Dear Parents,
We have had a fantastic health week in P2! It was great to see so many of you on Wednesday.
P2 Listening and Talking Term 3
In June, the pupils in P2 will be asked to give a short talk on a subject of their choice. We are making you aware of this now so that you can support your child over the next few weeks to prepare for this.
Pupils can choose to talk about a hobby/interest, how they look after their pet, a favourite wild animal, favourite film etc.
The focus is on selecting ideas and relevant information, organising these into a logical sequence and using words which will interest the audience.
Please see guidance below on how best to prepare for this.
- Choose a topic.
- Think about the ‘W’ questions: Who (who is this about?) What (What do they do?) Why (Why is it interesting?) Where? When?
- You may wish to make cards for each heading with a picture and/or key words. Don’t write whole sentences to read out loud.
- Once the information is organised, practise delivering the talk to family at home.
Thank you in advance for your support with this.
Loose parts on Tuesday 21st May
Here is a summary of our learning.
Literacy
Phonics
This unit of Literacy Rich introduces the spelling rules required for adding the suffix ing to a root word. For example sing – singing, help – helping. This week we have introduced this at a simple level. For words containing a short vowel sound followed by more than one consonant, just add ing. For example park becomes parking, turn becomes turning.
Writing
In writing we wrote about Sports Day.
Reading
This is the final week of reading non-fiction books. We have been learning to use the contents page, index and glossary.
Ideas for learning at home
- Please continue to support your child to revise the spelling block that they are working on. They will know which block they are on. Here is a link to the list.
Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (southmorningsideprimary.com)
- Please help your child to prepare for their upcoming talk. Information on this is at the very bottom of this blog post as a reminder.
- You could revise ‘ing’ words by doing a mini dictation at home. Read one of the sentences below, repeat it then ask your child to write it out.
I want to go camping in the hills but my mother won’t let me.
The cards were blocking the road but we could still get past.
The queen took a glance in her looking glass but could not see her face.
Maths and Numeracy
Fractions
- We have been finding a quarter of a number. We have been learning to half then half again. For example, to find a quarter of 8, we first half it to get 4, then half 4 to get 2.
Numeracy
We have been consolidating a range of numeracy skills, for example
- Number recognition
- Equal groups
- Counting in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s.
Ideas for learning at home
Numeracy
Remember you can log in to your SumDog account to practise key numeracy skills.
Roll a dice twice / three times to generate 2 digit / 3 digit numbers. Can your child write the digits down and name the number? Do this 5 times and ask your child to put the numbers in order from smallest to largest. Discuss the value of each digit.
Fractions
If your child is finding it hard to quarter a given number, practical activities will help to reinforce this concept. You can do lots of practical activities at home such as halving a group of toys or objects, then halving again.
Health Week
We have participated in:
- Multisports taster session
- Baking scones
- Learning about the journey our food makes
- Judo taster session
- Handwashing lessons which involved hands on experiments!
- Basketball taster session
Below you can find the flyer from the judo session.
Outdoor Learning
We had a fantastic session of Loose Parts play in the playground on Monday. We made Eiffel Towers with loose parts items. We know that the Olympic games will take in Paris this summer.
Have a great weekend,
Mrs de Bonrostro
Buckstone Primary School 