We made or Christmas cards today and it was fun to listen to Christmas songs as we designed them.

We had an amazing adventure at Dawyck Gardens. Our teddy bears got up to all sorts of mischief in the yurt with Edward Bear while we learned all about SWAF.

SWAF is what animals need to survive. Shelter, Water, Air and Food.

Here we are making little islands with materials we have found. Our islands had to include SWAF. Then we had to tidy up and make sure everything was as we had found it.

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.

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.