P2D Reflective Friday 1.09.23

P2D Reflective Friday 1.09.23

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a lovely week.

Information

Next Wednesday (6^th September) we will have Loose Parts. Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dressed for this.
As part of our topic on houses and homes we are planning to do a visit around the local area to identify different types of houses (we will be working this in class)on Thursday 14^th September( afternoon). To comply with our outdoor learning ratio we will need some volunteers. If you think you can help please email the school office quoting P2 visit to the local area. Please if you haven’t returned your child’s Kic Form do it as soon as possible as your child requires this to be able to go on the walk to the local area, thank you.
Please ensure that all your child’s items are labelled.
Please bring empty carboard boxes (not too big please!) for junk modelling in our STEM area. We are planning to build houses.
If you have any questions or worries about your child please don’t hesitate to contact me. I would really appreciate if this could be arranged at the end of the day.
As you might know I have the Leadership role for the Pupil Equity Fund in the school and to be able to carry on this work there are days that I will not be teaching in class. I will be posting in advance those dates: Next date is Wednesday 6^th September. Please note that if you need to contact me for any reason on those days I will be in school.

Here is a summary of our learning this week.

Maths

We are learning to continue a number sequence. We are working on reading writing, ordering and reciting whole numbers to 100, 30,10, starting from any number in the sequence.; could be forwards and backwards, starting a different points from 100, 30 or 10. We also have worked on counting how many jumps are from one number to another number, e.g.: how many jumps are from 14 to 17? How many jumps from 25 to 19?

We are working on number formation as we have noticed that children are not forming them properly or reversing numbers. This is normal at this age however it is helpful to remind the children about to do right number formation.

Homel learning ideas:

It would be fantastic if you give your child two numbers between 0 to 10 (30, 100) and ask him/her to count forwards and backwards from one number to another. Look for numbers in buses, houses, car plates and use them as a starting point.
Some children are finding hard to understand the concepts before and after therefore it would be helpful to emphasize this at home with routines: you put your socks before your shoes, etc.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Literacy

This week we have revised some sounds that after our initial assessment we thought the children needed some reinforcement. We have worked on sounds th, ch, sh, wh, oo and ee.

We have revised the spelling of tricky words (common words) from P1.

At story time our focus has been to explain preferences for particular texts and authors. We read books written by Nick Butterworth

Our piece of writing was “When I go home”. When writing our focus is to use our knowledge of phonics and spelling strategies when spelling familiar and unfamiliar words.

Home learning ideas:

Please continue to read stories to your child at home. This will help to increase your child’s vocabulary. prediction and summarising skills.
Ask your child to think about words that have the sh, ch, th, wh, oo and ee sounds. They can try to write them too. Write words with those sounds and ask your child to find a given sound.
For working with the above sounds:

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

Other areas

Social Studies /Art

We have started our topic on Houses and homes in our community. We have talked about what the school looks like and we have been out in the playground looking at our school building. We drew pictures of the front door of the school. Look how talented we are!

Wellbeing wheel

We have continued to learn about what to be safe, healthy, active, nurtured, responsible, respected, included and achieving looks like in our class.

ICT

We have started to use the Ipads independently when leading our learning in the room. We now know how to log in and play an specific game. We are learning to share the Ipads using a timer so it is fair for all.

French

We have learned how to count to 10 in French. We can now say Bienvenue and Bonjour.

Independent Learning

Most of the photos below have been taken by the children. When the children are leading their learning and they want to record their achievements/findings they take photos of it so it can be shared with the class later.