Today we had a visit from Mrs Doran who is a psychologist.
‘Mrs Doran works in the hospital and works with children who feel sad, angry and worried’ Noah
‘She read a story to us and helped us to relax’ Aoife
Monthly Archives: November 2016
World of Work Week!
Yesterday Primary 3 had an exciting visit from Mr McGonigle. We learned lots about his job as a Road Safety Engineer.
‘We learned about the different things he has to do as part of his job’ Daisy
‘His job is to make sure all of the roads in East Renfrewshire are safe’ Ava G
‘He has to wear a high visibility jacket to keep him safe’ Danni
Primary 3 Christmas Enterprise:)
Today and tomorrow we will be working hard like Santa’s little elves to make these beautiful button Christmas cards. They will be sold at the Christmas fair on Saturday morning!
Tutankhamun Research!
Today we were taking notes on Tutankhamun using various sources and we had to organise them under appropriate headings.
‘When we were doing our Tutankhamun research we used books, websites and videos’ Summer
‘We learned lots including that Tutankhamun ruled for a short time in Ancient Egypt’ Aoife
‘Next week we will use our notes to create a new text (factfile)’ Abbie
Cylinders and Cones
Yesterday the Cylinders were learning their two times table by playing active learning games and then completing a two times table dot to dot.
‘When we were joining the dots, we had to make sure we were counting up in twos’ Noah and Jessica
‘We played pass the ball to the song Happy and when the music stopped we had to answer a multiplication question’ Boid
The Cones were learning addition to 20 and practising their number formation using play doh!
‘Using the play doh helped me to make the numbers and to make sure they were the right way’ Aiden
Pizza Party!
This week the Cubes have been learning about fractions and how a single item can be shared equally.
‘It was fun making the fraction pizzas’ Maggie
‘It helped us to learn about halves and quarters’ Daisy
‘Two quarters is equal to one half’ Aoife
‘The numerator is the top number of the fraction and the denominator is the bottom number’ Ava G
