We have been studying Charles Rennie Mackintosh high backed chair designs. You can still sit on his chairs in the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. We learned about perspective when we made our chairs look 3D.

Captain Puggle poem

Click on the green writing to open our Captain Puggle Poem PowerPoint.

P3 can learn Captain Puggle or the Sair Finger or both poems. Have fun P3.

The Sair Finger

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man! Your pinkie? Deary me! Noo, juist you haud it that wey till I get my specs and see!

My, so it is – and there’s the skelf! Noo, dinna greet nae mair. See there – my needle’s gotten’t out! I’m sure that wasna sair?

And noo, to make it hale the morn, Put on a wee bit saw, And tie a Bonnie hankie roun’t Noo, there na – rin awa’!

Your finger sair ana’? Ye rogue, You’re only lettin’ on. Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are, Row’d up the same as John!

By Walter Wingate

P3 were inspired by very old paintings of the nativity and very modern art work of the Nativity including cartoon character Nativity scenes. In lots of the art we observed light coming from the baby Jesus. We chose a variety of media to create our Nativity art.

Look closely at our awesome art,:

Can you see any favourite cartoon characters?

Can you see light around Baby Jesus?

What an amazing dress rehearsal ! Good luck for the shows today and tomorrow.

Thank you to Mrs. Ryalls, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Ward for creating the show stopping costumes and corridor display.

• Asking the astronomers questions.
• Learning new things in Maths.
• Play.
• Space Art.
• Writing recounts.

P3 had more fun today solving this puzzle. Some pairs used cubes and others drew and coloured in small shapes. Everyone tried an idea and then changed it as they followed the clues. We had to guess, check and improve our ideas to find the correct solution.

Red is not next to grey.

Blue is between white and grey.

Green is not a square.

Blue is on the right of pink.

Have fun finding the solution.

Comment on our Blog to let us know how you solved it and if you got the answer.

Well done P3! Well done the pupils who have already logged in at home and left a comment on our Blog.

We have been logging onto Glow with our long usernames

gw17surnamefirstname  (Some pupils are gw15, some have their middle name or a number) Our usernames are on the front of our reading records.

To access the Blog from home visit our website; Kingsland Primary School. Find the tab along the top – class blogs then Primary 3

When you make a comment you need an email address. P3 pupils email address will be there glow username then @glow.sch.uk

e.g. gw17millerstruan@glow.sch.uk

I look forward to reading your comments P3

Mrs. Thomson

Here is our recount of the games we played on Monday morning. We are learning to write a recount of our experiences or events. We need to remember that a recount has a title, the orientation, the sequence of events and a personal comment.

What special words did we use in our sequence of events to put it in order? Will, our P7 helper last week, told us we could call it chronological order!!

What do we tell our readers in the orientation?

Team Work

On Monday 4th November we played games in the P3 classroom.

First we shared a chair with a partner. Some pairs shared their chairs in amazing ways. Next we did the tangle activity in groups of six. It was quite hard but it felt good when we managed to do it. We sometimes had to step over joined hands or twirl to get untangled. After that we played Eek Zoom in a big circle. Finally we wrote a recount about our experiences.

Everything was fun. Mrs. Thomson was really pleased with how well we worked together.

P3 did the Three Monkeys Addition Problem

Three monkeys ate a total of 25 nuts,

Each of them ate a different odd number of nuts.

How many nuts did each monkey eat?

Some of our answers:

5 + 3 + 17 = 25
5 + 9 + 11 = 25
19 + 1 + 5 = 25
7 + 5 + 13 = 25
7 + 3 + 15 = 25
1 + 9 + 15 = 25
1 + 11 + 13 = 25

We found that

• using cubes helped some pairs
• using bonds of ten and twenty helped
• after we used a bond of twenty plus 5 we could use it again to make a bond of 10 plus 15 e.g. 7 + 13 + 5 so 7 + 3 + 15

It was fun!