It has been another wonderful week in P3b. We have been discussing The Vikings a lot, either through formal lessons or through general discussions. The children are very keen to learn more and some have brought it books from home and shared stories about artefacts family members have found. It has been lovely to see how motivated the children are about this topic.

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy and Maths we have completed our learning (for now) about Fractions. We can all identify half and quarter of a shape and can show a fraction on a number line. We enjoyed making Fraction Man where we were challenged to first make 1 whole and then from that make a half and then quarters. Some of us even added some fingers and toes!

Literacy

In Literacy we have started learning about adjectives. We completed tasks to show that we can identify an adjective and this learning was transferred into our writing this week where we retold the story, Adrift. We had to ensure we included the main ideas of the story along with making sure we had it in the correct sequence. It was lovely discussing the different emotions and feelings the characters were feeling at different points in the story which ties in with our new Health and Wellbeing topic, Emotions.

We also put our learning from last week to the test and re-wrote sentences that had some spelling mistakes and some missing punctuation.

Outdoor Learning

We were very excited during Outdoor Learning this week . We had to hunt for different items hidden in the woodland but it wasn’t as easy at it seems! We had to use our map reading skills to find the items. Some of us found it quite tricky to follow the map but in the end we all solved the secret code – Primary 3 are Super Stars!

We have had another wonderful week in P3! We seem to have lots of budding authors as many of the children have been creating their own books in class. They have been fully utilising the writing area and showed many creative ways they can display their stories and books.

Numeracy and Maths

We have continued working very hard learning about fractions. We can now identify half and quarter of a shape and have also been learning how to split a line into halves and quarter. We have been using a fraction wall to help support our understanding of which fraction is bigger! We have also been learning about money and have been totalling the amount of coins. We have discussed different strategies we can use to help us calculate the total. On Friday we completed a problem solving task involving symmetry!

We used three different colours to make some symmetry. Kayla

The colours we used were red, blue and green. When we completed all patterns of symmetry with three colours we had to try it with four colours. Josh

The fourth colour I used was yellow. Ben

We used a mirror to help us see the colours on the other side. Daanya

Literacy

We have continued using our reading books to support our comprehension. We have answer literal and inferential questions along with true, false or can’t tell. Some of us have been focusing on rhyming words and we have all been practising our sentence structure, remembering finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. In writing, we created an imaginative story based on the picture of the troll. We had very different ideas and shared these together in class. Some of us thought the troll was kind and just wanted a friend whilst others thought he was hungry and looking for food!

Physical Education

In PE, we have are learning tennis with Mr McMillan and on a Friday we are continuing with team games. This week we learned to play Capture the Flag. We had to work together as a team to defend our ‘flags’ whilst trying to steal the other team’s. If we were caught whilst trying to steal then we had to go to ‘jail’.

You have to run into the other team’s side and when you have been tug you go to jail. Ashley

If you high five someone who is in jail they can come back out. The person who freed them and the person who is freed have a free run back to their side. Cameron

When you get the bean bag you put it in your team’s hoop and the team who has the most wins. Charlie

We needed to team build to get up to the other side to steal a bean bag. Aaron

Also, if we were inside the cones we couldn’t be tug. Amelia

It has been an extremely busy week in P3b. We have enjoyed using our imagination and creating more classroom displays including Our Monster Stories and our map of the world. The map of the world shows the connections that we, or members of our family, have with the world.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been focusing on fractions. This includes finding half or a quarter of a shape and we have been learning how to write a fraction correctly. We have also been learning about money and correctly identified all coins to £1. We then used our addition and subtraction skills to calculate how much more money was needed to make a certain amount.

In Literacy, we were introduced to new reading books this week. We are using these books to develop our comprehension skills. We are also focusing on capital letters and full stops. In writing, we continued a story about a monster. Our Success Criteria was to include tricky or wow words in our writing and begin to introduce other types of punctuation. We are also working hard on our hand writing and ensuring we use finger spaces.

Growth Mindset is still a huge topic of discussion and we have been talking about what we would like to get better at and how we are going to achieve it. We also sorted statements to demonstrate our understanding of a fixed and a growth mindset.

We enjoyed a music lesson with Mrs Duggie this week were we learning about keeping the beat. We played lots of different games with the ball which involved bouncing the ball or passing the ball whilst keeping to the beat.