P3a

This term in Primary ¾ we have working on a lot of things.

In Literacy, we have all been working on our books and we are getting a lot more fluent at reading.

In taught Writing, we did a characterisation about our own characters. We did it as part of our IDL, which just now is, the Soft Shoe Shuffle.

We looked at lots of different pairs of shoes and created our characters from them. We found this really good fun, we were even allowed to try on the shoes. You might see some photos in Primary ¾. We will be using our characters next week to create stories about them.

Our IDL is the Soft Shoes Shuffle as we said. Through this we have looked at different material and fabrics, as well as olden style shoes. We learned that people used to wear Rabbit skinned shoes, and now we all like to wear different colours and styles of shoes. We did some maths activities, where we measured the Length and the Width of our shoes in cms. They are coloured and displayed in our lovely classroom.

We’ve also been using ICT to create pic-collages about different materials that would be best for shoes.

In Numeracy we have been measuring using, measuring sticks, rulers, measuring tapes and the Trundel wheel, so that we can experience how we need different measuring tools for different things. We’ve also been working really hard on our Big Maths and Times tables as well.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been walking the mile and learning to play tennis and rounders.

We are really enjoying learning tennis and have had the nets out to play actual games. In rounders we have learned how to field and bat, Conor even caught a great hit from Elliot, which was very exciting.

Today we are finding out about materials.

 

Some materials we know are…

glass

tile

wood

metal – steel, copper, aluminium, titanium

leather

sponge

wool

ribbon

 

We have been on a materials hunt in our classroom.

 

Metal is really cold and hard.  You can’t see through it.

Glass is transparent.  You can see through it.

Paper is floppy.

Plastic can be used to make boxes to put things in.  It won’t rip like paper and it is strong.

Wood can be used to make crates.  You can’t see through it.  Wood can be used to build houses sometimes.  You can use wood to build a frame of a house.

 

We are looking forward to finding out more about materials and their properties in our topic.

 

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Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning all about symmetry.  Symmetry is something that is symmetrical, which means it is the same on both sides.

We found lines of symmetry on our names and through some shapes, for examples a square has 4 lines of symmetry and a rectangle has 2 lines.

We loved using the mirrors to find lines of symmetry and had lots of practical fun.

We have finally finished our 70s IDL, we enjoyed making flares and tops.

For the Flares we used our own trousers and added fabric to make them look like Flares.  We had a really good time making them & it was so fun going around the classes showing them off to everyone.

We used fabric pens to design our 70s tops and some people learned how to sew, which was quite difficult.

We had a fabulous time & we think you can tell from our faces in the pictures.

This week, on Tuesday Primary 3/4 went on a school trip.

We went to the People’s Palace & The Riverside Museum. Our IDL at the moment is the 70s so we went to these places to see some 70s items.

At the People’s Palace we were split into 4 groups and we went to different levels.

The People’s  Palace was interesting, we learned that it is set in a place called Glasgow Green, which is a big park. It has a massive fountain which features Queen Victoria. Inside there are different things about Glasgow from different times, which were cool.

We saw an old Steamie, which was where people washed clothes, a room from the olden times, an air raid shelter and some other war items.

We loved putting our faces through the postcard board, as you’ll see from the photos.

After we had a great time there, we got back on the bus and went to the Riverside Museum, which has lots of old fashioned transport.

There we were amazed by the huge trams, trains and buses. We were allowed to go on a couple of trams which were really fun. We were also able to go on a subway train and walk down an old fashioned street, popping into the shops to learn about different things. We loved seeing the 70s style bikes, skateboards and cars, as well as old toys & clothes.

We even got to go on the tall ship and scrub the deck. We went down the stairs in the tall ship, we saw cargo nets and cannon balls, which was awesome. Joey was pretending he was the captain, and kept making us scrub the deck. There was a large bell & everyone of us rang it.

We had such a good time, we wish we could do it every day

This week we have been having great fun.

In Literacy Katelyn and Joey have been enjoying the orange band reading books and have been working really well. Their book just now is called the Greedy King.

The Big Bad Bananas have been reading chapter 7 of the Alex, the walking accident. We are really enjoying this book but we are very excited about getting a new book very soon, as we only have 1 more chapter to go.

The Monster Minions have been reading Kate and the sheep, our book has been good so far.

Ewan, has also been enjoying the Invisible Dog book. He has loved learning about different types of dogs.

Elle and Elliot have been doing really well with their reading and are enjoying a Cats book, which seems to be a lot of fun.

 

Numeracy

 

Most of us beat our big maths scores this week and we are over the moon about it. Our highest scores were 36 and 37, which is fabulous for Primary 3s.

We have been learning division. We used the triangles and learned how to use our timestables to do mental division. It is challenging but we are enjoying division so far.

We have just started to learn about remainders as well, this is harder but we will work our best on it.

 

IDL

In IDL we have learning about Life in the 70s. On Tuesday we are going on a school trip to see 70s cars and toys etc. We have also wrote character studies about famous people from the 70s, like the Wonder Woman, Luke Skywalker and the Muppets.

We have found out that in the 70s people wore flares, platform shoes and the hairstyles were perms, which are really curly.

Health and Wellbeing

In PE we have been learning Tag rugby, and how we need to dodge each other in rugby. We are loving using a different shaped ball and running, dodging and swerving to play rugby.

This week we have had so much fun.  We welcomed our new classmate to our class.  His name is Ewan and he is in P4.

Expressive Arts : In Music we were using the chime bars.  We learned 4 notes, which were C, D, E and G.  It was great fun because we were playing in time to the music.  We were split into 4 groups and we chose 4 different notes to play.  It was good because we were able to all have a turn & play all the different notes.

We need to work on staying in time with the music, as some of us were slightly out of time.  Perhaps next week we can practise again.

Numeracy : We have finally finished money.  This week we have been concentrating on subtraction of money, using chimney sums.  Some of us have found this easy, but some of us have found it tricky.  We really need to work on carrying over for addition and exchanging for take away.

Literacy : The Big Bad Bananas have a new book, called Alex the Walking Accident.  We are enjoying it very much so far & it was really funny when it was raining cornflakes.

The Monster Minions are still enjoying ‘Survival Adventure.’  We are really looking forward to finding out what happens.

The Doctors, Angry Bears & Ewan are also enjoying their new books.

Health and Wellbeing : This week we have been practising our skipping skills.  We played Helicopters & skipping when moving, which was quite difficult.  We are trying our best & most of us are able to do a crossover when skipping.

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Finally we have had our assembly.  It went brilliantly well.  We all felt amazing, although a little nervous.

It was about famous Scots, but it was about much more than that.  We showed our fingerprints and explained that our fingerprints are all different and unique.  We showed our Dr. Henry Faulds posters.

We showed our learning about Julia Donaldson, all about her famous books.  We all like them and showed our graph work.

We loved showing off our skipping and elastic skills.  We sang the songs that people used to sing for the skipping and elastics.  As well as this the whole class did the Virginia Reel dance, which was a lot of fun.  Elliot loved dancing with Mrs Cornwell!

We had also made a video with Mrs Cornwell showing our cooking skills, making healthy snacks independently.  We enjoyed making, eating and watching the video.

Lastly we had fun and performed our song, “The Poor Wee Grufallaw”. our song sang in Scots.

We had a fantastic time and experience & did an amazing job.

Scottish IDL

Primary ¾ have been learning about Julia Donaldson and Dr. Henry Faulds.

Who are they I hear you ask ?

Well, Julia Donaldson is a fantastic author. She has written lots of wonderful books, like the Gruffalo, Stick Man, The Gruffalo’s child and Zog.

Dr. Henry Faulds is a scientist who discovered that everyone’s fingerprints are different and unique.

We have been looking at these people because they are Scottish, amazing and famous Scots we are proud of.

Some of the activities we have been doing. We made our own monsters in order to meet the Gruffalo. We then used puppet pals to film the story and this was really good fun.

We have made and finished our front covers of our favourite Julia Donaldson’s book and we did some information handling. We have gone around the classes surveying what everyone’s favourite Julia Donaldson book is.

We also made Wanted posters about what good qualities our friends have. This was really exciting and we got to look at our fingerprints up close.

For more information please wait until Friday, as we will be doing our Class assembly.

We have been back for about 2 weeks and we have been very, very busy.

IDL : Our IDL is about a Famous Scottish person, we have been looking at Dr. Henry Faulds.  He  was born in 1843.  Dr Henry Fauld’s wife was called Bella Faulds and he died at the age of 87. He discovered that everyones finger print is different and unique.

Literacy :  In Literacy we have new class books.  The Big bad bananas are now reading ‘The Boy who had Everything.”  The Monster Minions are reading, “Muffin gets trapped” and the Doctors are reading about ‘Baked Beans’.  As well as this we have also been learning about Julia Donaldson books, like, ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Gruffalo’s Child”

Numeracy :  In Numeracy we have been learning about money.  Using coins and the value of the coins and how much change we would give.

Health and Wellbeing :  In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning old Scottish games, such as Elastics, balls and skipping.  We’ve been having such a wonderful time, thanks for reading & please leave comments.