EWHCF Class of 2022

This week we really enjoyed listening to George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl in Scots. It was called Geordies Mingin Medicine. We laughed at the funny sounding Scottish words. We also listened to and recited a selection of Scots poetry. We really enjoyed working out what the words meant. We are all going to have a go at writing our own ‘Wee Beastie’ poems. (Abbie)

In Science we are learning about a variety of magnets and their invisible fields. We have started our new topic on Earth, Sun and Moon. We have looked at pictures and discussed events that happen either during the day or at night. We look forward to learning lots of things about Earth and the night sky. (Eilidh P)

I have really enjoyed all the team games we played this week. We went into the Muga and played, different types of tig, ball games and a game called Pigeons and Cats. It was great fun! ( Harry)

In art this week we used the skills we have learned to draw a self-portrait. We are going to display our portraits on the wall to see if anyone can guess who we are! They look really good! (Julia)

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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Art/ Language

We had a big mystery in P3A this week! Somebody took our class parrot! We were lucky because we had four eyewitnesses who spotted something strange going on. They gave us written statements. We highlighted key information in the statements to help us to create an identikit picture. As soon as we drew our pictures, we knew that our culprit was Miss A! When she came back with our lovely puppet we learned that she had just borrowed it. We were so happy to get it back and Miss A was delighted with our drawings.

Maths

We have been learning about problem solving and using different strategies to solve problems. We sometimes use algorithms to calculate the problems. We have learned how to calculate addition and subtraction using algorithms.

In multiplication we are now on to the three times tables and working really hard to be quicker than Mrs Wilson!

Music

We have great lessons with Mrs Douggie every two weeks. We have been learning different notes and rhythms

Science

We had our first week in the new Science classroom with Ms Zeitlin. We have been learning about magnetism. We liked using magnets to try and get a paper clip out of a glass of water without getting the magnet wet. We were all successful! We learned that  the magnets will repel  each other if it is a north and north pole  or south and south pole together. However the magnets will attract each other if one is  north and the other is south.

 

Maths

We have been learning our 2 and 3 times tables. We  have played lots of games to help us learn these tables. We enjoy playing Round the World and the  Line Time Championship. At the moment Menahil is the only person to get completely around the world, while Adam Henderson has been very close!

Art

We have enjoyed learning how to draw faces, looking carefully at the shape and position of  facial features. We drew our faces in stages, thinking carefully about where to place our facial features.

We have also decorated the nets of cubes to make into our own 2018 cube which tells about our resolutions and the targets we hope to achieve this year.

e.g.  Charlotte ~ I would like to improve my basketball skills

Leon and Hirah ~ we would like to improve our cycling and swimming skills

Abbie   and Muhammad ~ We would like to practise algorithms for multiplication and division

Menahil, Ruby , Eilidh P and Eilidh M ~ We would like to improve our handwriting skills.

Mrs Wilson  would like to improve her ICT skills in 2018

 

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?

We’ve all had another busy hardworking week in primary 3.

I’ve really enjoyed the maths activities. We have been learning about angles and movement and position.  Hirah

I know about right angles. They have 90 degrees. Hibba

I learned acute angles are smaller than right angles and obtuse angles are bigger than right angles. Ruby

In Maths we have also been learning about different strategies for subtraction and different words for subtraction e.g. difference between, subtraction, take away and minus. Menahil

I have learned about full turns, half turns and quarter turns. I used the Bee Bots to help me. Leon

Our topic is The Ancient Egyptians. We have learned lots of interesting information, including facts about Tutankhamen , pyramids and the gods. Ailsa

In topic we have also learned about the importance of the River Nile during the time of the Ancient Egyptians. Eilidh P

In writing I have enjoyed watching the Dream Giver and writing about my dream. I imagined the Dream Giver poured some golden liquid out of an egg on to my monkey. Suddenly my dream took me to a knitted jungle. I had a great adventure there. Elise

In Drama we have really enjoyed playing the balloon game. We had to float like balloons until we were popped by Mrs Nasar or Ms Spiteri! We also enjoyed the story about the Lonely Giant. Noor

In RME we have learned about Siddhartha Gautama, the rich prince in Buddhism. Eilidh M

What a busy week!

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

Primary 3A

This is our first Blog.

Every week we will tell you all about our learning, achievements and the fun we’re having in Primary 3.

This week we have enjoyed writing about Little Red Riding Hood and her adventure with the Big Bad Wolf. We tried to use some connectives in our stories. (Connectives are words like: but, because, if and even though.) We use connectives to link our ideas.

We’ve picked really good names for our Literacy groups. We have chosen Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. This is because some of us are big fans of Harry Potter!

Our maths groups are called Spring, Summer and Winter. This week we have been tiling with different shapes. We have also done lots of activities with a 100 square. We are good at making patterns on our number squares.

Today we were solving word problems using lots of different strategies. We like to share strategies with each other.

We have chosen to research the ancient Egyptians for our Topic. We are all really looking forward to finding out about Pharaohs and pyramids.