Welcome back to our blog! You will notice our blog will have a Scottish theme because we have been celebrating Robert Burns and being Scottish!

Throughout our learning experiences, their has been a Scottish theme throughout.

In Literacy, we used Scottish books to practise our skimming and scanning skills to find common words!

Some of us had never heard of Highland dancing or Ceilidh dancing. It was a great experience for everyone to learn new dances! I mean, come on… look at how great we look in our pictures with our super dance moves.

‘It was super fun because we got to dance with our friend to Scottish music.’ – London 

‘When you do ceilidh dancing, you put your arms together with a partner, then you spin the smaller partner. Then you spin together.’ – Fara

In Maths, we have learnt how to measure in inches and centimetres. We used this knowledge to create our own tartan strips.

‘We measured using a ruler using inches. Our strips were all measured at 1inch each.’- Emelia

‘We had to weave our strips over and under.’ – Ava

‘It was tricky but fun because we decided our own colours we wanted to use.’ – Hasan

 

As part of our Art lessons for texture, tone and line – we practised colour mixing whilst drawing fields using chalk.

For example:

yellow over red = orange

yellow over blue = green

red over blue = purple

red over yellow over blue = brown

We have shown a great interest in learning and exploring Scotland, poems and dancing. We will continue this learning as we will learn about Scottish dialect, learn to write Scottish poems like Robert Burns and continue learning how to dance!

What a wonderful week it has been Primary 3a! Thank you for always trying your best and working so hard. Have a great weekend!

Love,

Mrs Amin ☺️ xx

 

 

As you can tell from the title of our blog, it has been an extremely busy week of learning. It has been great fun!

In Numeracy and Mathematics, we have been continuing to explore hundreds, tens and units to partition numbers and to complete vertical calculations (with and without exchanging).

We have been exploring odd and even numbers!

‘An even number ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8!’ – Oscar

‘An odd number ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 !’ – Gurleen

We have been learning about repeated addition. Repeated addition is adding groups of numbers together multiple times. It is a type of multiplication that will help us learn how to multiply! We had a variety of stations to help us practise solve repeated addition.

• We had to solve repeated addition calculations from a board
• We made Arrays with play dough
• We sorted equal groups using counters
• We played Hit the Button – 2, 5, 10 times timetable

In Literacy, we continued to learn about facts and opinions and we performed extremely well in our quiz!

We continue to reinforce important Literacy skills such as scanning to help us locate information within a passage.

The learning doesn’t stop yet! We have also been learning about singular and plural nouns . However, it has became trickier because we have learnt how to change a singular noun into a plural noun by using the correct ending such as es, ies or s.

‘A singular noun is when you have one of an object such as one pencil.’ – Thomas

‘A plural noun is when you have more than one object.’ – Fara

Harrison is extremely proud for finding all of his common words within his word search. WELL DONE!

This week, we have began a health and well-being programme called Emotion Works. Emotion works will help us discuss our feelings and emotions. We will also be learning about strategies on how to regulate our emotions when we feel different emotions such as feeling nervous, anxious or angry.

This week, we were learning to understand different emotions. We were able to identify and draw facial expressions and body language that display an emotion. We related it our own lives too and shared examples of when we feel a certain way.

Finally, please quiz us on our knowledge of French colours! We will blow you away!

What a busy week it has been indeed! Thank you to everyone for being super stars. You are all amazing! Have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of love,

Mrs Amin ☺️ xxx

 

 

Welcome back to our first blog of 2022! We are so excited to share our learning with you again as we have been extremely busy learners!

We have been continuing to learn about Adverbs. We are up-levelling our sentences by including adverbs which makes our writing more interesting and provides the reader with more information.

‘An adverb are words that describes a verb. For example, ‘I cheered loudly.’ – Lilian 

‘I use an adverb because  it gives more information and description.’ – Harrison

We continue to learn alternative sounds and digraphs such as ue, oo, u-e and ew. We use playdough to create our spelling words or rhyming words!

In Maths, we enjoy playing problem solving games! It helps us use our maths and numeracy skills in different ways.

This week, we have been learning about Hundreds, Tens and Units. We have also been learning how to exchange units in 3 digit number calculations. For example,  303 – 124.

We have been exploring Length and Height using metres and centimetres. Converting cm into metres is a little bit tricky, however, with continuous practise we will become confident!

We explored a variety of objects in our class to make estimations and accurate measurements in centimetres and metres.

‘ I know that 100cm is equal to 1 metre.’ – Thomas

‘If it is a two digit number like 85cm, it would be 0.85 metres.’ – Jace

In Art, we have been developing our drawing skills within the concept of landscape. We have been focusing on line, shape, colour, texture and pattern and a variety of media.

Our first drawing was based on a patchwork effect of fields.

‘My patchwork drawing has different tones, lines and textures.’ – Gurleen

‘My drawing has loads of different lines. I did diagonal, straight, curved and dots.’ – Scarlett

For our second lesson, we collected outdoor materials such as leaves, twigs and stones and drew from our observations. We studied our objects closely to identify different lines, textures and tones.

Within our Art Area, we have created a display on how to make play dough. Mrs Amin has provided us with everything that we need to enable us to make play dough independently.

It was lovely having a full week back at school. We cannot wait for next week! Just a little reminder, that Woodland and Outdoor learning has been paused for now. I will inform you all when we require the children to bring in their outdoor clothing.

Ps Harrison has found a very interesting sweet! It is supposed to be a strawberry, however, it looks like a reindeer and lobster!

Have a wonderful weekend superstars,

Love Mrs Amin ☺️ xxx