P2/3 have had lots of fun celebrating Book Week Scotland. The Scottish Book Trust put together a bag for each child in Primary 1-3 which includes two books, a leaflet with activities and some extra goodies. Throughout the week we have read the books and enjoyed predicting what we think will happen in the book/next when reading them. We played games linked to the books and activities that linked in with our topics (Space and Weather). Today we had a Teddy Bear Picnic as the children were gifted their bag to explore with their teddy and friends. The children then voted for their favourite book, using tally marks as this is what we were learning last week. There was a clear winner – totaling 14 votes – The Story Thief.

We enjoyed our nativity song rehearsals this week and it is clear that the children have all been practising lots because it is sounding really good!

Lots of children enjoyed showing their hard work to grown ups during ‘Sharing Our Learning’ session. They were really proud to show what we have been doing in class and also get some feedback from parents.

For our Space topic we have been learning about the Phases of the Moon (this linked with the story ‘Out of Nowhere’ as they liked having picnics and looking up at the moon) – some of the children found this task quite tricky to stick the correct moon picture into the cycle. We will be checking what phase of moon it is regularly and trying to spot it in the sky (unfortunately it has been too cloudy the past two nights!).

For our Weather topic we were learning about weather instruments which linked with our story ‘Jeremy Worried About the Wind’ as he had made a Wind Vane. After learning about different weather instruments and their names, we done a little quiz to follow up and then made our own rain gauge (as we get plenty of rain in Scotland!). Some of the children found it challenging to make their measuring scale accurately, but with support were able to mark out centimetres and number them. The children were very excited to take them home and show their grown ups. Some shared that they have already put their rain gauge outside and measured how much rainfall we have had since.

I hope you have a super weekend and enjoy exploring your new stories.

Mrs Wallace