We’ve had lots of fun celebrating Halloween in P2/1. Yesterday we started planning our Halloween crafts. We painted our wands with acrylic paints and added the finishing touches this morning. We had to promise not to turn Mrs McGilp into a frog! We also painted and then decorated our Halloween masks and did some fantastic cutting and sticking. We also drew some scary pictures on our whiteboards and in our class floor book.

Earlier in the week we wrote some fantastic spooky stories, using a picture plan to help us. All of the stories were very different but equally creepy! We talked about how important it is to spell the common words correctly and to use our word wall to help us.

On Wednesday we did some problem solving, working together in a small team to put some flowers in order from smallest to tallest. We talked about how to work together, listen and be polite when we all have different ideas!

In outdoor learning this week we talked more about the different seasons and how this affects some animals, in particular hedgehogs. We made hedgehogs out of plasticine and then collected lots of leaves and twigs to make them more comfortable. We talked about how the hedgehogs are eating lots of food before they hibernate for winter.