P2 and P3 received a very exciting letter.

It was from Edward Bear and he was inviting us to join him at Dawyck Gardens on Tuesday 1st October.

It sounds like we’re going to have great fun and we can bring our teddy bears along to join in the fun too!

We took our measuring outdoors and here we are measuring with our feet. ( Non standard units )

As you can see in the picture we all have different sizes of feet so we would come up with different answers.

Next week we need to use cubes  so that we all get the same answer. ( Standard units )

This week we have been building words with the ock sound. We made up silly rhymes with some of the words.

We have been learning about food chains. We made our own food chains and asked our friends to sort them into the correct order.

On the 13th September we had great fun celebrating Roald Dahl Day. We talked about why so many people enjoyed his books and shared extracts from some of our favourites. We made a story map of the Enormous Crocodile and programmed the Beebots to visit all the places in the story.

Our chocolate room maps were too small for the cardboard Beebots. We couldn’t change the size of the Beebot so, we worked out that we had to make bigger maps.

This session has helped us to learn our Left and Right.

As part of Roald Dahl Day we made up our own designs for The Chocolate Room. We made lots of twisty-turny tunnels and it was fun drawing the maps in 2D.

The challenge now is to Program the Beebots to follow your map.

Rough draft

 Improved design

Completed design

We were introduced to a design brief and ours was to design a new sweet or chocolate and it’s wrapper. we heard part of a Roald Dahl story first- ” Wonderful Mr. Willy Wonka.”

We were really excited about getting our ideas onto paper. Then we discussed it and made improvements on our design before drawing our neat copy.

Keep an eye out for what we do with our designs next week!

We talked about how to make a teens number. We used our learning to help us with our addition.

We are very proud of our Roly-Poly birds. We had lots of instructions to follow.