Potato Planting with Mr Strang

Primary 2.2 were delighted to have a visit from a local farmer Mr Strang who helped us to plant potatoes in our outdoor area. He showed us what the potatoes looked like before they were planted and explained all the things that they would need to help them grow. Then we got the chance to go outside and work collaboratively to plant the potatoes. We listened carefully for the instructions on how to look after them and now we are going to water them daily to help them grow. We look forward to seeing the results!

‘We had to put lots of compost in the tub. We took turns to put the compost in.’  Melody

‘We put holes in the compost to put the potatoes in. We had to hold them by the potato and not the stem to plant them because the stem could fall off.’  Aaron L

‘The stem tries to go up to the top and they grow a little flower on top.’  Indi

‘Potatoes need sunlight to grow.’  William

‘If you put in too much water then it will go out the holes in the bottom of the tub.’  Leo

‘It needs one watering can once a day and it needs food.’  Carrie

3D objects in Numeracy

In Numeracy we have been learning to name different 3D objects as well as describing them using the appropriate vocabulary. We have constructed lots of different 3D objects and counted how many faces, edges and vertices they have.

‘We had balls and sticks to make different 3D objects. I made a square based pyramid.’  Logan

‘We had an area where you could build a cube out of playdough. I liked making the cube.’  Kobe

‘There was playdough and sticks and I made a pyramid, cube and cuboid. I helped other people to make some 3D objects too.’  Isla M

‘A square is flat and a cube is not.’  Isla M

‘I made a sphere with the playdough.’  Amy

Fairy tales with a twist

In Literacy we had a go at writing our own fairy tales. Before we started, we read the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. We worked together to think of ways that we could rewrite the story of the three little pigs but with a twist. We thought that we might change the characters, the setting or even the weather in the story. After we had thought of some different ideas, we worked in pairs to plan our story and to think of some adjectives to describe the characters. Then we had a go at writing our new version. Afterwards, we worked in small groups to share our stories and to check that we had met our success criteria. We loved reading our stories aloud and getting feedback from our friends.

‘We walked around the room and when Miss Watson shouted stop we had to find a partner and share some of our ideas.’  Isla C

‘You want to write a fairy tale that you like and that other people like. You can do a mixed up story using ideas of what other people like.’  Leo

‘We thought about other stories people liked and then mixed it up a bit.’  Remi

‘We changed the characters like the three little pigs were bad. We changed the big bad wolf into a good wolf.’  Carrie

‘We used a word mat to help us think of ideas for our fairy tale and so that we could look at it and add any words when writing our fairy tales.’  Melody

‘We made sure that we had finger spaces, full stops and capital letters.’  Megan

‘We use punctuation in our fairy tale.’  Bella

We are innovative inventors

Primary 2.2 worked extremely hard on their innovative inventors projects and were able to come up with some fabulous inventions to help the environment. We thoroughly enjoyed hearing all the different ideas and giving two stars and a wish to each of our peers. Thank you to all who helped to create our amazing designs!

‘Looking after the environment is a really special thing that we all have to do.’ – Samuel

‘Some of us used fairtrade products in our designs. It’s always good if you see fairtrade because then you know the farmers are getting a fair price.’ – Callum

‘We thought about ideas to help animals and to recycle materials. My litter beach buggy has grabbers to pick up litter so the animals don’t chew or choke on our litter’ – Melody