Category: Primary 2

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 10.11.23

Staff..114

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information

  • My sincere apologies as I forgot to send the reading books home today. As this is a showcase of learning they have already completed the learning intention for this week. Books will be sent home on Friday as usual.
  • Loose parts on Monday 13th.
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school. Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have learned the vowel diagraphs ou/ow. Here is a video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

Here is another video:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: word, world, work. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote the continuation of the story The Storm Whale. We read the beginning and we had to think about what was going to happen after.

We have started to practice cursive handwriting. This week we have practice i and l. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read, write and make the words: mouse, house, loud, sound, shout, south, round, count, out, ground, cow, town, powder, flower, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ou/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have been working on angle, symmetry and transformation. We have been learning to use technology and other methods to describe, follow and record directions using words associated with directions and turns including, full turn, half turn, quarter turn, clockwise, anticlockwise, right turn, left turn. We have used Bee bots and the Bee Bot app on the IPads to reinforce our learning.

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/hungry-pirates/

Ideas for learning at home: 

Ask your child to explain to you:

  • How to get from the kitchen to the toilet ( and from different rooms to other rooms). You can pretend to close your eyes and your child has to give you instructions (step by step).
  • How to get from the school to the park.
  • Blindfold Game: Create a maze for your child using items like cushions, pillows, bed sheets and other items that won’t harm or hurt your child. Now blindfold your child and give them directions, like “turn left,” “walk straight,” etc., till your child comes out of the maze. Now blindfold yourself, and ask your little one to give you the correct directions. This fun activity will help you to teach directions to your child easily.

Other areas

Art

We have finished our Diwali lanterns.

PE

We have worked on pre- basketball skills: we can bounce a ball while we walk, we can do chest passes and we have started to learn how to shoot a basketball to the basketball hoop.

RME

We are learning about Bible stories. This week we have learned about Jonah and the whale.

SCIENCE

We had a great time learning about sound. We were given six paper cups and the challenge was to do something different with them. The children thought about different ideas: megaphone, microphone, headphones and a telephone. They were able to work out that all those items had something in common: sound! So we have been learning a little bit about sound.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 10.11.23

Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information

  • Loose parts on Monday 13th
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school. Please label all the items.

Here is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have learned the vowel diagraphs ou/ow. Here is a video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

Here is another video:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: word, world, work. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote a continuation of the story The Storm Whale. We read the beginning and we had to think about what was going to happen after.

We have started to practice cursive handwriting. This week we have practice i and l. See the link below of the formation we are practicing at school.

Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read, write and make the words: mouse, house, loud, sound, shout, south, round, count, out, ground, cow, town, powder, flower, etc. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ou/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have been working on angle, symmetry and transformation. We have been learning to use technology and other methods to describe, follow and record directions using words associated with directions and turns including, full turn, half turn, quarter turn, clockwise, anticlockwise, right turn, left turn. We have used Bee bots and the Bee Bot app on the IPads to reinforce our learning.

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/hungry-pirates/

Ideas for learning at home: 

Ask your child to explain to you:

  • How to get from the kitchen to the toilet (and from different rooms to other rooms). You can pretend to close your eyes and your child has to give you instructions (step by step).
  • How to get from the school to the park.
  • Blindfold Game: Create a maze for your child using items like cushions, pillows, bed sheets and other items that won’t harm or hurt your child. Now blindfold your child and give them directions, like “turn left,” “walk straight,” etc., until your child comes out of the maze. Now blindfold yourself and ask your little one to give you the correct directions. This fun activity will help you to teach directions to your child easily.

Other areas

Art

We made Rangoli patterns linked to Diwali.

PE

We have been dribbling using the basketballs.

RME

We are learning about Bible stories. This week we have learned about Jonah and the whale.

We also enjoyed being creative with a box Mrs Imrie gave us. We were to think of a way to use it which could not be its original purpose. We decided to make puppets and put on little shows.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective 3.11.23

Staff..114

Dear Parents/Carers,

It was great to see so many of you today at the drop in.

Important Information

Please remember to send in a change of clothes for your child or to refill their change of clothes bag if they use their items. Please note that these do not have to be school uniform.

Here is a summary of our learning:

Literacy

We read the book Aaaarrgghh Spider! Then we did our main piece of writing around this.

Our phonics focus this week was oo and ew. Examples of words with these sounds are: book, look, few and drew.

In spelling we were introduced to 3 new words from Block 4: have, give and live. We then worked on the particular block we are focussing on (block 1, 2 or 3).

At handwriting we have practiced numbers from 3 to 9.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise the spelling block your child is working on. Here is an idea for an activity you could try. Write the words they are finding difficult on a bit of paper but with a letter missing. Write the missing letters on the opposite side of the paper but in a jumbled up order. Your child is to find the correct missing letter and draw a line to connect the two.

Here is a link with the lists of tricky words.

Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (wordpress.com)

To practise phonics have a look through books at home to find examples of oo/ew words. You could also ask your child to spell these words: few, new, drew, dew, book, look, moon and cool. Can they write a sentence using one of these words? Do they remember a capital letter and full stop?

Please go over your child’s reading book with them at home. This will help to build their fluency.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about positional language. We are more confident now in using the words above, below, under, over, between, left and right.

We have continued to work on place value. Most of us are working on tens and ones but some of us are working on hundreds, tens and ones.

In particular we have been ensuring that we have a solid grasp of the importance of the digit zero. It is very important to keep a place in a number where there are no tens or hundreds in that column.  I hope that you found the drop in session useful to see some of the games we have been playing to develop our understanding of the digits in a number, their position and value.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise using left and right. Can your child give you directions from one place to another using left and right correctly?

Place Value Game

Choose 3 different single digits. For example, 2,5 and 8. Ask your child to write all the different 2 digit numbers they can make using only these digits. For each 2 digit number, they should partition the number and give the value of the digits. For example, 52 = 5 tens and 2 ones = 50 + 2.  For more challenge, try this with 3 digit numbers.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about Samuel Coleridge Taylor. A British-Sierra Leonean composer and conductor. 

We have learned about Diwali.

In PE we worked on our hand ball skills: we have learned how to bounce a ball with two hands, one and walking while bouncing a ball. We are loving learning pre-basketball skills.

We have been learning about anti-bullying week in assembly.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 03.11.23

Staff..226

Dear Parents/Carers,

It was great to see so many of you today at the drop in.

Important Information

Please remember to send in a change of clothes for your child or to refill their change of clothes bag if they use their items. Please note that these do not have to be school uniform.

Here is a summary of our learning:

Literacy

We read the book Aaaarrgghh Spider! Then we did our main piece of writing around this.

Our phonics focus this week was oo and ew. Examples of words with these sounds are: book, look, few and drew.

In spelling we were introduced to 3 new words from Block 4: have, give and live. We then worked on the particular block we are focussing on (block 1, 2 or 3).

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise the spelling block your child is working on. Here is an idea for an activity you could try. Write the words they are finding difficult on a bit of paper but with a letter missing. Write the missing letters on the opposite side of the paper but in a jumbled up order. Your child is to find the correct missing letter and draw a line to connect the two.

Here is a link with the lists of tricky words.

Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (wordpress.com)

To practise phonics have a look through books at home to find examples of oo/ew words. You could also ask your child to spell these words: few, new, drew, dew, book, look, moon and cool. Can they write a sentence using one of these words? Do they remember a capital letter and full stop?

Please go over your child’s reading book with them at home. This will help to build their fluency.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about positional language. We are more confident now in using the words above, below, left and right.

We have continued to work on place value. Most of us are working on tens and ones but some of us are working on hundreds, tens and ones.

In particular we have been ensuring that we have a solid grasp of the importance of the digit zero. It is very important to keep a place in a number where there are no tens or hundreds in that column.  I hope that you found the drop in session useful to see some of the games we have been playing to develop our understanding of the digits in a number, their position and value.

Ideas for learning at home:

Please continue to practise using left and right. Can your child give you directions from one place to another using left and right correctly?

Place Value Game

Choose 3 different single digits. For example, 2,5 and 8. Ask your child to write all the different 2 digit numbers they can make using only these digits. For each 2 digit number, they should partition the number and give the value of the digits. For example, 52 = 5 tens and 2 ones = 50 + 2.  For more challenge, try this with 3 digit numbers.

Other areas of the curriculum

We learned about Rishi Sunak, the current UK Prime Minister.

In PE we worked on our hockey skills: holding the stick correctly and a simple push pass.

We have been learning about anti-bullying week in assembly.

Here are some photos from the last few weeks.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McFarlane

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

27.10.23 P2MD Blog

Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

It has been lovely to see the children back after the holidays.

Important information

  • Loose Parts on Friday 3rd November.
  • Drop in for Parents on Friday 3rd November.
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing to use them but haven’t returned them.
  • As usual your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school. We have a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we have been working on the sounds oa/ow. Here is a wee video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: other, mother, another. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote a recount of the Owl Babies story.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read, write and make the words: boat, goat, road, load, toad, foal, oak, coach, soap, soak, loan, bow, row, show, mow. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the oa/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have been learning about place value: the value of each digit in a number. Most of us have been working on numbers to 99.

We enjoyed making place value monsters. The tens were the monsters hair and the ones were the monsters teeth!

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • Can your child recognise and say the number words for numbers from 0 to 100? You can ask your child how many digits a number has, what each digit tells you.
  • This website will give you more information:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zncq4xs

  • This activity is for a challenge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/z9w3g82#z2pv9ty3

  • Build a Paper Cup Stack

Grab a stack of reusable paper cups. Number them from 0 to 9 on the visible edge. Then stack the cups in various configurations. Discuss place value as you stack and restack the cups.

  • Use Lego/ Duplo

Simply write number values on your Lego with a dry erase marker. Then when you are done you can simply wipe the numbers away.

Other areas

Black History Month

We have been learning about the life of Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

French

We have been learning birthday vocabulary.

PE

We enjoyed PE stations this week working on different skills such as throwing, balancing and dribbling.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 27.10.23

Staff..114

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

It has been lovely to see the children back after the holidays.

Important information

  • Loose Parts on Friday 3rd November.
  • Drop in for Parents on Friday 3rd November.
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Some children took them home after needing them in but haven’t returned them back to school.
  • As usual your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school. We have a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.
  • Next Wednesday 1st November I will be at school working on PEF. I will be at school but not in class.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we revised last week’s sounds oa/ow. Here is a wee video that you could watch at home if you would like to revise the learning:

We have practiced our reading skills: prediction, inference, summarising, etc.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 4: other, mother, another. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.

In writing we wrote a recount of the Owl Babies story.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read, write and make the words: boat, goat, road, load, toad, foal, oak, coach, soap, soak, loan, bow, row, show, mow. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the oa/ow letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters the word can has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://ictgames.com/phonicsPop/index.html

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.

Maths 

We have been learning about place value: the value of each digit in a number. Most of us have been working on numbers to 99.

At school the children have enjoyed playing this game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • Can your child recognise and say the number words for numbers from 0 to 100? You can ask your child how many digits a number has, what each digit tells you.
  • This website will give you more information:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zncq4xs

  • This activity is for a challenge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/z9w3g82#z2pv9ty3

  • Build a Paper Cup Stack

Grab a stack of reusable paper cups. Number them from 0 to 9 on the visible edge. Then stack the cups in various configurations. Discuss place value as you stack and restack the cups.

  • Use Lego/ Duplo

Simply write number values on your Lego with a dry erase marker. Then when you are done you can simply wipe the numbers away.

Other areas

Art

We have learned how to draw owls following instructions and choose wax crayons to colour them.

PE

We have worked on pre- hockey skills; we have continued to work on how to hols a hockey stick and push pass.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 13.10.23

Staff..226

Dear Parents/Carers,

Important Information

We hope you had a lovely week. Looking ahead to the week after the holiday, please remember that Monday 23rd October is an in-service for the staff, so we look forward to welcoming the pupils back on Tuesday 24th October.

We have a session of Loose Parts on Wednesday 25th October. Please come dressed for the weather!

We have worked on our reading books in class this week but will not be sending them home over the holiday. We are still waiting for some to be returned so if you have a book at home, please return it as soon as possible to enable other groups to use the set of books.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Literacy

Writing – We wrote a final set of instructions. This week it was themed around a magic spell! There were lots of creative ideas as well as the bossy verbs, capital letters and full stops required!

Reading – We have been working hard on our new reading books in class. There have been lots of good discussions on how to work out new words.

Spelling– We all now know which block of tricky words we are working on. This week we made wordsearches and swapped them with a partner. At the parent consultations we handed out a list of the tricky words so please continue to work on these at home too.

Phonics – We have been learning to recognise igh and y. For example, high, sky, fly, right.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Continue to practise reading and spelling the tricky words that your child is working on.  One idea is to play snap. Use 2 sets of cards with the words. Lay out a large piece of paper and a pen in the middle of the table. When the words match, rather than saying the word to win the cards, you have to grab the pen and write the word to win the cards.   
  • Look for igh and y words in books and in the environment. We found lots of these in our reading books this week! Ask your child to write a simple dictated sentence using the sounds for example ‘A bird can fly.’ Or ‘I am right.’ Do they remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces?

Maths

  • We continued to read and interpret pictograms and bar charts.
  • We have been revisiting how to form the digits 2,3,4 and 5. We did this on whiteboards and then into our handwriting jotters.
  • We have been recognising and ordering 2 (and in some cases 3) digit numbers. We focussed particularly on the difference between teen and ty numbers. For example 14 and 40 sound very similar but are very different!

Ideas for learning at home

We have really enjoyed using this game on the interactive whiteboard.

Caterpillar Ordering – An Ordering and Sequencing Game (topmarks.co.uk)

Practise forming the digits 2,3,4 and 5 in particular. You could use chalk, coloured pens, paint, anything to keep this fun! This is the correct formation:

Other Areas

  • We continued to develop our rugby skills in PE as well as other ball skills.
  • We enjoyed using paint to create autumn trees in art.
  • We enjoyed assembly which was about climate change and also a relaunch of the school house system.

Have a wonderful October break,

Mrs McFarlane

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 13.10.23

Staff..114

Dear Parents/Carers,

I cannot believe this is the end of our first term in P2. What a busy term we had!

Important Information

We hope you had a lovely week. Looking ahead to the week after the holiday, please remember that Monday 23rd October is an in-service for the staff, so we look forward to welcoming the pupils back on Tuesday 24th October.

We have a session of Loose Parts on Wednesday 25th October. Please come dressed for the weather!

We have worked on our reading books in class this week but will not be sending them home over the holiday. We are still waiting for some to be returned so if you have a book at home, please return it as soon as possible to enable other groups to use the set of books.

Here is a summary of our learning.

Literacy

Writing – We wrote a final set of instructions. This week it was themed around a magic spell! There were lots of creative ideas as well as the bossy verbs, capital letters and full stops required! All children worked extremely hard on their writing, they should be very proud of themselves.

Reading – We have been working hard on our new reading books in class. There have been lots of good discussions on how to work out new words.

Spelling- We all now know which block of tricky words we are working on. This week we made wordsearches and swapped them with a partner. At the parent consultations we handed out a list of the tricky words so please continue to work on these at home too.

Phonics – We have been learning to recognise igh and y. For example, high, sky, fly, right.

Ideas for learning at home:

  • Continue to practise reading and spelling the tricky words that your child is working on.  One idea is to play snap. Use 2 sets of cards with the words. Lay out a large piece of paper and a pen in the middle of the table. When the words match, rather than saying the word to win the cards, you have to grab the pen and write the word to win the cards.   
  • Look for igh and y words in books and in the environment. We found lots of these in our reading books this week! Ask your child to write a simple dictated sentence using the sounds for example ‘A bird can fly.’ Or ‘I am right.’ Do they remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces?

Maths

  • We continued to read and interpret pictograms and bar charts.
  • We have been revisiting how to form the digits 2,3,4 and 5. We did this on our handwriting jotters.
  • We have been recognising and ordering 2 (and in some cases 3) digit numbers. We focussed particularly on the difference between teen and ty numbers. For example 14 and 40 sound very similar but are very different!

Ideas for learning at home

We have really enjoyed using this game on the interactive whiteboard.

Caterpillar Ordering – An Ordering and Sequencing Game (topmarks.co.uk)

Practise forming the digits 2,3,4 and 5 in particular. You could use chalk, coloured pens, paint, anything to keep this fun! This is the correct formation:

Other Areas

  • We started to work on our pre- hockey skills in PE. We have learned how to hold a hockey stick and how to do a push pass. Emma, Holly and Harry from P7 helped us to learn these skills, they were brilliant!
  • We had a visit from the mobile library and we chose books that we will keep at school.
  • We did a scavenger hunt with P7 to learn about our rights.
  • On Thursday it was Spain National Day so we learned a little bit about Spain.
  • We took part in a ‘Show Racism The Red Card’ assembly.

Here are some photos of the fantastic independent learning in our class. The Kapla creations are amazing!

And…

Have a wonderful October break,

Mrs de Bonrostro

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 06.10.23

Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

Important information

  • MP Christmas cards: Today we are sending a template for the MP Christmas cards competition. If you wish your child to take part in this competition, please make the card at home and sign the form for consent. Please can all forms be returned to school by Wednesday 25th October.
  • Your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school. We have a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we revised last week’s sounds ee/ea. We felt it was important to revise as not all children were able to do home learning last week.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 3: should, would, could. This is the end of block 3. It would be very helpful if your children work on reading and spelling these words.

At parent consultations we shared with you all the tricky words blocks that we are going to learn in P2. Please continue to revise blocks 1, 2 and 3.  

Thanks to the very kind donation of the book Llamaphones (A Grammar Zoo Book) from one of our parents we have learned about homophones. We had a few examples of this week’s sounds: peek/peak, see/sea. We had a rich discussion based on this book.

In writing we wrote a set of instructions on how to blow a bubble.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read and write the words: keep, bee, jeep, deep, eel, leek, feet, see, wheel, sheep, week, queen, meal, tea, read, eat, teach, see, peak, peek. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ee/ ea letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters can the word has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den

Make sure you choose you choose the sounds we have worked on so far. For ee go to phase three.

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home.

Maths 

We have continued to work on gathering and analysing data. Last week we learned about pictograms and building on this knowledge we have learned about bar graphs: what is a bar graph, how to read and create a bar graph.

We have worked on number and number processes too: saying numbers forwards and backwards, addition and subtraction.

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • More information about bar graphs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqgrd2p/articles/z9kbp4j

  • For more challenge try this game: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Look in the number bonds section and choose the right level for your child.

Other areas

Science

We have continued to learn about Space. This week we have learned about the Moon and its phases. We can now explain why the moon appears to have different shapes and positions in the sky at different times in a lunar month.

PE

We have worked on pre- rugby skills and team games.

FRENCH

We have learned the days of the week. We like this song: Le jeurs de la semaine.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs McFarlane

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 6.10.23

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Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week.

It has been lovely to meet you all at parents’ evenings.

Important information:

  • MP Christmas cards: Today we are sending a template for the MP Christmas cards competition. If you wish your child to take part in this competition, please make the card at home and sign the form for consent. Please can all forms be returned to school by Wednesday 25th October.
  • Your children will be taking home their reading books today. This is a showcase of their learning. We have been reading the book at school so your children might find it ‘easy’. Please return the reading books on Monday: this is essential so books can be used by other children across the school. We have a few books missing and this means that a set of books cannot be shared with a group of children.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

This week we revised last week’s sounds ee/ea. We felt it was important to revise as not all children were able to do home learning last week.

We have introduced new tricky words from block 3: should, would, could. This is the end of block 3. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words.

At parents evenings we shared with you all the tricky words blocks that we are going to learn in P2. Please continue to revise blocks 1, 2 and 3.  

Thanks to the very kind donation of the book Llamaphones (A Grammar Zoo Book) from one of our parents we have learned about homophones. We had a few examples of this week’s sounds: peek/peak, see/sea. We had a rich discussion based on this book:

In writing we wrote a set of instructions on how to blow a bubble.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please ask your child to read the school reading book at home.
  • Read and write the words: keep, bee, jeep, deep, eel, leek, feet, see, wheel, sheep, week, queen, meal, tea, read, eat, teach, see, peak, peek. You can write the words and ask your child to look for the ee/ ea letters and circle them. Ask your child how many letters can the word has and how many sounds.
  • You can play this free online game:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den

Make sure you choose you choose the sounds we have worked on so far. For ee go to phase three.

– Please continue to read stories to your child at home.

– Please continue to encourage your child to read at home.

Maths 

We have continued to work on gathering and analysing data. Last week we learned about pictograms and building on this knowledge we have learned about bar graphs: what is a bar graph, how to read and create a bar graph.

We have worked on number and number processes too: saying numbers forwards and backwards, addition and subtraction.

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • Can your child create a bar graph at home? Ask your child to ask friends or/and family about their favourite colour/fruit/sport. Here is a template that they can use.

  • More information about bar graphs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqgrd2p/articles/z9kbp4j

  • For more challenge try this game: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Look in the number bonds section and choose the right level for your child.

Other areas

Science

We have continued to learn about Space. This week we have learned about the Moon and its phases. We can now explain why the moon appears to have different shapes and positions in the sky at different times in a lunar month.

PE

We have worked on pre- rugby skills and team games.

FRENCH

We have learned the days of the week. We like this song: Le jeurs de la semaine.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs de Bonrostro