This week we finished our rounding numbers topic in maths and completed our assessment for this! Primary 3 did amazingly well so had some time to play Rocket Rounding and some more classroom maths games! Well done Primary 3, very impressed!

If you want to play Rocket Rounding someone at home the link is below!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

Primary 3 enjoyed working on Doorway Spelling this week. We worked on the 1200 common words and tried to better our scores from the previous time!

Remember you can keep practicing your spelling at home too!

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/speller/

Primary 3 have been visited by our very own elf ‘Tinsel’. He’s been keeping an eye on us to make sure we are being kind and respectful on the run up to Christmas. Today we had the chance to write our own letters to Tinsel to ask him some questions! We even posted them in Santa’s letter box… I wonder if Tinsel will reply! 🎅🏼🎄

Yesterday with Mrs Brankin Primary 3 completed literacy tasks based around the Christmas Advert Excitable Edgar.  Children watched the advert and ordered the events using story cards.
We then made a comic strip to recall the events of the advert adding our own pictures and sentences!

After learning all about 2D and 3D shape earlier this year, this term we have looked at tessellation and tiling.

As a class we read ‘The Knight That Said NO!’ (a story from our Read, Write, Count bags) we began to see some shape patterns forming! We noticed that the castle in the story book  was made from tessellation of shapes which we now know means shapes that fit together perfectly with no spaces between them or any over lapping sides. This gave us an idea to make our own tessellating shape castles! We focused really closely on the way we drew our shapes and the colours we used to colour it in, as we had to make sure we kept our pattern accurate!

Primary 3 had a lovely afternoon decorating our classroom for Christmas. We talked about different winter themed activities we could have in the bay of our classroom. Activities that would not only be fun to do when we finish our work but activities that would be a bit of a challenge for us too!

After creating a huge list of ideas we began to start the decorating! We split into two groups  and decided on 3 people to decorate our class tree.

One group learned how to make paper snowflakes.

Another group designed paper chains and worked together to create one!

Finally, we decorated the class Christmas tree and all gathered together for the light switch on!

Amazing teamwork primary 3!

In numeracy we have been learning how to round numbers to the nearest 10.  We understand the important rule and have been trying so hard to remember it and put it into practice … 5 or more we go next door.

We played “Rocket Rounding” to give us some extra practice. I have added the link to the game below if you would like to keep playing at home!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

P1, P2 and P3 have a Christmas tree in our infant corridor.

We are having great fun decorating it. We would love if your child could add a homemade decoration to our tree. This could be made out of anything you may have lying around the house that you no longer need. No additional money should be spent on this activity. Any (and every) homemade decoration for our tree would be most welcome!

We realise that this a very busy time of year and of course this is purely an optional activity.

Thank you

Miss Macdonald

We enjoyed working with Primary 1 last week. It was great fun to practice our songs for the Christmas show. We finished our afternoon by sharing our numeracy learning. We used Numicon to build number lines and practice our number bonds to 10. It was great fun trying to work out the missing number from our number lines  when we played the hide the number game! Primary 1 were working to hard to share their new learning of teen numbers with us too!

Here is a few pictures of our afternoon, we look forward to working with Primary 1 again!