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General homework for 17th May 2021

Literacy – Look in your child’s homework jotter for their tricky words work this week. Please complete the ‘Writing -ing Words‘ sheet for their sounds work.

Maths – Complete the given sheet to decide what you could buy. Additionally if you have NOT completed any of the activities, have a go at two of the Money Homework activities on Education City this week.

Reading – Reading books will go home this week on Thursday to return next week on Monday. Reading books will not go out where a book has not been returned.

Welcome back to our Weekly Review in Primary 2, we hope those of you celebrating Eid have had a lovely few days!

Maths and Literacy

We continue to explores how we use money by making amounts using exact coins and we have started to explore giving change. We have been running a shop in class to have a go at being a shopkeeper and shoppers to work out our change. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/payForIt/index.html is a game you might be able to play to practise giving exact amounts or working out change.

In Literacy, we have been looking at the ‘soft g’ pattern dge. We continue to work on our sounds and tricky words work and we really spent some time practising our handwriting and those descender letters that go below the line such as ‘g’ which are tricky! We enjoyed some of the free games on spellzone for our pattern: https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-71.htm

Science

We went out to explore for some plants, insects and other living things in our local area this week. We also collected some fallen foliage for our Living Things topic art. This time we were thinking about plants and insects.

We explored sound and pitch with some Generation Science work this week! We made ‘seagull squawkers’ and ‘squirrel shakers’ to explore the sounds they make as well as develop our understanding of pitch and how vibrations make sounds.

Have a lovely weekend and remember to have fun! We look forward to seeing you next week.

Mrs Aylward

As a reminder – please ensure that children are coming to school in good clothing and footwear for going outside! Try to ensure that any overdue homework is also returned, thank you.

General homework for 10th May 2021

Literacy – Look in your child’s homework jotter for their spelling homework this week. There is a task for their tricky words and for our sounds pattern. Additionally there should be a handwriting task to practise.

Maths – Have a go at two of the Money Homework activities on Education City this week.

Reading – Reading books will go home this week on Thursday to return next week on Monday. Reading books will not go out where a book has not been returned.

Hello all! A brief update this week due to the short week!

We took some time to look at where we use capital letters in our writing aside from the start and end of sentences! We created some passports for ourselves to use capital letters with ‘proper nouns’ and specifically the names of places and months!

We are continuing to work with money and ways to make specific amounts. We are thinking of other ways to make up things like fifty pence and trying to remember that we need to use only coins to do this.

We continue our Living Things work by thinking of features of living things (such as movement, growth and needing to breathe) as well as how we categorise them. We had a go a making some birds and mammals using feathers and felt to try and show these different types of living things.

Lastly we braved the playground to see what living things we could find, especially plants. We did find a few insects in our searching and had a good look at the flowers outside the east door before we went home!

Last but not least, the office ladies have been so impressed with Primary 2 this week that we earned a shot at the blocks!