Author: Mrs McPherson

Primary 3 are all really happy to be back at school. We have all had a fantastic week and already we are learning lots of new things.

We are very lucky as we all have a new friend. Tamara joined primary 3 after our Christmas holidays and she has said that she really likes being part of P3.

Today we had primary 3s form P3/4 back in our class. Miss McGregor said that we work so well together she let us listen to Christmas music as we worked. We were making quadrilateral robots. A quadrilateral is a shape that has 4 sides. We could only use 4 sided shapes to make our robots. They are all up on the wall and they look really fab!

It was really fun making the robots-Abigail
I learned what a quadrilateral is-Harris
The robots look fab on our wall-Eva
We learned about4 sided shapes-Jaeden
My robot was the tiniest in the class-Cole
I think Harris made the best robot-Calum H
We used coloured paper to make our robots-Elle
It was really fun making them- Gregor (p3/4)
Everyone did a good job making them-Sarah (P3/4)
I think they are very colourful-Hannah Malcolm (P3/4)
They look really good on the wall-Adrianna (P3/4)
They stand out really well on the wall-Kyle (P3/4)

Primary 3 made Keynote presentations on the I Pads. We worked in our co-operative learning groups to research a well known invention and we shared what we found with our class.

It was marvelous to read it out to the class- Robyn

We each took shots to read it out-Katelyn

I learned how to write on a Keynote-Calum Houston

Now we know how to add pictures to a Keynote-Paul

We had to find the pictures on the internet, then we saved the picture. When we added it to the Keynote we cropped the picture so it looked good-Coral, Alfie and Ashton

It was good fun working in our co-operative learning groups-Calum Grant

It was great working as a team-Christie

It was quite hard deciding which background to pick as there were lots of good ones-Alfie

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Primary 3 have been working really hard at ABC music. We were able to show off our skills when we were at the Science centre.

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Primary 3 had a great day out at the science center. We got to see lots of inventions, which will help u as we are investigating inventions in class. We also got to see lots of magnets, which has been our science topic. It was a fantastic day.

When I went to the Science Centre I did not know that an ice bottle could show up on a screen-Alfie
I did not know that you could make noise on a violin that had no strings-Melanie Grace
I liked playing with the magnets that stuck together-Joey
I learned that you could use different types of magnets-Jenna
I learned about the inside of someone’s body-Kyle
I enjoyed the Christmas show which showed us how Santa finds Australia and Scotland. He looks for the North and South stars-Aaraa
I learned that stars twinkle and if they don’t twinkle then they are planets-Hannah
I learned that Mars is red-Aaron

All the primary 3s have been together again this week. This time we worked on Big Maths.

Calum Stewart said it’s not Big Maths, it’s Bigger Maths.

We had to do 2 Learn Its as we are both working on differnet ones.

Here is a picture of our Learn Its from the IWB.

We also had to do 2 differnt tasks for It’s Nothing New

Here is some examples of our work.

We were very lucky over the last 2 weeks week as all the primary 3s have been together for literacy. It was nice to have our old classmates back. For literacy we were working on a traditional tale ‘Peter and the Wolf’. We all enjoyed the story and after we heard it we made character studies of Peter.

It was fun-Melanie Grace
We learned that we can add more details to our character studies-Jenna
We enjoyed having them over to work with us-Robyn
Peter is a brave person who is not scared of anything-Alfie
Peter lives in the woods-Aaraa

Today we made a comic strip of the story. We added in the characters and what they said.

It was important to hear the story again before we created our comics-Jenna

Primary 3 have been learning about shapes. We were naming 2D and 3D shapes and we made a cuboid using a net. We learned that a cuboid has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners. A cube has the same number of faces, edges and corners as the cuboid.

We learned about other 3D shapes too.
A cone has 2 faces, 1 edge and 1 corner.
A sphere has 1 face, no edges and no corners.
A cylinder has 3 faces, 2 edges and no corners.
A square based pyramid has 5 faces, 8 edges and 5 corners.
A triangular prism has 5 faces, 9 edges and 6 corners.

We had fun learning about shapes-Melanie Grace
It was great fun finding out about all the shapes-Kyle
I liked finding out about edges and corners-Robyn
It was marvelous learning about things we didn’t used to know-Coral