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Buckstone Primary School

P2/3 Golden Treasures Spellings

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This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday.

Team Jewel: revising ar and or words.

For example: car, bar, harm, hard; for, form, torn, corn, lord.

Team Gold: adding ing endings

for example: ending, mending, spending, bending, lasting, gasping, standing

Tricky words: your, called, sentence

Team Treasure: words with the al spelling that make an ol sound

Core list: salt, halt, bald, scald, alter, wall, calling, small, stall, football

Challenge list: halted, balding, scalded, altered, exalting, nightfall, bookstall, overall, volleyball, waterfall

Tricky words: also, always

Buckstone Primary School

P2 Wonderful Wolves Friday update

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This week in P2W…

Literacy: This week we have been learning the last of our magic ‘e’ spelling rules for e-e words. We then wrote some super sentences that included some of the magic e words that we have been learning over the last few weeks!

Numeracy and maths: This week have been revising number bonds to 20 and counting in sequences. We also have been learning more about compass points and have been using these to find items on maps!

Health and Wellbeing: as this was our first week back after a long holiday we used our circle time this week to talk about things that we are looking forward to this term in P2 and shared these with the rest of the class.

Here are some pictures from our week:

Enjoy your weekend!

Ms Russell

Buckstone Primary School

Reflective Friday 23.4.21

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Welcome back to term 3 everyone and thank you for a great first week! 🙂 We welcome Mr. Parry to our class, a student teacher, who will be working with us for the next 5 weeks in P4W.
This week we have enjoyed learning across the curriculum and getting back into our school routines.
Here are some key aspects of our learning:

Literacy

We have been learning to:
Read for information using a range of texts
Summarise our understanding of our reading
Revise our spelling of tricky words
Spell tricky words correctly within our writing
Find out about what a ‘Haiku’ is
Understand what a syllable is and how to use this in poetry
Look at examples of Haiku poems and share our opinions and thoughts
Write our own imaginative Spring ‘Haiku’ poems


Learning at Home Ideas:
Write your own Spring Haiku – use the ideas we shared and look outside for signs of Spring near you to help you. Can you clap out the rhythm and explain the rule with syllables to someone at home?
Look over the tricky words posted on the blog and choose a strategy (e.g. rainbow writing, bubble letters or code words) to practise the ones you found hard – you might like to use a spelling game – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
Create your own dictation using your words!

Maths and Numeracy
We have been learning to:
Use speed and accuracy to recall and learn number facts
Look at the 9 times table and become more confident in knowing the numbers in the pattern
Share our learning about Angles, Position and Movement
Revise the different types of Angles and be able to name them – Acute, Obtuse, Right, Reflex, Straight
Identify the position of an object on a grid and talk about what a grid reference is



Learning at Home Ideas:
Can you practise a times table you find tricky? Use ‘Splat 100’ to find patterns or the numbers in the times table – https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html
Practise finding a grid reference of an object – http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L350/index.html and watch the video that we looked at in class again (or read more about grid references to help you understand): https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbtp34j/articles/z6hxrj6

Across the Curriculum
We have been learning to:
Develop our throwing, catching and fitness skills in PE
Look for signs of Spring using our outdoor areas
Create a piece of Art in the style of Artist Romero Britto
Find out about learning across the school in a P3 Assembly
Get to know our new visiting teacher, Mr Parry

Well done for a busy week of great learning everyone and we hope you all have a great weekend!
We will look forward to the opportunity to speak with you about your child’s learning at the Parent Consultation sessions next week.

Thank you and best wishes,
Mrs Ling, Mrs Williamson, Mr Parry and P4W


Buckstone Primary School

Week beginning 20.4.21

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What a fantastic first week back! It has been lovely seeing everyone back in school and excited for our last term together 🙂 We have been working hard to develop our teamwork, communication, resilience, co-operation and creative problem solving skills.

Thank you to everyone who has made an appointment with me for parents evening (or day this time round) – if the times available on Monday don’t suit you, please get in touch via the school office and I am happy to arrange an alternative time on another day. I am looking forward to meeting you all, even if only virtually!

Miss Collyns 🙂

Working on teamwork and engineering skills
Developing our communication and negotiation skills
Buckstone Primary School

P2M Magic Monkeys 23.04.21

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Hello Magic Monkeys and grown-ups and welcome to Term 3! We’ve had a super busy first week back at school…….

In literacy we have covered:

  • Writing about the Easter Break
  • Writing ‘silly sentences’ with our learning partner
  • Dictation – magic e and blends

Reading:

  • Whole class reading
  • We focussed on listening and looking this week – we listened to an e-book then answered questions based on the text and pictures
  • We also read ‘Treasure in the Garden’ and completed follow up activities linked to ‘Thought Bubbles’

In Numeracy we have covered:

  • Giving and following directions
  • Exploring the points of a compass (North, East, South, West, NE, SE, SW and NW)
  • Using the points of a compass to navigate a map and answer questions about location
  • Dividing by 2
  • Partitioning large numbers into smaller numbers to make halving them easier

P.E/Outdoor Learning:

  • Lots of Tig Games: Team Tig, Bunny Tig, Toilet Tig and Rock, paper, scissor Tig
  • Prize Bingo

Other Curricular Areas:

  • Health and Well-being (team work and positive communication)
  • Health and Well-being – circle time
  • Music – learning to sign ‘True Colours’
  • French – colours

Learn Through Play Activities:

  • Marble Run
  • Block Play
  • Lego/construction
  • STEM activities
  • Fine Motor Skills Art
  • Role Play
  • Arts and Crafts table – French numbers
  • Literacy games
  • Numeracy games
  • Mindfulness colouring in

Morning Starter/Afternoon Ender:

  • Holiday Whiteboard
  • Mindfulness colouring in
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Letter formation practice

Extra Information 

  • New reading books will be sent home on Monday 26.04.2021
  • Please bring reading books to school every day – especially a Thursday so they can be “quarantined” over the weekend. Thank you!  
  • We have had another a new pupil join us this week– it has been lovely to welcome him into our team!

Enjoy the weekend, have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee 😊

Buckstone Primary School

Reflective Friday 23.04.21

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Happy Friday P1L!

I hope you have enjoyed this week of learning in school. We have had a very busy first week back together – you have all worked really hard! Well done!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learned four new sounds – ‘sm” ‘sn’ ‘sc’ and ‘sk’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also learned began to look at the Block 3 tricky words. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Here are some videos we use in school which you could watch again at home.

For reading, we each got a new ORT book and we predicted what we thought was going to happen in the story before reading, we had word hunts and we read both individually and with a partner. We also practised our comprehension skills by completing a fill in the missing word activity sheet. We enjoyed the extra challenge of reading our book backwards this week!

In writing, we wrote about our Easter holidays. We thought about something we had enjoyed doing in the holidays and wrote a story about it. We practised adding more detail into our sentences by added interesting words to help our writing be more descriptive. We are still working on this!

Things to try at home;

  • Practice reading your reading book which is sent home! Read the book forwards and backwards, ask your child questions about the story, the characters etc. You could extend the learning of the book and ask your child to write the next part of the story.
  • Revise our new sounds and tricky words! Can you read them and write them?
  • Write a story about your weekend! Can you add lots of detailed language?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We also started our maths topic of time.

We revised days of the week, months in the year and the order they come in/what season each month is in. We thought about something which happens in each month – such as our birthdays or a holiday and drew beautiful pictures to help us remember each month. We also learned how to tell the time. We looked and played with clocks and learned how to read o’clock times on a clock. We had lots of fun learning this! As an extra challenge we learned how to read half past times as well!

Things to try at home:

  • Practice counting to 100.
  • Can you notice numbers in your local environment? On buses, houses or outdoors? What number comes before or after the one you see? What is 10 more than that number?
  • Practice telling the time and looking at clocks. What hour comes next?
  • Revise the days of the week and months of the year. Ask a family member if there is any special months to your family? Family birthdays etc!

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We played some fun fitness games and practised our balancing skills.

Drama: We learned how to show and express our emotions through our faces and our body language.’

French: We have been learning how to count to 10 in french and basic greetings. We also have been learning the days of the week and how to say ‘Today it is..’ We also learned how to say my name is and practised introducing ourselves to a partner. We are really enjoying learning French with Ms Leach!

Next Week:

  • P.E will be on Monday and Thursday.
  • Next week we will be doing the SNSA assessments which we have gone over together as a class and supported the children in making them seem like a fun game they will be playing with our PSAs.
  • Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.
  • Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday next week.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McGillivray