Our special keys all disappeared. On Monday morning we had a surprise delivery of a beautiful black and gold box. We needed to work through some challenges in the envelopes to discover the message. It told us that we were the key to reading! We worked so hard and learned to keep using all our reading strategies. The keys are now in our class to help remind us when we feel challenged.

This week we started to investigate money. We were able to share a lot of things we already knew before we started exploring.

We started with sorting out similar coins and even looking at some coins that people use in different countries. During our work we started asking questions about when money is used so we have decided to investigate it further. 

In writing we worked on story maps and using our imaginations to create our stories. We created amazing story maps that helped us tell stories that had a beginning, middle and end. Mrs Norman was so impressed we went to share some of our stories with Mrs Jamieson.

Last Friday Mrs Jamieson brought us some keys she had found outside our classroom. We don’t know where they came from but they helped feed out imaginations!

On Monday we had special visitors who were inventors who had created new ways to use everyday items.

Our slap band became a fairy path.

An empty tub became a box that would give you anything you wanted.

This isn’t just an empty cup, it is a fly catcher!

This metal phone stand became a chair for a mini magician.

At first it looks like a watch but actually it is a bridge for bugs to walk across.

This phone transformed into a teleporter to take you anywhere!

One day a hair clip, the next day a strawberry picker or an ice cream holder!

If you need something to peel your banana why not use this hole puncher?

Have a look at this fantastic vegetable picker! Pick your carrots from the ground in seconds!

Glasses to see the invisible!

This is not just a shiny coaster, it is a magic carpet for a magic cat!

We have been feeding our imagination every day. Take a look at some of our ideas.

We have created imagination lands all through the classroom.

Unfortunately on Friday our special keys disappeared!! We hope we find out what happened to them next week.

When investigating shapes this week Primary 2C became curious about where the vertices meet. After some investigating we discovered that squares and rectangles look the same at the corners. We learned that these shapes have right angles. Looking around our classroom we found lots of right angles!
We even played a fun game where we had to compete against each other to turn the correct way under the teachers direction using the language right, left and right angle. We are having a semi final and final next week in our class. We are wondering where else we might use angles?

This week inspired by Hallowe’en and our book room on the Broom, we decided to create some witches potions.

First we had to decide what we wanted our potion to do, there were lots of varying requests. Next we went out sourcing some ingredients for our potions. Would you believe that in our playground we found eyes of dragons, ears of foxes and even frog poo!

When it was time to make the potions we carefully shared out ingredients, considering what magic each element would add to our spell and lastly we wrote about our experiences in our writing jotter.

Thank you to Miss Daily and Jenna for helping us with our potions this week. I hope everyone survived and nobody was put under the ‘Buy me a Fluffy Puppy’ potion!

In P.E. we are focusing on developing our fitness. We discussed how different lifestyle choices we make can help us as we grow older. The children shared excellent examples of everyday choices such as regular exercise and balanced diets. We will continue to learn to understand how to promote healthy choices.

Take a look at P2C taking part in some simple fitness circuits. They enjoyed creating the simple exercises and identifying how many they already do as part of their outdoor play.

Primary 2 had a great day out to the science centre.

Some of our favourite things included; exploring the activities, trying the hamster wheel, building with wonky blocks, catapulting the ball, walking in the funny room and looking at the stars in the planetarium.

Thank you to our parent helpers and Mrs Dougall for organising the trip.

Last week was Maths Week Scotland. We read the book ‘The Doorbell Rang.’ It was all about sharing equally.

We took part in some activities that helped us to learn how to share out objects and numbers in equal amounts.

We liked sharing the playdough out and playing with it.

We liked making the playdough in partners (even if it didn’t always work!)

We liked using the games on the board to help share things out.

This week we looked at measure in maths and numeracy. We all learned how to use a ruler to measure things accurately. We welcomed Mrs McGuigan and Mrs McAra into the classroom to share our learning.

It was lovely to see some of the children bring in books and pictures inspired by our topic. Some children even told us about what they done over the weekend to help keep our oceans clean! Well done P2C!

Have a lovely weekend!

In maths we were looking at measure. We used our feet to measure different things around the classroom. We made estimates which we learned is like an educated guess! Once we checked our answers they were all different because our feet are different sizes!

We were learning about different things you find in the ocean. We were sad to find out there is lots of rubbish in the ocean, including shoes, plastic bottles and old trucks! We learned that all around the UK this week there are ocean clean ups taking place. Maybe the next time we go to a beach we can help our grown ups clean up.

When the sun came out on Wednesday we decided to take our maths outside and created hopscotch and number games to play in the sunshine!

On Thursday we also learned about submarines that go in the ocean. Ivy’s mum visited us and helped us make a periscope just like the ones they use on submarines. It was great fun spying on each other from under the tables!

Have a great weekend!

This week we created maths games to play.

Each group were given different objects to create their game from.

Our games needed to focus on the number 10. We could have number bonds to 10 or counting in 10s.

Once we made our own games, we moved around to play each others.

Some of us stayed and taught the other people how to play our game.

Today we also say goodbye to Miss Anderson. She has been with us for four weeks and we have enjoyed working with her. Good luck Miss Anderson.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.