It’s been another busy week in Primary 2/1. We are continuing our Stickman topic – we finished our stick children, made a story map of all the places Stickman visited and wrote postcards from his adventures. We then developed our sequencing skills to give our friends instructions to get the stickman safely home to the family tree, avoiding all the obstacles!

As well as The Stickman we’ve been reading lots of stories, including It’s Not a Stick. We then worked together to be imaginative with our sticks, which are not sticks but a boat, a fire, noughts and crosses, a snowflake, a house for a mouse, a ladder, a gate, Peebles and many more!

We’re also continuing with phonics, looking at the double sound ‘ou’ in mouse, house, cloud and bounce. In numeracy we’re consolidating our numbers to 20 and have been focusing on language such as before, after and in between.

We’re also having lots of chats about germs and the importance of handwashing. We’ve discussed how germs are spread and how they get into our bodies. We also carried out an experiment to see which bread goes mouldy first – the one we touched with clean hands and the one we touched with dirty hands. Watch this space!