P3a

This morning we went out to view the solar eclipse in the playground.  P4/5, P5, P6, P6/7 and P7 also came out to watch.

 

We made pinhole projectors so we could look at the eclipse safely and we turned our backs to the sun.

 

We couldn’t see the eclipse properly because the clouds were covering the sun.

 

It went quite dark and very cold and windy.

 

The last total eclipse happened in 1999 (about 16 years ago) and we hope it won’t be so long until the next one.

 

When we came in we watched it Live on BBC news.  We drew our own drawings and wrote down some facts about the solar eclipse.

 

We had fun trying to spot ourselves in these fabulous selfies!

 

We are all looking smart in Red.  Look out for updates on our red nose day later!!!

 

We really enjoyed P3s assembly and we also enjoyed joining in with the song,  We had some very funny faces.

 

 

We stuffed our faces with cake at the bake sale! YUMMY!

We designed our own red noses and Mrs Allan took pictures and displayed them in a pic collage.  Look at our lovely designs.

 

 

We have a good time today.  Some our favourite things were :-

Isla – I enjoyed designing my red nose.

Leena – I enjoyed the bake sale.

Ava – I enjoyed Red Nose Day.

Josh – I enjoyed dress down day.

Hannah P – I enjoyed designing a red nose.

Abby and Hannah M – We enjoyed everything.

James – I enjoyed P3 assembly.

Mrs Woodward is in P3/4 because Mrs Allan is taking P6 for German. When she came to our class we could hear P2 singing The Red Nose Song. The song is called Making Funny Faces!

We asked if we could join them for a practice of the song. P2 said “Yes!” We watched the Comic Relief video on the Smartboard and sang along with P2. We also noticed that Mrs Woodward is wearing a sparkly red nose!!!

We are looking forward to the P3 assembly tomorrow and singing our song!! We hope to raise lots of money through dress down day and the bake sale.

 

We have been learning about Fractions.  The P3s have been focusing on tenths and the P4s have been focusing on fifths.  We made a pic collage to show what we had learned so far.  We are still working on our pic collages and we will upload more when we have them.

 

The main facts we know so far are : –

–  all the sections have to be equal sizes so if there are 10 equal sections it is tenths and if there are 5 equal sections it is fifths.

–  half of a fifth is a tenth

–  and half of a half is a quarter

– when we write a fraction the top number is called a numerator and the bottom number is called a denominator

–  one tenth = 1/10

–  2/10 = 1/5

–  one fifth = 1/5

 

We used cubes to build towers and then we described them using fractions.

 

3/5 are black and 2/5 are white

 

 

2/10 are brown

2/10 are blue

1/10 is red

1/10 is orange

1/10 is yellow

1/10 is green

1/10 is black

1/10 is white

 

 

We noticed there was no sound but there may be something spinning underneath to tell blind people when to cross.

 

The red man changes back quickly so you don’t have time to start crossing but you can finish.

 

Had to concentrate really carefully because the green man was at the side and it changed so quickly we missed it a few times.

 

Still be aware of traffic to make sure it is stopping when the green man is on.

 

 

 

 

Today we had a class trip to the Wallace Monument and then to Stirling Castle.  Some people were a little scared when we were climbing the very narrow, steep, stone staircase but everyone managed to climb up and enjoy the view and the exhibitions inside.  Some people also found the climb very tiring.  We saw an exhibition of William Wallace’s Sword.

We thought it was very tall, and almost the same height as most of the children in the class.  We also got to see the armour that would have been worn.  We saw the River Forth and realised it was very wide and we also saw the loop that trapped the English Army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.  We drove passed Stirling Bridge on our way to Stirling Castle.  While we were at Striling Castle we visited the tapestry exhibition and saw the tapestry of William Wallace and Andrew Murray b ut we also saw one about Ally’s Tartan Army in the World cup of 1978.  We took lots of photos but if you’d like to see them you’ll have to wait till our Assembly on Friday.

Next Friday, 20th February at 9.30 am, our class will be performing our assembly about one of our current topics! I’m sure you will be interested to see it so we look forward to seeing you all there.