Mrs Ross and Primary 3b invite you to share in their learning.
Please remember it is our class assembly on Monday 11th March at 9.15am. We have now all been given our speaking parts and song/poem words to practise at home over the next few weeks.
A proper ‘learning review’ blog update will be coming at the end of this week 🙂 Thanks!
We have been extremely busy this week with 3 Scottish Event shows and are feeling quite tired today.
However, we would still like to share some thoughts on our learning with you. Please read our comments below:
Roxana – I liked Scottish Afternoon the best this week because my mum and dad got to watch me on Thursday night. I learned all about Scotland and I also enjoyed watching the other classes perform because they did well too. I liked watching Howl’s Moving Castle. I thought it was fun!
Elliot – I learned that we need to be louder when we are on the stage if the microphones aren’t working – which happened on Friday morning and during Wednesday’s dress rehearsal.
Ewan – I liked watching the other classes do their performances. I saw my haggis art picture on display in the hall which made me feel happy. My favourite part of the week was watching Howl’s Moving Castle and it’s now my favourite movie.
Donald – I learned how they used to say words in Scotland two hundred years ago.
Jack S – I learned about Howl’s Moving Castle during the movie. I know all about the different characters called Sophie, Howl, Turnip Head, Marco and Calcifer! My favourite one was Calcifer.
Ellie – I got to do a picture of Robert Burns house and it looked like his real house!
Gracie – I liked watching Howl’s Moving Castle. I got to use the movie to make up my own story writing.
Mark – I got to learn that you need to be really steady with your line work when doing art. I am proud of my haggis!
Austin – My new group book is called Beanpole Billy and I think the character has a funny name!
Jared – I liked doing the show on Friday because I got to see my mum. I felt a little nervous but I felt like I did good!
Jay – I enjoyed playing my ‘moothie’ during the Red Yo-Yo and now I know how to play that song well.
Lewis – I liked discussing our new topic on Superheroes and our Superhero role-play area that we are setting up. I learned all about the Compass Points thinking routine.
Liam – I am going to bring in some of my Superhero costumes and things after the weekend to add to the role-play area.
Jessica – I liked watching Howl’s Moving Castle and my favourite part was working on my own moving castle called ‘My Amazing Castle’.
Recently we have been learning about Making Thinking Visible and trying out some different thinking routines. We tried something called ‘Think, Puzzle, Explore’ as part of the introduction to our Superheroes topic. Here are some learner comments:
Roxana – Mia and I worked hard on our Think, Puzzle, Explore about Superheroes.
Elliot – Lewis and I made a very colourful Think, Puzzle, Explore and had lots of fun doing it.
Ewan – Austin and I put some superhero logos on our Think, Puzzle, Explore. We had fun!
Zara – Jack S and I made our superhero Think, Puzzle, Explore together – we both did superheroes and villians.
We will share more updates on this as we become more confident in sharing our thinking process. In the meantime, have a look at some of our pictures that include our finished ‘Think, Puzzle, Explore’ posters, some Literacy work and some German partner work that helped reinforce our numbers to 20.
We have been very busy the last few weeks settling into our school routine again. This term is not as busy as the Christmas term so we have a good run at getting our heads down and working hard!
Some of the things we have learned about and enjoyed since starting back are:
Elliot – We have been learning songs for the Scottish Afternoon. I thought doing the Superhero Quiz with Conor was fun and easy because we knew a lot of the answers.
Roxana – I liked reading The Midnight Gang – that’s why I started it at home too. Painting the German flag was fun too. I have learned the song and poem for the Scottish Afternoon and don’t need my words anymore.
Zara – I liked learning how to do Number Talks because I think it’s really fun.
Sienna – I liked doing the Superhero Quiz – it was really fun.
Jared – I liked everything we’ve done but I mostly liked the song we are doing on stage and I am very proud of myself for not feeling nervous.
Jessica – I liked doing everything! I liked the Superhero Quiz with Sienna and Mia. I also liked painting the German flag and I also liked reading The Midnight Gang.
Jay – I liked the Superhero Quiz but I think it was very easy because I had a partner who knows almost everything about Superheroes!
Lewis – I am very excited to move on to our Superhero topic and I hope the class is enjoying The Midnight Gang.
Ewan – My two favourite things are the German flag and the Superhero Quiz.
Zak – I liked the Superhero Quiz because I got to help James and Donald – I am really good at Superhero knowledge!
Donald – I mainly liked doing the Maths because I did 36 sums and was proud of it.
Conor – I liked doing the Superhero Quiz because I worked with Elliot. He wrote and I guessed some answers but there was a lot I knew.
Austin – I liked doing the Superhero Quiz with Ewan because I got to guess all the answers and Ewan got to write them.
Mark -I liked doing the German flag because I like painting and I took my time.
Neve – I liked doing Number Talks and also reading The Midnight Gang.
Ellie – I liked reading the Flat Stanley book.
James – I liked doing the German flag and I also liked doing the Superhero Quiz with Donald and Zak.
We will get some pictures up soon! 🙂
We had a brilliant time at Amazonia for our trip with P3a. Have a look at some of our pictures.
We have finished our Sukkot RME topic with Mrs McDaid and enjoyed working in groups to create our very own Sukkah.
A Sukkah is a building that Jewish people decorate with leaves and branches. It helps them remember their ancestors who sheltered in the dessert on their way out of Egypt.
We decorated old shoe boxes with lots of different materials – including real leaves! Don’t you think we did an amazing job?
We had a very busy week last week and all thoroughly enjoyed Pudsey Day. Have a look at our pictures below (during our Group Challenge!) and read some of our comments too.
Gracie – I liked when I got my nails painted for Children in Need.
Sienna – I was excited at the hall because I finally got to go on the laptops at school! I liked learning about the layers in the rainforest with Mrs Taylor/
Donald – I liked playing SumDog on the laptop because the competition is on.
Jessica – I liked getting my face painted for Pudsey Day and I liked having fun colouring in with my best friend Aila.
Jared – I liked getting my face painted for Pudsey Day and I got to play SumDog – Bubblegum is finally working on the laptop.
James – I liked going onto the laptops and look at Minecraft pictures during Children in Need in the hall.
Lewis – I liked making the monkeys with Mrs Taylor because I made a shield and sword for mine. I also liked doing the symmetry task with Mrs McDaid.
Ava – I liked making Pudsey colouring-in and I got to decorate a cake.
Ewan – I wanted to play SumDog a lot and I got shocked when you have to do 1000 questions for the competition!
Austin – I got to play SumDog with Ewan and Riley but didn’t have time to get my nails or face painted.
Zara – I liked being with my teacher at Pudsey Day.
Zak – I enjoyed looking at Minecraft houses on the laptops during Pudsey Day.
Jay – I enjoyed making my monkey with Mrs Taylor. I made a mini shield and sword out of paper and a cupcake case.
Lillian – I liked getting my face painted an nails done for Pudsey Day. My nails are pink and I like pink!
Ellie – I liked doing my monkey for the rainforest. I am going to make a banana for it.
Riley – I liked making a flamingo during art with Mrs Taylor.
Jack S – I liked making my monkey and me, Zara and Neve used teamwork!
We have had a busy week including mapping skills and art linked to our rainforest topic, Halloween fun and a special Maths group challenge. Most seemed to enjoy one thing in particular! Read our comments and have a look at our pictures too.
Sienna – I enjoyed sketching my sloth. I thought it looked very nice.
Roxana – I also liked sketching my tiger and I was feeling quite proud of myself. I also thought everyone else’s was good – I knew because I got to take photos of people for our blog! I also liked solving the Mystery of who won the Halloween costume competition. Also, at the Halloween disco, Lewis thought Sienna was Kayla and that was funny!
Lewis – I liked sketching my snake. The hardest part was the snake going down the tree.
Zara – I liked collecting in all the cards at the end of art.
Ewan – I liked doing my animal that I sketched on paper. I think I did very well. At the Halloween disco I mostly just hanged out with Austin and his brother Zak.
Ava – I liked doing the Halloween activities with Mrs McDaid. I also liked the Halloween disco because me and my sister got the same sweeties.
Jessica – I liked sketching my tiger on paper. I think I did very well. I had fun at the Halloween disco – I got to scare Ryan and Jack S the most!
Jared – I liked doing my chameleon because I thought I worked very hard on it.
Ellie – I liked doing the art because I thought mine looked like the picture.
Mia – I liked sketching my animal because I thought I did very well – I was scared in case I was going to mess up! I liked doing the Halloween Mystery maths too because I think it was fun.
Donald – I loved doing the sketching of my ocelot. I shared a card with Conor and wish we could go back in time to do it again.
Elliot – I liked sketching my sloth because it was very easy! I liked the Halloween disco because I mostly played with Conor and Max. Max kept going to the tuck shop every 5 seconds!
Austin – I liked the Halloween disco this week.
Jay – I liked the Boy’s Brigade Halloween disco – I dressed up as Mario.
Jack C – I liked the Halloween disco.
Liam – I liked the Halloween disco because everyone thought I was someone else!
Primary 3b are glad to be back after a lovely October break. We are going to be trying our hardest to focus and work to the best of our ability this term as the work gets more challenging.
This week we tried working in groups again to look at Healthy Eating. We were able to identify foods that are good for our bodies and foods that are best kept as occasional treats.
Have a look at our group posters below and our learner comments.
Roxana – I liked making the posters because it reminded people of what to eat and what not to eat. I also liked colouring in!
Ewan – I liked doing churros in our poster. They are a treat food.
Sienna – We showed what we had on our posters. I enjoyed making them.
Jessica – I had fun colouring in the posters.
Liam – I had fun working in my group.
Lewis – I liked doing my poster because in my group me and Neve did the healthy side and Jay and Ellie did the unhealthy side.
Riley – I have soup every day – with some bread in it. This is healthy.
Jack S. – Edible phone cases are a treat type food. My favourite thing was colouring in our foods.
Donald – I had so much fun doing the poster. I wanted to do it more!
(HOMEWORK DIARIES – Please ensure homework diaries are sent in every day! Only half the class have been returning it on a regular basis. Thanks for your cooperation. Mrs Ross.)
