We’ve had such a busy term so far in Primary 3. Here is some information about what we will be learning this term as well as some other information we thought might be useful.
We have added in some ideas for home, we hope you find these helpful. If you think on any other ideas that you would like to share with us, and other parents, please leave a comment.
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…
Peter and the Wolf
This term our topic will be based around the story of Peter and the Wolf.
We will work closely as a year group to use this story to inform discussions as well as develop our skills in music and drama.
We will also use this as a stimulus for writing lessons and to develop our descriptive language in relation to characters and settings.
If you would like to see the story for yourselves to take forward discussions at home, have a look on YouTube…
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
Numeracy and Maths Skills/Knowledge…
We are currently focusing on ‘Time’ we have been consolidating our learning of o’clock and half past times and are currently working on quarter past with a view to be moving on to studying quarter to times. We have been using analogue and digital clocks.
We are also learning what it means to estimate, as part of this we are learning the rules for rounding up and down to the nearest 10 or 100.
We will be working on addition and subtraction within 100 using written methods as well as developing our mental agility when mentally adding and subtracting numbers between 0-20
We are also learning our 3 times table.
For extra practice at home, ask us what time it is at different points throughout the day. Or give us some quick fire rounding, addition and subtraction questions or even times table practice!
Science
We are learning about animals in particular what they eat. So far we have learned the difference between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and we will be going on to look at simple food chains.
HWB
Within Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about food as our bodies source of energy. We will learn about the main food groups and how these help our bodies function.
Natsumi – we were learning to round up and round down in Maths.
Riley – In P.E. we were learning basket ball and we shot the basket balles in the big hoops and yresterday we moved stations and we got yo do more basket ball.
Rory – On Wednesday we were practising the recorder. We were practising note B.
Kayla – We were playing instruments and Mrs Pennie told us the name of our instruments and when she said the name of the instrument you either had to put it back in the box or play it.
Logan – At gym we were playing basket ball and we had five different stations. One of them was when you had dribble the basket ball and then throw it into the hoop. Then we had to dribble through cones.
Jared – We were making characters from Peter and the Wolf and also the instruments and I did it with Riley and we did the flute.
Just a brief snapshot of some of the learning that has taken place this week.
Here are some of our comments about our first full week in P3F.
Logan – We were making hands and we went over it with a sharpie and we did writing and patterns and painted them.
Rory – We were making self-portraits using YouTube –the video was called teaching kindergarten how to make self-portraits.
Jared – One day we were learning about Peter and the Wolf and all the animals were played by different tunes.
Beth – We are going to learn how to play the recorder every Wednesday. And we listened to the tunes that the animals that Peter and the wolf made.
Megan – in P.E. we were doing basketball and we were playing a game with one of the basket balls and the girls we competing against the boys. The girls won.
Natsumi – We learning in maths about place value.
Kayla – We were drawing ourselves and then coloured a bit of tin foil and Mrs Barron sprayed it with water, then we put it on our picture and we pressed it down and when we took it off it had stripes of different colours.
Jack – We made our hand and a border around it and wrote in the border and then we made patterns and then we coloured it in. When it was my first day here it was the best day of my life.
We have been in our new Primary 3 class now for one week and we have been really busy so far. We have all settled in and we have been working hard. So far we have enjoyed writing about ourselves, revising some numeracy and maths and getting to know our new teachers, Mrs Fraser and Mrs Hallahan.
We are looking forward to sharing our learning with you this year.
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