Our topic this term is Scottish Wildlife. We have been learning about animals and their habitats. We are particularly interested in the damage that is being done to animal habitats because of litter etc.

Today we learned how to use a search engine to find information. We really enjoyed using the laptops and looking at lots of different websites and images. Our focus today was the Scottish Wildcat.

Here are some pictures of us conducting our research…

We came back refreshed after our little holiday and have been working very hard this week.

Here is a little overview of what we have been doing…

We have continued to learn about fractions this week and enjoyed getting to use some of the resources from the fractions box. We were investigating fractions of different sizes and how we put them together to make a whole. We are beginning to learn about simple fractions of a quantity.

During our topic time this week we were put into trios and learned which Scottish animal would be our focus animal during this topic. Mrs Brown showed us how to search for images using a search engine and we created a class flip chart page of all the animals we will be learning about in 3B. We then drew and painted our own larger scale drawings our own animal.

We are continuing to learning the 4 times table. We have been using arrays to help us to understand the facts.

These have really ally helped us to understand what the times tables look like.

We are learning about Scottish animals and their habitats.  We want to help protect their habitats so we decided to go on a mission.

Today we went out to the playground to pick up litter because we know that litter is harmful to animals. We found lots of rubbish, especially sweet wrappers. We put a tally mark on the chart every time we found a piece of litter. Overall we had 436 tally marks, meaning that we found 436 pieces of litter in our playground. That is approximately one piece of litter per pupil.

Primary 3 were horrified to find so much litter, especially considering how harmful this can be for animals. We are determined to make a change at Redwell.

Watch this space!

Term 3 got off to a really busy start with our Great Scots sharing of learning event. Thank you for all your support.

Here is some information about what we will be learning this term as well as some other information we thought might be useful.

Important information

This term P.E. is on Thursdays and Fridays. On these days it would be helpful for children to attend school in polo shirts rather than shirts and ties. Jewellery is also discouraged on these days for safety reasons.

In order to stay hydrated throughout the day, children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school with water in it to be used in class.

Learning Context for this Term…

Scottish Wildlife

This term we will be learning about wildlife found around Scotland. We will be learning about these animals and their habitats and what we can do to help keep their habitats safe.

This topic will allow opportunities for cross curricular learning as we will be using technology to research, writing fact files and creating graphs and tally charts based on playground observations.

Literacy Skills/Knowledge…

This term the main skills and knowledge we will be focusing on in Literacy are:

• Creating sentences with capital letters and full stops
• Gaining a greater understanding of common nouns
• Using interesting adjectives (‘WOW’ words) and connectives in their written work.
• Focusing on the layout of our work in jotters
• Adjectives
• Alliteration
• Handwriting Joins

Numeracy and Maths Skills/Knowledge…

We have already been consolidating our knowledge of money. We have been using our mental strategies for addition and subtraction  to help us calculate change.

We are now going to move on to fractions, decimal fractions and percentages. We will be able to break a whole object into halves, quarters, thirds and fifths.

We will be using counting on strategies to multiply and divide by 3 and 4.

We will continue to work on addition and subtraction within 100 using written methods as well as developing our mental agility when mentally adding and subtracting numbers.

Science

We are learning about electricity. We will be able to make our own electrical circuit.

HWB

Within Health and Well-being we will be learning about our growing bodies. We will be learning about where living things come from and how they grow. We will be aware of the tasks required to look after a baby.

Homework

We will continue to upload homework onto our blogs weekly.