Racing through the week in Primary 2!

In numeracy this week we have been learning to add a single digit number to a ten.

We have been using technology lots in  to help us learn. We completed an addition game on the ipads to help us meet our learning intention. We also completed addition bingo to support our understanding of addition.

We have learnt the Science of forces through topic this week. We have created our own model car using different materials. The aim was to find out if the air from the balloon would act as a force against the car to make it move. We went outdoors to test our models. They didn’t exactly work as planned however we discussed the reason behind this.

Aaron- “The air might be escaping because I think I can see a gap between the balloon and where it is connected to the straw.”

Wojciech- “It could be that the wheels are not big enough and the car is too heavy to move.”

Vanessa- “Maybe the ground is too bumpy for the car to move.”

We will take our findings and use them to discover a way of resolving our design problem.

Our stimulus in writing came from our car models. We thought Mrs Gardner would love to be able to make one of our cars so we wrote instructions for her. We had to make sure our instructions were in order, that we had a title and that we told Mrs Gardner what resources she would need.

We have also been learning how to navigate a website through our topic. We used the netbooks to explore the digital tour of the transport museum.  Once we had searched  for the website we had to navigate around it using the mouse and arrow keys. After we had spent time working in a group to discuss what we saw, we then shared our findings together as a class and showed Miss Boyes on the smartboard.

We all got nice new story books this week to read in class. Our story books were from the Library. We really enjoyed our trip and we will definitely be back to listen to more stories read by the librarian.

Our theme for RE is Growing and Changing. We went out to the garden to find things which we think have grown and changed.

We thought about the Autumn season and found lots of leaves which had fallen off the trees. When we came back to class we reflected and prayed for the changes that we could see in Gods creations.

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2.