Category: Primary 2 Learning

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This week in P2

It was great to see some of you today at parent’s afternoon and we are looking forward to seeing everyone else next Wednesday.

Our Learning

Writing – We have been developing our sentences and writing about a forest scene. Fantastic independent sentence writing!

This weeks red words: said was you your.

Stars – We have been revising our initial sounds and consonant digraphs. Some words to practice: tip pat sat this chat.

Moons- We have been revising our consonant digraphs: th ch sh qu ng nk. Some words to practice: sink, ping quiz, push.

Rockets- We have been revising our vowel digraphs: ee ay igh ow. Some words to practice: stay, green, fight, blow, throw.

Reading – Thank you for bringing in reading folders every day.

Maths – We have been learning about place value. We have been describing numbers and using lots of different resources to build numbers. Here is a game to play at home https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Space – We have been learning about the moon and finding out why its shape changes throughout the lunar month. Some children spotted the moon in the sky this morning and shared that it was a quarter moon! Some children have painted pictures of the moon and its craters.

Have a great weekend.

The P2 Team

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Recently in P2A

Hello everyone!

P2 have gotten into a lovely school routine. We have been doing daily numeracy and literacy, in addition to some lovely artwork, music and outdoor learning!

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Friday 25 September

We hope you have been able to spot the moon. It’s a full moon on Saturday (the Harvest Moon), you might find this website useful https://science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-moon-guide/

Our Learning

Writing – We have been developing our sentences and writing about an underwater scene.

This weeks red words: said, was.

Stars – We have been focussing on reading and writing words with t I n p and learning the ch and ng sounds. Some words to practice: pit, sat, tin, chip, sing.

Moons- We have been revising the sounds ch and ng. Some words to practice: chop, church, pinch, thing, sing, sting.

Rockets- We have been revising the sounds igh and ow. Some words to practice: high, night, fight, blow, snow, throw.

Reading – Thank you for bringing in reading folders every day.

Maths – We have been celebrating Maths Week Scotland by reading ‘How Many Legs’ by Kes Gray mixing up groups with the P3s and looking at patterns on a number square. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Space – We have been learning about orbits and that it takes the Earth 365.25 days to orbit the sun.

Have a great weekend.

The P2 Team

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P2 Home Learning

Hello everyone,

We hope you are all keeping well.

We are emailing ahead of the long weekend, and the beginning of home learning for P2 next week. We want to explain how home learning will work for term 1.

Home learning folders must be sent in everyday, regardless of reading day.

If reading books are not returned and are deemed lost or very damaged, parents and guardians will be asked to pay for replacements. It becomes very hard for us to arrange reading groups and books if we do not have enough of each book to give each child.

Please read with your child every night. This is the home learning that makes the most impact.

Home learning is not marked by teachers, but the folder should still come in everyday.

Literacy

  • Reading – If you have time for home learning, reading should be the priority. Your child will be sent home with a reading book each week – everyone will get their first book on Tuesday the 15th of September. After this week, we will run reading groups staggered throughout the school week, so if your child gets their first book on a Tuesday, they will swap their book the next Tuesday. Please initial the reading record to let us know you have done reading with your child at home. You can use the ‘green words’ page in the Read Write Inc. books to practise spelling and writing.
  • Red Words – You child has a ‘Red Word’ sheet in their home learning folder. These are words that cannot be sounded out like green words, and must be learned off by heart. Practise reading and spelling these words, starting with set 1.

Numeracy and Maths

  • There is a numeracy grid stuck in your child’s home learning jotter and attached below this blog post. This grid includes a range of different beneficial numeracy activities you can do with your child at home. You can make these activities more or less challenging by changing the range of numbers used and the support given.

Topic

  • Our current topic in P2 is space. We have glued in a ‘Moon Diary’ worksheet in their home learning jotter. Please fill this out each night, recording the moon shape seen and the date.

Thank you,

The P2 Team.

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This Week in Primary 2

We have been enjoying getting outside as much as we can this week, despite some rain!

In literacy we have been revising the ay, ee, th and sh sounds.

In maths we have been practicing counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have been looking at the properties of shapes.

We listened to the story of Noah’s Ark and created a class rainbow.