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P2B Reflective Friday 11.10.24
Hello families,
Welcome to the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 11th of October, and to the half term holiday.
Timetables, Dates and Reminders
- PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Our next loose parts session is on Tuesday 29th October.
- Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 6th November.
- Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
- We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
- Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
- We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
- Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
- Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays. We do not send reading books home during school holidays primarily to allow your child time to read for pleasure.
- Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.
- The children resume from the October break on Tuesday October 22nd.
Literacy
Our class sound focus this week was on oi and oy as in boil and toy. We have also revised igh and ai, as in light and ai. Some of our learners found sorting these two a little tricky still.
You are of course welcome to extend the learning at home, but it is a holiday and all the stimulating fun the children have is always of use in school.
Science
We have continued our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. On Monday we took our phases of the moon knowledge outside to see which ones we knew. Then yesterday we looked at star facts and painted constellations real, imaginary and of our initial.
Maths and Numeracy
We have been looking at place value this week supported by our spinning giant hundred square. Place value is talking about tens and ones (or units), then later on adding hundreds, thousands etc.
Play
Mr Bennett (with some help from Ms Cross), totally revamped the P2 classroom this week to create more defined play spaces in the wake of our big block arrival. The children have certainly made good use of it.
The Mr Bennett Bit
It was amazing seeing the children take to the new layout this week. They really engaged with the new options and they were so excited to see it with Miss Kelly on Wednesday. I have taken their comments on board and will be tweaking the layout a bit more before they are back in.
Over to you! Have a great half term Bunnies and families.
Mr Bennett.
P2D Reflective Friday 11.10.24
Dear Parents/ Carers,
We cannot believe that our first term in P2 has come to an end. It has been a fabulous term full of learning and fun.
Thank you for the generous donations of pens and notebooks. The children loved it and has created an interest on independent writing in different classroom areas. Thank you!
We hope you all have a nice break.
Important information
- Children will start the new term on Tuesday 22nd October.
- We are not sending reading books over the October break. Please if you have any school books at home return them as soon as possible.
- Please ensure your child brings a jacket/coat every day to school.
- Thank you for your support in emptying the purple folders each day.
- A reminder to name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
Summary of our learning
Literacy
This week we have been working on the vowel diagraphs oi and oy: as in coin and boy. We loved making toys.
This is the symbol that we have used to remember the sounds:
This week we have done a revision of all the tricky words in block 3. Please continue to practice these at home over the holidays.
At writing we have been working on how to write the end of a story.
In handwriting we have worked on the letters a and c in cursive.
We had a visit from the mobile Library and we were able to choose new books.
Numeracy and Maths
We have started our work on Place Value.
We are working on our 100 square: counting forwards and backwards from a given number in 1s ( 2s, 3s and 4s for some): looking at the columns and working out the patterns in them.
Other areas
PE
We have continued to work on our pre-rugby skills: pop pass and spin pass.
RSHP
We have discussed what is a friend and what it is being a friend.
French
We have learned to name colours.
Independent learning: in this section you will be able to see how the children are exploring different skills in an independent way ( no adult is interfering: the adults support and extend their play). The children are able to transfer skills that they have learned at different times ( in school and at home) to their play and they are able to show skills that we wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.
Ideas for learning at home
Literacy
- Practice the cursive letters that we have learned so far and try to write words with them: l, i, t, x, z, c, a
- Write the words: boil, coil, foil, soil, toil, coin, join, boy, toy, joy, Roy. You can make them using magnets, with letter stamps, etc.
- Can you make a diary of the holiday week? draw what did you enjoy each day and/or write a sentence to explain your picture.
- Practice the tricky words: please look at the sheet with activities that it was sent home last week.
Numeracy and Maths
- Practice addition and subtraction to 10, 50, 100.
- Give your child a two digit number: ask them to say the number, can you tell how many tens and how many ones?
- You could watch this video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005y9m/numberblocks-series-4-tens-place
Other areas
- Go for walks and observe signs of Autumn. Make drawing using different media of what you have seen on your walks.
- Observe the moon phases and record them in a diary. They could bring it after the holidays and see if all our findings are the same.
- Enjoy a well deserved break!
We hope you have a nice break,
Mrs de Bonrostro
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P2B Reflective Friday 4.10.24
Hello families,
Welcome to the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 4th of October.
Timetables, Dates and Reminders
- PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Our next loose parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
- Our following Loose Parts session is on Tuesday 29th October.
- Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
- We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
- Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
- We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
- Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
- Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays.
- Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.
- Next Friday week break up for October break. The children resume on Tuesday October 22nd.
New Starter
We have had a great time this week welcoming Sienna into the class. Lots of the children have very respectfully and responsibly been showing her around the school and introducing our class routines. Many made lovely welcome cards as well. We hope you have had a great week Sienna!
Literacy
Our class sound focus this week was on oo and ew as in moon and chew. We have also revised ee and ea, as in week and beak.
To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have oo and ew, and ee and ea in their name. Also work on making words with sticks, leaves and twigs, or in unusual places, such as with bath crayons.
P7 came to help us with a whole school task in our writing time this week. We were writing about what makes Buckstone brilliant.
Science
We have continued our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. We looked at moon facts and phases of the moon. If you would like to keep a moon phase diary at home that would be fabulous. There will be a sheet to support this optional extension task in purple folders today. If the night is too cloudy a little cloud symbol instead of a shaded phase is perfect.
Maths and Numeracy
We have been reviewing and extending our knowledge of number bonds again this week . We have also been working on jumping over 1, 2 or 3 numbers forwards and backwards.
Play
Loose parts was great fun as always. With the wet weather we saw a lot of mud kitchens and cook pots filled with “soup”.
Not to be out crafted by the saw a fabulous cinema complex made by some of the boys this week. Also a fabulous ice cream parlour and boat in block play.
The Mr Bennett Bit
It was great meeting all our families at parent consultations and I look forward to sharing the progress at the next round. The children have really enjoyed our topic related story over several lessons this week and last “The Rock That Fell From The Sky” by Jon Klassen. It has been fun seeing their engagement.
In French we learned “Bon Weekend” this week so do have a Bon weekend before we
Fly into another fabulous week on Monday Bouncing Bunnies!
Mr Bennett.
P2D Reflective Friday 4.10.24
Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope you had a nice week. It was lovely to meet you all at parents evenings. If there is anything that you would like to follow up, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Important information
- Loose parts on Wednesday 9th October.
- As you might know part of my school remit is PEF ( Pupil Equity Fund). Therefore there will be some days I will be at school but not teaching in class. On Wednesday 9th October Mrs Graham will be teaching the children for this reason.
- As requested reading books will now go home on Thursdays to allow families more time to work on this at home.
- Please ensure your child brings a jacket/coat every day to school.
- Thank you for your support in emptying the purple folders each day.
- A reminder to name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
- We would appreciate donations of any unwanted empty or partially used notebooks or diaries (used pages can be removed). Also, any enticing writing implements (i.e., glittery pencils/gel pens/ pencils with feathers etc – anything other than standard school issue type pencils/pens). The children enjoy choosing resources from the table to use in their independent learning.
- We are looking for small pieces of ‘junk’ for modelling e.g., toothpaste boxes, tea bag boxes, snack bar boxes. The more interesting shapes the better.
Summary of our learning
Literacy
This week we have been working on the vowel diagraphs oo and ew: as in tooth and chew. We loved making jewels.
This is the symbol that we have used to remember the sounds:
In handwriting we have been working on the cursive letters x and z.
At writing we did our final set of instructions. Now that we are approaching Halloween we have written: How to cast a spell.
Our tricky words this week are: why, find and kind. These are the final words of block 3. We will revise them next week.
Numeracy
We have started to work on subtraction ( from 10, 30, 100). We are using different strategies :
- we have worked on using our knowledge on number bonds to 10 for subtraction within 20. In P1, children subtracted within 10 by counting back and using number lines. They now subtract within 20 using their knowledge of number bonds. For example, if they know the number bond 7 – 5 = 2, then they know that 17 – 5 = 12.
- Using a number line. The children are familiar with this strategy and they are using it confidently.
PE
We have started to work on pre- rugby skills. We have worked on “pop- passing”. We have also done games to work on following instructions.
STEM
At our loose parts session we had very interesting discussions when building swings: height, weight, strength of branches,…It was great to see their team work!
IDL
We have continue to work on our Sun, Moon and Stars topic. We have learned about the moon phases and how this happens. We are really enjoying this topic!
Ideas for learning at home
Literacy
Spelling:
- Your child took yesterday a spelling ideas sheet with the reading book home. As you now know in which spelling block your child is working on, use these ideas to work on the words.
- Another 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.
Phonics:
- Find words that have the oo and ew sound.
- Ask your child to make a book with the words: food, hoof, soon, tool, book, cook, shoot, hook, mood, cool, new, few, pew, chew, dew.
- Revise all the diagraphs that we have worked on so far: sh, ch, th, wh, ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, y, oa, ow, oo, ew. Write each sound in a post it /card, uncover the sound and the first person who says a word with that sound wins the card; the winner of the game is the person who gets most cards.
Reading:
- Ask your child to read the reading book to you. Read the book to them afterwards to practice full stops, question marks, etc.
- Ask questions about the book: Who? When? Why do you think…? What would have happened if…?
- Read a story a day with your child if you can.
Handwriting
- Practice the letters that we have worked on so far: l, i, t, x and z
- https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-beginners-choice-3.html
Numeracy
- If you wish continue to use your Sumdog account. This is a tool for learning but please be mindful of screen time.
- Practice addition and subtraction to 10, 30, 100.
- Practise forming the digits 2,3,4,5 and 6 in particular. You could use chalk, coloured pens, paint, anything to keep this fun! This is the correct formation:
Other areas
- Observe the moon every night ( or at least twice a week) and record the phase of the moon. Ask your child to draw a picture and ask them which phase of the moon they think it is and why.
Independent learning: in this section you will be able to see how the children are exploring different skills in an independent way ( no adult is interfering: the adults support and extend their play). The children are able to transfer skills that they have learned at different times ( in school and at home) to their play and they are able to show skills that we wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
P2B Reflective Friday 27.09.24
Hello families,
Welcome the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 27th of September.
Timetables, Dates and Reminders
- PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Our next loose parts session is on Monday 30th of September
- Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
- Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
- We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
- Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
- We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
- Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
- Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays.
- Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.
Admin
Your tempest photo order forms should have gone home yesterday (or today if an appropriate dry bag or purple folder wasn’t available yesterday). The brilliant Mrs George wanted me to say you have until October 10th to order to save on the delivery charge.
Literacy
Our class sound focus this week was on ow and oa as in snow and boat. We have also revised ay and ai, as in bay and rain.
To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have ow and oa, and ay and ai in their name.
We have also done our Big Writing this week and the effort put in was amazing.
Science
We have begun our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. We looked at Sun facts and we became the Sun Moon and Earth to work out how all three move around.
Maths and Numeracy
We have been moving on with addition this week within 10, 20 and 30. We have also been reviewing our number bonds towards this. Focusing on those number bonds to 10 (1+9, 2+8, 3 + 7, 4 + 6 etc) can be supercharging to our adding and subtracting in class.
Play
P2B put those new blocks to good use this week with a fabulous chocolate factory being built, showing amazing sorting skills.
We have also seen some wonderful designer handbags being made in the area and a lovely dog costume head.
The Mr Bennett Bit
I am looking forward to seeing all our families next week at parent consultations. I was also really impressed with how the children tackled their big writing task this week. When we do big writing we are not allowed to provide support, only encouragement, so as to get an accurate snapshot of your child’s current independent skills. It can be a very emotional day. This week everybody put in an amazing effort and it was a pleasure to see the class achieve so much independently.
Have a fabulous weekend Bouncing Bunnies
Mr Bennett.
P2D Reflective Friday 27.09.24
Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great week.
Important information
- Loose Parts on Monday 30th September.
- Parents Consultations Tuesday 1st October and Thursday 3rd October.
- Tempest order forms are in your child’s purple folder today. If you want free delivery you will have to order by 10th October.
- 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.
- Please if you are late do not knock on the door and ask a child to open the door for you go to the school office. For safety reasons children should not open the school doors.
This is a summary of our learning this week:
Literacy
This week we revised last week’s sounds oa/ow. We made boats and bows with arrows (look at the photos of our bows below).
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: where, what, who. It would be very helpful if your children practice to read and write these words and previous blocks.
In writing we wrote about one of our parent/carers.
Handwriting: we have started to practice how to write i, l and t in cursive. See the website below to see how we practice them at school.
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 continued to work on our numeracy skills through our SEAL programme (different groups will work with different numbers and skills depending on their abilities to be able to make progress accordingly). We have been practicing our addition skills: we have used the different skills that we have learned so far to solve some calculations in small groups.
We have been looking at the 100 square: a 100 square is a 10×10 square that typically contains the numbers 1-100. The numbers are in sequential order and, since our number system is base-10, this means that all numbers with the same ones digit can be found in the same column. This can begin to give children a basic understanding of place value.
We have worked on time: months of the year. Ask your child how we can work out which months have 31 days.
We loved this song:
Ideas for learning at home:
- Please use your Sumdog account to practice numeracy skills.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad
- Ask your child to tell you in which month he/she was born: which month goes after and which month goes before. You can ask about other members of the family and relatives. Can they tell you in which season is that month?
PE
We have worked on pre- basketball skills; we have learned how to do a chest pass and a chest and bounce pass. We had great fun trying to get the ball through the hoop.
SCIENCE
We have started our Sun, Moon and stars topic. We have discussed what do we know about it and what do we want to know.
We have learned to describe how the Earth spins around its axis in 24 hours resulting
in day and night. We know that the Earth movement is called Rotation. We watched the video here:
FRENCH
We have been practicing greetings. We like this song:
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs de Bonrostro
P2B Reflective Friday 20.09.24
Hello families,
Hello families,
Welcome the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 20th of September.
Timetables, Dates and Reminders
- PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Our next loose parts session is on Monday 30th of September
- Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
- Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
- We have a short class show and tell session each Tuesday focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
- Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
- We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
- Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.) A special note this week is that we particularly want shoe boxes as some amazing learning through play took place this week (see below)
Reading Books
- Reading books will be going out from today. Reading books coming home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework.
- STOP PRESS: APOLOGY- due to a miscommunication, discovered today, with our reading support volunteer earlier this week two of our reading groups read each other’s books in the reading sessions. These children were reading our Fang’s Dentist book and the story about Ron’s Big day. If your child has these books please bear in mind they have had less preperation for their reading showcase than planned.
Trip out
Our finale to our houses and homes and information handling topics was a local area walk surveying homes in the local area.
The children enjoyed noting down the many types of residence in the area as they toured and were very good at spotting the different types. You could choose to extend this learning at home by asking what house and home types they can see on your next walk or drive. You could also practice counting with tally marks on a trip out or at home.
Thank you for those who supported or volunteered to support this trip.
Literacy
Our class sound focus this week was on revising all of our recent sounds. The highlight was a class game of hangman where P2b beat Mr Bennett’s toughest igh word ‘Lighthouse’. Which also came from our houses and homes topic.
To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have igh in their name like the night or a light, or have -y in their name like a fly or the sky. May be play a game of igh/-y spy.
Maths and Numeracy
As said above maths was used in our house and homes survey this week. We also practiced some colourful addition games in class. The highlight for the children was being given access to Sumdog on the shared ipads. We will be working through the Sumdog diagnostic tests in coming weeks before supplying login cards for use at home.
Play
P2B were very lucky this week to be given the first chance to use a new resource. We have our own class set of large building blocks until the end of the year which should make it easier for all to have a shot at building something fantastic.
In the area today several of our class were inspired by shoe boxes to create elaborate doll’s houses with fantastically modelled coathangers and clothes.
Well made girls.
Health and Wellbeing
This week we did the important job of expressing ourselves using SHANNARI wheels. A freedom of expression outlined in the UN declaration on the rights of the child. All of the children expressed how happy they were under the indicators. In PE this week we worked on throwing and passing skills.
The Mr Bennett Bit
It was a very busy week this week, with only 4 days to pack it into. The favourite part of the week was definitely the trip out to the local area. And I was so happy to hear how much it had been enjoyed.
Have a fabulous weekend Bouncing Bunnies
Mr Bennett.
Buckstone Primary School 