We have been sharing stories about Scottish mythical creatures. Kelpies were water horses that could change their shape. We drew them and wrote descriptions to match our drawings. We used our ideas to write two part stories about a Kelpie Adventure.

Last block Primary 2 enjoyed finding out about the Moon and the first Moon Landing. Here is a sample of some of their learning activities.

Primary 2 had to work out how many different ways they could arrange a clowns red,  blue and green Pom Poms on a  hat. We tried to work it out by drawing a picture. We found it tricky to see in a picture so we used coloured squares and it was much easier for us to see the pattern.

We have had great fun using the Beebots. We learned how to program the Beebots to go forwards, backwards and to turn. We created different pathways for the Beebots to follow. We made story maps linked to the places in  The Enormous Crocodile and The Animals of Farthing Wood and programmed the Beebots to visit the different places. We also turned our Beebots into different animals.

This block we have been measuring using cubes. We had to measure different objects and compare their lengths.

We had to estimate before we measured. We talked about if we had made a sensible estimate.

We found that when we measured bigger objects we needed to use something else to measure with. We tried straws, lollie pop sticks and even our hands and feet. When we used our hands and feet we realised all our answers were different. It was hard to compare lengths because we all have different sizes of hands and feet.

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.

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.