This week we were working towards our Make you Mark achievement. Learning about lean to shelters. Pupils foraged for sticks to build a strong shelter than would keep their character safe and dry.
They worked in pairs and showed good team work, communicating, sharing and making decisions together.
Of course there was also plenty time for climbing and exploring. We also found a Fern root ball and the children were full of stories of mice, hedgehogs and other forest animals it looked like.
P2 were over the moon to be back to school and back in the Forest this week. Together they explored the environment, visited Grandfather tree and set off for an adventure. They were straight to work climbing trees, making ‘concrete’, playing on the rope swing and of course looking for worms.
They work in teams to create, explore and climb, all topped off with a lovely singsong around the camp.
It was great to see how much everyone enjoyed the day and we are looking forward to next week.
On Friday we went to the Glasgow Science Centre. We had a great day.
Noel “I visited an upside down house”.
Chloe ” I went in the play area and used puppets”.
Alyan “I went to the water park, I put water in the cold bit, I closed the door and when I opened the door a boat was crossing down”.
Eilean ” I loved everything especially the upside down house”.
Roqeebah “I liked the bubble mixer”.
Mrs Dziobek “I love the first floor”.
Elijah” I liked floor 3, it was about the human body”.
Erioluwa “I liked the sliding floor, the house was tilted”.
Ollie “I liked playing with the water, I was trying to move a mini ship”.
Orhan “I liked the racing”
Stephen “I liked the sliding house, I was sliding and falling off”.
Jaxon “I loved the tilted house”.
Brodie “I liked the dance bit, I scored over 200 on my first time”.
Sam “I liked the sliding house because I tried to stay up”.
Andrew “I liked the tilted house with the floor sliding downwards”.
Beau “I liked the seeing the seal playing in 3d”.
Lena “I liked the movie, I liked seeing the shark”.
Zosia “I liked flying the solar planes”.
Cartin “I liked the dance floor”.
Jessica “I liked everything, I want to go again”
Emilie “I liked everything”.
Dress rehearsal was a great result. Here’s a sneak peak at our costumes. See you tomorrow.
Monday the 14th November marked World Diabetes day. According to Diabetes UK someone is diagnosed with diabetes every two minutes. As part of our health and wellbeing curriculum in Primary 2, we learn about how to look after our bodies. We were fortunate to have an expert visitor share her knowledge in the subject. During her talk, we learned about the pancreas, blood sugar levels and signs of hypos to look out for in our friends with diabetes.
We are extremely grateful to our expert for giving her own time to share her knowledge and develop our understanding of a common condition.
This week Primary two have been encouraged to share books which they enjoy. We listened to the stories two pupils brought in and both got a big thumbs up.
On Friday we received our Read, Write, Count book bags and took these home. Today we read The Perfect Fit. We were thinking about how our class community comes together.
We then used shapes around our class to show how every shape can be useful to make the perfect thing.
During the next few weeks we’ll be developing our problem solving strategies. Our first focus is Act out the situation.
For the first lesson, pupils used concrete materials to count and calculate the answer. Through this lesson they demonstrated skills in resilience, independence and creativity.
P2 discovering drawing is a physical and emotional activity. When we draw, we can move our whole body!
