P2/1 Update

Teacher Voice

I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!

In class this week we have been learning all about Science through the context of the story about the Three Little Pigs.

We started off by testing four different types of material to see which could withstand the Big Bad Wolf blowing on it; feathers, straws, tissue paper and Kapla (wooden) bricks.  Our wolf was actually just a hairdryer!  We discovered that only the Kapla blocks didn’t blow away.  We then created some tent structures from card and used the material that blew away to decorate these.  After this we used a wide range of construction equipment to create our own designed houses.  Some fabulous imagination was on display and excellent engineering and problem solving skills were developed.

In our Literacy we also used this story in our writing.  P1 had to write about their favourite part and P2 had to remember the beginning, middle and end and write at least three sentences.

In numeracy P1 have continued to develop their addition within 10 and 20 using a wide variety of resources such as pictures, beads, numicon and cubes.  P2 have been developing their repeated addition calculations and now all understand the X sign in a calculation.

Home Learning

At home try to build your own house using different materials.  Include a door, window and roof.  You can take a photograph of it and put it on your wider achievements page in your profile.

Check in with your profile to see some of the photographs from our Science learning.

Pupil Voice

Shay – I enjoyed making the three pigs house.

Shakti – I enjoyed feeling the different materials that we tested.

Isla – I liked making the card houses.

Oliwier – I liked checking the different material to see if it would blow away.

Emileigh-Rose – I liked when then hairdryer blew away the feathers.

Lily – I liked when the Kapla didn’t blow away.

Szymon – I liked building the houses.