We had the best time at our Christmas party 🎄  We played pass the parcel, Christmas corners, musical arms and many more! I think our favourite was showing off our amazing dance moves 🕺

Primary 3 were learning to experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing healthy foods. They made fruit kebabs and discussed the benefits of eating fruit on a daily basis.

We have been very busy scientists recently. We have been learning about solid, liquid and gas, and how substances can change between each state.
Here we are carrying out an experiment to change solid ice into liquid water using heat energy from our hands. I think the ice was pretty cold!!

We also carried out an experiment to investigate what solid substances (salt, sugar, flour, icing sugar) will dissolve in a liquid. At first, we used cold water only. We then discussed variables we thought would help the dissolving process (heat and stirring):

We had the best time last Friday during our Children in Need activities:

We are also lucky enough to have the Sports Leaders from Barrhead High School with us on a Friday to lead some tennis sessions:

Primary 3/2 were learning to identify the five main food groups.  There was discussion on healthy eating and the children talked about their favourite foods.  They created an Eatwell plate to display their understanding of the five food groups.

Primary 3/2 have been learning about Diwali.  There was lots of discussion about good vs evil and light defeating darkness.  We talked a lot about feelings, religious celebrations and coloured in Rangoli patterns.

This month an alien spaceship crash landed into our classroom and made quite a mess. Luckily the alien knew how to use word document and left us a note asking for help!

The Alien gave us an idea to write a report about them. We discussed their appearance, hobbies, diet and any special features. We then used all our new report writing skills to write a report about our own aliens.

In numeracy, we are becoming so independent at completing all our targets. Here we are playing problem solving games with our peers:

In outdoor learning we have been identifying mini beasts in our playground:

We have been learning to work as part of a team in a variety of different contexts recently. As always, we have the best time learning outside:

We also worked as part of a team to build a model using Lego:

We have settled into our new class in Primary 3. Our Flat Stanley mini topic has linked to lots of our learning so far.

In literacy we have been learning to find information in a text. We have used this skill to answer comprehension questions, complete setting studies and track character emotion.

In writing we are learning to write a report. We are currently coming up with our own news report ideas linked to Flat Stanley.

In numeracy we have been consolidating our knowledge of cm and mm. We drew Flat Stanley and then used a ruler to measure parts of his body.

We are currently learning about the rights and responsibilities  relevant and important to us. We will discuss our ideas and use these to create our class charter. We consolidated our knowledge of  needs and wants  and shared our own with the class.

We have also enjoyed the continuous provisions around our classroom linked to our topic.

My goodness me… a whole year is finished! How on Earth did that happen?! I can tell you we have been working just as hard this month, it’s definitely been the wind up to summer!

In literacy we have continued to practise our reading and spelling. We have also learned about storyboards and how they are used when people write movies or books!

In numeracy we have continued to work hard on vertical and horizontal calculations. The butterflies and spiders have learned all about Venn diagrams in our data handling and the ladybugs have looked at measuring weight.

In science we have been focussing on forces and have performed lots of experiments to highlight push and pull forces. We also learned about vibrations and used this knowledge to experiment when we were singing in music.

We also had our trip to Summerlee, a huge thank you to Alice’s mum for coming along to help Mrs Brown and I. We got to see lots of houses from different decades and play with toys that our grannies might have played with….. however I still say that the 90’s is not part of the “olden days” like the pupils think!

To say this has been a fantastic year is an understatement and I would like to take the opportunity to thank the children for their continued hard work across the year. You have all worked so hard and I am incredibly proud of the progress that you have made. Well done!

Have the best summer p2 (soon to be p3)!  I’m sure you’ll all go on to do fantastic things.

Miss Smith 🐱🐝 xx