{"id":20618,"date":"2019-03-01T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/?p=20618"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:42:01","slug":"p2-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/03\/01\/p2-update\/","title":{"rendered":"P2 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week P2 have been amazing scientists.\u00a0 They have been learning about GERMS.\u00a0 They completed an investigation in how germs can be spread.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We observed how the germs spread from one person to another.\u00a0 We discussed how to sneeze hygienically, into a tissue or into the inside of our elbow.\u00a0 We also talked about good hand washing.\u00a0 We then became GERM BUSTERS and wrote some rules on how to reduce the spread of germs.\u00a0 Super learning!<\/p>\n<p>In numeracy we continued to look at fractions and we worked on finding half of a given amount.\u00a0 We used our division (sharing) skills the we learned recently to help us do this.<\/p>\n<p>In literacy we have been using &#8216;peer assessment&#8217; in our reading, we have been listening to each other and giving positive feedback.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>For Number Talks we have been using <strong>Maths Splats<\/strong> to discuss and share our strategies.\u00a0 This involves counting a number of dots in a <em>random<\/em> 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.\u00a0 We have to work out how many are under the splat and explain how we worked it out.\u00a0 Have a go at this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/files\/2019\/03\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20630\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/files\/2019\/03\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a lovely weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Currie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week P2 have been amazing scientists.\u00a0 They have been learning about GERMS.\u00a0 They completed an investigation in how germs can be spread.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We observed how the germs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/03\/01\/p2-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P2 Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions\/20631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}