Dalrymple Primary 3 2022/2023

This week we have been continuing our work on ‘Time’ and have been learning all about quarter to times on analogue and digital clocks.  We really enjoy using the individual clocks to complete ‘Show me’ activities to show our understanding of the times we’ve been learning.

We have also been thinking really hard about adjectives and descriptive phrases that we can use in a piece of writing about a beach setting.  The work we carried out this week will help us when we start our writing next week.

Linking our PATHS work on manners and our HWB work on Food, we created posters to encourage good table manners when in the dinner hall.  Some of these will be displayed in the hall for everyone to see.

Well done to Lacey who received a certificate at assembly this week for displaying the value of ambition.

This week we have started a block of work in our PATHS lessons all about manners.  We have started this off by discussing the difference between good and bad manners and looked at examples for each.

In numeracy we have been looking at the concept of ‘Time’.  We started with some revision of o’clock and half past on both analogue and digital clocks before moving on to look at quarter past times.

We have had an extremely busy week this week.  Our morning challenge has been to create calculations for a given answer.  This has allowed us to use all the operations we know and even use combinations of them.

We are putting a big focus on adding adjectives and descriptive phrases to our writing to make it more interesting for the reader.  During our taught writing lesson this week, we took a very simple sentence and, as a class, suggested ideas on how to make this much more interesting.  Here is the result…

Each week we get introduced to common words we have to learn.  This week we were introduced to the word “looked” which initiated learning about verbs in the past tense.

We finished off the week with a music lesson and learning about rhythms using combinations of crotchet and quaver notes.  We created our own rhythms then tried clapping these out before sharing them with the rest of the class and trying to play them repeatedly.

Well done to our successful candidates, Ella and Anna, who will represent the class on the Pupil Council for the rest of the session.

And also well done to Lucas on receiving his certificate at assembly for displaying the value “Ambition”.

A very short week this week as we approach our February mid-term break.  We had a lovely morning at our Scottish Celebration where Lacey, Lucas and Alba-Rose picked up their certificates for winning the Scottish artwork.

A massive well done to Fara, Charley and Ella who gave fantastic recitations of the poem we have been learning – “The Circus” by J.K. Annand.

The girls did an amazing job and gave the judges a very difficult decision to make.  In the end…

Fara was announced in 3rd place:

Charley in 2nd place:

And Ella was announced as the winner for our class:

This week we were introduced to another sound that the ‘ea’ phoneme representation has.  We have learned that this representation can also make the ‘ae’ sound as in the word pear.  We always enjoy completing the read and draw task when we learn a new sound and here are some from this week.

This week we transferred our learning of multiplication into another concept within Numeracy & Mathetmatics – Data Handling.  We firstly looked back at how Venn diagrams can be used to sort information using coloured 2D shapes.  Then we sorted the multiples of the times tables we have been learning into Venn diagrams.

Huge well done to Caoimhe for receiving her award at assembly for displaying the school value of ‘Ambition’ during her most recent piece of written work.

This week we have been focusing on learning the 6 times table.  We have discussed lots of different ways to help us learn these facts.

We have also been continuing to practise the other times tables we have been learning through using the ‘Daily 10’ on the Topmarks website.

We have also started a block of creative dance within PE.  We have been sharing our ideas of dance moves that we can use and bringing them together to create a class dance to the song ‘Hot N Cold’.

This week we have spent much of our time creating our pieces of Scottish art for Miss Sloan.  We spoke about the mythical creature Nessie and then created a collaged picture of her.  I’m sure you will agree all the mess was worth it and the pictures look fantastic.

The pupils from P4/5 then came and judged our pictures and the lucky winners were:

Lucas

Alba-Rose

Lacey

We also enjoyed going through to P4/5 to look at their pieces of art and individually choosing which one we liked.

Well done to Kyle this week on receiving his award for ambition for his work in learning the times tables and dividing facts we have been focussing on.

As we have been investigating how doubling answers from one times table (x2) can help us work out the answers in other times tables (x4), this week’s morning challenge was to double 2 and 3 digit numbers, using the method of partitioning to help.

This term during Health & Well-being, we are focusing on Food.  We have started this block of work by looking at the Eatwell Guide and reminding ourselves of each of the sections, what they contain, and how much we are encouraged to eat from each section.

We have been introduced to the Scottish poem that we have to learn for our Scottish celebration.  Using our prior knowledge, and our reading of the poem, Miss Hunter challenged us with a visualisation task to illustrate the poem.  Even though we all read the same poem, our illustrations are all very different.

We can’t believe we are half way through our year in P3!  Please see the attached document which details what we will be learning about in Term 3, which takes us all the way to our Easter holidays.

Term 3 Parents Overview 22-23

In the final week of the term, we were consolidating phonemes we had learned over the previous few weeks.  Miss Hunter challenged us to create a word search containing some words with the phonemes we had been learning.  We then swapped these with a partner and tried to find the words they had hidden.

We were also revising how to plot grid references and did this by creating some Christmas themed pictures.

We loved all the books we heard as part of our advent calendar and tried to do as many of the acts of kindness as we could.

A final well done to Conner and Nora for receiving certificates for displaying some of the school values.