We have been extremely busy bees this week!

We have been using our voices to discover and explore the rhythm and pitch in Music. We are beginning to move , tap and pass a variety of objects to keep to a beat.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to solve vertical calculations using our knowledge of tens and units.

‘We have learnt how to write a calculation correctly. We need to make sure the tens and units are underneath one another. ‘ – Hasan

‘In the tuff spot, we are using the pom pom balls to add and subtract numbers.’ – Oscar

‘We were using a calculator to solve our partners secret number. We had to add and subtract!.’ – Max B.

‘Me and London used our calculator and sometimes the number went quite high. Some numbers were over a thousand.’ – Harrison

‘We have been doing problem solving questions.’ – Fara

We have been solving mathematical problems. We have been recognising odd and even numbers and have been adding three or four large numbers mentally.

In Writing, we have been learning about Acrostic poems. This week our focus was on Autumn. We had to make sure we used adjectives to up level our sentences. We have been exploring Alliteration and are beginning to use alliteration to enhance the information with our descriptions.

‘An acrostic poem is when you have a word and each line begins with one letter from the word. Our word was Autumn.’ – Gurleen

‘In Autumn, my first sentence began with A and then the second sentence began with U.’ – Jace

We are reaching towards the end of our Stone Age topic. We had the opportunity to present our own Stone Age houses to our class! Have a look at our masterpieces! We have linked all our previous learning to create our houses.

‘We put all our effort in to make a real life Stone Age house!’ – Adam

‘We only used natural resources to make our Stone Age houses such as leaves, sticks and cardboard.’ – Scarlett

‘We made characters, fire pits, cave paintings and weapons!.’ – Lilian

As always, you have worked extremely hard! It is Halloween this week so please make sure you are safe!

Have a wonderful weekend superstars!

Mrs Amin ☺️xxx

 

 

Welcome back to our Blog! After the October break, we are ready to engage in our learning more than ever!

In Maths, we have been exploring Place Value!

‘I have learnt about tens and units.’ – London

‘Tens are  rods that are made up of 10 units.’ – Kerr

‘Units are ones.’ – Stuart   

‘I can use concrete materials to make two digit numbers and I can identify which number is a ten and unit.’ – Hasan

During our mental maths starters, we have been working hard with our number talks. Number talks is where we simply have a conversation about the strategy we have used to reach our answer. All of us may have different strategies and that is great! However, it is important that we discuss this and lay out our working.

We have learnt the hand signals for number talks! Please ask us about it and we can show at home!

We have been learning how to round numbers to the nearest ten! This is enabling us to estimate the answers to addition and subtraction calculations.

‘I am adding up my totals together and rounding it to the nearest ten.’ – Luca R.

In Literacy we have been learning about Proper Nouns!

‘A proper noun is a specific thing such as a name. Pencil is a common noun but if I said pink pencil it is a proper noun because it is specific.’ – Lilian

‘Proper nouns are not generic things such as supermarkets. However, Home Bargains or Waitrose is a proper noun.’ – Harrison

‘Proper Nouns almost every time begins with a capital letter.’ – London

‘We used library books to find proper nouns and common nouns.’ – Gurleen

In Writing, we have began self-assessing our work as we are now confident at identifying the success criteria. We give ourselves two stars and a wish and try to improve on our work every week!

We are almost at the end of our Stone Age topic! We discussed the timeline of the Stone Age and we were discussing the chronological events which occurred throughout the Stone Age!

After, we used our Artistic skills to draw Fred the Flintstones as we learnt that he lived in the Stone Age!

The boys and girls insisted that their adults at home did not believe they drew him because of how amazing their work was! These pictures will show you just how outstanding they were and how they drew Fred from the beginning! We are AMAZING ARTISTS!

We have also explored different foods that were consumed within the Stone Age. We used our imagination to create our own recipes!

Wow! What another fantastic week of learning. Well done superstars! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Amin ☺️ xxx

 

We have another amazing blog to showcase our learning for the week! We have been working extremely hard to learn about Adjectives and Common Nouns.

‘An adjective is a describing word such as slow, big and small.’ – Adam

‘A common noun is a place, thing, name or idea.’ – Lilian

We have completed a variety of activities to practise recognising and differentiating between Adjectives and Nouns.

We worked in pairs to describe a variety of images and had to use AMAZING ADJECTIVES!

Whilst we complete dictation, we identified the different Adjectives within the sentences.

‘We went on a Nouns hunt across our classroom and we found lots of Nouns like toilet, cloakroom, plant and tables.’ – Kerr

In PE, we have been developing our skills and techniques to improve our level of performance and fitness. We have been recognising our own and peers progress by discussing our thoughts and feelings. We have also been giving and accepting feedback from our peers!

During our Stone Age topic, we have been working in teams to create our own Stone Age Houses!

Thank you so much to everyone for bringing in cardboard to allow us to do this ☺️.

This week has been incredibly fun and exciting. We cannot wait to continue learning after our holidays. Everyone works so hard and always tries their best!

Have an amazing and well deserved holiday Primary 3a! Have fun and be safe!

Lots of love,

Mrs Amin ☺️ xxx

We have been celebrating Maths Week Scotland! Throughout the week, we have engaged in a variety of activities to capture the purpose of maths within our daily lives, practised our skills across different concepts (money, time and fractions) and enjoyed problem solving challenges!

We were discussing the purpose of Maths concepts such as time and money. We were shocked and amazed at how Maths is included in everything we do on a daily basis.

Whilst exploring outdoors, we made Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast objects of our own choice!

‘A venn diagram is where we compare different things or objects.’ – Kerr

‘We compared hard/green items, hard/soft, squishy/orange and pointy/green.’ – London, Oscar, Gurleen and Lilian

‘The middle part of the Venn Diagram shows that an object is the same as both sides. It is called an intersection.’ – Yahya

The rain was pouring down towards the end of Woodland. Therefore, we ended it with some hot drinks and a biscuit!

We learnt about Rangoli Patterns!

‘A Rangoli pattern is a pattern which is symmetrical. It is commonly from Hindu religion and is colourful.’ – Fara

‘In Rangoli patterns there is symmetry, colours and the colours are all very bright. They are beautiful.’ – Harrison

We explored flags from around the world. We identified the different shapes within the flags too!

‘Some flags were symmetrical and some were not. Every flag has different shapes.’ – Hasan

‘Triangles, sqaures, rectangles, stars were in some flags. These are 2D shapes.’ – Luca

During the week, we have also had the opportunity to play the Sumdog Maths contest!

Everyone has returned from the holidays ready to work extremely hard. You have had a brilliant week! See you on Monday superstars!

Mrs Amin xxx