Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope you have had a lovely week. It has been a busy one in P2!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please ensure learning stories are returned ASAP.
Your child will be taking home a poem to practice at home ‘Twa Leggit mice’. Information about the Robert Burns competition went out in the homelink yesterday. As mention there only children who want to take part will do so but we would like all children to learn this poem. We have used this video at school to help us to learn it:
Here is a summary of our learning.
Literacy
Spelling: As a class we introduced the tricky words story, does and done. We then each worked on the particular spelling block we are focussing on.
Phonics: We have started to learn about “magic e”. Magic e makes the vowels say their letter name rather than their sound. For example in the word cake the a makes an ay sound rather than ah. Magic e remains silent.
Here is a fun video which demonstrates this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qzlrx/alphablocks-series-1-18-magic
Writing: We wrote descriptions of a family member, trying to include as much detail as possible.
Handwriting: We have been learning to form the letters v and w.
Here is the website we use in school to show the correct formation.
Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
Ideas for home learning:
Ask your child to explain how magic e works. Do they understand? The focus this week was on words with the a vowel.
You could write the following words on a piece of paper then ask your child to wave their magic e wand (sent home today!) then add an e at the end of the word. When you add magic e to the end of the word, can they read the new word that has been created? For example cap would turn into cape.
cap
mad
hat
tap
gap
at
can
mat
car
van
Please continue to work on reading and spelling the tricky words block your child is focussing on. Here is an idea for a game to play at home.
I’m thinking of a word
Write the words out on pieces of paper / card. Spread the cards out. Pick a word but do not tell your child which word you are thinking of. Say ‘I’m thinking of a word, the word has … letters’. The child is to guess what the word might be from the words spread out. If they guess correctly, they can keep the word card. If they cannot guess, give them another clue. ‘I’m thinking of a word that starts with the sound …’ or ‘ends with …’ or ‘rhymes with …’. Keep giving clues until they guess the word. This game will encourage your child to think carefully about the tricky words and ways to memorise them.
Please also go over their reading book at the weekend before returning it on Monday.
Maths and Numeracy
We have been working on naming 2D shapes and linking this with patterns.
Here is a fun game to play at home to reinforce this learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
In our number work we have continued to work on doubles and addition and subtraction strategies. For those who are confident with doubles and the doubles plus one strategy, we have linked this to addition and subtraction strategies and used larger numbers.
Here is a fun video on doubles and halves.
BBC iPlayer – Numberblocks – Series 2: Double Trouble
For those pupils who are confidently adding and subtracting, we encourage the discussion of different strategies. You could challenge your child with some sums and ask them to explain how they reached their answer. For example, for 21 + 13 do they count in 1s? Or can they use a more effective strategy, such as first to add 10 to get to 31 then add 3 to get to 34.
Other Areas:
We have continued to learn about Monet as part of our artist study this term.
As part of our health and well-being programme we have started the next unit of work which is called ‘Respect Yourself’. We have been thinking about valuing ourselves, accepting compliments and about the skills and qualities which make us each unique.
We have learned about Robert Burns
We have continued to work on our fitness as well as Scottish dancing.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 