We have had another busy week in P2/3. We started our new topic, Space. We completed our ‘I wonder’ grid to help us plan what we want to learn throughout the topic. We started by looking at Earth and making fantastic Earth artwork. We also wanted to learn about the planets in our solar system and their order.

We have also been completing more reading tasks this week, including dictionary skills, comprehension and jumbled sentences.

We’ve been finishing our Place Value topic this week. We have been learning 1, 10 and 100 more and less. We have also started learning how to use partitioning as an addition strategy.

We began our new RME topic, Gifts and Giving, where we are learning how  different religions give and receive gifts. This week we learned about the festival of Eid. We made lanterns to show how light is used in the celebrations. They have made a lovely display too.

In basketball we worked on bounce passes.

We also had a fantastic Halloween party! Look at our amazing costumes!

We were so proud of Riia this week, placing 1st in her recent dancing competition. We were amazed by the size of your trophy! Well done!

We have had a busy first week back after our October break.  We have been continuing to look at different reading strategies.  This week we looked at ‘Retelling’.  We read Winne the Witch and had to identify the characters, setting and problem.

We also had a really exciting visit from Phunky Foods.  We had lots of fun learning about lots of different fruit and vegetables.  We got to play games, explore the food, dress up and even do a taste test.

We looked at skeletons and bones this week too and made some skeleton xray art work.  We talked about using different tones in our work to make our bones look 3D.

We continued learning more basketball skills this week as well as fun new games.  We learned how to chest pass correctly to our team mates.

We have also had a lot of discussions this week about Growth Mindset. We talked about how important it is to be able to learn from mistakes and the power of ‘yet’. We designed our own Yeti monsters to decorate our class.

We also loved seeing Lawson’s amazing Halloween Art that he made at home. Thank you for sharing it with us.

What a busy term we have had! Finished off with a busy week!

You would not believe we all managed to stay silent for 30 whole minutes during our Harvest Hush In.  It was SO peaceful!

We have loved learning so much through our Book Study; The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We finished it off this week with more fun activities.  We got another letter from Mr Grinling, asking us to create Lighthouse Learning Cards that shows him everything we have learned in our topic.  He wants to display them in his lighthouse to show them off to his friends!

We also want to thank Sheila and other kitchen staff who helped us make our very own Sea Biscuits, just like Mrs Grinlings.  We even got a tour of the kitchen to see all the equipment.  We loved the BIG mixer and ovens!  Our biscuits definitely passed the taste test too!

You will also see we brought home our very own Lighthouse Experts Certificates!  Well done everyone!

We were all so proud of Coila this week too.  It was lovely to see her certificate for being a Mascot for Stranraer FC.  Well done, Colia!

This week we have been learning another new reading strategy:  Metalingustics.  This means exploring the meaning of words.  We looked at some words in our book study, then we used our class dictionaries to help us learn new words.  We also loved playing ‘Fastest Finger’ game using our dictionaries, to see who could find the words first.

We have also been investigating numbers before and after.

We have been showing what we have learned about healthy eating by creating our own Healthy Eating Posters.  Don’t they look great!

We have also been learning more about lighthouses.  We have used Google Maps to find locations of some Scottish lighthouses and put them on our own Scotland map.

This week our Confident Individual is Jack.  Jack is showing increasing confidence when writing independently.  Well done!