Primary 3 – Exploring Shape!

Primary 3 have been working hard this week exploring both 2D and 3D shape!

As part of our maths lesson we set up 4 different stations in our classroom where children could build shapes using resources such as play dough and cubes, draw  and describe shapes. Children then had to discuss  why the shapes were  different!

At the end of our lesson we had a shape quiz where p3 amazed me with how much they had remembered!

Fantastic Work Primary 3!

Primary 3 – Rainforest Song!

Primary 3 have been watching the latest news and were concerned about in the fires in the Amazon Rainforest. As we are learning about the rainforest at the moment we decided to base our Success Assembly around this.

We have started to learn a song as part of this and will continue to practice next week.

Here is a video of the song if children would like to practice at home.

 

Primary 3 – Shape Outside!

Primary 3 explored 2D shapes outside last week.

We worked in mixed ability groups where we shared what we knew about 2D shapes and discussed special features these shapes have.

Primary 3 played some shape games, before  practicing drawing 2D shapes using chalk with their learning partners all before going on a hunt for natural resources to create a 2D shape    of their own.

Super team work P3! I think we all learned something new!

 

Primary 3 – ICT Research!

Today Primary 3 have been using the Active Wild website to research different rainforest animals. We worked with our learning partners to find out 3 interesting facts about an animal of our choice. We then typed these on to a word document in proper sentences using capital letters and full stops.

 

Great work Primary 3, you know lots about rainforest creatures !

If you would like to keep learning about this at home, here is the link to the website

Rainforest Animals List With Pictures, Facts & Links To Further Information, Plus FREE Printable Question Sheets

Primary 3 – Exploring Food Chains!

Primary 3 have been learning about food chains. This week we have looked at different rainforest animals and discussed what they might eat. We then created our own food chains for jaguars in the rainforest.

After reading our class story book ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ children were excited about the snake, which was a Boa Constrictor. Today we looked at pictures and talked about what the skin of these animals looked like before drawing our own detailed designs.

While the class were working, groups of children were called out to discuss what they felt the boa constrictors food chain would look like.

This is pictures of us trying to create the food chain.

We then found out that the longest boa constrictor ever was 4 metres long!

We measured out 4 metres to show this, to take a picture we used 3 Primary 3s plus our class bear! We could not believe it was so long!