Hello and welcome to our January blog. We have learned lots of new things that we would like to share with you.

We have begun our Learning Expedition. It is called ‘Life Beyond Land’. We firstly asked questions about Space and have learned about the Moon and astronauts. – Maya

Another question I asked was ‘How do Planes Fly’ and ‘How does the Solar System Work?’ – Dominic

In January we learned about the Lunar New Year. It was the year of the rabbit, we drew pictures and we learned that red was a lucky colour. – Harry

Literacy

We were using the Chromebooks to find relevant information about the Moon. We were learning how to take notes. – Etta

We were skimming and scanning to find information about the Moon and astronauts. I used my notes to make factfile. _ Emily

We have started our novel study. The book is called ‘How to Train your Dragon’. – Brodie

Handwriting

We have been continuing to learn how to join letters. we were also learning how to write printed letters – Ainsley

French 

We learned how to sing the Abba song ‘Waterloo’ in French. We took part in the Eurovision song contest.. and we WON! – Simran

We have been learning to count to ‘vingt’ which means 20. – Vincent

PE

We began learning to play badminton. We had to control the shuttlecock and racket – Matthew Fryars

We worked in partners to throw the shuttlecock and hit it back using the racket – Katy

Maths

i was learning about time, I was learning how to read digital and analogue clocks using ‘half past’ and ‘o’clock’ – Ashraf

I know how to use ‘quarter to’, it is when the minute hand is pointing to the ‘9’ . When the minute hand is pointing to the ‘3’ it is quarter past. – Mikey

In January we were learning about money. I can identify the coins, the bronze coin is a 2p, the 5p is silver and the 10p is silver too. some coins are bigger than the others. – Matthew Fee

In Maths, I was learning how to add using carrying. I had to recognise if the number was over 10, I had to carry a ‘1’ into the Tens column. – Meerab

In Mental Maths, we have been learning how to divide. When you divide by 2 you can half the number. – Thomas

We were making posters, my group made a poster about angles, some of the angles are ‘right angles’, ‘acute angles’ and ‘obtuse angles’. – Yahya

My group made a poster about 3D shapes, some of the 3D shapes are called a cuboid, a cone, a sphere and triangular prism. – Aaliyah

I have been learning new things with Mrs Reid. I was learning to add and subtract. – Joshua

Outdoor Learning

We did outdoor learning with the Primary 7s, we made rafts and tested if they could float. We also built cairns. – Ainhoa

Music

We were learning about the ‘rest’ and ‘ta’ and ‘te-te’. – Natalia

 

Miss Igoe and Primary 3b 🙂