Primary 2 - Miss Black

 Our fairy tale this week during topic time has been 'The Three Little Pigs'. Just like in the story, the children tried to make houses of straw, sticks and bricks! We decided unanimously that the brick houses were the strongest, although it was lots of fun using our imagination to create our designs!

We used the pan balance scales on Monday during maths to measure the weights of various objects around the classroom. We worked with a partner to identify the heaviest and lightest objects. 

We read Goldilocks as our fairy tale this week. Just like in the story, we made and tried some porridge of our own. During our topic time, some of the children enjoyed playing with the bears and porridge in the tuff tray. They were able to retell the story and also explore the capacity of the various bowls and spoons. 

Following on from our castles topic last term, we will now be focusing on  Fairy tales as our new literacy topic. This week, we read Jack and the Beanstalk which really captured the children's imagination! We planted our own magic beans and we are eagerly waiting to watch them grow into beanstalks!

During Big Maths this week, the children have been learning to measure surface area. We used counters and gem stones to measure the area of a variety of shapes. We found that the cat shape had the largest surface area with it requiring 179 gem stones!