Gargieston Primary 3A

Oh my – can you believe it’s November already?

Literacy

For writing this week, we were working on Fireworks poetry. We learned the history behind Guy Fawkes and then wrote our poems.

Erin: "I wrote an Acrostic poem."

Holly was our star writer of the week – she used fantastic adjectives in her story about myths of a castle.

Holly - "I feel good and nice being the star writer."

We were lucky to visit the Dick Institute this week and worked with author Theresa Breslin and illustrator Kate Leiper.

Alex - "I liked the trip. My favourite bit was hearing the story."

Numeracy

We started working on information handling this week.

Sophie: "I was working hard on tally marks."

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mr Hay 🙂

Literacy

We wrote a scary story on Thursday with inspiration from a haunted house photograph. The children’s writing is really coming on. Their use of vocabulary is becoming really interesting. I enjoyed reading their stories.

We also worked on some Halloween acrostic poems.

Tess: "We tried to write a story about a scary house. My story was about 4 kids who went inside the haunted house. They went in and the floor was broken. He saw a bright light coming from upstairs so he went up and he saw a mad scientist trying to make a potion. The braved boy saved the day by getting rid of the potion. I liked writing and planning my story."

Numeracy

We completed our Shape block and will be moving onto Information Handling. We also did some additional and subtraction revision with some Halloween mosaics.

Lewis: "We started a new maths book for assessments. I wrote down everything I knew about shape. Shapes can tile."

Halloween

The children all looked brilliant in their costumes and had a fantastic afternoon across based 2 with lots of Halloween activities.

Katie: "Halloween is fun, we wrote poems, we worked on odd and even numbers and we are having lots of fun this afternoon!"

 

DyP3A have been learning about the Jewish festival of Sukkot over the past few weeks.

This week we made our own versions of a Sukkah hut.

The children worked in groups to plan, source materials and build their own Sukkah’s.

Have a look at the pictures to see our journey of making them.

 

Noah: "We worked in a group to make a Sukkah. We went outside to find things to make it. I found grass and leaves. It was really really hard but we managed."

Dylan: "I worked with Lauren, Katie and Neil. We built a Sukkah. We worked in a team. We used paper straws, leaves, sticks, paper and playdoh to make it. I enjoyed it. I liked working as a team to build it."

It was lovely to meet most of our parents at parent’s evening on Wednesday. We are so proud of how far the children have come in their first block in P3.

Literacy

This week with writing we were working on using a comma in a list. Our story was about a giant troll. The children also got to self assess their work using our VCOP Superheroes.

Liam K: "I like writing stories because I like using my imagination to come up with amazing ideas!"

Alyia: "We had to be detectives when looking for words in our stories. We underlined them different colours. Yellow was for Professor Punctuation!"

Numeracy

Emily - "It is fun to learn about shapes. We have been learning about tiling. We are going to find our own shapes to tile. Triangles and Diamonds tile but circles don't!"

Oscar - "It was fun this week to learn about partitioning. When you add the thousands, hundreds, tens and units it gets your brain working. It's good when you add them all together! Easy Peasy!"

Health and Wellbeing

Liam M - "At P.E this week, we were doing running. We worked on stations. One we had to balance on the bench and another one we played some games like tig. There were lots more too!"

Jamie R - "We were learning about SHANARRI. It stands for Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included. We were talking about each one and how and when we felt this way!"

Other Curricular Areas

Riley - "We are learning about Sukkot, a celebration for Jewish people. They celebrate by building little houses."

We hope everyone has a lovely October break and look forward to seeing the children again on Tuesday 22nd October.

Mr Hay

Another busy week in P3A

Literacy

Harris – “We were writing a new story this week, about a cottage in the forest. We used our planning to help us write and dictionaries to help us spell. Mrs Cowie was helping us too!”

Numeracy

Bobby – “We are very knowledgeable at our maths work. We are working on shape with Mr Hay and the 2 times table with Mrs Baird!”

Zoe – “This week we done a lot of shape. I was tiling. I cut out a shape and made copies to see if it would tile. My shape did tile!”

Emma – “We have been learning lots about place value. We work really hard to try and get to the right answer.”

Health and Wellbeing

Neil – “We have been playing games in P.E. The teams have been drawing.”

Other Curricular Areas

Michelle – “We finished off our Synagogues. They are similar to our churches.”

Holly – “We were learning about the sun, earth and moon. We answered lots of questions.”

Lauren- “I’m so excited to make a wand on Monday!”

 

Mrs Baird and I look forward to meeting you all at parents night next Wednesday.

The children returned on Wednesday all refreshed after their long weekend.

Literacy

We have been writing news with Mrs Baird. With Mr Hay we were focussing on our vocabulary this week – looking at making funny stories.

Numeracy

We continued with shape this week. Some children are looking into the properties of 3D shapes while others look at the properties of 2D shapes. We have been working hard on developing our strategies to complete calculations through the use of Number Talks.

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E, we continued to develop our jumping skills. We have been looking at emotions and this week we made each other kindness notes.

Other Curricular Areas

We have been continuing with our Superhero topic. We also looked at the difference between a star, a planet and a satellite in Science. For RME we had an introduction to Judaism and were looking at the Synagogue.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend. Remember that the children’s solo talks begin on Monday!

Mr Hay & Mrs Baird

What a week we have had in P3A!

It was a pleasure to meet all of you on Wednesday afternoon. We both look forward to working with you all this year.

LITERACY

We started working on our new spelling words this week and continued reading Matilda in class. With writing we wrote an imaginative story! Mr Hay was very impressed with our writing skills.

Michelle said “It was really fun when we were writing our stories.”

Taylor said “We wrote these in our new jotters!”

NUMERACY

We continued our work on shape! We rotated around different activities – working on the laptop, with the teacher and on a written piece of work! We were also learning different mental strategies using number talks!

Rachel said “We played shape games on the computer.”

Flo said “We made a grid all about shapes. It had how many faces, vertices and edges the shapes had!”

MUSIC

We continued learning songs from our favourite films. We recorded us singing “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” from the Lion King! Don’t we sound good!!!

P3A-Jigsaw-Term-1-Mrs-Baird-and-Mr-Hay

Today we were looking at estimating, we had great fun estimating quantities of objects. In groups we estimated bags, rulers, pyramids, crayons, pencils, books, duplo and even numbers of children! Have a go at home and see if you can estimate everyday items in the house or out and about locally.

 

Literacy:

We went to the library and we read in groups with Mrs Baird! We wrote a story with Mr Hay using a process called “Slow Writing.” We marked each others stories.

Lauren said “It was really fun to write!”

Alyia said ” I like marking and looking for the answers because it was like a word search.!

Numeracy

We have been working on rounding to the nearest 1000, 100 and 10.

Zoe said “It’s an easier way to add, when you add in 10s.”

We have also been working on 2D and 3D shape.

Sam said “2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are not. We have been looking for 3D shapes around the classroom!”

Other Areas

In ICT we have helped Mr Hay set up our class blog. We hope you enjoying reading all about what we are getting up to.