Author: Miss Hamilton

This week we have been taking part in lots of outdoor STEM activities! We went on a nature walk around our school and collected resources to create transient art. The boys and girls loved exploring our outdoor areas and collecting leaves and sticks to create their art! 🍂 🍃 

  

We read the story of the owl who was afraid of the dark and used this as inspiration to create our transient art! These were fabulous! Well done boys and girls!

We also displayed excellent team working skills when we worked together to design and construct models using different building resources. The boys and girls constructed houses and buildings and some even made small villages!

We have been working on doubling and halving in mathematics and the boys and girls used counting cubes to support them with halving numbers.

We had a great time den building with Primary 2.5 and having a little chocolate treat afterwards! The boys and girls made some excellent dens! We worked in teams to create our very own dens to share with our friends!

We took part in a scavenger hunt around our school grounds and found lots of nature related items.

Today we were lucky to have an interactive session with Mr Balfour, a dentist 🦷. We learned lots of fascinating facts about teeth and keeping them healthy. We are super excited to develop our brilliant brushing skills at home and some of us were inspired to pursue a career in dentistry!

This week in maths we have been working on doubling and halving. We used cubes and concrete materials to support us with the learning.

We have been using our creativity to design and make marbles runs in class, the creations are excellent!

The boys and girls in Primary 2.6 watched a real life astronaut read them the book ‘If I was an astronaut’ and then they had a chance to write about if they were an astronaut! From visiting Saturn’s rings to testing the temperature of the moon 🌒 the children have really used their imaginations to produce this writing!

We then went on a nature walk around our school with Primary 2.5, we all had a great time 😁

P2.6 read ‘Digiduck and the Magic Castle’ and then took part in a drama lesson. The boys and girls role played the scene where shy sheep guesses Digiducks passwords and we discussed as a class why it’s not a good idea to discuss people’s passwords:

The boys and girls had great fun out in the snow for their values playtime today!

 

 

Today in maths we looked at fractions, we learned that a fraction is a part of a whole. The boys and girls found sticks and represented halves and whole fractions. We then played a game where we had to run to the hoops that represented the fraction Miss Hamilton said. We did very well with this! 😄

In class we used scales and other measuring tools to weigh our valentines rice! The boys and girls had a great time playing in the tuff tray and measuring the rice using the measuring tools.