This week we were set a challenge from Willy Wonka. He was inventing some new sweets in his chocolate factory and was on the look out for ingredients to put in them that would not dissolve in water. He had four ingredients in mind, haribos, orange flavouring, sweetener and chocolate. We had a discussion about the word dissolving and what it might mean before going into groups to work collaboratively to share ideas. We made a hypothesis about what would happen to the different ingredients when placed in the water and recorded this in the form of a drawing. After that we made an observation and drew what actually happened when the solid was placed in the water. We came together as a class to share our findings and shared some questions that we could investigate further next time.

On Tuesday we had our nativity performances and the children were absolutely fantastic! They demonstrated all of our school values and made everyone very proud. Our week ended with a trip to the pantomime to see ”Jack and the Beanstalk” which we all thoroughly enjoyed and laughed the whole way through.

We have had another super busy week in P2/3! Our nativity is now next Tuesday 11th and with our dress rehearsal to the school on Monday we have been finalising our songs and dances.  On Tuesday we have two performances one at 9:30 and another at 1:30. We can’t wait to show everyone! Continuing on from the theme of Christmas and Winter, we had lots of fun making our candy cane reindeers for the Christmas fayre which looked fantastic.

In PE we have been doing athletics and focusing specifically on running. On Friday we participated in a running circuit where we brought all of our learning on running together. We had four different stations that focused on developing the skills and techniques that help with running. At station one we had shuttle runs and had to remember to swing our arms and push with our legs. We also had a hula hoop running challenge, a bean bag balance and a station with Miss Gill. P2/3 worked very hard!

We are continuing to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and now have an invention room station set up in the classroom where we can create some sweets and chocolate of our own using different art materials.  We have also been learning about adjectives and have used this to help us create a character profile of Willy Wonka himself.

With Christmas fast approaching we have been very busy in P2/3 practicing for the nativity. We have been working on our songs and lines and have shown great enthusiasm and confidence when rehearsing. Next week we will begin our Christmas crafts for the Christmas fayre on Friday 7th December. We were very excited coming into school on Friday wearing our Christmas jumpers.

In topic we have been learning about the foods that are produced, made, grown and harvested in Scotland. We have been enjoying learning about where in Scotland they come from and plotting the location on a map. Next we will be comparing the foods made in Scotland with food from other countries like chocolate.

We had lots of fun during French this week playing ”Bonjour Circles”. We listened to some French music as a toy was passed around the circle. When the music stopped the person who had the toy was to welcome the class, introduce themselves and then say goodbye. We were also very lucky to have some French ambassadors who came down from Primary 6 Thursday afternoon to teach us some French vocabulary and play games with us. We have been enjoying this a lot and it helps us to expand our knowledge.

In numeracy we have been learning about the place value of numbers and have been working on partitioning/ splitting a number into units, tens, hundreds and thousands. This helps us to explain the value of digits in a number and will also help us with our addition and subtraction.  We had an opportunity to explore the Dienes materials and played some games as a class to consolidate our learning.

We have been continuing to work on questioning and prediction in reading and are enjoying exploring both fiction and non-fiction books.

This week in Primary 2 we have been learning what “Hot-Seating” is through drama. The children have had great fun becoming famous athletes, musicians and celebrities. We have been performing in front of the class taking on somebody famous’ persona.

We have also been writing more on the alien that visited Craigshill last month. The alien is still missing but through our writing lessons we feel as though we are getting closer to finding the missing alien!