The children in primary 2 have been extremely busy over the past 3 weeks producing fantastic homework related to their topic.  This term we decided to try something a little different with the homework and the results have been outstanding.  The children were given a variety of tasks to choose from and each task was worth a set amount of points.  The aim was to collect a minimum of 30 points, however, a lot of children enjoyed the tasks so much it was difficult to keep track of how many points they had!

Last week the children brought in all of their hard work and we invited each of the classes to come and view our presentations. Everyone was so impressed with all of our work but what was even more impressive was how much the primary 2 children could talk to others about their work.  The children were even able to teach the teachers a thing or two!  There was a variety of work on show including shoe box habitats, bird houses and feeders, puppets, handmade books, animal cakes and much much more.  Here are some of the photographs of their amazing work.  Another big well done primary 2, you should be very proud!

To celebrate all of our hard work we had a party with nibbles and games which we were lucky enough to have outside due to the (unusual) but fantastic weather!

This term the children in primary 2 have been learning all about animals and their habitats.  Over the past 30 days we have been closely monitoring our very own ladybirds.  We made observations as they changed from larvae to pupae and from pupae to adult ladybirds.

Once the adult ladybirds had hatched we released them into our beautiful ladybird garden.  We made sure that we filled the ladybird garden with some of their favourite plants which were sure to attract their favourite meal; green fly!  We also provided them with shelter and painted some ladybird pebbles so that they had some friendly faces to make them feel welcome!  Did you know that roses, geraniums and nasturtiums will attract ladybirds to your garden?

However, we had a huge surprise today when one of ladybirds popped back into our classroom!  Luckily one of our children spotted it and we were able to rescue the ladybird by putting it safely back in the ladybird garden!