Tag: Primary 2

Here are our highlights of the week.

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!

 

We have begun learning about fractions this week.

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!

 

 

 

 

For Health week we have been taking part in lots of different activities.

We are going to tell you our favourite activity.

Poppy- “My favourite was cheerleading because I liked shaking the pom poms.”

Zoe- “My favourite was the boot camp because I liked it when my mum joined in on Thursday.”

Leo- “My favourite was the football on the pitch because I scored 2 goals and it was really fun.”

Madison- “My favourite was Yoga because I liked all of the stretches. My favourite pose was the surfer.”

Lennon-“My favourite was the football skills because at the end we got to play tig.”

Ava “My favourite was dancing because I learned lots of new moves.”

Marcus- “My favourite was the judo because I was getting to learn new moves.”

Elenta- “My favourite was dancing because I like to dance to music.

Ryan- “My favourite was the football skills because I liked learning how to dribble with the ball.”

Julia- “My favourite was Judo because I was getting the bean bag off of Josephine.”

Aaron- “My favourite was judo because I got to do the judo moves with Kyle.”

Kayden-“My favourite was Judo because I was good at getting the bean bag from Marcus.”

Ahmad-“My favourite was the bootcamp because it was good exercise and I don’t get to do this often.”

Ana- “My favourite was dancing because I loved all of the dance moves.”

Alan- “My favourite was Judo because I liked to do the moves with Lennon.”

Angelina- My favourite was the hip hop dancing because I liked learning the new moves.”

Maja- “I liked doing the circuits with P4/5 because it was good exercise.”

Filip- “My favourite was the inflatable assault course because I was so fast at getting through.”

Abdullah- “My favourite was bootcamp because I liked doing the bear crawl up the hill and rolling back down.”

Josephine- “My favourite was Judo because I liked the bean bag game.”

Alice- “My favourite was the inflatable assault course because I got to race Ana.”

Wojciech- “My favourite was the Inflatable assault course because I got to go at the same time as Leo and it was fun doing it together.”

In class this week we listened to the story Oliver’s Fruit Salad.

We made our own fruit salad in class and we learned the bridge hold and the claw grip which we used when cutting the fruit. Our fruit salad was super yummy.

Also in class we have been collecting data of our favourite fruit and sport. We recorded tally marks and made a bar graph.

We have been learning about alliteration and we made a poster to promote healthy food which included alliteration.

We spoke about junk food adverts and how they use toys and bright colours to encourage us to eat junk food. We will look out for healthy food adverts at home.

On Monday we watched a clip about running and then we took notes of what we watched. Miss Boyes showed us an example of how to take notes by using bullet points.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/cbeebies-summer-games-running

 

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

 

In time this week we have been learning all about the difference between am and pm on a digital clock.

We have been finding it tricky to understand that 1 am has a number 1 on the clock but when it’s pm it changes to 13.

 

We will continue to work on this.

Here are some games to play at home to help us understand the difference.

 

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling_the_time#
Telling the time game choose option
“read time to the hour and half past”
then choose
“24 hour clock”.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3
Matching analogue and digital o’clock and half past

Also look at Sumdog for a homework challenge.

This week we went on a visit to the Health Centre.

Wojciech “We got to see all of the files for all of the people who go to the Dedridge Health Centre. We weren’t allowed to touch them because they are private.”

Ryan- There were 11,000 files in the Health centre.”

Lilly- “We went into the doctors room and the lady showed us a blood pressure machine.”

Filip- “The thermos scan checks your temperature and you put this in your ear.”

Angelina- “We got to have a turn of the stethoscope and listen for our heart beats.”

Leo-“You go to the nurses for your injections; we went in to have a look.”

 

We really enjoyed our visit to the Health Centre and were very happy to get a special certificate.

In writing this week we wrote about being a community helper.

We tried to choose different community helpers to be and our learning intention was to include conjunctions in our writing.

Miss Boyes really enjoyed reading about the different jobs that we would like to do in the community.

 

Also this week we have been learning about the difference between needs and wants. We were a bit confused at first because some of us thought that we needed things like a TV or tablet.

However we now know that this is not something we need as we could live without it.

We spoke a lot about our rights and how the things we need help us meet our rights.

For topic we looked on google maps and mapped out the different places near us where we could go for help. We drew pictures on our own map and labelled the pictures.

 

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

In maths we started learning about digital time and we have been trying to understand that there are 24 hours in a day. At our written station we worked with Miss Boyes to match the words for the time to the correct digital clock. Next week we will be learning about the difference between Am and Pm. If anyone has a digital clock at home it would be good for you to compare the digital time to the time on an analogue clock for o’clock and half past.

 

For number talks we have been trying to mentally add a 2 digit number to a single digit. For example 27+5=

We have been sharing the easiest and quickest methods of finding the answer.

This week we recorded the month of our Birthdays with tally marks.

Ryan- “When we have 5 tally marks we need to cross four out.”

After recording the tally marks we then shaded in our birthday bar graph. We have done a very good job at recording the data.

Here is a game that we can play at home to help us collect and analyse data for different types of graphs.

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/interpretingdata

 

In writing this week we wrote letters for our new teacher. We don’t know who our new teacher will be yet but we just chose who we would like it to be. Our challenge was to write independently and show Miss Boyes all of our writing skills that we have learned so far in Primary 2. Overall Miss Boyes was very impressed with our hard work and effort during writing this week. We all really enjoyed writing our letters and we even got to share them with the teacher who we wrote to.

 

This week we have been speaking more about Mary and why we pray to Mary. We made a rosary bead display for the wall and we have a picture of Mary to look at when we pray to her.

 

We loved PE this week and we were super excited to do the high jump. We had to try running from different sides of the hall to decide which side we felt most comfortable with.

Vanessa-“You have to do a special scissor jump and jump sideways.”

 

We have started our new topic this week which is “People Who Help Us”. We have made a topic plan for the wall and discussed the people who we would like to learn more about.

 

In class we looked at Global goal 3 this week “Health and Wellbeing”. We made posters to promote this goal and included different pictures of the things you need for good quality health and wellbeing.

We drew pictures of hospitals, doctors, vaccinations, medicine, clean water, food and shelter. We discussed the importance of having vaccinations in early childhood to prevent us from becoming sick.

We hope you all have a lovely long weekend from Primary 2 and Miss Boyes.

 

Wow! We had such a fun day today showing off everything we have been learning for our fairyland topic.

We started the day by having one last rehearsal for our assembly, we were all bursting with excitement for this day to arrive and we have been counting how many sleeps all week!

Our assembly was fantastic, Miss Boyes was so proud of our performance. We spoke clearly with great expression and we sang beautifully to the Goldilocks and the Three bears song. 

We even managed to get our family members up onto their feet at the end to sing along with us!

We loved having the opportunity to show how we have been learning different curricular areas through the fairyland theme.

This week we had a class discussion with Miss Boyes about the activities we would like to show to our parents. It was very exciting to be mini teachers for the day and show our parents how to: write a letter to the dragon, use oil pastels to draw a self-portrait as a Princess or Prince, complete fairy tale themed maths word problems and sequence the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Thank you to all of the parents and family members who came along to support Primary 2 and get involved in learning more about how we learn through our topic.

I think overall the day was a total success, many of the children have quoted that it was “the best day of their life”.

It was such a lovely way to finish another super week in Primary 2!

Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of the children at their assembly but I have got some photos of the children showing off their activities. 

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

This week we have been recognising the difference between O’clock and Half Past on an analogue clock.
Marcus- “We know that when it’s half past the big hand points to the 6. When it is O’clock the big hand points to the 12.”

At our independent station we used the half past clock face fans. One person had to call out a time and we had to show the correct clock face.

To evaluate our understanding we went outdoors and used the playground as a clock. Miss Boyes called out different times and we had to record them correctly.

We really enjoyed showing what we know outdoors in the sunshine.

We have  been practising our letter-join this week in class and Miss Boyes is seeing an improvement in our letter formation.

 

In writing this week, we have been learning how to write a description for a setting using our 5 senses.
Ryan “We know that the 5 senses are to see, smell, hear, touch and taste.”

 

We wrote a description for the Fairy land setting.

Here are some examples:
Lilly- “I can hear the giant roaring and stamping.”

Ana- “I can hear a cackling witch on a jaggy broomstick.”

Ahmad-“I can smell yummy fruit and chocolate cake.”

Vanessa-“I can hear a bird cheeping.”
Alice- “I saw a furry, soft bear.”

In art we have finished off our symmetrical butterflies, they look beautiful and we added glitter to them.

It’s been lovely and sunny this week, we have enjoyed completing the daily mile in the sun!

In class we have been busy practising for our assembly. We have been singing our Goldilocks and the Three Bears song.

 

We are super excited for you to come to our assembly. It is on Friday the 12^th of May at 11am. Remember you are welcome to come back to our classroom to complete fun fairyland activities. We can’t wait to see you all.

We hope that you have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!

 

This week we have been learning how to read the clock and write the time for half past the hour. We were getting a bit confused about which number the hour hand was before or after.
At our independent station we played a matching game, we had to match the written time with the correct clock face.

For our plenary on the smart board we looked at the big interactive clock and Miss Boyes called out different times. We had to try to move the hands into the correct place.

In reading this week we looked at a piece of non-fiction text.

Marcus “We know that non-fiction texts are true and tell us facts.”

 

The text was all about Blackpool, we read it on our own and then we had to work together to decide if the statements on the statement sheet were true or false. We all wrote the statements under the correct heading.

This week we had art with Mrs Young, we love being creative and we enjoyed making butterflies and talking about symmetry.

We learned how to use the paint package on the notebook this week. We worked in trios or small groups to design either a shield for Prince Charming, Cinderella’s glass slipper or a fairy tale home. We explored all of the different tools and learned to use the paint brush, choose different colours, add shapes and add text. This was lots of fun and Miss Boyes was so impressed with how we got on!

 

Our class talks were great this week, we spoke about the fairy tale character or home which we created for homework. We had to say why we chose the model which we made, how we made it and which materials we used then our peers asked us a few questions about our  creations.

 

We have begun our Athletics block in PE. Before PE this week we watched a clip of an Olympian throwing the shot put. We thought about his technique and commented on it. We know that you have told hold the shot put under your jaw, tucked into your neck. After watching the clip we worked on our own technique in the hall. We split up into 3 groups and we had to see who could throw the bean bag the furthest. We tried throwing the beanbag with both our right and left hand to see which one felt best.
Mr Robinson and Miss McCafferty our PE students worked with us to record the distance and to help us with our technique.

We then had a final for the boys and girls who threw it the furthest.

 

 

We hope you have a lovely bank holiday weekend, From Miss Boyes and Primary 2!