We’ve had another very busy week this week in 3D!

Circle Time

In Circle Time we were talking about how we use maths everyday at home since it is Scottish Maths Week. This will hopefully help with our maths homework. We also took part in a ‘Simon Says’ game where we had to listen to the music and the instructions and listen for ‘Simon says.’

 

Drama

In Drama this week we had to act as if we were holding and carrying a very heavy box. We spoke about our use of facial expressions and body language and how we would be moving if the box was very heavy. This was a miming activity so it was fun to do it without any noise! Miss Dow put us into small groups and we had to mime a short scenario that included the heavy box! One group couldn’t stop dropping it on their cat’s tail!

ICT

We are spending the next few weeks of ICT looking at programming. We used the Lightbot website and we started looking at the basics of programming. This included a forward, left turn, right turn and ‘light up’ instruction. We had to look at the problem and guide Lightbot to the other end using the correct instructions. It was definitely a bit of problem solving too!

http://lightbot.com/flash.html

 

 

Maths

In maths we are looking at areas we did not cover in P2. Some of us have been learning about identifying lines of symmetry and we had to draw a the MIRROR IMAGE of the picture using mirrors to help us. Some of us have been learning how to carry tens in addition sums and borrow in subtraction chimney sums. Another maths group have been consolidating and becoming more confident with addition and subtraction mentally.

Singing

Miss Hamilton works with us every Monday. This week we were doing a funny warm up song which involved us having to stick our tongues out and wiggle our bottoms! There was lots of laughter! We also played a game with a ball where we had to listen and bounce the ball on certain words and throw the ball on other words. She then taught us a new song where we had to work with a partner and move around to the next partner when we sang certain words. These games have been helping us to follow a rhythm and think about timing.

Topic/IDL

On Tuesday during Circle Time we got a big surprise… Wall-E had hidden a letter inside the box of the CD that we were using!

Wall-E wanted us to create a persuasive poster to advertise Cults as a  COMMUNITY. We spoke about all of the different things there are to do in Cults. Wall-E wanted each table group to focus on one of the following areas:

• green space
• community spaces
• services
• shops and cafes
• transport
• sports

We linked this to our writing this week and we had to apply our knowledge of Cults to create a poster to try and persuade people to come and visit. We were learning about what makes an effective persuasive poster/leaflet. We learned that we need to have BOSSY VERBS and FEEL-GOOD VOCABULARY to make people want to come and visit Cults. We also spoke about using colour and pictures to make our poster/leaflet eye-catching.

Gym with Miss Dow

We have been making up our 2 hours of gym in the dining room by taking part in running and listening games. We have enjoyed playing ‘Pirate Ship’ where we all have to run around and when Miss Dow gives an instruction we have to do an action. These include ‘rowing boat,’ ‘Captain’s coming!’ and ‘Walk the plank!’ We also played the traffic game where again, we had to listen for instructions. When Miss Dow shouted ‘RED!’ we had to stop, ‘AMBER’ we had to get ready to go and ‘GREEN’ we could run. We then made up our own actions to play in the game, Luca made up ‘burst tyre’ where we had to find a friend to be the tyre on the floor and pump them up! James S. came up with ‘parked car’ where we had to pretend to park around the room. Logan made up ‘broken down’ where we had to lie on the floor and pretend to be stuck and Dylan came up with ‘reverse’ where we had to move around the room backwards.

Go-Noodle!

We have been loving the Go-Noodle website this week! If we have any time at the end of the day or after lunch we can do a guided dance routine, a fine or gross motor skills activity or even a Moose rap!

https://www.gonoodle.com/

 

I think everyone is now ready for the weekend!

Miss Dow 🙂