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!

This week we have been learning our new reading strategy, Prediction.  We talked about what we think would happen next to the fisherman’s lunch after the seagulls went to visit him.  We had some great ideas.

Through our I wonder discussion at the beginning of term, Coila and Mirryn wanted to learn more about seagulls.  We enjoyed watching lots of interesting videos to learn more about them and we made our own Seagull Fact Files and amazing, moving seagull crafts.

At PE, we have been learning how to dribble basketballs and skipping with Mrs Cook.

In Place Value, we have been learning how to order numbers from smallest to largest.

We were lucky enough to be invited along to P5’s amazing performance.  We loved listening to their wonderful singing.  Well done P5!

Our Successful Learner this week was Allie.   Allie has started Primary 3 with so much enthusiasm for learning.  She works hard to complete all her tasks and loves to challenge herself.   Well done Allie!

This week we have been learning the ‘th’, ‘ck’ and ‘nk’ sound.  We will continue focusing on these sounds next week.

We have also been practising our own set of common words that we are working on reading and writing.

We had a fantastic afternoon designing and building our own lighthouses.  I love how they are all unique and they have made a great display in our class.

We have also been continuing to partition numbers.  This week we focused on our jotter layout, making sure we were remembering to use a ruler.

What a fantastic start we have had in P2/3.  I hope you all have a lovely September weekend!

What an exciting week we have had this week. Mr Grinling, the Lighthouse Keeper, needed our help. His light stopped working and we had to become electrical engineers to help him. We learned all about electricity, building our own circuits and drawing technical maps.

Mrs Grinling also needed our help. She had heard that we have been learning about the Eatwell Plate, so she asked us to design a healthy lunch for Mr Grinling. We hope she loved our delicious, healthy lunch ideas.

We’ve also been continuing to investigate Place Value. We learned how to partition numbers.

We loved having a shared play with P1/2. Lawson was our Responsible Citizen this week as he took time to help some of the new P1s learn how to use the Chromebooks. What a great helper!

This week we have been continuing to learn about Place Value.  We were learning how to build numbers using base 10 material.

Through our Book study, we wanted to learn about the different parts of a lighthouse.  We were able to label the correct parts then self assess our work using Tickled Pink and Green for Growth.

We also explored and experimented  with watercolours to create our own landscape and lighthouse artwork.  What little artists we have in P2/3!  Look at their beautiful paintings…

We have also been learning about healthy eating through discussing the Eatwell Plate.  We discussed the importance of eating lots of different foods to give our bodies what they need to play, grow and be healthy.  We worked in partners to sort food into the correct categories.

We were all very excited to start learning how to play the ukuleles this week.  We have learned how to hold them correctly and how to strum and pluck them to make different sounds.

We also wanted to say a massive well done to Freddie who completed his 26th mile last night at Dumfries house with his cousin Louis and his mum. Well done Freddie! We are all very proud of you! ⭐️

This week we have been busy getting familiar with our classroom and our new routines.

We have also began our Book Study:  The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch.  We thoroughly enjoyed the story and have already begun planning a variety of exciting topics to explore further. We are hoping to make our own miniature lighthouses from junk modelling so please bring any materials to school next week, especially 2L plastic bottles.

We have been learning about place value, exploring digits and their values, as well as practicing reading numbers aloud.  We played a fun game with a partner to see if we could give clues to help them match our numbers.

We have also made a whole school display poster for our school values.  Our class was learning about respect.  We worked together to discuss and sort out different ways we can show respect.

We are just beginning to learn how to use technology to share our work. As part of this new routine, the children are practicing using iPads to take photos of their learning.  Here are a few of this week’s pictures…

Our current PE days this term will be Wednesdays and Thursdays.  Children can bring a change of shoes and shorts in a bag which can stay in school.  Please make sure all items are labelled.

Please ensure all jewellery is removed on these days as well.

Thanks again for your continued support,

Mrs Ferguson

What a wonderful start we’ve had to Primary 2/3. We have been busy this week learning our new routines and worked together to create our Class Charter.

Remember to keep checking the Blog regularly for updates, including our Weekly Roundups.

We are all looking forward to a fantastic year ⭐️