Spelling

All pupils have their spelling words in their jotter. If I have not received a pupil’s jotter from last week I will provide them with a printed copy.

The pupils should continue to use the sheet they were given last week with some examples of spelling activities. Choose two (or more!) activities to do throughout the week.

Maths 

Pupils will continue to do their maths homework in their National Numeracy scrapbook.

This week’s activity is in the scrapbook.  You can complete the activity in any way you want.  You might want to write a list of the 3D objects you find around the house, draw pictures or take photographs (which can be emailed to the class teacher).

P3 spent a lot of time in term 1 identifying 2D shapes and  3D objects. As a result, I would like to encourage you and your child to write a comment on the sheet to let us know how you got on.  Did you enjoy doing the activity together and why?  Did you find anything tricky? Was there something that your child did or said that really impressed you?

I will continue to be your child’s class teacher this week.  You can email myself with any enquiries or any photos you want to send.

lauren.murdoch@eastayrshire.org.uk

Have a fun week and remember all homework should be handed back for Friday.

P3 have worked extremely hard this week!

All pupils in P3 have enjoyed learning to add up in chunks using their latest Number Talks strategy. Additionally, P3 have been exploring symmetry and can now confidently fold shapes to identify lines of symmetry. They can also use a mirror to identify lines of symmetry in shapes, pictures and patterns. They have even had a go at creating their own symmetrical patterns.

In literacy pupils  have been learning to write narrative stories with a spooky theme! Through this pupils have developed detailed characters and settings, using their notes to create stories with a clear and detailed beginning middle and end.

The pupils have also enjoyed learning about the human body and learning the months of the year in French!

After working so hard it was only fair they got to enjoy a spooky film and party this Friday!

Finally, a big big well done to our star workers Maddisen for her amazing efforts in maths, as well as Harper for her fantastic efforts in Literacy!

P3 have been very busy today exploring the human body. They were able to identify bones such as the skull, rib cage, femur, and many more. Following this, the pupils used this knowledge to correctly label a life size model of a human skeleton!

Pupils also identified and labelled where our major organs are in the human body. They could then explain that the purpose of our bones are to support our body and protect these organs.

The pupils also had a blast creating abstract artwork, in the form of Frankenstein, for our Halloween themed wall display!

P3 have been exploring the water cycle in science this week with Miss Murdoch.

The pupils had previously learned that clouds are formed from liquid and gas, which led to some of our pupils feeling curious to find out how rain is collected from the earth to the clouds.

As a result of this, pupils explored the processes of the water cycle. The pupils then put this to the test and constructed an experiment to see each process of the water cycle. Following this, pupils observed changes to their experiment and recognised that heat from the sun was causing the water to evaporate and we hope to see some condensation and precipitation tomorrow!

The pupils could then use their knowledge of the water cycle to fill in a detailed diagram to explain processes such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

To celebrate Maths Week, P3 have been exploring 3D objects with Miss Murdoch. Today pupils have been naming 3D objects and identifying where they can find them in our classroom.

They have also been exploring the properties of 3D shapes and were able to create models to show the faces, edges and vertices of 3D objects such as cubes, square based pyramids, cuboids and triangular prisms.