This weeks blog has been written by: Eilidh & Finlay.

This week it has been world book week and we have had lots of fun!  We started the week with looking at all of the areas of the curriculum and planning our own learning. 

We have listened to the full story this week which has helped us in our work.  

We wanted to find out more information about the author Roald Dahl so we carried out our own research on the internet and we found out lots of interesting facts.

We worked in groups to design board games based on Roald Dahl’s book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (Eilidh).

In art we have been learning to quill hearts for mother’s day.  The cards turned out amazing (Lily).   We also made cards by drawing around our own hands. The hand then held a bunch of flowers and we made the flowers 3d.  Also in art we designed sweetie inventing machines with lift-up flaps (Finlay).     

In maths we designed chocolate bars with perimeters of 20 cm.  We also drew a lot of different nets for cubes then we built different 3d shapes using nets; these would be used to package Willy Wonka sweets.    

On Thursday it was great as we dressed up as book characters (Holly).

Next week we are making model ‘Chocolate Factories’ so if you could please bring in some junk/recycling that would be fantastic.

Primary 2 and Primary 2/3 were very lucky to have a visit from Mr Isherwood to tell us all about the new Forth Road Bridge for our new topic. The children had a great time listening to how the bridge is being built and they enjoyed seeing the different pieces of materials that make up the bridge. Mr Isherwood brought us some safety equipment too and the children had a great time dressing up.
Mrs Creaney and Miss Mack

<img In Primary 2 we celebrated Chinese New Year by making Chinese dragons to ward off evil spirits and to bring good luck for the year of the monkey. With all that waving this year should be very lucky indeed.
Mrs Creaney

A blizzard has descended on the Primary 2 classroom. Our wonderful artists have made snow globes as part of our weather topic. We will display them for a short time then the children can bring them home to show off their artistic skills. Meanwhile here is a photograph to whet your appetite.
Mrs Creaney

This week, we have been looking at the problems that characters in some of our favourite books might have.

To link in with our Writing topic, of letter writing, we thought about writing letters to an advice column on their behalf.

Here are some of the problems, see if you can guess who they belong to:

“My parent’s won’t let me have any books! Help!” – No-Books-Allowed

“My body doesn’t feel like my own!” – Hawkboy

“My husband plays nasty tricks on me!” – Very-Annoyed-Wife

“My parents aren’t around anymore, and my Aunt and Uncle are horrible!” – Boy-With-Scar

“I really want to win this competition, but I’m scared I won’t!” – Stressed-Bucket