Primary 3 love learning outside and with the better weather arriving, we have been making the most of it!

We have learning all about the signs of Spring and we were very interested to learn that lots of birds build their nests in Spring.  Here we are using natural resources to try and build our own birds nests, it definitely isn’t as easy as it looks!

Our new topic for term 4 is ‘Plants’.  We have been busy learning what plants need to grow and how important they are for our environment.

We have been digging over one of the school planters to prepare it for some wildflower seeds.  We hope this will encourage bees and butterflies into our school garden.

We have also planted our own sunflower seeds, we can’t wait to see them grow!

Here we are in the Sensory Garden, we were sketching different plants that we could see.

P3 Newsletter term 4

Primary 3 have enjoyed ‘testing’ their new playground equipment.  They have decided on a set of rules to make sure the equipment is looked after properly, they have selected some monitors to look after the equipment and they have made a checklist to make sure all the class equipment comes back!

They look forward to taking it out at breaks and lunchtimes from next week!

In weeks 1 and 2, we have been learning about putting, chipping and pitching with James and Ryan from the Dumfries & County Golf Club.  We have been learning how to hold the club correctly, what clubs to use and how to aim at our target.

We look forward to learning more over the next few weeks!

“In French, we have been learning how to talk about homes.”  -Arthur

“We have been playing ‘Oui est Wally?’ in French.” – Emily

“In Maths, we have been learning how to tell the time on digital and analogue clocks.” – Janayah

“In Maths, we have been learning how to add and take-away.” – Pippa

“We have been learning how to do chimney sums.” – Poppy

“In Art, we made winter paintings of the moon using white and blue paint.  We added houses and trees in black.” – Lauryn

“We have been learning all about Robert Burns.  He had 12 children.  He was famous for writing poems and songs.” – Summer

“In P.E, we have been working on our fitness by doing circuits.” – Abi

“We’ve been learning about Internet Safety.  You don’t talk to strangers online.” – Harrison

“If someone you don’t know tries to add you on a game, you reject them.” – Hali

“We are looking forward to learning how to play golf with James.” – Janayah

“We have been been practicing our spelling by using chalk outside, letter tiles, playing spelling games on the computer and using our new spelling mats.” – Jack G

P3 Newsletter term 3

P3 Newsletter term 2

It has been such a busy term in Primary 3!  Here are some of the things we have been doing…

Literacy

We have been reading ‘The Enchanted Wood’ as a class, it’s great! – Fraser

We made our own slippery slips using things from the loose parts shed – Jack H

We have been learning how to write descriptions.

Maths

In Maths, we have been counting and rounding in 10’s – Lauryn

In Maths, we have been working with Hundreds, Tens and Units – Jack G

We have been doing challenges on Sumdog – Janayah

P.E

In P.E we have been learning how to pass in Hockey – Jessica

We have been learning how to keep control of the ball in basketball – Lawrence

French

We have been learning the days of the week and months of the year in French – Lawrence

We have been learning to count to 31 in French – Harrison

Art

In Art, we have been mixing colours that are next to each other on the colour chart.  We used chalk pastels to make a leaf picture – Arthur

In Art, we have been learning about the primary and secondary colours – Armaan

IDL

We have been learning about body parts – Lucy

We have been learning about the Skeleton.  Your skull protects your brain – Danny

We have been learning about the heart.  Your heart has 2 sides – Armaan

Your ribs protects your lungs and heart – Pippa

Your heart is a muscle – Oscar

The heart pumps blood around the body – Harleigh

The heart delivers good things around your body – Armaan

P3 newsletter term 1 (2)

Literacy

In Literacy we have been doing lots of interesting work such as, imaginative story writing, describing a character using similes, metaphors and personifications, taking notes about the festivals of light then putting them into a descriptive paragraph and lastly lots of grammar.

Imaginative Stories

We have been writing imaginative stories :they could be about anything. We had to add adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification. Personification is describing objects like you would describe  a human, e.g  his cloak hung LAZILY over his shoulders.

Festivals of light

We have been learning about 2 of the festivals of light: Diwali and Hanukkah.  Diwali is a festival that Hindus and  also some Sikhs celebrate. Hindus and Sikhs from all over the world celebrate this occasion. The story is about a prince called Rama and his love, Sita. They get sent of to the forest to live with Rama’s brother, Lakshmana.  An Evil demon king also lives in the forest called Ravana. Ravana has 20 arms and hands and 10 heads! Ravana kidnapped Sita but she left a trail of her jewelry that lead to the monkey king : Hanuman. Hanuman promised to help Rama find Sita and he told all the monkeys all around the world to help. They eventually found Sita trapped on an island and they built a bridge out of stones. Rama then defeated Ravana using a magic arrow. People lit lamps to help them find their way home.

Now people light little lamps called Diya lamps to remember Rama and Sita. People leave their doors open and create Rangoli patterns to guide the goddess  of Wealth and Fortune, Lakshmi, into their homes.

Hanukkah is celebrated in the Jewish calendar.  The story is about an evil king called Antiochus who didn’t like people with different beliefs to him so he started a war and anyone who didn’t go to his side would be harshly suffered. Everyone went over to Antiochus’s side. A group of people called the Maccabees never and they went to war and won. Then they looked for oil to help them, it was only meant to last for a short while but god was on their side and it lasted 8 days and 8 nights. Now people light 8 candles in memory of the Maccabees.

Maths

Symmetry

In Maths we have been doing symmetry work with Mrs Sim. We worked on our Diwali project whilst doing this. We made symmetrical Rangoli patterns out of paper and we drew and coloured our own. Here are some examples.

“I really enjoyed doing this.” Tyler.

“They were very fun.” Poppy.

“I really like them because they are bright and colourful.” Abbie.

“I really enjoyed doing these because they were symmetrical and really fun to make.” Carrie.

“I liked doing it because it was really colourful.” Callum.

“Learning about Diwali was really fun and I loved how we incorporated it into our maths symmetry. I learned lots of interesting facts I didn’t know. It was really fun to do all the research and it was genius to add it into our maths, art and Diwali.” Scarlett B.

Decimals, Percentages and Fractions.

With Mrs Clanachan, we have been learning about Percentages and we calculate percentages from 100. For example,  if you had 37 out of 100 it would be 37%. Somehow we managed to incorporate our fractions into this : 37% would then become 0.37 or 37 over 100.  After that we did some games like  fractions bingo, loop cards and decimal pairs which was really fun.

Time.

We have just started revising time and finding the difference between time intervals. E.g. John got on a train at Fullham and was on