Category Archives: Listening & Talking

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Uncategorized

World Book Day

March 8, 2017 Mrs Wight

Another fabulous World Book Day with lots of wonderful costumes. We all brought in our favourite books and showed them to the class. We read Silly Billy and all of his worries. We found out that Silly Billy told all his worries to a worry doll and that helped him to stop worrying. We all designed and made our own worry dolls out of pegs, wool and material. We took it home and the next day lots of us said we had told our worries to our worry doll and we had slept better.

Fraser – I am Kylo Ren out of Star Wars. I love Star Wars films and books.

James – I am Minecraft Steve. My favourite books are – The Survivors Book of Secrets and Lego Star Wars.

Thalia – I am Hermione out of Harry Potter. I like Harry Potter because I love that they have an invisible cloak.

Cara – I am Topsy out of Topsy and Tim.

Zaid – I am dressed as Christiano Ronaldo because I love football. My book is about him.

Joe – My favourite book is The Giant Book of Jokes and my favourite joke is – Why did the surfer stop surfing? Because the sea weed.

Mia – My favourite part in Matilda is when they have a food fight.

Marci – My favorite book is the Secret Garden.

Siona – My favourite book is Matilda because she likes to read books just like me.

Lucy – I am dressed up as Anne of Green Gables. I like her because she talks a lot and I like it in the book when her dad faints.

Olivia – I am the Queen of Hearts out of Alice in Wonderland.

Joseph – My favourite Harry Potter is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I like the funny villains.

Oliver – I am Thing 1 from The Cat in a Hat. My brother is Thing 2 and my sister is The Cat in the Hat.

Sophia – I am the Hungry Caterpillar. My favourite book is Lego Friends.

Blair – I am Ron out of Harry Potter because he is my favourite character.

Arlo – I am reading Harry Potter by myself.

Ben – My favourite book is The World of Football because I like playing football.

Jamie – My favourite book is The Pirates Next Door.

Liam – I like trying to find Wally in the Where’s Wally books.

Millie – I like Mary Poppins because she can do magic.

Oli – I like it in Matilda when a lizard scares Miss Trunchbull.

Sarah – I like Alice in Wonderland.

Daisy – I love stories about Mermaids.

Jessica – I like Sleeping Beauty because I like all the colours.

Sarah – My favourite book is Katie the Kitten Fairy.

Kenzie – I am dressed as Darth Vader because I like Start Wars.

Logan – My favourite book is Who Pooped on my House.

Finlay – I like Aircraft Jet Fighter magazines.


Joseph made the winning design for our classroom door.

Careers, Health and Wellbeing, Listening & Talking

Careers

March 8, 2017 Mrs Wight

I can describe some of the kinds of work that people do and I am finding out about the wider world of work. HWB 1-20a

A big thank you to all our visitors that have come to P3 to tell everyone about their career.

We have been looking at the skills and qualities required for different jobs.

Some children have been impersonating a police officer over the last few weeks as they enjoyed dressing up in Mrs Sneddon’s police uniform.

Marci’s dad brought along his camera and showed everyone how to make a film.

Bonnie’s dad told us all about being a Forester. It sounded like a fabulous job and the children asked lots of interesting questions.

Collaborative, Fun, Listening & Talking, Numeracy, Problem Solving, Social Studies

Sensational Surveys

March 8, 2017 Mrs Wight

I have explored a variety of ways in which data is presented and can ask and answer questions about the information it contains. MNU 1-20a

I have used a range of ways to collect information and can sort it in a logical, organised and imaginative way using my own and others’ criteria. MNU 1-20b

Using technology and other methods, I can display data simply, clearly and accurately by creating tables, charts and diagrams, using simple labelling and scale. MTH 1-21a

We have been working in groups to create our own surveys. We had to think of the question we would ask and the options for the answers. We then asked another class in the school. We recorded our information in a table then had to transfer it to a bar graph. We made sure we labelled it appropriately and used the correct scale. We made predictions about what the results would show and compared our predictions with the result. We then used a spreadsheet in ICT to make a bar graph on the computer.

We also used Venn and Carroll diagrams to sort polar animals into different categories.

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Literacy, Problem Solving, Social Studies, Technology

Children from Other Lands

March 8, 2017 Mrs Wight

Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe the various ways in which land has been used. SOC 1-13a

By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b

So far this term we have been comparing our landscape and culture in Scotland with that of the Polar Lands.

We carried out research into Scottish food and drink, traditions, signs and symbols, famous people, sport, houses, schools, landscape and music.

We designed and made our own tartan kilts and pipers.

We answered different types of questions about children that live in Scotland and also about Inuit children and found some similarities and differences about the way each live.

We carried out research, and took notes about Inuit children, polar bears and penguins and we sorted our information into bullet points.

Sophia was proud to show us her penguin she had made at home and was happy to show us how we could all make one.

We are now going to learn about the Rainforest and the people that live there.

Collaborative, Fun, Health and Wellbeing, Listening & Talking, Numeracy, Problem Solving

GREAT GAMES!

January 25, 2017 Mrs Wight

I can follow and understand rules and procedures, developing my ability to achieve personal goals. I recognise and can adopt different roles in a range of practical activities. HWB 1-23a

The children worked collaboratively to create there own games in the playground.

They made up rules for their games and each group had to explain them to the class, and lead the class when playing their game.

The class gave feedback after each game looking at what worked well and any improvements that could be made.

We asked the class calculations and the first one on the answer got to ask the next question.	We had to split the class into 2 groups so there weren’t too many people running to the same number.
We all started standing in a circle. Someone stood in the middle and threw the ball to each person in turn.	If someone didn’t catch the ball they had to go and do an assault course.

Lots of people dropped the ball or didn’t throw it back very well.	They had to throw another ball between 2, ten times.
We threw the ball up in the air and caught it ten times.

We saw how far we could travel balancing the ball on the bat.	You had to get the ball in the hoop.

One group made up a game of football v basketball. This was fun but quite hard.

Collaborative, Fun, Listening & Talking, Numeracy, Problem Solving

CLOCKWORK CLASS

December 2, 2016 Mrs Wight

Primary 3.1 have been learning to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks. They are able to tell o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to times.

We worked together to make human clocks and we used them to tell the time.

The tallest person is the minute hand.	The smallest person is the hour hand.
We sat at each number on the clock.	The person that was number 12 was at the top of the clock.

When the minute hand points to the 12 it’s o’clock.	When the minute hand points to 3 its quarter past.
When the minute hand points to 6 its half past.	We held up our fingers to show what number we were.

When the minute hand points to 9 its quarter to.

Collaborative, Fun, Listening & Talking, Numeracy, Problem Solving, Uncategorized

TALENTED TILERS

December 2, 2016 Mrs Wight

Primary 3.1 have been exploring the properties of a range of 2D shapes and identifying 2D shapes which will tile.
They completed tiling patterns with a range and combination of 2D shapes and designed and created tiling patterns with 2D shapes.

I used squares to make a pattern. – Olivia

We practised on the computer.

Thalia – I used triangles to make my pattern.

Fraser – You have to make sure the lines join. There can’t be any gaps.

Cara – I used hexagons.

Arlo – I made a pyramid out of triangles.

Siona – The shapes all have to have straight sides.

Jamie – My pattern is made out of triangles. I had to turn the triangle round to fill each gap.

Oli – I used lots of different shapes with straight sides to make my pattern.

Joseph – You can’t tile with circles because the sides have to fit together.

Jo – You can fill in the gaps in octagons by using squares turned round.

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Health and Wellbeing, Listening & Talking, Literacy

PERFECT PERSONALITIES

December 2, 2016 Mrs Wight

As part of learning that each individual has a unique blend of abilities and needs, Primary 3.1 used adjectives to describe their personalities.

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Literacy

A Petrifying Poem

December 2, 2016 Mrs Wight

Primary 3.1 have been trying to use interesting words in their writing. This week we were using alliteration to write a Halloween Horror poem. We worked in groups to use alliteration in one line of the poem. We then put all the ideas together to make a class, spooky poem.

Alliteration is when you have to use the same sound at the start of every word. – Siona

We made haunted house pictures to accompany our class poem.

We had to blend red and yellow for the sky. – Sophia
The house was hard to cut out. – Liam
It was fun printing the ghosts and drawing on funny faces. – Cara