Primary Two enjoyed their class trip to the Science centre last week. We explored the different floors and were engaged with the many experiments and fun activities.

We then took part in a senses workshop. We needed to sniff and feel different boxes and guess what we thought was inside. We listened to different noises and guessed the sound.

We had a picnic lunch by the river and played on the grass. It was such an amazing day!

We have been learning about our senses and looking at how important they are and how our senses keep us safe.  We were very lucky to have a visitor come and talk to us about the importance of Guide Dogs and to share what life would be like if we could not see.

A lady came in with her guide dog to tell us about guide dogs and how important they are. The dog was called Dale, he very cute! We ate fruits, filled a cup of water and put toothpaste on a brush with blindfolds on to see how hard it is when you can’t see. It was a good day. Calum

We filled a cup of water with a blind fold on to see how it feels when we couldn’t see. We spilled the water all over the table! We put a yellow buzzer on the cup to tell us when the cup is full. The buzzer would make life easier but it was scary when we couldn’t see. Kaleb and Maddie.

When we were blindfolded we had to walk up the corridor and the stairs with a stick. The stick was to help us find where we were going and to stop us bashing into things. I felt nervous because I couldn’t see. David and Miriam

We had to open a bag of coins and match different coins. We guessed by how they felt. If you were blind it would be had to count your money and change in a shop. Marnie

Since Primary have received all of the pieces on Mr Potato head we chose to have a pyjama party for our reward. We wore our pyjamas and cuddled out teddies while watching Trolls! we even got a snack.

It has been such a fun afternoon!

Today we celebrated Pesach by having our Seder with  Primary One and Primary Three.  At the Seder we sang Pesach songs and eat from the Seder plate.

We eat Matzot with charoset and lettuce and drank 4 glasses of wine (grape juice). Pippa

Meir was Aba and Sienna was Ema. They said the prayers before we drank and ate. Sammy B

We dipped the herbs into the salt water. The salt water is to remind us of tears. Kaleb

I opened the door for Elijah the Prophet while Mrs Rosenberg checked to see if the wine had gone down. Maya

To celebrate World Book Day we have been doing lots of different reading activities.

Firstly, we had a Book Blitz where we had 1 minute to tell someone all about or favourite book! When the buzzer rang we moved to a new partner.

After that we took part in the World Book Day Big Quiz and then we read our favourite stories to our Fab Friends.

It has been a really fun day!

My favourite part of the day was the quiz! Samantha

I really liked doing the Book Blitz, it was my favourite part of the day. Harry

It was fun to read all the Horrid Henry stories and reading to our Fab Friends.- Daniel

We have been learning about Scottish culture through our Katie Morag topic.

This afternoon, we took inspiration from Scottish artist Steven Brown and made our very own McCoos. We always try to look at the work of artists and comment on what we like and how the art makes us feel.

‘I did lots of different colours to try and make mine look like Steven Brown’s McCoo’ – Daniel

‘We are making colourful McCoos. I was concentrating very hard to make wavy lines.’ – Muneeb

‘McCoos are highland cows that are very colourful. It’s very fun to make them.’ – Miriam

‘The artist is Steven Brown. When he was a kid he needed to leave school early to go to work to get money. Now he makes art.’ – Maddie

On Tuesday we had our Fruit Party for Tu B’Shvat. We made special placemats to have our fruit on. We then went through to Primary 1 and had a joint party.

First, we named some fruit in French.

We played a game where we were passing fruits around in a circle and if the music stopped and we were holding a fruit we had to name it in French.

We sang a song about French fruit.

Then, we got to taste some fruit!

‘I liked tasting all of the fruit’ – Samantha and Sammy R

‘All of the fruits were yummy. I didn’t really like the pomegranates and the dates’ – Luca

‘I liked the song, the song said the words and we had to sing them back’ – Maddie , Jessica, Maya, Ross and Daniel

‘I liked the olives’ – Harry, Calum, Ben and Tia

When reading one of our Katie Morag stories, we were learning what a ceilidh dance was and wanted to know more about the dances. Primary Six and Seven were learning ceilidh dances for their Robert Burns afternoon and very kindly offered to show Primary Two and teach them some new moves!

We all had so much fun watching the older boys and girls and then they taught us how to dance the Gay Gordons!

Thank you Primary Six and Seven!

This week in Numeracy we have been learning about Numbers to 20.

We were using chimney calculations and learning about tens and units.

I found it difficult but I am getting better at the calculations- Maddie

I found it easy!- Sammy R