{"id":20690,"date":"2019-03-08T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/?p=20690"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:16:04","slug":"primary-2-3-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/03\/08\/primary-2-3-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 2\/3 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had a lovely visit from Arch Bishop Leo Cushley.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday we investigated Shrove Tuesday traditions and sampled some pancakes.\u00a0 This led us to write imaginative stories about a runaway pancake on Wednesday.\u00a0 We also\u00a0 took part in our\u00a0 Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent. We have spoken about our Lenten promises.<\/p>\n<p>We celebrated World Book Day and had a super DEAR (drop everything and read).\u00a0 We also listened to one of our favourite authors, Alex T. Smith, speak about how he finds inspiration for his writing and then visited &#8216;Story Detective Stations&#8217; to create our own stories.\u00a0 The stories we created were fantastic!\u00a0 There was much excitement as Mirren and Abby headed off to Waterstone&#8217;s to choose some new books for our class library and our new books have been much in demand.<\/p>\n<p>Karen from RHET visited us on Friday and helped us to plant potatoes as part of our Science topic.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve entered a competition with other schools to see who can grow the heaviest crop of potatoes &#8211; but we&#8217;re most excited about eating our potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight on Friday was our story massage session when Mrs Stewart and Mrs McCabe taught us how to use massage.\u00a0 We all agreed that it helped us to feel peaceful and calm.<\/p>\n<p>Our work in writing this week has focused on recounts and we&#8217;re developing our skills in using nouns, past tense verbs and time and sequence words.\u00a0 Look our for our recounts next week.<\/p>\n<p>In maths we&#8217;ve been working on subtraction and multiplication. P2 developed their digital skills during maths when they made videos to demonstrate how we use arrays to solve multiplication problems.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p>From Mrs Caskie, Mrs Keegan and P2\/3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had a lovely visit from Arch Bishop Leo Cushley. On Tuesday we investigated Shrove Tuesday traditions and sampled some pancakes.\u00a0 This led us to write imaginative stories about a runaway pancake on Wednesday.\u00a0 We also\u00a0 took part in our\u00a0 Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent. We have spoken about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/03\/08\/primary-2-3-update-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary 2\/3 update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,79,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-primary-2","category-primary-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions\/20693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}