Fingers Feel

The Ladybirds and Bumblebees worked with Mrs Linklater to learn a poem to perform. The classes did a great job of performing it in assembly and the audience enjoyed it so much they asked to hear it again! Here is a recording we made afterwards.

'What can your fingers see for you?

Whether a surface feels old or new.

Is it bumpy, lumpy

slippery, slick

prickly, scratchy 

hard as brick

spongy, rough

softer than dough.

Touch it,

see if your fingers know.'

Tongue Twisters

With Mrs Linklater we did some tongue twisters as a warm up to learning a poem to perform. It was hard work to get all the sounds out without getting muddled but everyone worked hard to say them slowly and then build up to say them more quickly.

We are learning a senses poem in parts so all being well there will be a video to follow!

Sports day

What a super day we had for sports day! The weather was beautiful and so many families and friends came to join in the fun. I didn't get chance to take many photos but I know that there was lots of fun being had and I was very proud of the class for showing such good sportmanship at all times. Well done to the dolphins who were the overall winners. 

 

 

 

 

 

Drama

We enjoyed another drama session with Mrs Linklater. As a warm up we played a human body version of fruit salad. Instead of apples, pears and bananas we had skeletons, hearts and kidneys.

After that Mrs Linklater, the surgeon, came to perform an operation but before she took any body parts away, they gave us a clue about how they were useful and if we guessed what they were they got to stay in the body.

 

We then used our senses to help imagine ourselves as a character in a story, thinking about what we could hear, see, smell, taste and touch in our own versions of the story as we listened to Mrs Linklater read it.

 

 

Mick West Duo

We were treated to a visit from the Mick West duo - a pair of performers up for the Folk Festival. We did a fun warm up with them to exercise our vocal chords using different vowel sounds. We got to join in a couple of songs and add some actions and we also enjoyed listening to them perform tunes for us.

The Incredible Itch and You can't take me!

We enjoyed another drama session with Mrs Linklater. As a warm up we did the Incredible Itch. The itch was spread around the room. The itchiness went from 1 to 10, getting itchier and itchier as the numbers went up.

We then played "You can't take me!". In groups the children were given a room in the house and had to get in to the shape of something in that room. Mrs Linklater was going to take things out of the room if there was no good reason for it to be there. Primary 2 had to give a clue for us to guess what item they were and why they should be kept in the room.

The children gave good clues for us to guess. Because we guessed correctly, they got to stay in the room.

Afterwards, we did the same game with parts of the body. We had to give a reason why the part of the body we were being could not be taken out.

Relay race

We worked with the ladybirds to practise our relay race for Sports Day. The children worked well together and followed all the instructions exactly.

Bar charts

We have been having fun making bar graphs. We used the smart board to make a graph of our favourite colours. 

We linked it to our topic and made a bar chart showing the different hair colours in Primary 2.

 

 

 We went outside and made a bar chart, working in pairs to pass a beanbag, counting how many passes there were without dropping the beanbag.