This week the children have been very busy getting ready for next weeks Easter Learning Showcase. Our learning has been focussing on expressive arts. We have been singing, using drama performance skills, playing instruments and creating art work to explore our Easter Topic. We have been working so hard and as always I am incredibly proud of what the children have achieved. Well Done P3a!
P3 had a wonderful time celebrating Diversity Day. The children loved learning about the importance of celebrating our uniqueness. We read ‘Our Diversity Makes Us Special’ a wonderful story by Elizabeth Cole. We then used the story to help start discussion about the things that make us different. We finished our learning by joining together to learn about all of our differences.
P3a have had a fabulous time being back at school after the February break. The children especially loved learning to play the recorder, we cannot wait to showcase this new learning to everybody in March.
In R.M.E the children have been learning about Islam and the importance of caring for all living things. We watched two traditional stories then discussed ways we can help care for animals. The children then used improvisation and tableaux to explore this important message.
Finally the children ended the week with an active maths lesson. Thank you to all the parents that were able to come along to observe and support this learning. The children rotated through different maths stations all focusing on the Four Operations, 2D and 3D shapes. They were able to use all of our learned strategies to help solve the different numeracy problems.
Primary 3a loved taking part in the ZooLab workshop last Thursday. We learnt all about different African animals. The children had the opportunity to meet and hold some exotic animals including a Giant African Snail, a Hissing cockroach, a Corn Snake and a Tree Frog. Everybody was fascinated with these wonderful creatures.
This week we have been focused on our Ancient Egypt topic. The children worked in groups to create these 3 dimensional maps of Egypt using salt dough and paint.
In our play area we had a go at making papyrus paper, created our own Tutankhamun portraits, and followed rhythm patters with instruments.
Last week we celebrated Scots Language week, the children took part in a wide range of learning experiences which celebrated the Scottish language.
As a class we read ‘Neeps and Tatties’ a wonderful book written by Carey Morning and Anna York. The children discussed all of the different Scots words from the text we translated these and discussed their meanings. The class then created their own tartans to display our new learned Scots vocabulary. What a bonnie display they have made.
As a class we discussed the meaning behind the text and used our after reading skills to summarise the story. The children then took on the role of illustrators and designed and created their own front cover for the book.
Finally we ended the week learning about traditional Waulking Songs. The children used their imagination to simulate waulking (working) the fabric as they sang the tradition Gaelic song ‘Hè Mo Leannan’.
This week we have been working very hard in all areas of our learning. The children were building their phonological awareness of the ‘wa’ sound using Elkonin boxes, games on the iPads, and active spelling strategies.
The whole class worked so hard in both numeracy and maths this week. We had a 2D shape treasure hut to solidify our learning, and we explored multiplication by creating equal groups and using repeated addition, we loved spotting the links between the different strategies.
In our literacy lessons we read Chapter 2 of Flat Stanley together, the children then answered reading comprehension questions about the chapter using an interactive quiz on the iPads. They loved being able to see the live scoreboard.
What a wonderful first week back P3a have had. It was so lovely to see all the children together again. This week the children have really enjoyed P.E where we played games and completed different fitness stations.
For HWB we discussed the importance of team work, then created freeze frames of different scenarios where team work and collaborating are very important.
The children worked together on a STEM project to build towers with Miss McNeill, I was very impressed with the finished products.
We also started reading ‘Flat Stanley’ as a class. Prior to reading the children used their learned reading strategies to make predictions about the text. They wrote their predictions on post-it notes then visualised their idea and drew beautiful pictures which will be used to create a new reading display in our classroom.
We rounded off the week with some ICT learning. The children were very engaged working in pairs learning to code with ‘Angry Birds’. They worked so well together and demonstrated their collaborating skills which we had talked about at the beginning of the week.
What a way to start the year, well done P3a!
We had a great week of festive filled learning to bring term 2 to a close. As always I am incredibly proud of what the children have achieved throughout this term. This week we began with P3’s Christmas party the children had lots of fun and were especially thankful to our parent council for the lovely selection boxes.
During the rest of the week the children enjoyed lots of different learning including; Christmas French phrases; designing tree decorations; using glitter to create beautiful celebration cards; the children worked in groups for a maths ‘snowball fight’ where we consolidated all our addition and subtraction learning; we finally finished the week creating festive bakes! Well done everyone for another successful term.
Take a look at our WOW wall, displaying all of the children’s beautiful wave paintings from our Oceans IDL topic.
