Author: Mrs McPherson

Last week we were discussing what makes a good friend.

We worked in pairs to decide on a word that describes a good friend. Today we used sponges to paint our words onto black paper. These will look great when they are dry and Miss McGregor said she will put them on display for everyone to see.

We worked as a team and we took turns with the sponges-Kyle
The sponges were very colourful-Paul
It was good fun painting using the alphabet sponges-Eva
The colours we used were yellow, pink, purple, blue and orange-Robyn
We had lots of fun making the coloured writing-Melanie Grace
We used black paper and the colour stood out-Alfie
The colours look really pretty on the black paper-Hannah
A good friend never gives up on you-Aaraa
A friend is kind, helful and makes you laugh-Abigail
Good friends play with each other-Calum S
Friends believe in each other-Christe

Here is a copy of our new homework sheet.

This week we have learned our 2, 4 and 8 times tables.

To do our 2 times table we just doubled the numbers-Jenna

We doubled our 2 times table to get our 4 times table-Violet

I learned that you double the number you are multiplying 3 times to get your 8 times table-Aaron

Some of us learned the 16x table, you double the number 4 times to get the 16 times table-Ashton and Eva

I learned that the 4 times table was doubling the number twice, it was quite easy-Alfie

We learned our 2 times table. We know that you add on 2 each time-Joey, Katelyn and Elliot

Dividing is the opposite of multiplying-Calum S

We can now do our fact family with our 2 times table-Robyn

We will need to do lots of work to learn our times tables, we know that we can play some fun games like Buzz and Around the World to help us.

Today we made some delicious sandwiches in class as part of our bread topic. We made cheese sandwiches and tuna sandwiches. They were lovely.

First we had to spread the butter and cream cheese on our bread, we also added cucumber, which we tried to slice nice and thin. After we added our topping we cut our sandwiches into half and then quarters. We tried to keep some to take home, but they were very tasty.

Here are some pictures of us enjoying our sandwiches in class.

We have really enjoyed leanring about money. We know so much more than we did at the start of pur topic. We have added all of our new leanring to share with you.

Primary 3 have been very busy during Scottish month making some fantastic art work.

We made some collage pigeons. We had to draw the pigeons first and then stick on some different coloured crepe paper.

We also made our won kilts. We painted the tartan and then we cut out and attached some black and gold belts-they look amazing.

It was really fun making our little Scottish men. We had to cut all of the Scottish mans outfit out and stick it together, this was another chance for us to design our own tartan.

We learned how to draw a thistle. It was tricky but they turned out great.

Our classroom look fantastic now with all our lovely art work.

Yesterday was Robert Burns day. We celebrate Robert burns on the 25TH January as he was born on the 25th January 1721.

Robert Burns is famous for his poems. We listened to two of his poems toady. We really liked ‘To a mouse’ and we were able to hear the translation of ‘Address to a Haggis’. On Rabbie Burns day people around the world celebrate his life by wearing Scottish clothes, like kilts, and eating Scottish food like Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. People also eat shortbread, we got to try some toast and it was delicious.

This week we baked bread. We had to prepare the bread and Mrs McArthur put it in the oven to bake.

We had to discuss the rules that we made last week and follow them when we were making bread.




We learned how to work as a team-Jenna.

Now we know how to knead dough into a ball -Robyn and Alfie.

We had to tie our hair up-Robyn.

I learned how to make bread-Paul and Elliot.

I learned how to cook-Melanie Grace.

We all enjoyed it-Eva.

I learned how to mix the ingredients together-Hannah.

It was fun making bread-Aaraa.

We mixed the ingredients in a bowl-Abigail.

It felt disgusting when we put our hands in it-Calum H.

I learned how to share the spoon and mix it together-Aaron.

We had to use special ingredients, like yeast, water, flour and oil- Alfie.

I learned how to make dough-Katelyn.

We had to get the stuff ready-Harris.

We had to wash our hands before we touched anything-Ashton.

We had to wear aprons-Katelyn and Melanie Grace.

We are going to learn all about money in maths. We were all excited when Miss McGregor told us what our new maths topic was. Miss McGregor could not beleive how much we already knew. We made a mind map to show you what we know and we will make another one to show you what we learn after our money topic.

This week we have been learning about expressions and equations. An equation is when two sums are equal. If the sums are not equal you add the non equal sign.
We learned how to write the non equal sign.
It is an equal sign with a diagonal line through it (Hannah).
We know the greater than sign > and the less than sign 71 (Alfie)

10 < 20 (Joey and Jaeden)

We have been learning how to balance out two sums. If they have the equals sign they must be the same at each side.

53 + 7 = 59 + 1 (Jenna).