Another wonderful day at the forest for P2. This week we worked on different knots as part of our Make Your mark achievements.
We were working on larksfoot, over hand and half stitch. Pupils worked in pairs to practise the knots.
Being able to tie a knot is a life long skill and everyone displayed resilience as they worked towards tying heir knots. Well done everyone!
We’ve been working on place value this week. One game involved partners making number using Dienes materials and their partner checking.
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.
Reading Buddies
Over the past term we’ve been meeting our Reading Buddies twice a week. For both P2 and P7 pupils, this is an opportunity to practise their reading skills such as fluency and expression.
P2 love working with the older pupils and hearing the stories that P7 like reading.
We will continue this over the next term.
Last week we were invited parents in to class to Come Learn with us. We thoroughly enjoyed having our parents in and it’s was great to see pupils talking about their number knowledge with familiar adults.
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”.
Primary Two have been loving our current topic, Our Place in Space. We had a free flow afternoon, where pupils worked across the classroom. There were may activities covered
Painting the solar system, Making aliens, Building rockets, Using the chromebooks, Writing and drawing space stories.
Our afternoon ended with story time with Miss McHaffie.
During Book Week Scotland we went to Foundry to select books for our Borrow Basket. We selected Christmas tales, funny stories, fact books, novels and so much more. Some books we can read on our own whilst other books we will listen to others read for us.
We had a great time.
