This week we learned how to spell words with the z sounds made with z, zz, s or se.

We wrote an explanation piece about how to make pottery using the structure

• title
• identifying statement
• explanation sequence
• summary statement

It has put us in the mood to make pots out of clay!

On Wednesday the whole school, including the adults, stopped to read for 6 minutes to improve our well being.

‘Keep the heid and read’ is a great idea and we agreed that it worked.

https://www.keeptheheid.scot/

We are learning how to calculate duration in time, by looking at start and finish times. We also interpreted a database, and know how to get the information we need.

We were given potatoes to plant so we have put them in compost bags in the playground. There are two varieties, ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Sarpo Una’. We hope that they will multiply!

On Tuesday next week we are going on a trip to Kelso for Countryside Day. We are entering the poster competition and the theme is one on the UN goals, ‘life on land’. Everyone designed a poster and the class voted for this entry by Jackson. He is making a large version with some friends to take on Tuesday. Well done, Jackson, and good luck on Tuesday.

Here are some of the other entries.

We took part in a live biodiversity lesson on Monday which was great fun. One of the presenters was Gill Lewis who has written lots of books which include animals and environmental issues. She set a competition where we had to write a riddle about an animal and, amazingly, out of over 200 school, we won!

The winning riddle was written by Laura:

I see my mum plodding her heavy, broad feet on the jungle soil.

I hear birds chirping happily through my large ears which are flapping back and forth.

I taste the bitter taste of tree bark as I strip it off  the tall, wide tree trunk.

I smell the luscious smell of water, but it could be 12 miles away!

I feel vibrations from my friend through the thick soles of my feet. she’s telling me that she loves me and that she will always be there for me!

What am I?

  Staying fit and healthy in our Athletics lessons

 Waiting patiently ….

We have been keeping fit and healthy in our athletics lessons in PE and we are running every day for The Daily Mile.

Our smart pink tee shirts are to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Daily Mile in schools!

it’s fun to run !

We have some new additions to our class. These very hungry caterpillars are already growing. The first two photos are from day 1 in P2/3 and the final photo is from day 3. They are definitely thriving.

What will they look like next week?

We have moved on to  learning about another style of writing and this term we are learning to write information reports. We are linking this to our reading because we highlight notes, make our own plan and then we write our information report in our own words.

This is a skill we will be using for the rest of our lives.

In our living and non-living things topic we are starting to think about planting , nurturing and growing things. What will we plant next ?

We have been doing more work using the Notes App on the iPads. Today we learned to do bubble writing and make our names look colourful and eye catching.

When might you use this skill in real life ?

This week I enjoyed doing pets at home writing.

This week I have really enjoyed doing our pet writing in the end they all turned out really well and then we printed out our writing and now all the people in my group and everyone else’s group has a permanent writing piece of pets.

I have enjoyed photography because it is really fun experimenting with lots of different photo options. I also enjoyed maths this week because it is not to hard and not to easy.

I enjoyed well being Wednesday I loved playing the game it was so fun and I also liked photography it was fun taking pictures of all the different thing.

I have really enjoyed taking photos and editing them to make the photo look different and I have also enjoyed playing games in wellbeing Wednesday and play loads of different games.