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!

In Maths, we collected data for yes/no questions. We used a tally chart to record our data. We chose a question in our groups and then counted hands and recorded it in our charts. Next week we are going to put our results in a pictogram.

As part of our Science topic, we learnt about where food comes from. All food comes from living things. We found out how milk, bread and cheese are made and made a poster to show the different stages.

In French, we learnt the months of the year and went over numbers to 31. Then we were able to say when our birthday was – Mon anniversaire est le…

We have made rainfall gauges this week and we are going to record rainfall next week. We used a plastic bottle and used the bottle neck as a funnel. We put stones in the bottom so they won’t fall over. We are going to measure the rainfall in cms so marked cms up the side.

This week was our first week of spelling activities and had a spelling test today. We made our words with plasticine, did word searches and tested each other.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learnt about the Learning Pit. When we find our learning difficult we can end up in the Learning Pit where it can feel pretty rubbish and we feel like we’ve failed, but we were thinking different strategies for getting out of the Learning Pit and finding success. We drew our own Learning Pits and put speech bubbles for how we would be feeling at each stage.

In Literacy, we continued our learning on capital letters and full stops and this week, we wrote stories about a haunted house, a spaceship or a tree! They are all very exciting!

In PE, we were practising our shooting skills and how to move and bounce the ball at the same time.

In Drama, we acted out a scene from our book when the boy and the bear were playing i-spy! It was very funny!

This week we have been learning about the different seasons. We went outside this afternoon to look for signs of summer passing and autumn coming.

In Numeracy, we have been counting on from 100 to 1000 and working out missing numbers in sequences. We learnt about ‘before’ and ‘after’ and were able to find the numbers before and after a particular number. Some children have also been counting in 10s, 100s and 1000s beyond 1000.

With Miss Allan, we were learning about probability. We had to decide whether things were certain, likely, unlikely or impossible. For example, we decided that pigs might fly with their own wings is impossible!

In PE, we were learning to throw the ball in different ways. We learnt a shoulder pass, chest pass and a bounce pass.

We learnt about instruments that measure the weather. For example, a wind sock, a rainfall gauge and a weather vane. We have made a design for an instrument to measure a type of weather and will hopefully get to make some of them next week.

In Music, we learnt how pluck open strings on the ukulele. The strings are G, C, E and A.

In French, we have started learning how to say the date so we have been revising numbers to 20 and the days of the week.

With Miss Allan, we used Scratch Junior to practise some coding.

In Literacy, we have been learning about sentences and where to put full stops and capital letters.

This week in Art we made boats with sails. We used oil pastels to design the hull and sails and paint for the background. We chose whether to make a sun out of tissue paper or folded circles. They look fantastic and they are going to be on display in the hall so you will be able to see them on the Open Evening.

In Literacy we have started writing a story. We chose our setting from a picture and then designed our own main character. We had to think about what happened first in the story, what happened next and then what happened in the end. We are still in the middle of writing them so will finish them on Monday.

In Numeracy we have been revising numbers to 100 and 1000, counting in 1s, 5s, 10s and 100s. Next week we are going to be learning numbers beyond!

As part of our Social Studies topic, Weather and Climate, we learnt about why Scotland has seasons. It is because of the earth’s tilt and whether or not Scotland is tilted towards the sun or away from it. We made posters about one of the seasons to explain what it is like and why.

In Music, we started to learn about the ukulele. We learnt about the different parts and what they are for and we practised holding it. Next week we will learn to pluck the open strings.

We had a competition to design a Drop a Note poster. There is an area in the classroom where children can leave a note if they would like to talk to an adult about anything that is worrying them. It was very difficult to pick just one winner so we have chosen a new poster for each term!

This week we have also been thinking about how Newport Primary supports us with all the Wellbeing Indicators. These are also going to be on display in the classroom so we can tell you all about them if you come in!

In PE, we have been playing some team games. We played ‘Rock, Paper, Scissor’ and Scatter Rounders.

Welcome to the P3 Blog! We would like to tell you what we have been learning about this week…

In Art, we made birthday cards so that we can give one out on everyone’s birthday this year. We weren’t allowed to use pens or pencils! We had to cut out the shapes that we needed and stick them on. Some children make cakes, presents or balloons!

In Numeracy, we have been learning and practising number bonds to 10. We thought about them as number families that love to be together. We did a number search, played Round the World and also Number Bond Tennis!

We drew a postcard picture from our holidays and today wrote a letter about our favourite day. We had to try and include wow words, full stops and capital letters and connectives.

We have made our class charter with classroom rules. We think this will help us all feel safe and help us learn. We watched a video about Children’s Rights and these helped us to think of our rules.

We have been thinking about what helps us learn. One thing we thought about was getting a good night’s sleep. We learnt about how much sleep we need and what we can do to get a good night’s sleep. Children between 6 and 13 need between 9 and11 hours sleep.

To help organise our new classroom, we have made Buzzy Bees, Birthday Stars and School Values posters.

This afternoon, we did a Scavenger Hunt. We had to find certain objects with a particular adjective to describe them. For example, a smooth stone or a prickly stick.

Miss Amy found a mystery suitcase at the harbour and brought it in for us to see. It had some interesting objects in it like a ukulele, a captain’s hat and a ginger beer bottle with a letter in it. There was also a novel which we are now reading in class called A Boy and a Bear in a Boat. It has been good so far!

We hope that you enjoy sharing the learning that is happening in P3 at Newport Primary School.