This week has been super busy in P3b. We received some lovely visits from other children including P6 who told us about Anti-Bullying Week and helped us write a kindness postcard. We were also joined by a pupil from P5 who received a hand written letter from Sir David Attenborough. We loved the recent video we watched of Sir David so this was very exciting indeed!

Numeracy and Maths

We continue our focus on Position and Direction and again used the BeeBots this week. We were tasked with following an algorithm and then giving the BeeBot the correct instructions to reach a certain destination on the mat. With number, we are learning to count in 10s and 100s up to 1000. Some of us are also looking at estimating and using our rounding skills to estimate an answer to a calculation. We are also trying to identify the missing number in an addition and subtraction calculation.

STEM a Story

On Monday we completed our STEM a story challenge. We read a story called ‘There’s No Dragon in this Story’ and we were then tasked with building houses for the 3 little pigs. One was made of sticks, the other from art straws and tissue paper and the last of Lego.

 

Literacy

We were all very intrigued to find out who we would be writing a letter too on Thursday. When we came into school that morning we found that our chairs had quit. They were tired of us swinging on them, not tucking them in or dragging them across the floor. They wrote us a letter telling us how sad they were and we were tasked with writing a letter of apology explaining how we can treat them better. We all now really appreciate our chairs in P3b.

Outdoor Learning

This week, Miss Macrae, tasked us with creating famous landscapes from natural materials found in  the woodland. Our creations were AMAZING and extremely creative!

 

 

Science 

We have been learning about Food Chains with Miss Macrae. This week we created our own poster which shows three animals, one inside the other. All of these animals are in a food chain.

   

We have had a lovely week celebrating Book Week Scotland. We all brought our favourite book to school and have had various opportunities to read them throughout the week. It has been lovely to share our books, discuss our favourite authors and illustrators along with completing a book review.  We also redesigned the front cover of one of the books in our Read, Write, Count bags and created character selfies. Here we all are with our favourite books along with a couple photos of us reading in class. On Monday we will complete our STEM a Story activity where we will be challenged to build 3 different houses for the little pigs.

     

Numeracy and Maths

This week some of us have been learning to add with 3-digits whilst others have been learning how to round. We have also been looking at the missing number in addition and subtraction calculations. On Friday’s we have a go at completing an activity from the challenge boxes. Willow and Kayla worked hard matching the 3-digit numbers to their description.

We used the BeeBots to support our learning of Directions. We made our way around different stations in the class, challenging each other to get BeeBot from one place to another on the mat plus we had a go at building a maze for BeeBot. Next week we will be following a set of instructions to see if we can get BeeBot to the correct location.

    

    

     

Health and Wellbeing

We have continued changing our mindset in Primary 3 and have been learning about a growth mindset. This week Miss Macrae asked us to debate if a girl can be an engineer. We split into two groups and some of us had to argue that girls can be an engineer whilst others had to argue that they can’t be. It was a very interesting conversation and this led onto us thinking about what we would like to be when we grow up and what we will need to do to achieve it. In Primary 3b there is a full team of potential footballers, some teachers, singers, artists, athletes and pilots. We even thought of an animal saver as a job for the future!

Outdoor Learning

Last week in the woodland we created our own firework show accompanied by some music. We used the leaves as the fireworks and with our group, timed the movement of the leaves with our use of the instruments. We absolutely loved making as much noise as we could which I am sure you can see from our faces. The photos below are of last weeks lesson. This week we made music with only natural materials that we could find in the woodland. There was lots of rustling of leaves, shaking of stones and banging (carefully) of trees, all with a lovely rhythm!

    

   

P3b were full of excitement when returning to school after a weekend of Halloween celebrations. It was lovely to hear what the children dressed up as and what they did to mark the occasion with their friends and families. We have also been talking about COP26. Many of the children have showed a keen interest in the topic and we have some planned learning on this subject next week! Along with Guy Fawkes night, there has been a tremendous amount of excitement around ‘Break the Rule’ day. The children had lots of fun breaking the rules and were so keen to show each other what rules they had broken!

Numeracy

We have continued with addition and subtraction for the majority of the week. Some of the children are working on addition with carrying whilst others are continuing to develop strategies to answer horizontal calculations. We have also taken our right angle knowledge and began to use this to help create and follow sets of directions. This week we learned the vocabulary forwards, backwards, right and left. We will build on this next week and put our directions own directions into practise.

Literacy

In writing we have continued looking at poems. This has been both through our writing and also as part of comprehension for some. This week we wrote a poem about Autumn focusing on the sense. We used our time in the woodland to gather ideas to use in our poem. We also continue to practise our spelling words each week. Some of the activities we do are magnetic letters, scrabble letters, chalk pens, phoneme pebbles, active spelling cards plus a range of games such as BOOM!

Outdoor Learning

As mentioned above, we spent our time in the woodland thinking about our senses. We searched for things we can see, hear, feel and smell that make us think of Autumn. Thankfully we weren’t tasled with tasting anything! There were also many happy faces playing in the leaves!

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we started a new programme of learning based around Growth Mindset. We have completed a questionnaire to provide a better understanding of our own mindset – fixed or growth. This week, Miss Macrae told us an imaginative story about a child starting school. The child had a fixed mindset and would behave in certain ways to show this. In groups, we worked together to come up with solutions to help the child.

The Vikings

We have been busy writing short stories in our busy books about the Vikings. The story could be about anything at all related to the Vikings. We then had lots of fun acting out the stories in class. We sat together and children were picked to come into the middle and pretend to be the character or object. There were lots of giggles along with learning in the class and we hope to hear some more stories in this way next week.