It’s hard to believe that today is the last day of term 3!

Primary 2/3 have had a fun filled week of Easter activities.

The boys and girls came up with some great imaginative ideas when decorating their eggs for the Easter egg competition.

Ayla was the P2 winner of the egg decorating competition. Well done!

We had an Easter egg hunt outside in the playground this morning. We got to eat our eggs at playtime which was a special treat!

Logan R. was the winner of the Golden Ticket today and chose Rhys to sit with him at the Golden Table for lunch. Well done Logan!

Have a lovely Easter holiday!

This week Primary 2/3 have been learning the ‘igh’ sound in literacy, have been learning about the 2 times table in numeracy and have been very creative with some junk modelling materials. Have a look at all the great things we have been getting up to……

Charlotte was the winner of the Golden Ticket today and chose Ayla to sit with her at the Golden Table for lunch. Well done Charlotte!

It’s hard to believe that next week is the last week of term 3!

Have a great weekend.

Easter is just around the corner, so pupils have been given an ‘Easter egg symmetry’ challenge which has been added to their numeracy scrapbook this week. This challenge involves making symmetrical patterns.  Pupils can complete the task on the challenge sheet or they can draw their own symmetrical eggs in their jotter. Please click on the link below to view the activity:

Easter egg symmetry

Numeracy scrapbooks should be returned by Monday 27th March.

This will be the last numeracy homework challenge before we finish for the Easter holiday.

Primary 2/3 have been doing lots of fun activities in class this week to celebrate British Science Week.

We really enjoyed working in groups to do the ‘Skittles Experiment’. We had to place some skittles around the edge of a plate, add some warm water and then watch to see what happened. The skittles made a rainbow effect when the coloured coating on the skittles dissolved. It was amazing!

We had lots of fun using cubes to copy patterns created by the STEM committee group. Look at these super, long patterns we made. Calli even made one which was taller than Mrs McKenna!

We got the chance to experiment with a plasma ball. We loved touching the ball and watching the coloured bolts of light follow our every move. It was fascinating!

We have also been keeping busy with our literacy and numeracy work in the class. We have been learning some new strategies for multiplying and have been working really hard on our reading this week.

Pupils have been issued with a common words grid for homework this week. These are words that your child needs to be able to read and write and is personal to them.  It would be great if you could help them practise their words at home. They will also be practising in class and when they can read and write all of the words confidently they will be given a new set.

Thank you for your support.

Mrs McKenna

It’s the end of another week in Primary 2/3.

This week we have been learning the ‘ou’ sound in literacy, practising our common words and writing a set of instructions for making a sandwich.

In numeracy we have been learning about multiplication. We have been using repeated addition and arrays to multiply by 2.

It was a lovely sunny day for our walk to the park on Wednesday afternoon.

We had some snow in the playground this morning and Layla had lots of fun making a snow angel.

Braxton brought in a special treat for everyone today. He drew some fantastic pictures and made a colouring book for each of the boys and girls in the class. What a lovely, kind thing to do! The boys and girls had lots of fun colouring in during activity time this afternoon.

Allan was the winner of the Golden Ticket today and chose Carter to sit with him at the Golden Table for lunch. What a special treat!

Pupils have been given a ‘Telephone numbers’ challenge this week which has been added to their numeracy scrapbook and involves practising addition.  Pupils can use their 100 square or concrete materials at home to help them with this task i.e. lego bricks, beads, buttons etc. Please click on the link below to view the activity:

Telephone numbers

Numeracy scrapbooks should be returned by Monday 13th March.

Thank you for your continued support with numeracy tasks. It has been so lovely to see the work that is being done at home as a family.

It has been a short but busy week in Primary 2/3.

It was really lovely to welcome so many families into our new classroom this week to join in with our play activities. Thank you so much to everyone who made it along, the children really enjoyed welcoming you into our class.

Have a wee look at all the things we were getting up to……

We celebrated World Book Day on Wednesday by starting our whole class book study for this term ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We also designed a new cover for our favourite book and made some bookmarks.

We have continued to practise the ‘ow’ sound in literacy and made some fantastic owls to display on our art gallery wall in the classroom.

In numeracy we have been continuing to practise counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and to work out the coins needed to pay for items.

Have a great weekend!