Dalrymple Primary 3 2022/2023

We had an amazing time today at Dumfries House.  We started off at Valentin’s Farm learning about the animals and we were extremely lucky to see a calf being born and we got to hold some baby chicks.  We then went to the Pierburg Building and learnt about seasonal fruits and vegetables and even got to taste some.  We only had a very short time in the park, however it was enough for Miss Hunter to get a shot on the big slide 🙂

A very short week this week for us with only being in school 3 days.

Our morning challenge this week has been to create calculations which give the answer in the middle.

This week we have really been focussing on self assessment using the highlighters and peer assessment using the baseline criteria to identify areas we need to work on in our writing for our upcoming baseline assessment.

Another short week for us this week due to being on holiday on Monday for the King’s Coronation.

This week we have been consolidating some of the phonemes we have been taught over the last few weeks.  We started off with a brainstorming session to help us then make flowers for our phoneme garden.

Following on from the data handling work we have been completing in Numeracy, we have started looking at how graphs can be created on the computers.  This week we were introduced to Excel spreadsheets and started to input data on to a new spreadsheet in preparation for next week’s lesson.

This week we have been introduced to ‘y’ being the ‘i’ sound.  Anna quite rightly spotted that the name of our village, Dalrymple, fits into this nicely.

We’ve had a busy first week back after our Easter holidays.

Our morning challenge this week has been to identify different coins we can use to make a specific amount.  We started off with basic amounts under £1 but throughout the week, we introduced amounts under £5 to allow us to use bigger coins and to look at how we use the pounds sign along with a decimal point to separate the pounds from the pence.

We have reached the final week of term and only 1 more term to go as P3.

This week we revised using the partitioning method to help answer 2-digit add 2-digit calculations.  We needed this to help us solve an Easter themed quiz.

We have been learning the French vocabulary for different objects we use and have in the classroom.  At the request of one of the children, we played Kim’s Game to help us revise this vocabulary.

This week we have been so busy that Miss Hunter has not had time to take many photographs!  We have been really enjoying our music lessons over the last few weeks where we have been learning rhythms using crotchets and quavers.  This week we started using tuned and untuned percussion instruments to play these rhythms.

Well done to Charley for receiving an award at assembly for displaying the value of ambition.

And also to Ella who received an award for displaying the value ‘Community’ as she went forward from the school Scots Poetry competition to take part in the Burns Association competition.  Here she is with the certificate she received in school and the one from the Burns Association.