We looked at pictures of fireworks, noting their shapes and colours.  We tried to recreate them using oil pastels on black paper.  The results were fantastic!

P2 have started revising and developing their knowledge and understanding of symmetry.  We had great fun today at our symmetry stations.  We made symmetrical designs by folding and cutting paper.  We used peg boards to make colourful symmetrical designs with a partner.  We also matched halves of houses to make a symmetrical house.  We started using words like symmetry, fold, same, opposite and symmetrical to talk about our maths.

Following on from yesterday, we were talking about healthy choices for playtime snacks.  P2 sorted out snacks into healthy choices and ones that are for a treat.  Everybody was able to sort them no problem but now we have to start deciding to eat them!  Why not bring a piece of fruit to school for playpiece?

Primary 2 were thinking about how to keep healthy today.  We learned about why we need food and what type of nutrients there are in different foods.  We all had pictures of food and had to find other people in the class who were in the same food group as us and then stick them onto our eatwell plate.  We thought about healthy meals and we knew the healthy choices to make but agreed that we didn’t always make the healthy choice!

Welcome back after our October holidays!  We had a very busy day today and couldn’t believe it was already 3 o’clock when the bell rang!

One of activities today was to design a new tiled floor for Mrs McMillan’s kitchen.  We had to investigate different 2D shapes to see which would be best to tile with.  Mrs McMillan didn’t want any gaps she might trip on.  P2 decided that squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons made the best tiles.  Shapes with curved faces and pentagons left gaps.

Today we completed our Momotaro dance/drama.  We filmed ourselves doing a performance.  We tried hard with our facial expressions and movements.  I’m afraid the video is too big a file to put up now but I hope you will be able to see it soon.

We looked online at Japanese food.  Onigiri are rice balls with a secret filling.  We weren’t too keen on the traditional Japanese fillings so we used cheese and cucumber when we made ours.  If you think they are delicious you can say “Oishi”.  This means delicious in Japanese.  Tomorrow we will write a recipe to tell you how to make them.

We really liked an amazing woodprint by Hokusai, a famous Japanese artist.  It is known as The Great Wave.  We had fun choosing colours and creating patterns to design our own “great waves”.

P2 taught the p7s something new today!  After sequencing our instructions for how to play Jan ken poi, we visited the p7 class and taught them how to play.  There are some tricky Japanese phrases to say.  Why not teach someone else at home?

We watched videos of different types of Japanese dancing.  We told each other what we thought about them. We spotted what the same and what was different about them.  We matched up pictures and words to describe the different styles of dance.  We even had a little dance ourselves!