In Muddy Movers, we have been problem solving and working collaboratively. We were challenged to create a structure that we could fit on. There were great ideas shared and the children decided to build a bus. The bus started off on one level, then it became a double decker bus. Ella suggested the tyres should be used for wheels.  Taylor and Innis thought the long planks would make a great seatbelt.

As we have been learning about Robert Burns, we have been exploring his poetry and other poems. We loved listening to ‘Don’t!’  by Michael Rosen and shared our favourite part. We identified the rhyming words used. We then created our own ‘Don’t’ sentences.

We have been learning about Robert Burns this term. Today for Burns day, we learned some dances including Strip The Willow and Canadian Barn Dance. In class, we made shortbread tartan and enjoyed eating it up!

Muddy movers has been great fun and we have been focusing on developing our balance and jumping skills. We know that we can hold our balance by standing up tall, keeping our head up and looking forwards. When jumping, it is important to bend our knees and push off.

We have been learning that all motion is either caused by pushing or pulling. We collected a range of objects and predicted if they used the push force , pull force or both.

We used force and motion to create a collaborative piece of art. First, we pushed and pulled paintbrushes to mix a background colour.

We know that friction is a force that acts in the opposite direction to motion. Friction causes moving objects to slow down. We rolled cars through the paint and onto our background. The tracks showed motion. We observed how long it took the cars to stop.

The force of gravity will pull things down. We dipped paintbrushes into paint and held them up high to observe the paint drop from the brush and onto our background.

We have been busy developing our numeracy skills. We have been exploring place value and using the tens and units blocks to represent two digit numbers.

Numicon has been a popular resource in the maths area. Some of us created a numicon city and worked out the value of each tower.

Sophie used the Numicon to demonstrate addition of doubles.

We have been using the greater than, less than and equals to symbols and used various maths resources to create some number statements.

This term, we are learning to identify and use coins and notes to £20. We hunted in the sand for coins and checked them off as we found them.

We know that we can use different coins to make amounts. We had a go at trying to make £1, 50p and 20p in different ways.

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Taylor and Ada had great fun using the dominos in the maths area.

We are learning about Robert Burns and Scotland, here are some comments about our learning so far…

’He writes poems’ Ella

’Robert Burns was born in Alloway’ Ada

’There is a famous song by him’ Elliot

’People eat a Burns supper’ Millie

’He was born on 25th January and that is Burns day’ Lewis

In  class today we learned that often people dance at a Burns supper and tartan is worn. We used paper to create our own tartan. Have a look at them below,

We also used Microsoft Word to create a tartan. The pupils inserted a rectangle shape and learned how to copy and paste so they could produce a pattern. We used shape fill to change the colour.

This term in PE we will be focusing on gymnastics. Today we learned to make some body shapes, straight, y, t, star, tuck, pike, straddle and bridge. Once we were confident making these shapes, we balanced across the bench, pausing to hold a shape. At the end of the bench we jumped onto the mat and finished our routine by making a final body shape. Over the rest of the term we will continue to develop our gymnastic skills

Primary 2 are enjoying going to the ICT suite on a Thursday and have been working very hard to develop their skills using the computer.  We have been using Microsoft Word and have learned how to type our names, change the font, colour and size. We have also been learning how  to insert shapes to create pictures.  Below are some pictures of the houses and Christmas trees we have made using 2D shapes.

What a fun day we had today!

We played ghost bowling, pinned the eye on the monster,dooked for apples and found some scary creatures in the slime.

All the costumes were fantastic!