Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

In our Literacy, we have started to look at what happens to verbs when we add ‘ing‘ to them. There are several rules but this week we looked more at those words where there is no change to the verb when we add on ‘ing.’ We had a go at looking at the patterns with this game: https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-380192.htm

In our Money work we continue to work on making amounts of money and working out change. We made mini wallets and have been tracking what we have been spending from an ‘allowance’ this week. You may enjoy this game about change: https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/the-change-game/

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In our Living Things topic this week we continued to look at features of living things in our art work and experimented with different materials to create reptiles, fish and amphibians.

We have also started to grow seeds in the classroom in preparation for planting in our planter. These have already started to sprout! The class are keen to help feed the school fish too and we will continue to look at looking after living things in our topic work.

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Lastly, as part of Mrs Jessop’s competition we have started working on a class Worry Monster! Here’s where we are so far with our builders almost finished making our monster. We also had a go at designing our own Worry Monsters!

Next week is Health Week! We look forward to seeing you from Tuesday next week! Have a lovely long weekend!

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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