What a great start to the week we had! We went on our school trip to Purves Puppets in Biggar.
Julia-“The show was called Pips and Panda meet the three bears.”
The show was amazing because the puppets glowed in the dark. We had to blow out special lights in the theatre for the room to go dark.
Maja- “When we blew the lights out the stars begun to glow above us on the ceiling.”
The two main characters were called Pips and Panda and we got to hear the story of Golidlocks and the 3 bears.
This linked perfectly with our new Fairyland topic.
Madison-“My favourite part was when Panda flew away with the kite because I liked Panda the Puppet.”
Wojciech- “I liked the part when Panda and Pips got stuck in the swing because they kept bumping in to each other.”
Ava- “My favourite part was when the Hawaiian frogs were dancing.”
Leo- “My favourite character was Pips because he is a cheeky monkey and I think I am a cheeky monkey too.”
Lilly- “I liked when the rabbit was eating Panda’s apple. I also liked when the Rabbit put tomato sauce on Pip, it was so funny.”
Poppy- “I liked it when Pips fell off of the swing.”
Elenta- “My favourite part was when Panda got stuck in the tree.”
After the show we all got to meet the puppets and we got a photo with them. Here is our photo with the puppets.
Once we had our lunch the puppeteer came to talk to us about the history of puppets and he showed us special paintings on the wall.
The Puppeteer told us about shadow puppets, finger puppets, string puppets, glove puppets and rod puppets.Here are the photos showing the history of puppets. I’m sure we could tell you all about it at home.
To follow on from this back in class we investigated different types of puppets and how they are made. We drew a picture of our class puppet (Paolo) and we thought about the materials he is made from and all of his different parts. Then we designed our own puppets which we will make next week.
On Tuesday we completed a short read task for the story of Golidlocks and the Three Bears.
Ana-“We had to read the text and then fill in the missing words.”
For money this week we continued to learn about money equivalences. We had to find two different ways of making an amount with the coins.
We are finding this easier now and we are getting very good at identifying the best coins to use instead of using lots of 1 pences.
We’ve also been using Sumdog this week to practise developing our skills in numeracy and maths. We love using Sumdog because it’s a fun way to learn numbers.
We have been counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s and we love singing along to the Counting Robot Song.
In writing this week we wrote a recount of our school trip and our challenge was to use different openers.
Miss Boyes was super impressed with all of the different openers that we included in our writing. Here are examples from our star writers.
In PE this week we have been learning how to play a new game.
Wojciech- “There are 2 teams in the game. One of the teams has to kick the ball out onto the court.”
Filip- “The other team has to catch the ball and then bounce it off the other teams legs or feet.”
Ava- “Your not allowed to run with the ball or you are out.”
Zoe-“The team the kicks the ball has to try to get back to their section of the hall without being hit.”
This game involved lots of teams work and you had to follow the rules carefully.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and Primary 2!
What a brilliant week you had, P2. Your class trip sounds very exciting and I loved seeing all those photos too. Miss Boyes told me you were all very well behaved and had fun. Well done.
It’s wonderful to see your trip was the context for your writing this week. Mrs Smith was very impressed with your openers 😊 It was lovely to have some children share their writing with us.
Keep up the great team work !