Primary 3 have been busy thinking of new names for their class tables! As we are learning about the Picts we decided to give our tables Scottish themed names. We worked together to decorate them and they look great!
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Primary 3 – Library Visit!
Today we went to Menzieshill library to return our books and choose some new ones to read. We found some new books and even had time for a story.
William found a book that had speech bubbles in it. Just what we had been learning about this morning!
Primary 3 – Speech Marks!
Primary 3 have been learning all about speech bubbles and speech marks. We read a story called ‘Fairy Gifts’ and used this as a stimulus for all our stations.
Station 1 – We gave our opinions on the story.
Station 2 – We drew our favourite part of the story and added speech bubbles to this.
Station 3 -We worked together to come up with adjectives to describe setting and characters.
Station 4 – We did a speech bubble activity where we had to fill in the bubbles with appropriate speech to match the pictures provided.
Station 5 – Lastly on our final station we had to add in speech to the story by using speech marks.
Primary 3 – The Great Wall of China!
Primary 3 were learning all about different Chinese cities this week in our IDL lessons. We learned about 5 different Chinese cities and landmarks in these cities. We also found out what the cities are, for example;
Shanghai – the city of modern
Beijing – the city of the Emperor
Xi’an – the city of history
Harbin – the city of snow
Jinan – the city of Spring
Miss Song played a matching game with us too to see how much we remembered!
Next we watched a video about the Great Wall of China and learned lots of interesting facts. Before we split into groups and had a cooperative learning Kapla challenge. Each person in our group had a special job to complete in order to create our own models of the Great Wall!
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AMAZING DESIGNS!
Primary 3 – Animal Fact Files!
Primary 3 are learning how to write under headings.
In ICT, we used our learning on Chinese animals to help us create a fact file about our favourite Chinese Animal.
First children had to log into our class blog to find the instructions for the task. There were also some helpful websites that they could use to find information for their fact files. Next they had to open word and begin typing. When the fact files were complete children had to use the ‘bold’ button to make their headings stand out.
It was quite tricky but we were able to ask our Learning Trios for help!
Great work boys and girls!
Primary 3 – Chinese Animals!
Primary 3 were shocked to find that a box of animals had escaped into our playground! We searched for them all over.
We found them in lots of different places…
Once we had found all 12 we talked about what kind of animals they were and where they might come from.
We played a game to find out whether the animals were from Scotland or China. Miss Song helped us to pronounce some of the animal names too.
After this we went back inside to learn some more about these animals. We watched three video clips of animals from China, the snow leopard, the giant panda and the golden snub nosed monkey. Miss Song even told us some more about these. We learned so much!
Finally we put our new knowledge to the test as we worked with our learning partners to cut and stick the animals into the correct category. This was to show us if the animals were from Scotland or China. We did such an amazing job!
Primary 3 – Fit Thursday Dance
This afternoon we had some Go Noodle followed by some dancing with Miss Cummings. We were learning a dance to Primary 3s favourite song Dance Monkey.
Primary 3 – Fit Thursday Keep Fit and Football
Next we had some keep fit with Mr McCormack. We used the crates and hockey balls as part of our work-out. 
Next we had DFC Football. We worked on our dribbling skills, played partner games before playing a mini game of football to finish. We are having great fun.
Primary 3 – Fit Thursday Morning Yoga
This morning we have been busy in our classroom following some Body Coach Kids Workouts! These were super tricky so we decided to do some Just Dance to break it up a little bit. We had great fun before heading to our Yoga session before break!
We have been using a breathing ball to control our breathing and help us focus! We then tried out some cool yoga positions, look how flexible we can be.
Primary 3 – More Soft Start Creations!
Kapla towers seem to be the favourite thing to build during our soft starts . We also have some play dough models too!
