choosing the option to show the answer.

To help us with our instant recall of the two times table we have been playing this super fun beatbox game, you can choose your own instruments to be played along with the times table.

 

We also have been listening to the two times table songs for practise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850t1vjTZGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUIB-dZRCiA

 

We have continued to learn how to lay out different amounts of money. We have been using the coins in class for help. We have also been using the ten frames to add different numbers together within 20.

An example would be layout 4 coins that could make 15p or layout 5 coins to make 20p.

 

In writing this week we have been using adjectives to describe stormy weather.

To begin the lesson we watched a clip from The little Mermaid were a storm hits the boat. This gave us lots of ideas for what a storm looks like, what it sounds like and how we might feel during a storm.

Here are a few examples of our descriptions,

Lilly “In the storm I felt sea sick.”

Josephine “The storm is windy and lightening is flashing.”

Kayden “The weather was dark and stormy.”

 

Also this week we have been practising forming out letters in handwriting. We firstly trace the letters and then we try to write them independently.

 

Primary 2 had a special visit from Mr Keggie this week. Mr Keggie is a postman and he came to tell us all about his job.

He told us lots of interesting information about the sorting offices, the post boxes, the uniform and the positives and negatives of the job. Mr Keggie loves being a postman and he was even able to tell us all about how the mail gets to the Isle of Coll because he has been to the Island. Mr Keggie also takes mail to the airport and he showed us a special pass to get in and out of the airport.

            

 

 

This week we have begun celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the school. On Wednesday Archbishop Leo Cushley came to celebrate mass with us. This was a very special day for the school.

 

On Thursday we had a day of Fun. We completed superhero arts and crafts in the morning and had a fun party with cake and watched a superhero movie.

 

Have a lovely weekend from Primary 2 and Miss Boyes.

 

In Numeracy this week we have continued to work on our Multiplication. We have been working on repeated addition and how this links with the written calculation for multiplication. We can now recognise the multiplication symbol in written calculations.

To show our understanding we have been matching the repeated addition calculation with the multiplication calculation and finding the correct answer.

We have been enjoying playing the “Hit the Button” Game on the iPads and netbook. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

In Maths we have been enjoying learning more about money. This week we have been practising laying out different amounts of money to show our understanding we have been writing down the different amounts of coins.

In groups we have been taking turns to be the teacher,  showing our peers a money card with a total amount. Our goal was to lay out the correct coins to match the card. “The teacher” would then count to see if we had the correct amount of coins. We had to think about adding coins together to make the total amount and we found this a bit tricky so will continue to work on it in class.

On the netbooks we have been playing this fun money game http://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money.
We have mostly been working on the 1p and 2p categories.

 

To support our writing this week we visited the Isle of Coll website, exploring the website we found out lots of information about the island. We know the Isle of Struay is a fictional island but it has lots of similarities to the Isle of Coll. We wondered how many people new about the Isle of Coll and how many people visit the island so we decided to make leaflets to encourage people to visit.

Our leaflets were fantastic and you will find them on display in the corridor. We had to use appropriate vocabulary in our leaflets and make sure that our writing made sense for our readers.  Our leaflets are full of fantastic information about how to get to the island, what the weather is like and things to do. We are becoming more independent in writing and Miss Boyes was impressed to see us remembering to use our full stops and capital letters this week.

 

We’re sure that after reading our leaflets you will be booking a holiday to the Isle of Coll very soon.

 

On Wednesday it was Burns Day, Miss Boyes told us all about Robert Burns and how he was a famous Scottish poet. To keep with the Scottish theme we decided to learn how to make Porridge. Grannie Island always makes Katie Morag Porridge and her famous cookies “Porridges”.

 

We had to read the recipe to check that we had all of the ingredients and then we followed the instructions.

To make the porridge you have to measure out the Porridge Oats into a pot. Then you measure the milk into a jug and add the milk into the pot.

This activity also linked to literacy and maths because we had to use our reading and measuring skills to make the porridge. We were also able to discuss how we would stay safe in the kitchen when cooking our porridge.

Lots of children told Miss Boyes the next day that they had Porridge for their breakfast and Wojciech even sent a picture of himself eating his porridge on class dojo. Thank you Wojciech!

 

We had a challenge to design Katie Morag a new skirt this week. We were learning how to plan and design an arrangement to make our own tartan pattern.

To begin the lesson, we looked at lots of different tartan patterns and noticed that they have lots of different colours. We also spoke about the lines which run through the tartan. We have learned that the lines going down the way are called “Vertical” lines and the lines going across the way are called “Horizontal” lines.

 

We then used the online tartan weaver to make a class tartan design. For our own designs, we had to use three different colours in our tartan. We had to think about the length and width of our strips and how we would arrange them onto the paper.

We love learning through our structured play in lots of different curricular areas. Here we are at the Isle of Struay post office. We have been writing letters to post, selling stamps and weighing parcels. Also in structure play we have been collecting data and creating pie charts. We went to P2 and P2/3 this week to ask them what their favourite Katie Morag story book was. We needed help to record our tally marks and colour in the pie chart but we really enjoyed collecting the data and we could explain which book was the most and least popular.

 

 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2!

 

 

 

We have continued to learn about multiplication this week. We are learning how to complete repeated addition sums. We know that 5 groups of 2 is 2+2+2+2+2. This helps us find out the total amount, 10. We have been practising our counting in two’s with this fun, catchy song.

 

 

This week we went on a trip to the Library, we love our trips to the Library. The Librarian showed us lots of different books: paper back, hard back, fiction and non-fiction. She explained how the books are filed in alphabetical order on the shelves by the authors surname. After we had a short discussion about the books the lady read us a very funny story. The story was called Nibbles the Book Monster. This story was all about a Monster who ate his way through different story books. After we listened to the story the Librarian asked us to put some books in alphabetical order by surname. We had to hold the cards with the initial of each surname and stand in the correct order. We found this very tricky, we need more practise of putting letters in alphabetical order.

In writing this week we wrote a recount of our trip to the library. We had to try and use the connectives “and” “because” “but” in our writing. We impressed Miss Boyes with our ability to use connectives in a way that our writing still makes sense.

 

 

On Wednesday we celebrated World Religion Day by listening to a traditional Buddhist story called “The Monkey King”. This story sends out an important message that we should help, think and be kind to others rather than being greedy. After we listened and watched the clip of the Monkey King we took turns of being a character and acting out the story. This showed Miss Boyes that we had listened very well. We discussed what we thought the important message might be and then Miss Boyes showed us real mangos just like the ones from the mango tree in the story. Miss Boyes let us hold one of the Mangos.

 

Lilly- “The Mangos are heavy.”

Zoe- “The Mango is smooth.”

Miss Boyes cut the mango up and we each got to taste a bit of the fruit.

Wojciech- “It’s juicy.”

Lennon- “It tastes sweet.”

Follow the link below to find the clip.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cv3rq

 

On our topic plan we wanted to find the Isle of Struay on the map so Miss Boyes helped us navigate our way onto google maps on the netbooks and iPads. Miss Boyes told us that the Isle of Struay is a fictional island which is based on the real island of Coll. We searched for the Isle of Coll and then we also pinpointed Livingston on the map. This let us see the distance and the differences between each place. The Isle of Coll is surrounded by the sea but Livingston is surrounded by other towns and villages. For our topic we have been learning about physical and human features on the Isle of Struay. We discussed what defines a physical or human feature. In our groups, we each painted a feature of the island and discussed if it was physical or human.

Independently we completed a task where we had to cut the features out and categorise them under physical or human.

 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2.

In class this week we have planned our new topic which is Katie Morag.

 

Here are things which we included on our plan
Wojciech “What does Katie Morag eat?”
Madison “We want to learn about the job of a postman or lady.”
Angelina “Can we find the island on a map?”
Alice “What does she wear?”

For International Week we have been communicating with our Spanish peers by using Spanish phrases to complete our all about me activity. We are excited for them to receive photos of our work. Also for International Week we have been learning about the food of Malawi and their school lunches which we have re-created on paper plates. Miss Boyes also told us all about Mary’s Meals and how they provide food for children in Malawi and other countries who can sometimes go hungry.

We have begun to learn about money. We will be using our knowledge of money to run Katie Morag Post office.

This week we learned how to count money to find the total amount. We are learning to count money within 20p. Here is a fun money game which we could play at home.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

In numeracy we have started to learn about multiplication. This week we have been finding how many groups there are, how many objects in each group and the total number.

At our independent station we have been grouping the duplo and unifix cubes.

This would be a fun game to play at home.
http://www.multiplication.com/games/play/carls-cookie-capers

Last week we completed a reading task where we had to fill in the missing words for a friendship recipe. This week we have wrote our own friendship recipes in class. Our aim was to use wider range of vocabulary. Miss Boyes said our friendship recipes were lovely to read and was impressed with all of the fantastic sentence openers we used.

 

In PE we have started our new Gymnastic block.

Madison “In PE we have been learning lots of different balances.”

Josephine “You have to try to hold your balance for 3 seconds.”

Lilly “My favourite balance was the bridge.”

Vanessa “Another balance which we practised was the shoulder stand.”

Poppy “I was practising the table top balance.”

It is important that we remember our PE kit for a Wednesday and a Thursday.

Lastly we would like to finish off our blog by saying that Primary 2 will really miss seeing Miss Smyth’s smiley face everyday! We wish her lots and lots of luck in her new job and we know that she will be an asset to her new school.

 

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2!

 

Although it’s been a short week we have been busy in class.

Miss Boyes was very happy to see us all back and hear about our Christmas holidays.

This week was vision and values week at school. We have been learning lots about the school values and the school vision.

To learn about the school vision (Our Vision is to be a vibrant community of faith and learning where together we learn to grow in the image and likeness of Christ) we went into the Garden. We followed footsteps which were laid out on the ground and every time we came to a new set of footprints Miss Boyes would give us a special card. Each of the cards had an important message about Jesus and his qualities. We are told to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and this helped us to understand what we can do in our own lives to be like Christ.

When we went back to class we spoke about the school vision further. Then we drew our own pictures of Jesus and wrote all of his special qualities. We would like to share these qualities with you at home.

 

This week we reviewed our class charter. We decided that we did not want to change it however we did want to add some knew promises. We have learnt lots about our rights and responsibilities and this has given us a greater understanding of the promises we can keep.

The Promises which we have added are:

I will not distract others.

I will aim to complete my work.

I will be gentle.

Although all of the school values are of high importance we chose to focus in on Friendship and what it means to be a good friend. We thought about the ingredients you would need for a friendship recipe. We read a recipe but had to fill in the blanks with the ingredients.

Ingredients we chose were: happiness, cheerfulness, kindness, gentleness, laughter, smiles and love.

 

It is exciting to start a New Year, we spoke about New Years traditions in class. Then we had a think about what a New Years Resolution is. We chose our own and wrote it on our 2017 star. We will try to achieve our resolutions this year.

Examples of our resolutions are:

I will eat a wider range of food.

I will have a healthy diet and stop eating lots of sweets.

I will exercise and stay fit.

I will help my parents in the house with the dishes and tidying.

I will listen to my teacher.

I will keep my bedroom tidy.

 

In class this week we have refreshed our understanding of numbers to 100. We have been counting forwards and backwards, finding 2 numbers more or less and we have been finding the smallest and largest numbers.

 

 

 

We are looking forward to starting a new topic and learning lots more at school.

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!