Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

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!

General Homework for 28th February

World Book Day – is our focus for our literacy homework this week. Please look below this post or at this link and complete 1 or 2 of the suggested activities.

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

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 next week in class as part of our presentation work and this will be a focus of next week’s homework.

Maths – Look over your new Mental Agility Activity Sheet. Have a go at one or two activities on the sheet.

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

We had a recap of some of the festivals and celebrations we have looked at over the last few weeks including, Hogmanay, Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. We have begun to plan our show for later in March too!

We also looked at two different versions of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale and worked on making a little book of our own retelling. This version was the first one we watched while we also looked at this version here too.

Lastly, a big well done and congratulations to our

Leon

for being a Successful Learner in his literacy work this week, making good choices and engaging with all his tasks.

Remember to have fun this weekend! We look forward to seeing you all next week.

We read Digiduck and the Magic Castle to start us off on the theme of All fun and games? Exploring relationships and respect online. We created masks of our very own ‘digiducks’ as we worked on our kindness ‘spells’ and recorded our class recipe. In literacy, we focused more on our tricky ‘red’ words as well as continuing to explore Safer Internet Day and Equalities Week work. We created self portraits in response to ‘We Are All Different’ as well as thinking about what ‘bullying’ is and why this might happen.

In maths, we continue to work on reading and writing the time. We start to look at quarter past and quarter to in both digital and analogue times after working well to show half past and o’clock on analogue and digital clock faces. We also continue to work on estimating how long things take to do, making some good guesses before checking out our guesses with a timer!

We continue to work on our Space topic, in exploring the orbit of the earth around the sun and we worked with our Primary 7 buddies to create some clay art from natural materials we gathered in the grounds of the Canongate Kirk. We even had some time to spare to play Red, Red River and some Chaos Tig in the playground!

As we come to the February break please remember to have fun! We look forward to seeing you all on the 21st of February!