Try out some of the activities or links on this padlet - plenty of fun ideas to keep you busy! 

https://padlet.com/2ndclassresources/dhnykv1109k0

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We have been working hard on telling the time in hours, half hours and quarter hours on an analogue clock We are using the vocabulary of 'o'clock', 'half past', 'quarter past' and 'quarter to'.. We are also learning how to read the time in hours and half hours on a digital clock. Many children have even been able to challenge themselves and have been working on reading the time in 5 minute intervals! 

Try out these online activities and games:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words
​https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/TimeHunter/play.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/clock_shoot.htm
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For a challenge, try these:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/118/adding_time_word_problems#
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/119/find-the-start-time
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We have been working hard on learning about length this week. We worked with a partner to find items around the room that were the same as, greater than and less than 1 metre, half a metre and quarter of a metre. We also measured 100cm, 50cm and 25cm against different parts of our body. We had also practiced estimating the length of objects using non-standard units such as cubes, counters, copies and other classroom items before moving onto measuring using centimetres on a ruler.

Chilling out with friends while enjoying some golden time activities. after a busy week. We would also like to welcome Kristine and Kenaya, who have joined our class this month and have settled right into the class. 

Have a look at some of our wonderful posters that we made to remind others to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever possible. 

We had great fun planting and looking after our cress seeds this week. We have been learning about life cycles and found the life cycle of a plant very interesting. We learned all about how to care for a plant and to make sure it has everything it needs to grow. We also learned a song as Gaeilge called "Síolta Beaga."

Our value this week is fairness. We are learning about what fairness actually means - not that everyone gets the same thing but that everyone gets what they need to be successful We thought of examples where we can see this in school and at home. We also brainstormed ideas for how we can show fairness towards others or act in a fair way, especially in the classroom and at lunch time.  We enjoyed listening to this story which explains more about what it means to be fair. 

We are revising what we know about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs by searching for these in the books we love! As we love Harry Potter in Daisies, we soon found out that these books were full of interesting words that we could use in our own writing. As a team, we sorted the words we found into different groups and tried to find as many of each as we could! We really enjoyed this activity and will definitely do it again soon!

We had lots of fun this week making our valentines candle holders. We decorated them with jewels and beads. When they were dry, we painted them and wrapped them up to give them as a gift to someone. 

We are learning how to use a dictionary in 2nd class to check the spelling of words and to find out the meanings of new, interesting words. Working with a partner always makes this task more fun!