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A big well done to Primary 2 for their two performances of our show about different new year festivals on Monday this week! Please bear with us while the footage is edited. This will be shared on the blog as soon as all is complete.

Science Week launched this week and we have set up some experiments this week which we will observe over the next few days! Some of the work we have been doing including measuring our hands from base to tip to collect information about hand size, looking to see how well cress seeds grow in soil compared to paper towels as well as checking how well they grow with or without sunlight and water.

We are also hoping to see what happens to bread which has been touched with hands which have not been washed and compare this with a few other examples, such as a piece of bread which has not been touched and one which has been touched by quickly washed hands and hands that have been washed for more than 20 seconds!

In addition to this, we continue to work on our sounds and our writing. The ‘ea‘ pattern (as in eat or leaf) was our focus this week and we continue to work through our Read, Write, Inc. work too! We enjoyed some of the ‘ea‘ games in this link and the anagram game was a great discussion for our sounds words.

In our maths and numeracy work, we continue to work on fractions and identifying the fractions in groups or shapes. We also looked at repeated addition and its links to multiplication.

We have continued to listen to and discuss different fairy tales at milk and story this week. The Snow Queen was one of our favourites of these.

A big well done and congratulations to our

Primary 2

for all working as a fantastic team being a Confident Individuals and Effective Contributors in preparing for our show!

We look forward to seeing you next week!

General Homework for 14th March

Literacy – Complete the work in your child’s orange jotter.

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday to be returned for Monday the 21st of March.

Maths – Look over your new Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.
There is a Fractions Homework on Education City. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework OR try the worksheet that goes home today.

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:

Download

We’ve been working hard on our show which we look forward to sharing this with you all! We have been making props, practising what we want to say about new year festivals and working on our timing as a class. We will be sharing more of this work with you next week.

We also worked with our Primary 7 buddies on Monday, either reading together in the library in school or working on a marble run puzzle.

In our maths and numeracy work we have continued to work with fractions, moving on to work more with quarters. We have been looking at sharing out items fairly as a way to split or divide amounts too.

In literacy, we continue to work with Read, Write, Inc. as we explore the ai sound on its own this week. We enjoyed our ai memory squares game for some practise and exploration of this sound as we finished up on our writing and reading work.

We have been listening to some fairy tale stories this week and this was one that some of the children enjoyed!

A big well done and congratulations to our

Bryce

for being a Responsible Citizen and Effective Contributor in looking out for others, helping out in the playground and classroom and for offering up some great ideas across all his work!

Have a lovely weekend all and remember to have fun!

General Homework for 7th March

Literacy – Complete the work in your child’s orange jotter.

Additionally – we have been talking about Space and things we might like to find out more about within this topic (such as astronauts, asteroids, black holes or aliens). Where you have time this week, begin to research an aspect of this topic (using books, videos etc.) and find out at least 3 facts about your chosen area. We will begin to share these facts this week in class on Friday.

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday to be returned for Monday the 7th of March.

Maths – Look over your new Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.
There is a Fractions Homework on Education City. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework OR try the worksheet that goes home today.

Here is a picture of the Mental Agility Activity Sheet and an an electronic copy of this file:

Download

Welcome to another Week in Review for Primary 2!

This week in our literacy we have been looking at the oi and oy sounds alongside our Read, Write, Inc. work.

World Book Day was a highlight of the week with children sharing favourite books and enjoying a dress-down in pyjamas or a dress-up as a favourite character! We had a chance to draw a selfie of a favourite character too.

We had some visitors from the Scottish Poetry Library who read some poems to us which we enjoyed and we loved looking for hidden children’s book characters in the school and trying to name them.

In maths, we have started to look at fractions. We were reviewing halves and quarters of shapes. We’ve been working well to halve numbers too!

Lastly, a big well done and congratulations to our

Beauty

for being a Responsible Citizen and Successful Learner in her excellent efforts in all her work, her kindness to others and always trying to be helpful!

Please remember to have fun! We look forward to seeing you next week!