P2MD Blog 01.09.23

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 on this in class). This will take place on the afternoon of 14^th September. 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 ensure that you have returned your child’s KIC form (and it is signed!) or we will be unable to take them out of school grounds.
Please ensure that all your child’s items are labelled.
If you have any questions or worries about your child please don’t hesitate to speak to one of us at the end of the school day.

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 or 10, starting from any number in the sequence. This could be forwards or backwards. We have also 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 are reversing numbers. This is normal at this age however it is helpful to remind the children about how to correctly form each digit.

Homel learning ideas:

It would be fantastic if you give your child two numbers between 0 to 10 (or up to 30 / 100 depending on how confident they are) 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 concept of ‘number before’ and ‘number after’ therefore it would be helpful to emphasize this at home with routines: you put your socks on 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 with. We have worked on the 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, which were very popular indeed!

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

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.

Wellbeing wheel

We have continued to learn about what to be safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, 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 a specific game. We are learning to share the Ipads using a timer so it is fair for all.