Author: Miss Atkin

It has been another busy week in Primary 3. We have been working hard in a range of curricular areas and have enjoyed celebrating Robert Burns day on the 25th January.

We looked at a PowerPoint on his life and have completed some Scots writing. (Ewan)

We looked at different Scots poems and had to work together to translate them from Scots into English. My favourite one was about mince and tatties. (John)

We made poems in English and then translated them into Scots using a dictionary to help us with our Scots vocabulary. (Hannah)

We read a chapter of George’s Marvellous Medicine and then we read Geordie’s Mingin Medicine looking at the difference between the stories. They were both very good but the Scots one was funnier. (Dilraj)

We also worked in pairs to complete a ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ style quiz where we had to look for clues in the sentence to discover what the Scots word meant. (Eva D)

Some new Scots words we have added to our vocabulary include; bairn, dreich, crabbit, bonnie and auld.

In between all our fabulous work on Scots poems, we have also taken some time to find and use information to create a new text.

In Literacy, we have been exploring non-fiction texts about the artic fox and other animals. We made posters showing how they survive during the winter. (Fraser)

The artic fox adapts to the seasons by changing colour, it blends into its background so that predators cannot eat it. (Olivia)

Lots of animals get ready for winter in different ways, the frog goes into a state of diapause which means its heart rate drops and it doesn’t move. (Finlay)

Some animals also hibernate, this is when they sleep all through the winter. (Rosie)

This week we have started our Science topic on the Earth, sun and moon. (Ewan)

In ICT, we used PowerPoint to make a presentation including words relating to day and night. (Ryan)

We sorted pictures of day and night and tried to place in the correct column. (Emilia)

We had some tricky pictures to sort. These were sunsets, solar eclipse and pictures of the Earth from space. (Alistair, Kaiden and Millie)

On Friday, as part of our Golden Time, both Primary 3 classes were working together playing different teams. Whilst working up a sweat, we had to work together in groups whilst developing our ball skills. It was great way to end another busy week!

On Monday, primary 3 were shocked to discover their class toy had mysteriously disappeared.

Thankfully, there had been four witnesses who were able to give us clues about what had happened.

In their eyewitness statements there was information about the suspects appearance alongside some information which was irrelevant. So we put our detective hats on and got to work trying to solve the mystery!

First, we highlighted the important information telling us about the suspects facial features. We then organised this information into a table to make sure we could clearly and easily identify what the person looked like.

Luckily, we have been practising drawing proportional faces and were able to use these skills to complete an accurate portrait of the suspect.

Based on our drawings, and the information we had found, it was obvious to us who had taken our bear…Miss Adair!! She had borrowed him to visit the nursery! Although he had a great time on his trip we are all very glad to have him back where he belongs!

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Over the last few weeks, Primary 3 have been developing their understanding of 2D and 3D shapes. We have completed lots of fun learning activities and applied our knowledge through different stations.

“The ‘D’ in 2D and 3D shapes stands for dimensions.” (Connal)

“2D shapes are flat but 3D shapes aren’t because we can pick them up.” (Olivia)

We started by exploring different 2D shapes, looking at their properties and revising the names of different shapes.

“Normally the number of edges and the number of corners on a 2D shape is the same.” (Eva D)

We then hunted around the school to see what 2D shapes we could find.

We made and repeated different patterns using peg boards and playing games.

“Patterns repeat themselves over and over again.” (Finlay)

We also looked at tiling patterns.

“Tiling is when shapes can join together with no gaps or overlaps.” (Fraser)

“Some shapes that tile are trapeziums, triangles, hexagons, rectangles, squares and parallelogram.” (Kaiden, Holly and Olivia)

We also investigated different angles that can be found in 2D shapes and used Beebots and our coding skills to give directions turning through a right angle.

“2D shapes can have right angles like a right angled triangle.” (Ryan)

“90 degrees is a right angles. If it is less than 90 it is an acute angle and if it more than 90 is called an obtuse angle.” (Fraser)

Following on from our 2D shape and angle investigation, we explored 3D shapes looking at their properties and what 2D shapes are used to make 3D shapes.

“We looked at the number of faces, corners and edges of 3D shapes.” (Natalia)

“3D shapes have a depth but 2D shapes do not.” (Murray)

We used construction materials to build different 3D shapes using 2D shapes.

“2D shapes can be used to make 3D shapes. For example, a cuboid is made of 2 squares and 4 rectangles.” (Dilraj and Finlay)

 

This week in writing, we will be focusing on openers again. Your talk homework is to discuss how these sentences could be reworded so that the opener is at the beginning.

Remember we can use setting, times, -ly words, similes, -ing words and -ed words.

E.g.

Jack scurried down the beanstalk as quick as lightning.

Could become…

As quick as lightning, Jack scurried down the beanstalk.

Can you think of ways to change these sentences:

1. Jack’s mother angrily threw the beans out of the window.
2. A magical castle sat at the top of the beanstalk.
3. Jack crept into the castle nervously.
4. Jack ran down the beanstalk after he saw the giant.

Can you discuss any other sentences which have interesting openers, either relating to Jack and the Beanstalk or another story?

Use the image below as a stimulus for your Talk Homework this week.