Mathematics

We have been very active this week in maths! We have been learning all about standard units of measure, focussing on metres. We used metre sticks to measure lots of different things (and even people!) in our class. We had to classify these things into 3 categories – longer, shorter or about the same as a metre.

On Friday we had a very special visitor or two!! Miss Fergus brought beautiful baby Harris into meet our class. Everyone was so excited to see them both, and mum and baby are doing very well!

Health and Wellbeing – Bounce Back

P3A have just finished their block of ‘Bounce Back’ lessons in Health and Wellbeing. Here is our wall display that reminds us what the letters of ‘Bounce Back’ stand for.

On Wednesday, we read the story ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’. In this story, Alexander could not find any positives in his day. He let lots of small things that annoyed him, turn into big issues. After reading, we read back some of the situations  Alexander faced, and considered how he could have reacted differently.

“He could have said sorry to his Dad.”

“He could have asked to change into different pyjamas.”

“He could have asked to add cold water into his bath.”

“If he didn’t want beans for dinner, he could have tried his best or asked to have something different.”

Then on Friday, we then made Bounce Back posters to highlight our learning over the term. As well as lots of other things, we have learned all about helping others to feel good, the power of humour and courage, and these stood out as some of the themes in our posters.

Our Trip to Vikingar!

We had the most amazing time at Vikingar this week! We were lucky enough to be shown around a replica of a Viking longhouse, enter the Hall of the Gods and explore the Hall of Answers. Take a look at our pictures  that highlight some of the best parts of the day.

“We were able to make our own flour for bread like the Vikings would.”

We got to hold real Viking weapons. “The sword was heavy!”

Trying on real chain mail was fun!

Some of us were able to dress up in traditional Viking clothes. We had a blacksmith, a farmer, a rich Viking man and their 3 wives!

Inside the Hall of Answers, we were able to play and learn lots of Viking facts!

On the way home, we got to stop off at The Pencil to see the monument that was erected in 1912 to commemorate the Battle of Largs!

Celebrating Maths Week Scotland!

This week, we has so much fun taking part in lots of different maths activities and seeing how maths is used in the world around us.

Here we are on a ‘maths walk’ trying to find examples of maths in our environment.

“We found angles!”

We also counted how many steps it would take to get from one side of the MUGA to another! We compared our answers and why they were different. We figured out that the bigger your shoe size, the less steps you would need to take!

“This leaf is symmetrical!”

We made calculations from natural objects in the woodlands!

We were so lucky to have Mrs Munro come in to talk to us about her job as a dress maker. We were able to look at some of her costumes she made for a pantomime and see how she measures people to make sure their clothes fit. We even got to have a go at measuring our friends and recording the results!

Mathematics

This week, we have been learning about angles! Here we were making angles with our bodies. We used our legs as one segment, and our arms as the other, with the vertex being our hips. Do you see the angles getting bigger, from left to right?

We then identified and marked some angles.

Then it was time to create our own! We used pencils as our straight lines and placed them on whiteboards, with the tips meeting to form the vertex. We identified the angles by drawing them on with whiteboard pens. We were able to make all sorts of sizes!

“I found lots of angles inside this shape!”

This week in Maths, we have been learning all about directions. We have been using the commands ‘clockwise’, ‘anticlockwise’, ‘full turn’, ‘half turn’ and ‘quarter turn’ to move not only our own bodies, but Bee Bots and pictures too!

As part of our topic, we have been building Viking longships! Take a look at us making these using Kapla, as well as creating paper models!

We had our first woodlands session of P3 this week! We had fun exploring after a long time away.

The children were loving making sounds by blowing into blades of grass! “It sounds like a musical instrument!”

We had to work as a team and concentrate in P.E this week. We had to get the shuttle from one end of the hall to another without dropping it.

We love Music Mondays!!

We had lots of fun trying to replicate some Viking jewellery, pottery and other items that were used over 1000 years ago.

A Viking shield and sword!

Viking jewellery!

Some Viking pottery!

For our first Bounce Back lesson, we were talking about courage. The children were marking with a triangle the parts of your body where you can feel fear. We discovered that fear can be felt most places in your body in some way or another!

In numeracy, we have been working on place value. We were making quantities in different ways and showing off our knowledge on partitioning.

We LOVE Kapla! Look at our creations and how we can work well as a team.

Our ball skills are improving!

Our first whole class picture 🙂

and a cheeky one, of course!

We had our first music lesson with Mrs Lyall on Monday!

We had fun playing with our new resources this week too. Here are some of the pictures we took to show off our work.

We had so much fun in our first few days of Primary 3! We can’t wait to share our learning with you across the year 🙂