We did another taste test this week to identify bitter, sweet, sour and salty tastes! We enjoyed trying some dark chocolate, lemon, crisps and honey and discussing what taste we thought each was.

As part of our learning about senses, we conducted a Taste Experiment.
We wanted to test whether we would be able to tell what flavour of Skittle we were eating even if we couldn’t see it.

The results proved that we ARE able to identify flavour, even without our sense of sight. Some of us found certain flavours easier than others.

Hi there, it’s Mrs Dougall here with a little update on our P2 Learning Journeys. First of all, apologies for the lack of photos, I’ve had an IT blip!

We have completed our Growing Topic and the children will be bringing their plants home very soon.

I was so impressed with how carefully the children selected their seeds to ensure that they made good companion plants. We were able to use lots of the seeds that the children collected during our Food Waste Learning Journey, so when the pots come home, watch out for the mystery plants and let me know what you manage to cultivate.

We are now well into our Summer Drama and Music Learning journey,  and the children are busy interpreting Summer Stories and learning new summer songs.

This week we read the book ‘Fresh Juice’.  We took notes as we read the story.
Next, we decided to come up with our own Juice Recipe with ingredients, a method and our own title. Mrs Grieve is going to choose one of our recipes to make in class next week!

(My apologies that this is late – I forgot to publish!)

This week we have been investigating the sense of hearing. We learned that sound is made through vibration and explored some musical instruments.

This week we had a great time learning about Islam and Eid in preparation for our Eid celebration today.

We learned about mosques and created our own mosque art work.

We read a book called ‘Hassan and Aneesa Celebrate Eid’. In the book they made paper chains to decorate their house. We made some in class, too.

On Eid celebration day we dressed in our best clothes. Mrs Amin taught us how to make chocolate strawberries and bananas.

We have enjoyed creating some lovely Easter bunny art work this week including line and pattern.

This week we have really enjoyed trying out something new in our class – Daily Numeracy Learning (DNL).

Every day, we work in groups on a numeracy activity before we start our lesson whilst one group works with Mrs McAra/Mrs Grieve on learning a strategy for adding or subtracting.  We rotate the challenges every day and Mrs McAra/Mrs Grieve will work with a different group each day too, so we all get a shot at everything.

At the moment, the activities allow us to practise doubling, completing fact families, place value and number formation.

Today we listened to a piece of music together.

We thought about how the music made us feel and what images popped up into our heads when we listened to it.

Afterwards, we left the music playing and we all went back and created a picture inspired by the music we heard. Through this we learned that you can express how you feel through art.

Another great week in 2b! This week we had our class treat as we managed to fill our marble jar again. We win marbles when we work well as a team. This term we have earned LOADS for how great our line is moving round the school. Other teachers compliment our line all the time! We chose to go outside and play for our treat this time. We did some chalk drawing, ran around the cycle track and enjoyed the school’s activity trail.

On Thursday, we were visited by a Doctor, an Artist and an Engineer as part of the Meta Moments Day. We really enjoyed hearing from these professionals about the meta skills they use in their job every day.