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IDL

Our new IDL topic is Natural Disasters. This week we learned about the ten most common natural disasters around the world and hurricanes.

“I liked learning about the hurricanes because I was able to label the different parts of it like the eye” (Jura)

“I like learning about hurricanes as we got to build a house using Kapla to see if it was strong” (Eva)

We designed a building that we thought would be hurricane safe. We also learned what to do if there was a hurricane.

We learned about hurricane seasons and in what countries they are likely to occur.

PE 

We have been enjoying our term 3 PE so far.  We are  taking part in athletics and striking and fielding.

We are taking part in a variety of races and team games.

” I really like playing rounders and working in a team.” (Penelope)

“I loved the relay races so I can get faster at running” (Carson)

“We jumped over hurdles in a race. It was fun.” (Harry)

Have a great weekend

Mrs McKim and P3a

Welcome to our blog.

This week we have been learning about Eid as part of our school celebration.

We created Islamic Art using natural materials, made information posters all about Eid, designed henna patterns and created geometrical pictures.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs McKim and P3a

Sunshine, Solo Talks and a Show!

Welcome to our P3a blog.

What a wonderful week we have had in P3a.

There’s a Sunflower in My Supper

Thank you to everyone who attended our show on Wednesday. I am sure you will agree the children were wonderful.  What a talented bunch we have!

Solo Talks

We are working through our solo talks and I have been so impressed with the variety of topics chosen  and the self-confidence the children have shown when presenting to their peers.

Sunshine

How lovely to see the sun this week. We have used a little bit of time to enjoy the outdoors and play together.

It has been a busy term and I think P3a are looking forward to a holiday. Fingers crossed for nice weather! Wishing you all a lovely break.

Mrs McKim and P3a

Hello and welcome to our blog .

The children have been working extremely hard this week rehearsing  for their show “There’s a Sunflower in my Supper.” They are very excited for the big day on Wednesday and we are sure that you will be very impressed with their singing, dancing, narrating and overall enthusiasm. We certainly have a class of superstars in P3a!

Solo Talks

P3a have worked hard at home preparing their solo talks.   The variety has been outstanding and the children  presented confidently. They even took questions from their audience on their chosen subject.

Well done everyone who presented this week! We will continue with this next week.

Have a wonderful weekend.

P3a and Mrs McKim

Welcome to our blog.

Primary 3a have been very busy this week.

In writing we created a non-chronological report on the Five Senses. We have been learning about this as part of our IDL topic. We have researched and found out lots of facts as well as taking part in many practical activities.

“I added lots of facts to my report to make it exciting to read”. (Ryan)

“In the five senses there is hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste.” (Olivia W)

“My report used a formal tone and it was quite a lot of fun.” (Ruaridh)

“My report was put into different sub-headings”. (Jura)

In Numeracy and Maths we have been doing lots of work on number. Some of us have been learning our two times table. Others have been learning the three times table and some have been developing our subtraction skills.

“I have been learning to share into two groups.” (James)

“I am very good at my two times table and we have been learning all about it. I have enjoyed the games too.” (Sophia)

“I am learning to divide into three groups – it was a little tricky.” (Penelope)

We are beginning to rehearse for our School Show. We are all very excited. It will be wonderful!

“We are learning our parts and working very hard.” (Oscar)

“It is really fun”. (Hugo)

“We are excited about our parts.” (Christopher)

“I am really excited for our show.” (Jovie)

Have a wonderful weekend

P3a

Good afternoon and welcome to our blog.

We were delighted to welcome our parents and carers to our class this week.  We completed various tasks relating to our IDL project Human V Robot.  Making lungs and creating a programme for our Beebots seemed to be the favourites.

We also created our first non-chronological report. Everyone worked hard researching the skeleton and the organs. We found excellent facts that were included into our reports.  We were able to sort the information into the correct sub-headings and ensure that our note taking were transferred into  wonderful sentences.

In maths we have been learning to giving change from various amounts and finding  different ways to make amounts from a variety of notes and coins.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs McKim and P3a

Hi everyone

We have been very busy in P3a.

We have continued to work with our P7 Digital Leaders to help improve our ICT skills. We have learned more about Micro Bits and we were able to programme them to spell our names in LED lights.

We have also worked with the iPad’s and Spheros . We were able to programme them to move backwards and forwards. They raced across the classroom!

In Writing we have come to the end of our poetry lessons. We worked hard to create poems using rhyme, alliteration and onomatopoeia. The results were fantastic!

We are continuing our IDL topic Human V Robot and we have been learning about the skeleton and the organs of the body. We will be learning more about the functions of certain organs next week. This will help us prepare for writing reports.

Have a wonderful weekend

P3a and Mrs McKim

Hi there and welcome to the first IDL Blog of this year. It’s Mrs Dougall here, as you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4.  This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.   I now teach P3a for 3 periods each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

We started this year investigating how plants and animals depend on each other for food. We learned about food chains, developing this learning into food webs and then focused on environmental changes across the Great Barrier Reef.

We then began to focus on seasonality and the challenges of growing and planting in winter in Scotland. We created terrariums (mini greenhouses) and carefully monitored the temperature in them while watching what happened to our plants growing inside the jars.

We have also fitted in two short blocks of learning about Meta Skills, these are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children  for the World of Work.

Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and we are currently focusing on Communicating and Collaborating.  The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.

I am sure the children will be as excited about their new learning journey as I am – they will be able to tell you all about it over the coming weeks.

Mrs Dougall

Hello everyone and welcome to our blog!

In P3a this week we  started our new IDL topic  –  Human V Robot. We have been learning how robots are used in everyday life. We have looked at different types of robots and what they can be used for.

We have also been learning about coding, memory boards and programming.

Out Primary 7 Digital Leaders came into our class and showed us how to programme Micorbits.

“They were fun to play with but a little hard to programme. I was able to decide the pattern of lights on the Microbit – it came to life” (Hugo).

“The Micorbits were amazing because it could do what I wanted it to do.”( Olivia Y)

“I programmed it to make cool pictures ” (James)

In writing we are learning about poetry. We read various poems and focussed on rhyming words and the rhythm these.  We  spent time working in groups to worked in groups to create rhyming words that we could add to help us create a poem about winter. We enjoyed looking at lots of Julia Donalsdon books for inspiration.

“I read Monkey Puzzle and it helped my get my own ideas for my own poem and how to make it rhyme.”( Ryan)

“I liked reading lots of different poems by the same person.  They were all very different and gave me my own ideas to create my own poem.” (Ruaridh)

In maths we did some revision on Data and we learned about the key when interpreting pictograms.

We have also been working hard on learning our two times table.

We had lots of problem solving activities too. We have been very busy!

“The number pyramids teased my brain quite a lot.” (Penelope)

“I liked adding the numbers, it was a clever way to add.” (Oscar).

In PE we have been outside in the MUGA developing our tennis skills.

“I loved tennis and it was amazing to learn our forehand swing and volley hit.” (Isla)

“I liked the overhead serve.” (Jura)

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McKim and P3a

Welcome to our weekly blog.

Another wonderful week in P3a.

In Maths this week we were learning  about weight. We learned that  we use grams and kilograms to weigh items. We estimated the weight of lots of items and then weighed them to find the actual weight.  We also held lots of different weights  – the Kg was quite heavy! We challenged ourselves to find lots of different ways that we could make 1Kg using lots of lighter weights. We used the scales to weigh items and to see if it weighed more or less than 500g or 1000g.

“We figured out how to weigh using scales . We held different weights and tried to find things that weighed the same” ( Ruaridh)

“I liked using different weights to make an amount”. (Olivia W)

We worked hard to create a recount based on the fairy tale The Three Little Pigs.  We used past tense and third person as well as writing our recount in the correct order.

“I liked writing a recount about a fairy tale as I love reading fairy tales. It was so interesting and exciting to write a recount about it”. (Jura)

In Art we  continued our Art Study and we learned about Pop Art. We were so excited to design our own Pop Art. We were so creative and the results were  fantastic and colourful!

“My pop art was pretty good. I loved using lots of colours and how it stood out”. (Isla)

Have a wonderful weekend.

P3a and Mrs McKim