Afternoon everyone!

There is no official homework for this week, however I have set a reading challenge for pupils to try and read a bed time story to whoever is at home at least once this week. It doesn’t need to be a long story or a full story – it can be part of a book too!

Reminder that the P3 party is on Thursday this week – please make sure that the clothes our pupils are wearing are weather appropriate as they will be going outside for playtime and lunch time.

Have a great week

Miss Edmund

Hello Everyone

It is Miss Edmund here, I am so glad to back working with our P3. They have been working really hard this week.

We have had fantastic talks this week, well done to everyone! I know it can be hard to stand up and talk to the class but you all did fantastic and I am super proud of all of you!

We were finding some interesting facts about St. Andrew on 30th of November for St. Andrews day and we also made some fabulous tartan kilts using patterns and a weaving method.

In maths and numeracy we have been working hard on our number talks which has been Compensation, a great strategy for adding!

It is an exciting time of year and this year P3 have been given an advent calander of books! So far we have had 3 lovely books that have been taken home – I hope you enjoy them!

Have a lovely weekend and I will post the homework for next week on Monday.

Miss Edmund 🙂

Spelling

All pupils have been given their spelling words. This week pupils should try to come up with one interesting sentence for each spelling word.

Reading Challenge 

P3 are being challenged this week to enjoy a bedtime story one night this week. If you would like your child to borrow a book from our library please contact:

ealauren.murdoch@eastayrshire.org.uk

or

eajennifer.edmund@eastayrshire.org.uk

Literacy

Pupils are continuing to develop their knowledge of phonemes. This week the pupils were able to use Elkonin boxes to segment their new spelling words according to their sounds. In grammar the pupils were analysing what actually makes a sentence. They were able to identify that a sentence must include a capital letter , full stop and a verb in order to make sense!

P3 have moved on to developing the problem in their narrative stories this week. They were able to include a sequence of events that were packed full of action verbs and similes! They were also able to explain how their characters felt during the problem of their story. 

Numeracy

P3 are continuing to practise their new  Number Talks strategy this week. They have been using their knowledge of friendly numbers to make a ten when adding and bridging, and can use an empty number line to help them with this strategy.

Take a look in the photos to see P3’s top tips for adding!

The pupils are continuing to develop their understanding of data handling in maths. This week the pupils explored the use of venn diagrams. The pupils worked together to sort toy animals according to the criteria. 

Other Curricular Areas

P3 pupils are continuing to explore warm and cool colours in art. The pupils are able to identify which colours are cool and warm colours on the colour wheel. They could then discuss which emotions the different colours made them feel. The pupils used oil pastels to learn the ranges of these colours and to create and abstract art piece. 

The pupils also put their design and constructions skills to the test this week when they were challenge to build a zoo. Needless to say that we have a very creative bunch in P3!

Just a reminder to keep practising this week for our Class Talk next week.  Please see previous blog post or letter for the details.  Below are the details of when your child will present their talk.  Remember they may bring in any props (toy/drawings/photos etc) on their specific day. I am really looking forward to hearing all about what makes them happy!

Monday 29th:   Alfie, Brody, Brooke, Lucie, Cole

Tuesday 30th:  Conlan, Coral, Finlay, Hailey, Sophie

Wednesday 1st: Harper, Harry, Jalyn, Kayla, Luna

Thursday 2nd: Maddisen, Mikey, Myia, Poppy, Steven, Tristan

If you have any further questions please email lauren.murdoch@eastayrshire.org.uk

P3 have been hard at work again this week.

Literacy

Pupils are continuing to develop their comprehension of texts in reading. The bananas were looking at predicting this week and could use information from the title and blurb to create a cover for their new book.

P3 also had time to redraft their narrative stories in order to improve them. They were able to enhance their word choice and add more detail to create a fantastic beginning to their stories!

Numeracy

P3 have been exploring a new  Number Talks strategy this week. They have been using their knowledge of friendly numbers to make a ten when adding and bridging, and can use an empty number line to help them with this strategy.

The pupils are continuing to develop their understanding of bar graphs in maths and can  confidently enter data into spreadsheets to create bar graphs using ICT equipment. 

Other Curricular Areas

P3 pupils have been exploring warm and cool colours in art. The pupils were able to identify which colours were cool and warm colours using a colour wheel and could use this knowledge to create artwork to explore the ideas of night and day.

Additionally, P3 have been learning all about the heart in science this week. They firstly took notes from videos to investigate the function of the heart and to find out where it is located in the body. This involved looking at a real pig’s heart! P3 also explored different ways that they can keep their heart healthy, which include maintaining a healthy diet and taking part in daily exercise. They then enjoyed staying active in class by taking part in a work out with Joe Wicks as part of the BBC Children in Need activities.

As well as this, pupils participated in Mindfulness with Dr Ranj. This involved the pupils practising several different mindfulness techniques which they can now use to allow them to feel relaxed, calm and to look after their mental wellbeing.

Title: Things That Make Me Happy

Pupils have been given a project to prepare and give a short 3 minute talk about the ‘things that make me happy.’ Some ideas might be hobbies, toys, holidays, family and friends but you can include anything that makes you happy. You can decide how you would like to present the talk i.e. PowerPoint (Saved on GLOW or pendrive), poster, photographs, bringing in items (trophies, toys etc).

Children should practise their talk at home in order to be able to fluently talk to the class. They might want to use notes on paper to help them remember their talk.

Talks should be ready to be heard for Monday 29th November.

If you have any further questions please email lauren.murdoch@eastayrshire.org.uk

Spelling

All pupils have been given their spelling words. This week pupils should try to come up with one interesting sentence for each spelling word.

Pupils in the pink and green group are consolidating the sounds they have been learning over the past few weeks. As a result of this, they have been given a mixture of words to practise this week.

Pupils in the yellow group are focusing on a new sound this week.

Reading

The pupils have enjoyed listening to audio books from our virtual class library. I will include a link to the PowerPoint for any pupils who would like to listen to the stories at home. virtual library P3

Miss Murdoch

Numeracy

P3 pupils are continuing to develop their knowledge of partitioning and can confidently use this strategy to add 2 and 3-digit numbers. Some of our pupils have also had a go at being the teacher to talk us through through this strategy!

We are continuing to focus on data handling this week. Pupils have been able to use data they collected last week to create some fantastic graphs in their jotters. They were then able to transfer their skills into ICT to create a graph digitally using Microsoft Excel.

Literacy

P3 have been working very hard to practise their weekly spelling using various strategies.

We are continuing to develop our narrative writing this week by focusing g on setting.  Pupils were tasked with designing their own setting and were then asked to describe it using their 5 senses. This led to some really great detailed writing!

All Other Curricular Areas 

As a class P3 are developing a range of skills when learning to play rounders. Pupils also learned why people wear poppies on Remembrance Day and had even had a go at designing their own poppies using Lego.

Spelling

All pupils have their new 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 practise their spelling words using any of the example spelling activities. Choose two (or more!) activities to do throughout the week.

Maths 

I began issuing maths homework weekly, however this has been changed to every second week to follow the rest of the classes in the school. As a result, I have not issued another maths homework task this week and pupils should only complete the 3D object homework sheet if they have not already done so.

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

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.