This week we have been busy learning about different animals that live in the Rainforest. On Tuesday we had a visit from Calum at Cool Creatures. He brought along some animals for us to meet. He brought along a tortoise, a rat and a millipede. He also had a huge snake and a tarantula for us to hold. Most of us were very brave and managed to hold or touch all of the animals. Here are some pictures of us with the animals:

We had our second vertical learning challenge this week. We had to work in groups to create some animals of the Rainforest. We had to work with others to create animals that were different sizes and types. We are adding these to our display and they look great.

In literacy we have been learning about similes and used similes in our writing this week. We wrote poems about an animal in the Rainforest. We researched the animal using the i pads and used this information to help us write a descriptive poem.

We hope you all had a good week and have a lovely weekend!

Awards:

Class Dojo: Cameron

Pupil of the Week: Eve

Rights: Right to an Education (Article 28)

On Tuesday Callum from Cool Creatures came to our class to tell us information about the Amazon rainforest and let us see some of the animals that live there. He brought five animals including; a tarantula, tortoise, snake, millipede and a rat. We also got to hold them. It was quite tickly when the tarantula and millipede were on us. The rat was only seven weeks old and had an accident on the floor! The snake was very scaly and heavy and hissed at some of us!

By Josh and Dave

Pupil of the week- Josh Cunningham
Table of the Week- Frizzy Frogs
Class dojo winner- Emma Bradley and Robbie Leigh-Sinnott

Article 28- Right to an Education

This week we had a visit from Callum from Cool Creatures which helped us learn more about the Rainforest.

Zoe – I liked holding the spider because it felt like it had cosy socks on.

David – I liked holding the millipedes because their wee feet felt like a comb.

Valerija – I liked holding the spider and now I am not scared of them!

Callum D – I liked holding the snake and feeling its muscles.

Millie – I liked holding the millipede because it felt like a toothbrush.

Callum helped us learn about the Rainforest because:

Reiss – He’s been there!

Viggo – It gave us a feel of what the creatures are like.

Aaron – Callum helped us because he knew a lot about the rainforest.

In maths it was time to move away from time(!) and we have started multiplication –

Aaron – I like doing the tables.

Brooke – I don’t really like them because the 6 & 7 are confusing and hard! But Mrs Haddifon said we will work on them together and they will soon be easy-peasy.

We also learned to play tunnel ball rounders in outdoor P.E.  and we had to use our communication and team skills. The boys stormed back from being 6-2 down to snatch the game 9-8 from the girls. Great team work and resilience boys!

Phew, what a great week!

We had a ball at camp and have returned safe and sound. The pupils really did do our school proud. Unfortunately our camera is still at Lowport with p5b so we will put a full post on next week including photos and comments from the children.

Yesterday we had our first full drumming lesson. Pupils will not only be learning about the origins of African music and the Djembe drums but will also use the drums to enhance their learning across the curriculum……watch this space!

Have a great weekend!

This week we have been very busy in our learning!

We have enjoyed learning about the weather. We learned all about the different states of water in the water cycle and wrote weather acrostic poems! We created sound stories in groups to produce music that sounded like different types of weather.

We had a very special visit on Thursday from a Scottish band. They sang lots of Scottish songs and we even got to do some ceilidh dancing!

In outdoor P.E. we have been trying to work as a team during different games.

Primary 2b are continuing to work hard and are making excellent progress in all areas of their learning.
In our Topic work we have been learning more about the sense of sight and have also been comparing it to an animal’s sense of sight. We have learned that animals use some senses more than others and can understand why they do this. We have also learned about how important it is to protect our sight and have spoken about ways to do this (we even made sunglasses for use in our role-play area!)
In maths we have been continuing to work on ordering numbers and know that we can look at our tens and units columns to help us do this. We have also been using cubes to split numbers into tens and units so that we understand the way that numbers are formed. We played a great game called ‘Banana Bang’ to help us with our mental maths skills and had a great time, we really hope we will get to play that game another time! In practical maths we have been investigating the properties of 2D shapes and can identify the number of sides these shapes have.
We took our homework bags home for the first time this week and would like to remind parents that all homework is due in on Mondays. Just a reminder that reading records and reading books will go home on a Wednesday with the homework but could they please be returned to school on a Thursday so we can continue class reading (Mrs Mansfield will send it home again on a Thursday).
A huge well done goes out to our star of the week, Ruby-Ann. Ruby-Ann is always ready to learn and can listen very carefully to instructions from the teacher making her able to extend her learning. The other boys and girls are trying very hard to become star of the week…who will win the crown next week?

Primary 2b

This week has been very busy. We have mainly been rehearsing for our assembly. Thanks to everyone who came along to our assembly today! We had a fantastic time and we hope you all enjoyed it! We worked hard all week to learn the songs and learn our lines. We wrote ‘The School’s Greatest’ ourselves and we hope you enjoyed it.

We have started learning about the Amazon Rainforest. We know that rainforests are found near the equator and the have a hot and wet climate most of the year. We found out that the Rainforest has different layers and different plants and animals live in the different layers. We had out first vertical group challenge on Monday and we had to work with others to create different leaves from the Rainforest. We had to design the leaves to be 30cm longs and we had to have at least 6 leaves finished in the time. They also had to be different types. We are looking forward to our next challenge.

Have a nice weekend 🙂

Awards:

Class Dojo: Scott (2nd time!)

Tables of the Week: Banter Bunch

Bonjour! (we have been practicing how to say hello in french)

We can’t believe that we have been so busy.  We have started to learn our sounds and reading tricky words.  We have been listening to the sounds in words as this will help us with our writing.

We have had a fun time with our buddies making Rainbow Fish.  We read the story and thought that the Rainbow Fish was a good friend because she shared in the end, so the fish we made only had one shiny scale.  We have also read Elmer, we are all different too.  Miss Holwill set us a very tricky challenge….we had to make an Elmer with a pattern.  Miss Holwill was very impressed with what we have done so far.

We had to get our thinking caps on when we started a floor book all about road safety.  Some of the things we would like to learn about were;

How people with a disability can cross the road safely?

How we can be safe in different weather?

We are looking forward to next week so have a good weekend!