It has been another busy week in Primary 3a! As we entered our class on Thursday, we were shocked to find our chairs stacked and tied away from our desk! At first we were worried! Then came a letter which stated how upset, hurt and tired our chairs were for being swung on, dragged, dropped on the floor and left alone in the night.

Our task for Writing this week, was to write a letter including all of the correct features and layout to convince the chairs to come back to us! Did we manage to write fantastic letters to convince the chairs to come back? OF COURSE WE DID!

‘In our letters, we included the date, our address and the chairs address.’ – Hasan

In Literacy, we have been working hard to consolidate our knowledge for adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns!

‘We were using pasta to place the speech marks in the sentences correctly.’ – Yahya

‘We had to investigate the interesting pictures and make a list of adjectives, nouns and verbs!’ –  Jessica

On leaves, we wrote adverbs to describe how and when the leaves were falling from the tree!

Lastly in Literacy, we are enjoying exploring non-fiction books. We are becoming confident in using the contents and index page to find information.

For Anti-Bully week, we have focused on kindness which also links to our school values.

‘We created a letter to our friend and family. We wrote an act of kindness that they have been doing for us.’ – Oscar

What a busy week it has been! You have all worked incredibly hard, well done everyone. Have a great weekend!

Love, Mrs Amin xxx

 

 

 

 

Welcome back to our blog! This week our focus has been on Book Week. Come and have a  look at some of our amazing pictures of learning!

As you can tell, we were filled with excitement whilst receiving our Read, Write and Count bags.

We were learning about predictions using the three books from book week. After we read the stories, we had to confirm or reject our predictions.

‘A prediction is a sensible guess on what the book is going to be about.’ – Scarlett

‘To make a prediction, we explore the front cover and title.’ – Jace

Using the Growth Mindset book called ‘My Magic Breath’, we learnt about mindful breathing.

‘When you are stressed and worried we have learnt to take a deep breath through our mouth and nose to release tension.’ – London

‘We created paintings with our face on it to show that we will try to do magic breathing!’ – Fara

Another book we explored was ‘There is no Dragon in this Story’. After reading the story, we were provided with a STEM challenge. We have displayed that TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK!

‘We had to make a house that was stable for the three little pigs. Once it was made, we had to make sure that it could not be blown away.’ – Hasan

‘Our building needed a good structure to make sure that it did not fall. We used limited resources to make our buildings. We had paper, lollipop sticks and straw.’ – Kerr and London 

Blether stations!

‘At out blether stations, we had to work in teams to up-level simple sentences. To up-level the sentences we used adjectives!’ – Aria

‘I used nouns and adverbs to up-level my sentences.’ – Gurleen

We love creating Helicopter Stories using our imagination. The best part is when we get to retell our story with our peers using our voice, tone and a variety of actions.

‘We are acting out different characters from stories.’ – Max B.

We have been learning about adverbs and we created our own trees to describe how the apples are falling.

‘An adverb is describing how something happens. For example apples are falling slowly or quickly.’ – Emelia 

To continue up-levelling our stories and sentences we have learnt about Onomatopoeia!

‘Onomatopoeia is words to describe a sound such as Boom, Bang, Pop and Splash!’ – Max M. and London 

This week has been a fantastic week of learning. Everyone has worked extremely hard and has shown me their best listening skills. Everyone has tried to be the best that they can be! Let’s continue working super hard Primary 3a!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Love Mrs Amin ☺️ xxx

 

We have been working hard to learn strategies on how to strengthen our mindset from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset!

Growth Mindset is the way we think about things and this encourages us to believe in ourselves, to have an ‘I can do it’ attitude’. Growth Mindset reminds us that we don’t have to be perfect at everything . We are learning that mistakes are part of journey and that they are okay to make!  🙂

We created Growth Mindset posters! On our brain, half of the brain was a fixed mindset and the other was a growth mindset. Fixed mindset is where we give up or get frustrated when we cannot do things!

To help us with our learning, we will be continuing to enforce a growth mindset throughout everything we do!

In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about Place Value. This is where we split two digit numbers into tens and units!

Using this knowledge, we have been learning how to complete vertical calculations!

We have reached the end of our Stone Age topic! We have answered all of our questions and have enjoyed learning new facts about the prehistoric time!

As part of our final lesson, we explored Stone Age symbols. We then had to use a key to translate the Stone Age symbols into English!

Using our knowledge of the Stone Age we created an Acrostic Poem!

Throughout Literacy, we have been working on our comprehension skills. This week we have focused on finding information!

We use magnetic letters to help consolidate our spelling sound and to practise our spelling words.

Mrs Loban took us out for PE and we had an amazing time! We are continuing to work on our gross motor skills.

As it is Bonfire night, we learnt about how Bonfire night came to existence! Thereafter, we had an important discussion about the safety regarding fireworks.

During our Art lesson, we were focusing on line and texture using chalk to create our own fireworks!

This week has been an eventful week, especially with Break the Rules day! It has been amazing and we have enjoyed every minute of it. I cannot wait to speak to you in depth about all the amazing learning that takes place during Parent’s Night next week.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Amin☺️

xxx