I cannot believe that we are another week down, P2/3 have worked so hard this week and have covered so many different learning experiences.
This week in literacy we revised ‘ch’ and ‘sh’ . We played games in which we read words containing these digraphs, used spotter stories to identify words containing these digraphs and used elkonin boxes and 5 finger word strategy to build words containing these digraphs.
‘ship chip’ Fraser ‘cheep’ cash’ Erin and Melissa ‘chips and sheep’ Emily
For writing this week we concentrated on ‘connectives’ The children are able to identify that ‘a connective is a word’ Isla. For example:
‘but’ Becky ‘so’ Leighton ‘because’ April ‘and’ Malcolm
The purpose of a connective is… ‘ it joins two sentences together’ Jacob.
We then used sentence starters chose a connective and then finished the sentence off. Here are some of our examples:
‘I had to play with Sam, but Mum had to come with me’ Layla
‘We went the top of the tower to take a picture but it was raining’ Andrew
‘I went a picnic but it was raining’ Emily
‘We made cakes so we can sell them to people’ Kendal
In Numeracy with Mrs Jacobs we continued to consolidate our understanding of half past timings. This week we looked at drawing on the hands ensuring that-
the little hand is in between the two numbers Isla and the big hand always points down to the six for half past Marcus
We also played a bingo game which used o’clock and half past timings so we had to really concentrate and know our time knowledge.
IDL: Ancient China
On Wednesday of this week we did our hook lesson for our new IDL topic. After lunch we arrived back i our classroom to a challenge from Emperor Ting, along with Chinese jigsaw pictures to put together and different artefacts to investigate.
We discussed what we already know about China:
They have dragons Erin
They have Dragons at Chinese new Year Leighton
There are Chinese Lanterns
The Great Wall of China: It is made from stone and is 2000 years old. Malcolm
Chinese Dragons: Don’t like red Jacob
The Budda Statues: This is what the Chinese God looks and helps people calm down and relax
The Chinese speak a different language, they speak Chinese Fraser
Chinese buildings are not like our buildings Fraser.
Chinese have temples instead of churches
My Gran has a Budda in her house: Marcus and Layla
Hana knows how to speak their language
Chinese have different clothes than us Leighton
The Chinese people have slightly different eyes than us. Kendal
And then we talked about what we would like to know and find out about during our topic
Is China a rich country or a poor country?
What religion do they have in China and what is their God like?
What kind of clothes did Chinese people wear?
What is Chinese New Year and what do they do during it?
What are the red buildings in China?
What are terracotta warriors? And why do they exist?
What are Chinese schools like?
What is Chinese food like?
What do Chinese homes look like?
Why are Chinese animals important to Chinese people?
Are there Ninjas?
What is the Great Wall of China? Why was it made and who made it?
Do China still have Emperors?
What is Chinese weather like?
This week we continue with our EmotionWorks Recovery Programme and spent time investigating the Orange Cog- Hana. Becky was able to tell us that the Orange cog reminds us of the different emotions we can have and the emotive language that goes with this cog. We then discussed feeling brave and we added another page to our zig zag feelings books. They look great up on our wall.