The boys and girls have been displaying lots of numeracy skills on the working wall this week!
STEM – Planet Earth
Today we were investigating living and non living things. We took our learning outdoors and then learned all about the things that living things need to survive. 
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 3 enjoyed working together during PE to play listening games and team games.
We have been learning…
“We have been learning about place value in numeracy”. Dakota
“We have been learning about 3 digit numbers”. Emily
“We have been learning and making symmetrical patterns”. Eesa
“Where food goes on the nutrition wheel, then we made used what we learned to make a healthy smoothie.” Erin
“We wrote a recipe for a healthy smoothie then followed the instructions to make a smoothie.” Farah Rose
Numeracy
The boys and girls are demonstrating determination to solve numeracy problems. We have explored number buddies to 10, patterns and quick mental strategies to add and subtract 9. Keep up the hard work boys and girls!
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Primary 3 are enjoying listening to George’s Marvellous Medicine by Rohal Dahal. Today the boys and girls explored the character description of Grandma. They reread an extract form chapter 1: Grandma in their groups. Then highlighted all the adjectives in the passage, pink. All the connectives yellow. And all the punctuation green. The boys and girls discovered speech marks and are excited to learn how to use speech marks tomorrow.
The boys and girls used what they had learned to write fabulous sentences including interesting adjectives to describe Grandma. 
Alan also enjoyed our fine motor skills activities earlier this week and completed them all so fast!
Our First Week As P3!
We have had a brilliant first week back. We are very excited for the year ahead.
So far in primary 3 we have been learning about;
“We have been learning about symmetry in maths. I made a symmetrical pattern by colouring the boxes the same on each side.” Rida
“We have been learning about using connectives in our sentences. A connective joins two sentences together.” Emily
“We talked about what we know and what we want to find out about the Rainforests.” Patrick
Everyone in P3 really enjoyed team building during outdoor learning this week, using the loose parts!
I am sure the boys and girls will love to tell you about their creations. 
National Numeracy Day
Today is National Numeracy Day and we have been rocking and rolling our numbers!
We broke a record for most people joining a rock and roll numbers live stream!
Riverside Museum
We had such a fantastic day out to the riverside museum today!
We learnt all about the different types of power that vehicles can use – wind power, horse power, electric power and steam power.
We had a go at being designers, inventors and engineers and used our creativity skills to make our own vehicle.
Fairtrade
We learned from Mrs Byrne about Kenya.
She shared her own experiences of visiting Kenya.
We found out about the wet and dry seasons.
We identified similarities and differences in our homes and homes in Kenya.
We also found about the community Mrs Byrne spent time with and found out about school and church.
We looked at pictures of Kenyan banana and tea farms. We found about the jobs on the farm.
Then we acted out the process from worker to retail. Learning about the changed hands in money.
This led to a discussion about the importance of Fairtrade and getting a fair price for the farmers.
