I got to level 2 then it got hard.
I did bonds to 10 and 20 in 3 seconds.
I liked bonds to 100 in tens.
It was tricky adding two digit numbers to 25 in my head.

P3a enjoyed an Egyptian afternoon at the end of block 1. We did 4 different activities – painted our canopic jars, glued shiny paper onto our Pharoah masks, tasted pomegranates, figs & dates and made Lego pyramids. It was great fun and a lovely way to finish our amazing Egyptians topic!

We have been having lots of fun learning about Autumn since we have came back from the October holidays!

We have got an Autumn investigation tree in ELC and children have been bringing in things from out in the community to put in it! There is lots of different coloured leaves in the tray too.

We have had some stories at the end of the day about Autumn and the weather too.  We listed to a story about Alfie and Annie, and we watched the story of the enormous  turnip on the smart board too.

At gym, we had the parachute out and we put leaves in the middle. When shook the parachute all together the leaves wen flying up in the air! We also enjoyed some autumn songs, movement and ,music.

Yesterday we had our first “Monday Muddy”. Everyone came in their warm clothes and we spent all our session outdoors exploring the school grounds, having snack outside, using the parachute in the mugga and playing in the leaves! It was great fun!

Some of the children made a yummy snack of flapjack with Mrs Ramage, it was delicious!

We had a lovely Sponsored Walk across Fotheringham Bridge, up past Harbro and into the woods. We worked in small teams to collect items for our egg boxes. It was great fun and gave us lots of exercise!

We have all been learning about resilience and talking about ways we can ‘keep going’ when things get tricky. We had fund making resilience capes – we stuck pieces of paper to our backs then our friends wrote ideas of what we could do if things got hard for us. It was great fun!

Great work Ailish. Maybe try some smaller numbers that you can add in your head as 3 digits are quite tricky.

‘Show Don’t Tell’ is a technique used by writers in various kinds of texts so the reader can understand the story through action, words, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through obvious statements. The goal is to allow readers to interpret significant details in the text by making connections to wider knowledge and other texts.

Choose one of these photos and write a ‘Show Don’t Tell’ description in the comments. You will receive feedback next week from your peers in your peer feedback group.

Due: Monday 29th October

This week we have been busy drawing maps in Primary 2.

We have drawn a map of our journey to and from school ( real ).

We also drew an imaginary map about Mr.  Grinling’s home. We added a key of symbols to this map to make it easier for other people to read.

We have been on an imaginary aeroplane trip around Peebles using Drone footage. This was really exciting. We spotted the bridges, the River Tweed and our school.

We are going to be learning about Inventors in block 2. Here are some of the things P4 know already about Inventors:

Inventors are people that spend weeks/months/years creating cool technologies for people that need them

Someone that invents things like computers

Invented by my mum

Make new/exciting things

Work in factories

God invented the world

Alexander Fleming invented penicillin

Inventor who made medicine for smallpox – Edward Jenner

Medicine was invented

Everything has been invented except for nature

Digestive biscuits made as people were choking on other biscuits

Xbox was invented by Microsoft and Ps4 by Sony

If we didn’t have inventors we wouldn’t have beds, shops, toilets, lights, heating, phones

Animals evolved so they invented new animals

Inventing has been around for 100s of years

Discovered is different from invented

We are looking at mental addition this week and we are trying to get quicker at recalling our number bonds to 10/20.  This is a great website where we can reduce the amount of time we are given to answer questions.  How quickly can you get ten out of ten?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/3967

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/addition

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=dartboardadd