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.

For our health and well-being lessons we have been focusing on anti-bullying. The children discussed what bullying meant to them and we explored different bullying scenarios and ways to resolve these. The children worked in small groups using drama to improvise the different scenarios. We then created freeze frames for each of our scenes to explore the story and resolutions. The children did a fantastic job using drama to explore this issue.

We had a whale of a time becoming illustrators last week during our live lesson with Benji Davies, take a look at some of our work.          

Today the children took part in a live lesson with author and illustrator Benji Davies. The lesson was run through Scottish Book Trust in partnership with BBC Scotland. The children listened to Benji Davies read his much loved book ‘The Great Storm Whale’. He then asked the children to become illustrators and showed us how to draw some of his well known characters. I think we might have some future illustrators in our class!

P3a have been busy for Book Week Scotland. Inspired by the story of Little Red Riding Hood the children retold this traditional tale by creating their own movies on the iPads using the iMovie app. They loved taking on different roles including director, camera operator, and actor. They collaborated and we loved watching the finished films! Ask us about some of the camera angles we were learning about.

The children also created their own monsters and turned them into comic strips on Book Creator. We can’t wait to write character descriptions about our own monsters for our writing lesson soon.

We were also very lucky to get to visit the community library, everybody got to select their own book which we will be reading in class. The children were very responsible on the walk to and from the library and represented WWP well. Well done P3a!

This lovely P3 boy has very generously donated his old building blocks to our school, for his younger peers in P1 and P2 to use. Thank you so much R for such a kind and thoughtful gift!