Primary 2 have been very busy finding out about living things.  They started by sorting different living things and had to give the criteria they used for sorting them.  After researching a minibeast they used the information they had found to search in the playground for them.

Many different minbeasts were found including centipedes, worms and woodlice.  By working together they could identify most of them.  Listening carefully to instructions meant that everyone could use the equipment.  Most importantly they were very careful to make sure they looked after the minibeasts they found and put them back where they found them.

Primary 2c have been enjoying doing ‘paired reading’ with the primary 7s. They started this during read week and it was very successful. We decided, therefore to continue on a weekly basis. The  aim is for the children to pair up with a primary 7 pupil and choose books from the school library to read to each other. Research has shown that this strengthens both readers confidence and greatly enhances their enjoyment in reading.

Primary 2c have been learning to recognise, write and order numbers to 20. They had great fun organising themselves into a human numberline. They worked well together as a team arranging themselves into the correct order. They then played lots of games where we looked at the numbers before, the numbers after and the number between.

Welcome to the Ballumbie Primary 2 Blog. We plan to use the Blog as a way of sharing what we are learning and what we have been doing. We want to encourage positive comments to the blog celebrating the achievements of our hard working pupils.