Yesterday we started to read the book “Biscuit Bear” by Mini Grey.

The book is about a little boy called Horace who makes a Biscuit Bear. During the night Bisuit Bear comes to life and leaves Horace’s bedroom.

Mrs Stewart stopped reading the book at this bit and we had to predict what we thought might happen next.

We had to draw a detailed picture of our prediction and tell Mrs Stewart about it. Some of our predictions were
– he goes to a forest and makes friends with other bears.
– he goes outside and gets stood on!
– he sails away in a boat.

Later on, we read the rest of the book and found out that Biscuit Bear goes to the kitchen and makes himself some biscuit friends. However, they meet a horrible end when the family dog comes and eats them!! (Don’t worry though – Biscuit Bear escapes).

We really liked this book, although some of us were a little sad at the bit where the dog eats Biscuit’s friends. We are going to get some more Mini Grey books to read after the holidays.

Today, we made some new friends for Biscuit Bear. We mixed and baked them in the morning and then decorated them in the afternoon. We had some extra biscuits, so we decorated them too and delivered them to some lucky people around the school.

You can watch us at work below.

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This week our spelling pattern is short vowel /u/.

Here is another amazing example of creative homework from one of our Superstars. It’s all in the title of this post!

Lots of the Superstars have been working really hard this week to do the creative choice from their spelling menu. Our words this week were with short vowel /o/.

Look at this amazing frog. He an even flick out his tongue!

Great ideas Superstars.

We had our “Meet the Teacher” evening tonight.

Mr Haxton, our new DHT, gave a short talk to parents in the dinner hall about Keys to Literacy and Moving Image Education. We will be using them this year in our classrooms.

Parents were then able to visit their child’s classroom to look have a wee look around this term’s work.

Thank you to all the parents who visited Primary 2S, and for all the positive comments about our new spelling homework and Moshi Monsters project.

We have had some nice weather this week and have been going outside as much as we can before the weather changes. We spent our Golden Time outside today.

The Superstars really like using the nursery playground when the nursery children have gone home.

We had our gym lesson with Mrs Cranston outside as well this week. We were practising our ball skills.

We are now all registered with Moshi Monsters and have to remember to feed our monsters so they don’t get sick.

This week, we talked about wants and needs, and the differences between them. We thought about the things that our monsters, and ourselves, really need to keep us happy and healthy.

We worked in small groups to sort things into needs and wants columns. Then we discussed how we had sorted them and why the things in the “needs” column are really important.