This afternoon, we had great fun at our Christmas Party. We played some festive games and had a dance. Today we have also been finishing off our Christmas cards which look super. We are also in the middle of sewing little snowmen decorations which everyone will get finished next week. They look very cute! We really enjoyed singing in the church yesterday and loved watching the P1 Nativity on Wednesday.

On Monday, we did our individual presentations to the class on a subject of our choice from our topic. Everyone did a fantastic job and was able to show off their amazing PowerPoint slides.

We were learning facts about Dundee Law and took notes so that we could write an information text about it.

In Numeracy, we were finding approximate costs by rounding prices to the nearest 10 and then adding them together. Then we found the exact cost by adding two prices using split strategy or column addition.

 

This week we have been preparing for our individual presentations. We got to choose from 3 topics what we did it on. We have prepared 2 slides on a PowerPoint presentation and have written notes to remind us what we will say. We are doing them next week.

In Numeracy, we have been learning to use Column Addition to add 2- and 3-digit numbers. In Maths today, we went outside to look for symmetrical and asymmetrical objects.

In PE we are still working our fitness by taking part in circuits.

For Festive Friday today, we had fun writing Christmas jokes for the community bags. Some of us wrote them out by hand and others did it on PowerPoint.

In Art, we learnt about Georgia O’Keefe and how she draws large scale flowers and plants. We created our own using oil pastels.

In Health and Wellbeing, we were finding out how to make friends. We have written any problems we are having with out friends and fed them to Fred the Friendship Monster to help us out with next week.

This week we have been learning we went on our walk in Newport. We spoke about some of the places we thought visitors would like to see in Newport and learnt a little bit of history about the train stations and train line. We planned our route to take in Berry’s Den and the old train bridge, the colourful bee house, Kinbrae Park and the site of the old Newport West Train Station. We marked our route on a map and followed it as we walked. We also had a checklist of things to try and spot.

We have started a Science topic about plants. We learnt what the different parts of a plant are and what their functions are. We have also learnt what a plant needs to grow and designed an experiment with cress seeds to try and prove this.

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about how our family and friends support about wellbeing using the wellbeing indicators. We also thought about what qualities a good friend has a created a potion to make the ideal friend!

In Numeracy, we have been practising using split strategy as a way of adding two 2-digit numbers. Some children did some work on using column addition to add 2 3-digit numbers.

As part of our topic we chose to learn more about red squirrels. We practised taking notes as we learnt different facts about them and then used our notes to write an information text.

Today was our first Festive Friday and we made Christmas stockings inspired by a Fair Isle design.

This week we made a map of the school grounds. We had to work out what each thing was and then make a key to show them all. We used thee maps this afternoon to do a treasure hunt. Each thing was marked on the map and we had a grid reference for each one too. We had to work in our team to find each thing and get back to the classroom as quickly as possible. We also found places inside the school on a map using grid reference.

As part of Book Week Scotland, we read The Worry Tiger which is in our book bags. We learnt about being mindful. We drew tigers by following instructions. We then coloured them using oil pastels. They look great.

In Numeracy, some children did a Domino Challenge where they had to sort 4 dominoes so each side added up to the same. They also did some doubling of 2-digit numbers. Other children were revising adding numbers within 20 including some empty box questions.

As part of our Literacy learning, we did the Comprehension Box.

For our writing this week we watched Something Fishy and wrote a Diary Entry about it.

In French we learnt some classroom instructions. We then played Jacques a dit…which is the French version of Simon Says.

Today we went to our Committees and did different activities while we were there.

Also, as part of Book Week Scotland we joined a Live Book Event with author Robert Tregoning. He read us his new book called The Dress in the Window and we learnt a dance to go with it!

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about the things we can be grateful for. By concentrating on the positive things in our lives we can feel better. We wrote two things that we were grateful for on leaves and have made a Tree of Gratitude for the classroom.

In PE, we had a hockey tournament and practised our football skills again.

In Literacy, we were writing questions using question words and question marks.

This week we have been learning about onomatopoeia and wrote a poem using onomatopoeic words about Bonfire Night. We have written them up neatly and decorated them for a display. We also made firework images in Art using chalk and a little glitter!

We were learning about where Newport is. We learnt about the UK and found Scotland, Fife, Dundee and Newport on Google Maps. We had fun trying to travel from the school to our homes using Google Maps.

We shared information about ‘places of local interest’ and have found them on the map and put a pin in to show them.

We practised some football skills in PE. We learnt to control the ball and pass to a partner.

In Numeracy, we have been rounding to the nearest 10 in 2 and 3-digit numbers.

In Health and Wellbeing, we were learning about how to work out if something is a big deal or a little deal and what we can do about both. Something that needs an adult’s help is a big deal and there are lots of things that are important to share with an adult. We discussed that there are lots of things that we can sort out on our own or with a friend that are little deals. Sometimes we also just need to take a few deep breaths and shrug off a little deal. Macaroni the Mole taught us not to make a mountain out of a mole hill!

This week we have written a pretend letter to a Grandpa. We were pretending to be a boy who had had a crazy dream about his Grandpa. We watched an animation about it. The letter had to say Dear Grandpa, have an introduction, say what happened and finish with an ending and Love from. We have been working on including openers, connectives, descriptive language and saying how we felt. We have started using coloured marking where we underline where we have used these different things.

In Numeracy, some of us have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Some of us have been finding numbers on a number line, finding half way between 2 numbers and learning about place value.

Our new topic is Maps and Our Local Area. We have thought about what we like to learn. Sadly, we weren’t able to use Google Maps to explore where we live because the internet was down but will do it next week.

In Maths today, we learnt that maps have grids to make it easier to find things. We answered questions using grid reference on a pirate map. This morning we also designed our own treasure islands.

In French, we were learning what the seasons are and how to say what our favourite season is. We used PicCollage and ChatterPix on the iPads to show our learning.

In PE, we played games of hockey on Monday and started practising some rugby skills on Wednesday. We were learning how to hold and pass the ball.

On Monday, we planted our plant for Green Flag Day. We also planted some bulbs in the tubs outside our classroom.

In Art, we drew and coloured big pumpkins! We used chalk or oil pastels to colour them and used dark and light shades to show the curves. We then blended the shades using a cotton bud, paper towel or our fingers! They look fantastic and we have our very own pumpkin patch!

In Health and Wellbeing, we were learning that the way we think can affect the way we feel. We discovered that different children feel differently about different things. We learnt that we can ask ourselves 3 questions to try and help us think differently about things that happen to us and this might make us feel better. They are… Is the thought true? Is the thought helpful? and Is the thought kind? We made ‘Helpful Thinking Helmets’ to help us remember.

This week we have been learning about tattie howking! We made brilliant pictures to share in the Harvest Service. We weaved baskets using strips of paper and then painted potatoes to put in them. We have been practising for the Harvest Service. We hope you enjoyed it.

In Literacy, we learned about the features of an imagined diary entry. We found out that we needed to include Dear Diary, an introduction, what happened (in chronological order), an ending and Love from….  We pretended we were tattie pickers and wrote in our diaries about our day. We used a tick sheet to make sure we included all the things we needed to. We also had to try and use openers, connectives, describing words and how we felt. We underlined examples of each these things in a coloured pencil. We decided this was a helpful way of checking that we had included the things we needed to.

In Numeracy, we were adding and subtracting multiples of 10 (and 100 for some) to 3-digit numbers. Some children were working on place value riddles.

In Maths, we drew a bar chart to show the results of our survey about P3’s favourite colours in French!

In Science, we made a pairs game with the 5 food groups and examples of each of them. You had to match a food with the food group it comes from. We worked in pairs.

In PE, we learnt how to hold a hockey stick and how to pass the ball by ‘pushing’ it with the stick.

We enjoyed the Butterfly Hunt on Thursday. Joe and Perla were the only children in P3 to find any butterflies. Well done to you two.

Happy Tattie Holidays, everyone.

 

We used our wind socks to see which direction the wind was blowing in. It was very gusty and the wind was strong today. We thought it was a westerly wind.

In Maths, we drew bar charts to show the data that we collected last week about our favourite crisp flavours. We learnt about the x and y axis and how to label them.

In French, we all said our favourite colour and we recorded the results using a tally chart. Next week, we are going to put our results into a bar chart.

Today, we wrote a speech bubble for the part of the Learning Pit that our photograph is in. For example, ‘Yipee! I did it.’ and ‘I will try it.’

We have each been to our Committee today. In Health, children made up games to be more active. In Enterprise, they have made a Butterfly Hunt where each class has to find as many butterflies as they can. In Eco, we completed an environmental review in groups.

This week we have written another story but this time it was about a little girl or boy’s dream. We had to use our imaginations to think of a character and setting and to make the story more detailed.

In Numeracy, we were counting forwards and backwards in 100s. Some children were learning about Place Value in 4-digit numbers.

In Maths we drew a pictogram to show P3’s favourite flavours of crisps.

In Health and Wellbeing, we used the Cool in School programme to learn about aggressive, weak and cool responses to problems we might face. We should always be trying to react in a cool way to the problems we face.

In French, we learnt some ways to talk about the weather. We learnt Il fait beau, Il fait chaud, Il fait froid and Il pleut!

In PE, we did a yoga session son Monday working on strength, balance and focus. On Wednesday we played adapted netball games with smaller teams and a smaller court.

With Miss Allan we read The Truth Pixie and learnt about The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

We have also been making Christmas cards that will be sent off to make into amazing cards that can be ordered. They look great!

This afternoon, we have been using the iPads to take photos of ourselves for the Learning Pit. We had to think about how we would be feeling at each stage and then show this using body language and facial expressions.

In Numeracy, we have been counting in 10s is 3-digit numbers. It is tricky when we have to cross over into a new hundreds number. For example, 10 more than 493 or 10 less than 609.

In Maths, we created a pictogram to display the results of our yes/no questions.

In Literacy, we wrote another story. This week, we had to create our own setting and character. We created a new world beyond an old creaking door in a forest. We were working on including description and adding more detail to make our stories longer and more interesting to read.

Today we started our new Committees. Each Committee spent some time welcoming everyone and thinking about what they would like to achieve this session.

In French, we revised colours and played a game to practise them. We learnt how to say what our favourite colour was – Ma couleur préférée est le jaune! We have also been saying the date every morning. We are getting very good at it!

As part of our Weather and Climate topic, we made wind socks. We tested the wind today. There was a very mild wind from the South West.

We spent time on Tuesday with the loose parts. We had to use the pieces that we had chosen to make the tallest tower. It was much more successful than the first time we did it because it was less windy. Miss Amy also noticed that groups were working better together and talking about how they could make their towers better.

In Music, we learnt to play the Open String Hoe Down on the ukulele. It was brilliant for a first go!