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)

 

I hope everyone had a lovely long weekend.

As always, we have had a busy 4 day week this week.

Writing

We have been looking at alliteration this week. We had to describe a funfair and try and use alliteration in our descriptions. We used highlighters to highlight any WOW words or alliteration. (photos courtesy of Holly)

 

Spelling

We spoke about our spelling sounds this week and worked in a pair or in a group to identify and spell words with the same sound. The Badgers group were playing a game on the interactive whiteboard where they had to click on planets to spell the words correctly and get the letters in the right order.

We also were thinking about NOUNS this week. Check out this video that we found very catchy and it made us remember what a noun is!

Topic- Wall-E

Wall-E has been getting up to mischief again this week! On Wednesday it took us until the afternoon to find him as he had chosen such a sneaky hiding place. In Topic this week we have been working as part of a group to try and make up a short radio news  flash to tell listeners about something that affects the environment. We have been thinking about what would be a good introduction and what the name of our radio station might be. We had to try and tell the listeners key information about our chosen area. For example, one group were reporting about plastic in the ocean and another group were reporting about families not turning off their lights when they are not using them. Next week we are going to record our news onto voice recorders and share them with the class. (Photos by Callum)

Health + Wellbeing

As well as doing Circle Time with Miss Dow every Tuesday we see Mrs Cox every Thursday afternoon. She always has the chairs in the studio put into a circle for us to sit on. This week we were learning about positive thinking and when we passed the bunny around the circle we had to share  a happy thought that we had that day with the rest of the circle.  For our Fun Five Minutes this week we were doing a  game where we had to dress up in funny clothes and one person left the room and came back in and had to work out who was dressed in the funny costume. Mrs Cox said this was good for having good mental health. (info and photos courtesy of Eilidh)

Drama

This week in drama we were playing a game where we had to use our imagination. We all sat in a circle and passed around a shoe. When we were holding the shoe we had to imagine who it belonged to and share our idea with the class. Some of us thought the show belonged to a unicorn, famous runner, singer or even an ogre. We then were thinking about different ways we could move around the room. This will give us good ideas to include in our future drama performances. We had to think of a jiggly way to move around or a rolling way or even a jumping way.

 

Road Safety

On Friday we had a visit from Allan and his Road Safety Magic Show! Allan taught us to STOP (hold out hand in a stop motion), LOOK (hold hand on forehead), LISTEN (hold hand to ear) and THINK (point to brain) when crossing the road. We even had to do a new version of the Hokey Cokey using these actions. He showed us lots of magic tricks and we all had lots of fun. See below for some of our comments and what we learned…

Georgie – The lollipop lady shouting was funny!

Alex – I need a vest like that for the school disco

Tylar – I don’t know how he did the trick with the light

Arjun – How did the ball become invisible?

Sophie – The lollipop lady shouting was freaky!

Grace – The drawing was bonkers!

Pippa – It was really funny and freaky when the lollipop lady’s eyes were moving

Ross – I went bonkers!

Callum – It was so so so creepy when the picture was screaming!

Oscar – I learned when you cross the road you have to stop, look, listen, think

Jamie – I learned about the green, yellow and red lights and where you should position on the pavement

Rebecca – When you are near a parked car you should stop and look before you cross the road

Grant – I learned that drivers can’t always see people crossing the road

Luca – My Dad always says to move away from parked cars and cross up the road

Logan – I learned that when the green man is flashing you can’t cross

 

Maths

We have been using a number of maths games and activities this week to consolidate our learning. These have mainly been games where we have to add and subtract mentally or on a whiteboard. We have also been playing games where we have had to compare numbers and use the < and > signs.

The Squares and Pentagons have been looking at fractions and wholes and fifths.

The Triangles have been looking at tiling and how to continue the pattern of tiling. Then they were using concrete resources to create their own tiling patterns. Once they had created a pattern they were taking their own photos and selfies to share on the blog!

Literacy

We have been speaking about NOUNS and ADJECTIVES this week. In our table groups we had to arrange the cards and match each adjective with a suitable noun. If we had cards left over that did not match up then we knew we had made a mistake and had to work together to sort it out! This also helped us in our writing this week where we had to try and use adjectives to help us describe.

We have now moved on to think about SETTING and how to describe a setting. We had to think about the beach and fill in the table thinking about our 5 senses. We had to write down ideas of what we can see, feel, hear, smell and taste at the beach. We then used this as our plan when we completed our written descriptions.

Topic/Wall-E

Wall-E has been very busy and very cheeky this week! Every night when we go home he moves and when we come in the following morning we have to find him hiding somewhere new in the classroom! He even looked in Miss Dow’s diary to find out when we were doing drama and he also finished our wall display that we had started of him! Over the weekend he was in and he has set us new challenges at our play zones. At the writing table we have to write letters to try and PERSUADE people to recycle and help care for the environment. At the construction table we have to try and build a robot that looks like him and at the numeracy table he wants us to practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and some of the times tables.

RME

In RME this week we have been discussing our BELIEFS. We talked about the difference between fact and opinion and how this links to beliefs. We then had to tell the class what we believe and any religious beliefs of our family. We are learning that people all over the world have different beliefs and that we can share our own beliefs as well as listening to others.

Drama/Topic

Wall-E left a special letter for Miss Dow with scenarios relating to our topic that we had to act out in groups. These included things like people wasting water, plastic being in the ocean, animals being hurt by plastic, large volumes of cars causing pollution.

Spelling

We were playing a spelling game this week to practise our sounds and spelling words. Depending on the number we rolled, we had to write the word in ‘fancy nancy’ writing or as quickly as we could or even with our non-writing hand!

Open Evening

Thank you to everyone who managed to attend open evening this week. It was lovely to meet everyone and I hope you enjoyed seeing our classroom and the hard work we have been doing in 3D!

 

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I’ll see you all on Tuesday! 🙂

Miss Dow

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 🙂

We have had another busy week in P3D!

Unfortunately there are not many photos to show for it.. (must get better at taking the ipad out!)

 

Maths

We have spent the last 2 weeks of ICT logging onto Sumdog which is a website that offers lots of numeracy games. Once you have completed a few games, it gives you games that are suited to your exact level.

As a class we have been practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and linking this to the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We have been joining in with some Youtube videos which we have loved as they are very funny with things like dogs in spacesuits and characters with shoes on their heads?! Here are the links in case you want to keep practising and improving at home too..

 

2 times table:

3 times table:

counting in 2s:

counting in 5s:

 

counting in 10s:

 

Writing: character descriptions

In writing this week we were doing another character description. We could choose from 6 characters to write about including Sonic the Hedgehog and Ash from Pokemon. We had to write about their voice, what they looked like and their size. Our challenge was to try and include a SIMILE. We have been learning about similes and how they compare one thing to another.

 

Gym: ball skills

In gym with Miss Macrae we have been improving our ball skills and throwing and catching games. She has been very impressed with our behaviour and listening skills in the gym hall.

 

Circle Time: Targets

In Circle Time this week we have been discussing our targets for term 1. We then  completed a target worksheet to go into our learning journeys to share our targets with parents and adults at home. These will be coming home next Friday.

 

Topic: Our Caring World

We have been thinking about WANTS and NEEDS. We drew around a child from the class and then were given post-its. On one post-it we had to think of something that we need to SURVIVE and stick it inside the outline of the child. On the other post-it we had to think of something we WANT but don’t need to survive. This was stuck on the outside of the child.

 

Well done everyone for your hard work this week. Have a lovely weekend. Miss Dow 🙂

Golden Rules

We looked at the Golden Rules to remind us of how we should behave in school. Each table got a different rule to think about and we had to write down examples that we might see in class which follow the rule.

 

 

 

               Writing

For our first writing lesson we were thinking about lots of different characters. Each table were given a different character and had to write down as many adjectives as we could think of to describe the person. We then got to choose one of the  characters to write a description. We did really well and some of us even managed to include a simile!

 

 

      French 

We did a bit of revision of French colours. We used flash cards and had to say which colour Miss Dow was showing us. We then had to colour in a paint palette with the correct colours. We have been finding  colours around the classroom and saying the correct French word for them and even saying colours when we do the register.

Circle Time

In Circle Time we have been thinking about what makes us special and unique. We had to tell the circle things that we are good at and what makes us different to other boys and girls. When we went back to class we had to create a hand and on each finger we wrote a quality or strength that makes us unique.

Welcome back to Primary 3! I hope you all had a lovely, relaxing summer and are looking forward to what Primary 3 has in store for us all.

This blog is to keep you all updated with what we are getting up to in class and what we have been learning. Please feel free to leave comments about our wonderful work!

This is the timetable for some of our activities for Term 1. This will let you see when children will possibly be out of the classroom and when they may require additional resources.

Monday – Assembly, Reading day, ICT, homework due

Tuesday – Reading day, Circle Time

Wednesday – Gym with Miss Macrae, homework handed out

Thursday – Gym with Miss Macrae, Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Cox

Friday – Reading day, Library, Golden Time

 

A big well done to everyone who has already brought in the following items as part of week 1 homework. If you haven’t, please bring in these items as soon as possible:

• named gym kit and indoor shoes
• box of tissues
• named art smock/apron (a parent’s old t-shirt would also suffice)
• named wet weather activity

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