A big welcome back to everyone. We are now into our final term in Primary 2! It has been a very busy week so here are a few of our highlights.
We have been very busy transforming our classroom into our very own chocolate factory and sweet shop. It was a bit of a clue as to what our class novel is this term….. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have started reading our novel and we received news that Willy Wonka was looking for some new members for his inventing team. We got straight to work in designing our own fabulous sweets and also designed the packaging to go with it. We evaluated other packaging and used this to generate our own success criteria. We then created a bank of wow words to help us name our fabulous sweeties. We tried to use some alliteration to make our names catchy.
We had…….
Fruity Fun – a sweet that changes flavour in your mouth
BonBon Boom! – a bonbon that explodes in your mouth
Fighting Fizzy – it jumps around in your tummy
Friday Fun Bubblegum – a sweet that you can only eat on a Friday
Jelly Jump – jelly beans that jump in your tummy
Book Worm – a worm shaped sweet that makes you good at reading and when you bite a bit off – it grows back again!
We have also started our new Big Writing Adventure and received a message from Alan the explorer telling us he is going on an expedition to Antarctica. We used the internet, the library and videos to learn all about this wonderful place. We worked in groups to create mind maps to show how our learning has developed. We keep adding our new knowledge to our mind maps. Alan asked us to help him decide what to pack in his suitcase. Miss Mudd brought in some items to stimulate some discussion and we had to give reasons as to why we would take that item.
We also used a range of different materials to create a collage of Antarctica. We used lots of cold colours and tried to use some of our knowledge of that environment to help us. We included penguins, seals, mountains and icebergs.
We have also been learning about alphabetical order and had lots of different stations to work round to help us practise putting items in alphabetical order.
In Numeracy we have been learning about numbers to 1000. We built on our knowledge of place value to 100 and extended this to beyond 100. We used the base ten blocks to build different numbers and practised partitioning the numbers with a partner. We then looked at how to compare and order numbers to 1000.
In PE we joined up with Primary 2B and played some team relay games. Here we are in action!
In Art we continued to develop our drawing skills. This week we were looking at our playground and discussed what the playground is used for. We used drama to act out our ideas. We then started to focus on the shapes of our bodies when we are doing these actions. We drew stick men to show the shape of our bodies when we are running, hopping, skipping, playing football. We worked in partners so one person could act it out whilst the other person drew the shape.
We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend
Miss Mudd and P2A x
