We are extremely excited for you to see our Bee Musical Show before the Easter Holidays. We have been practising every day and are becoming more and more confident saying our lines and remembering our awesome dance moves!

However, we have still been working hard to complete our Literacy activities! This week, we were practising our Dictionary Skills! After we read our story, we used our dictionary to find the definitions of tricky words that were new to us or words we had never heard of before!

As our Musical is about Bees, we have been completing reading tasks based on non-fiction texts related to Bees! After reading an unseen text, we found the main ideas to create a poster all about Bees!

Our Poster explained the following:

• Why are bees important?
• Why are bees dying?
• How can we protect bees?
• Other facts

Here are some pictures of us enjoying paired reading!

This week, we have focused on predictions too!

We continue to use active spelling tasks to practise our spelling words! This week our sound is ‘ou’.

In Maths & Numeracy we continued to explore Data Handling! We are learning to display information we have collected! We created our own surveys and collected information from our peers. We used this information to create a bar chart!

We did the same, but this time we went around our classroom to find items to record such as tables, chairs and trays.

To consolidate our learning of Tessellation, we created our own patterns ensuring there were no gaps in our designs.

Here is a picture of Emelia and Aria who are very proud for completing an extremely challenging puzzle!

We are in the swing of practising and preparing for our Bee Musical show! We cannot wait!

For PE next week and the week after, PE will be outdoors with Mr McMillan, rather than indoors! 🙂

Have a wonderful weekend superstars and see you on Monday!

Love Mrs Amin xxx

Welcome back to another fantastic week of learning in Primary 3A! We have been practising our Bee Musical throughout the week and our Literacy and Numeracy lessons have been linked to Bees too! Well done to everyone who has been practising their lines at home, you have all been doing a brilliant job in rehearsal.

On Monday, we were learning how to identify the main ideas in our chapter book called – The Twits! We drew and wrote short captions to describe what the main ideas were.

We used our knowledge of Comic Strips to draw and write about the role of the worker bees!

We included:

• Short captions in each box
• Speech bubbles
• Detailed drawings
• Action words

‘The worker bee makes honeycomb.’ – Charlotte

‘The worker bees feed the baby bees.’ – Emelia

‘They clean up the bees that die in the hive.’ – Jessica

‘They also protect the hive.’ – Gurleen

‘Worker bees have to guard the entrance.’ – Adam

‘Worker bees make at least 20 trips a day to collect nectar.’ – Luca V.

‘Worker bees are only female and they are never male.’ – Fara

‘When a worker bee is three weeks old, they venture out the hive to collect nectar.’ – Thomas

We used our sequencing skills to create a bee!

‘We had to find nouns, adjectives and verbs and then had to colour code the different words.’ – Kerr

We learnt the alternative sound ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. We have played many active spelling games to help us learn our spelling words and identify tricky words with the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sound!

In Numeracy, we have learnt about Tessellation.

‘Tessellation is when  you use shapes to make a pattern without any gaps.’ – London 

‘Tessellation can be found on buildings, bricks, slabs on a roof and on honeycomb.’ – Max B.

We completed a Tiling investigation to solve whether or not a variety of shapes could be used in Tessellation. We also had the chance to complete repeated patterns.

In Data Handling, we have been learning about tally marks, the features of a bar chart and how to read information from a bar chart correctly.

We used Chromebooks to complete a game called Maths 3 Under the Sea to complete different challenges linked to Data Handling. Throughout the week, we had the opportunity to create our own bar charts using the correct features.

‘We had to make sure we included the correct numbers and headings on the bar chart.’ – Harrison

‘We had to check if the bar chart was going up in 1’s or 2’s.0 – Jace

How are we on Friday already? This week has flown by which means it has been a super fantastic week of learning! Please make sure you continue to practise your Bee Musical Lines at home! Have a wonderful weekend superstars!

Love,

Mrs Amin xxx

 

 

 

 

Throughout the week, we have engaged in extremely fun and stimulating learning experiences to capture the importance of Reading! World Book Day provided us with the opportunity to explore why reading is important and reminded us why we love to read! Not only that, it was Pancake Day this week too!

In Literacy , we completed a Talking and Listening task related to Pancakes! We had to carefully listen to Mrs Amin’s instructions on how to carefully add in detail to our Pancake grid.

At the end of all the instructions, we had the opportunity to compare our outcome to our peers! It showed us just how good our listening is or if it could be better!

We revisited acrostic poems and used adjectives to create a poem based on the word ‘Pancake’ too!

We continued to learn and practise how to use a dictionary. We played a game called ‘Word Search’ and had to find a word as quickly as possible when Mrs Amin shouted a word to us! It reinforced our knowledge of letters in alphabetical order and it introduced us to new vocabulary too!

We then used our Reading books, to look up the definitions of any tricky words we were unsure of.

We had the pleasure of celebrating World Book Day this week! We began World Book Day by completing our fantastic comic strips with all the relevant detail such as speech bubbles, action words, detailed pictures and captions.

We are continuing to practise ‘Making Inferences’ where have to use the context clues to help us formulate an answer. We need to be ‘Reading Detectives’ to look for information.

In Maths, we have been learning about Multiplication and Division of the 2,5 and 10 times table. We have been using fact families to make connections between numbers whilst multiplying and dividing!

We continue to practise vertical calculations whilst carrying and exchanging units.

During World Book Day, we had a lovely time reading our stories to one another and enjoyed some yummy snacks!

We also played a game called ‘Who am I?’. We had to give clues about the character or book that was stuck to our friends head! We had so much fun!

What a week it has been! It was so lovely having the opportunity to talk to everyone’s parents this week. Everyone had such a glowing report and I hope you are proud of your child’s learning and progress. They are SUPERSTARS!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Love,

Mrs Amin☺️ xxx