Writing

This week we were learning about recipes. Miss Dow had an empty cauldron and some ingredients folded up in a bowl. Some of us got to unfold an ingredient, show it to the rest of the class and put it in the cauldron to mix up Miss Dow’s potion! The potion was to turn someone into a frog and Miss Dow said she would turn any children who were not listening into frogs! The ingredients were pretty disgusting – squidgy eyeballs, the tail of a rat, fairy dust and even brains! Together we wrote some instructions (the method) for her potion before creating and writing our own potions. We had to use bossy verbs and put our ‘method’ in the correct order.

ICT

We are now working on our typing skills in ICT. We use BBC Dancemat and we were learning about the ‘home row.’ We know that this is where our fingers should be when we are typing. We are trying to remember to use both hands and not just one finger! Miss Dow had to keep reminding us not to look at our hands but keep looking at the screen to type the letters of the home row.

 

RME/Health

Continuing with our theme of ‘beliefs,’ we have been thinking about our families. We spoke about traditions in our family and our nationalities and the people we live with. We know that other people all over the world have different traditions, sometimes based upon their religion. We had to create our own coat of arms for our family. We had to include things our family believe in and what is special to us. We learned that coat of arms first came about to help recognise knights in armour as they all looked the same. We also found out that sometimes families would hire an artist to create a coat of arms for them. We looked at the different animals and what values they stand for and some of us incorporated this into our design.

Topic – Wall-E

We have been finishing off our robot designs from last week. Here are some photos of us. We are all very proud of our finished work.

Drama

For our last drama lesson this term we were acting out a scene from a classroom. We had to have a teacher character and some of the groups wanted to use comedy in their performances. A lot of the performances had very naughty classes – thankfully not like 3D! We spoke about facing the audience and making sure that everyone had a role. We have enjoyed becoming more confident in drama this term and experiencing working in many different groups. Next term we will be learning Music in our normal drama timetable slot.

Art

Since we have been learning about Autumn we created some stick hedgehogs! We got to go outside into the playground and hunt for lots of different sized sticks to help us with our piece of art. We learned that hedgehogs can have around 7000 spines! Also that the spines do not grow on their faces, tummy or legs. We enjoyed using natural materials in our art and thinking about positioning the sticks to create an effective hedgehog.

Holidays

We have had such a busy and hard-working first term in Primary 3! Everyone has settled in to Primary 3 life and have been successful learners. I hope everyone has a very well-deserved October break and I can’t wait to see what Term 2 brings for us! Happy Holidays!

 

A great start!

We had the best start to our week as on Monday morning we won assembly star at the Infant Assembly. Miss Mackay said that we all sat so beautifully and that we gave very good answers during assembly. Here we are with our trophy!

Singing

Miss Hamilton was back this week so we had singing again on Monday. We were doing some fun action songs where we had to stick out our tongues again and we were also singing some songs relating to our topic of Our Caring World and Wall-E. We sang a song about remembering to turn off the lights and also the Recycling Rap! We have been learning about keeping a beat and rhythm.

Autumn Writing

This week we did some amazing Autumn descriptions. We had to apply all of our learning so far and try and use a simile and even some alliteration and WOW words! Miss Dow was SO impressed and keeps telling us how well we have done. To get us thinking about Autumn we also went out into the playground and had to collect some leaves that we will be using later in class too.

Spelling

This week in spelling we have been discussing our spelling rules and thinking of other words that use the same sound. We then had to play a spelling game where we had to spell out our words in different voices. These included a grumpy teacher voice, an alien voice and even an opera voice!

Go Noodle

This week we have been talking about breathing and using our breathing when we are starting to get annoyed or frustrated or when we just need to just focus a bit more on our work. We used some of the videos on Go Noodle to practise ‘bee breathing’ and also counting whilst we take deep breaths. We thought that these were good ideas to use if we are starting to get a bit worried or feeling angry about something. Every time we complete 10 activities, our Go Noodle character transforms and grows into a new character. We always love when this happens and we like to cheer when the new character appears.

Maths

The Pentagons and Squares have been working with fractions this week and comparing fractions using a fraction wall.

The Semi-Circles have been working on whole number (partitioning and addition).

The Triangles have been working on addition with multiples of 10 and 100.

Wall-E Topic

Wall-E was busy again over the weekend and set us new challenges at our play zones. On our writing table we have had to think of and draw different objects that we can recycle. On our construction table we have had to create a machine/object to help us recycle. In the wet area he wanted us to design a friend to help him with his job. He also set us a spelling challenge a bit like Countdown where we have to spell as many words as we can using only the letters he left for us.

We have also been talking a bit more about RECYCLING this week. We have spoken about the different sorts of materials that we can recycle like paper, plastic and glass. We wanted to see what happens to these materials when they are collected by the lorries so Miss Dow found some videos for us to watch. We saw that the materials are emptied from the lorry before being sorted and being put on a conveyer belt. People or machines then have to pick out any ‘bad’ pieces of material that do not recycle before being sold on our being made into new items.

We then had to work with a partner to design a robot to help with recycling. (photos by Logan)

As a class we came up with our own success criteria which Miss Dow wrote on the board and these were our targets that our robot had to be able to do to be successful.

Gym with Miss Macrae

In gym we have been working on our football skills. We have been working on our passing (Rebecca) and our kicking (Alex).

 

Rebecca – We have been working on our passing.

Alex -and our kicking.

Oscar – We have also been dribbling.

Grace – We have been trying to kick faster so that other players can’t get the ball.

Pippa – We have been working on our dribbling.

Tylar – We have to use the inside of our foot.

Conor – We have been practising to intercept. This means that one player must pass the ball to another player and if you are quick enough you can swoop in and try and get the ball before it gets to another player.

Ross – Do not kick the ball with your toes.

Jamie – We have to keep the ball on the ground.

Callum – Sometimes you can use the outside of your feet but not your toes.

Sophie – We have been keeping control of the ball whilst we have been dribbling.

(photos by Luca)