Today we have been learning how to write a summary. We spoke about summaries of books and films like Despicable Me and Harry Potter. It is important to learn about summaries so we can use these skills when we are reading!

“Elijah and I learned how to write a summary by working together.” – Amber

“I learned what a summary is used for. On a book instead of looking at the front cover you can read the blurb for a summary.” – Ben

“I learned how to read information and write a summary.” – Hollie

“In the lesson about summaries, we had to identify WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW withing a news article.” – Beth

“I learned that summaries can be written about books and movies.” – Lennon

“I learned how to write a summary. A summary is a few sentences about a book, film or TV programme.” – Alexander

“I learned that writing summaries can be an  important reading skill.” – Sam

“Today I learned that summaries don’t spoil the ending of a story!” – Ruby

Next week we are going to try and write a summary of our own from Roald Dahl book. Check back and see how we got on!

We used the laptops to help us research into our science topic, we are learning about food chains and habitats. It was amazing using the laptops in the classroom as we now have wifi. It really helped us to investigate different habitats, animals and plants. 

“This afternoon we got a special delivery to help us learn – it was LAPTOPS!” – Rosie

“Kay and I found out to zoom in and out on the screen.” – Amber

“We had to learn how to use the laptops because they are different from computers! – Ailsa

“We were using the laptops to find out about different animals and their food chains.” – Hollie

“Miss Ritchie showed us how to use the laptops and it helped us find the animals.” – Kyle

“We learned how to use the touch pad to click on stuff” – Lennon

“Mitchell and I discovered a new word – Chifchaf – It is a type of bird that lives in the city” Beth

“To link with our science topic we looked up different habitats for plants and animals” Mitchell

“We learned how to switch the laptop on and off.” – Lucas

We had a fantastic afternoon using the laptops and it allowed us to develop a variety of skills such as listening, talking and teamwork. The skills we used helped us to be successful in our learning. We also thought that we were very patient when Miss Ritchie was demonstrating how to to use them and in addition we thought we were very good at taking turns using the laptop with our partner. 

In health and wellbeing we have been learning how to safely prepare food so we decided to make lentil soup. The first thing we had to do was WASH our hands!

Ben “We washed our hands so no bacteria got on the food”

Next we had to peel and chop our vegetables.

Iris “I peeled the leek into smaller pieces”

Amy “I am watching Iris carefully”

Amber “Chopping the turnip was quite tricky because it was hard”

Lucas “I am cutting the turnip into small pieces”

Liv “I held the bowl for the boys to put the vegetables in”

Rosie “I am watching them chop safely”

Alexander “I am cutting the carrot and holding it tight so it doesn’t slip”

Beth “I am cutting the onions into little pieces and putting them into the bowl”

Mitchell “Our group were exhausted from the chopping but delighted with our efforts!”

Very happy chefs here in Primary 3!

Ruby “Miss Ritchie washed the lentils in cold water so get rid of germs”

Sam “The chicken stock cubes dissolved in the hot water”

Sandi “We used stock cubes to add flavour”

Karine “We mixed all our ingredients with a wooden spoon!”

We look forward to tasting our soup and writing the recipe in Literacy!

Primary 3 are back and ready to work! Definitely off to a great start today!

#primary3 #hardworkers #2017

We made some achievable targets for ourselves.  

“I will try not to put my letters up above the line this year.” – Sandi

“I am going to improve my use of punctuation” – Iris

“I need to work on adding tens in maths” – Elijah

“In the next term, I would like to improve my spelling” – Beth

“This term I would like to focus on learning in language” – Sam

“Today I have decided I want to improve my reading” – Ben

“I would also like to improve my reading”- Amber

“This term I would like to improve my mental maths” – Mitchell

“I want to prove that I can do better in reading” – Sean

“I want to make sure I can add 10s and 20s” – Lewis

“I am going to make my writing neater” – Karine

“I want to learn more about art this term” – Ailsa

“I would like to get better at my maths calculations” – Kay

“I would like to improve my dividing” – Amy

“This term I will improve my reading” – Lucas

“I have decided I will improve my handwriting” – Liv

“I would like to work on taking away with carrying” – Rosie

“This term I would like to improve my reading work” – Ruby

“The triangles are learning to multiply, now we are ready to learn more” – Alexander

“I would to improve my maths calculations” – Hollie

“I want to work on writing sentences” – Kyle

“I need to work on my spelling” – Blake