P2a have been busy!!

This week in literacy we have been learning all about magic ‘e’. It changes the sound of vowels to their letter name. We have been focusing on ‘i_e’. During writing we have been looking at characters and their descriptions. Not even the fire alarm and standing in the rain stopped us enjoying our paired reading with P6. We cant wait to take our favourite books to read with them next time.

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P2a’s Term 3 Highlights

We had a very busy term 3 full of lots of fun and lots of learning. Here are some of our favourite term 3 moments!! Primary 2 have been loving using our new maths resources to help us as we add and subtract up to 13!   Two of us showed off our fab reading by choosing and reading a story to the whole class. Well done Lacey and Elle!

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P2a French stars!

Primary 2 have been learning how to ask someone their name, and how to reply in French! As it’s literacy week in Balornock we thought we could try it with some of our favourite book and film characters! We loved it! Ask us about it when you see us! We’d love to teach you too!

This week in P2a…

This week the boys and girls in P2a have been looking at their new topic ‘Transport’. As part of our topic we took a survey of the traffic that passed the school. Look forward to seeing the graphs we create with this information!! Mrs Woolfries came to our class for some ‘Rhyme Time’ and we read The dragon and the nibblesome knights, we all loved the story. After our story

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Work to Bee Proud of!!

Well done to Cailen, Flynn, Tyler and Kyle who have all worked hard this week on improving different skills and have pieces of work on P2a’s Work to bee Proud of wall. They should all be very proud of their hard work. A special well done to Lacey who impressed Miss Smith with her amazing place value work on tens and units, earning her Star of the Week and a

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Pets in P2a

As part of our topic on pets, Miss McMillan came down to visit our class to tell us all about working in a pet shop. She told us lots of information about what you need to do when you work in a pet shop and she told us all about the pet promise customers make when they buy their pet. Leia – ‘They give information to customers about the animals’

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This week in P2a…

This week in P2a we have had visits from lots of teachers. Mrs McMillan came in to help is with our sentence writing. We became weather reporters and we wrote sentences about the weather for each day of the week. Carly – ‘I know to use capital letters at the start of my sentences now’ Mrs Woolfries visited our class and was teaching us all about rhyme. We heard a

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This Week in P2a

This week the boys and girls in P2a have been working hard. We started off our week learning our new sound ‘ai’. We practised making words that had our sound in them with our partner.   Lacey – “I liked working with a partner to learn my sound” Cailen – “I got this sound easily”   We practised our scissor skills as part of our pets topic. We cut out

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New Eco Mascot

All of the boys and girls in Balornock Primary worked hard to create upcylced mascots as part of eco week last week. Take a look at some of our superb models. Well done everyone!     Each class then voted on which mascot they wanted to go onto the final, where the eco council will decide which upcylced model is Balornock’s new eco mascot.  Here are the models that are in the

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Library Visit

Last Thursday P6b enjoyed a visit to the local library. We learned how to use the code cracker to help us find non-fiction books. We also enjoyed hearing the librarians favourite story and she told us about the library’s five finger rule to help us see if a book is too difficult. We then had a chance to look at the books and some of us even chose a book to bring

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