Elections

This week we held our class elections for the Class Representative for the School Council and for the Sustainability Squad.

Many children stood in front of the class giving their reasons why they wanted the job and what skills they had.  Well done everyone.

The class voted for Rory to be the representative for P3 on the School Council (Ayla is the class secretary) and Emily to be the representative on the Sustainability Squad.

Science

As part of our science work on The Senses we carried out a smelling experiment this week.

Drew liked the smell of the sanitiser.

Imogen liked the smell of the banana,

Elsie liked the smell of chocolate.

Emily liked the smell of coffee.

Ayla liked the smell of cinnamon.

Gray liked the smell of garlic.

Kelsey did not like the smell of toothpaste.

Ciarian did not like the smell of garlic,

Isaac did not like the smell of perfume.

River did not like the smell of onion but Rory loved it.

Numeracy – Measure

We have been estimating and measuring in metres and started to make a fish about one metre long.

Literacy – Writing

We described Flicker the little dragon in our novel for our writing and followed the correct text structure.

Health and Wellbeing

We discussed what makes a good friend and created a Friendship Tree with all our ideas.

We also said goodbye to Ms Hobbs who has been great help in the class.  We made this lovely card for her.

This week we have been focusing on our sense of smell. Mrs. Scott delivered a bag to our door and we were so excited because we thought it was a delivery of food! We had to use our nose to smell the lid of the container and try to guess what was inside.

We were very good and got some of them right first time. For example cinnamon and perfume. Others were not so easy – like garlic and hand sanitiser.

We looked at words with short O for our spelling. For example pot, hot, shop and compose. We used some of the words in a short sentence and we did very well with our dictation,

This week we had to vote whether to make a class dragon or a dragon house with our shoe boxes. The votes were very close but, the dragon house won. So, we have made a start on the dragon houses this week and we had great fun with the paints.

In Writing we thought hard about what Flicker the dragon looks like in our novel. Then we drew it, labelled it and followed our structure for writing a description, The fun bit was writing the evaluation and we are very good at that.

We have been learning about how to be more resilient when things get choppy on the river of life. We made boats and chose some things to take with us that help us to be more resilient. We were so happy to see them displayed in our room.

We have also been thinking about the 3 school rules. Can you remember them?

In Primary 3 we have done quite a mixture of learning this week.

We moved on to learning about parts of the ear in Science but, we have to do some more exploring of the ear next week.

We still had some Art work to do with the eye. So, we used 2 different types of media for this. First of all we thought about what we can see with our eyes and we made this picture with coloured pencils and black fine line with felt pen.

Next we made an eye collage with material. We thought this looked like an easy activitiy but, we had to do lots of problem solving and we had to work hard to make our cutting neat and accurate. It was fun using the tiny material scissors to cut through the fabric.

We had fun comparing and contrasting our two styles of eye Art.

We also made our Christmas card designs even though it is still September! We really enjoyed listening to  the Christmas music as we designed them.

In practical Maths we measured strips of paper to make half a metre. It was tricky handling the long metre sticks and we have been working hard at sharing the equipment with others and waiting patiently for our turn. The fun part was using the half metre strips to measure different objects around the classroom.

Our teacher modelled some writing for us this week and our focus was on a best friend. We had already made a labelled plan and this helped us when we wrote on the lined paper. Although we find writing challenging we are so proud of ourselves when we read it over at the end and look at the lovely handwriting we have too.

We are going to add the last line to our writing on Monday. Then it will be fun to share our writing with our friends.

We have been becoming more creative in our play this week and we have been using our imaginations to add some props to the dragon models and making our own maps for the cars.

Something new for Primary 3 was voting for our Pupil Council reps and the Sustainable Squad reps. Everyone was very sensible and kept their voting private. this made it a very fair process and everyone is happy with the results.

We did a whole class vote for Recycling rep and we are looking forward to getting started in our new roles of responsibility.

Yet another busy working week for Primary 3. Well done everyone!

We made our River of Life display for our Resilience work in Health and Wellbeing.  We discussed things that make our life happy and things that make our life a little bit more difficult. We made our own boats to navigate the river.  Next week we will discuss some of Skipper’s tools that help us with challenges in our life.

We started our length measure work and identified items in class that were longer than, shorter than or about one metre in length.

We have worked hard on our descriptive writing about My Friend following the structure of the descriptive text type.

We have worked this week on the spelling pattern short e using different graphemes (ea, ie).   Our tricky word was – measure.

Our science topic is the senses.  We finished off the sense of sight by creating a collage eye.  We learned the names of some of the parts of the eye:  the pupil, the iris and the sclera.   We also wrote our names in braille which is used for blind people to read.  Ayla’s great granny used to translate books into braille.

We also made an eye colour bar graph.  The most popular eye colour in P3 is blue.

We started to learn about how we can hear with our ears.  There are three tiny bones in our ears;  the stirrup is the smallest bone in our entire body;  the hammer and the anvil.  (Ayla).  There is a snail like part of the ear called the cochlea and it has little hairs which move when sound vibrates.  (Drew)   The ear drum vibrates and helps us to hear. (Mia)

In numeracy, we have been working with the sequence of numbers up to 1000.

In our novel, The Boy who Grew Dragons, the dragon has now hatched from the fruit.

We have been working very hard this week.

In spelling we have been thinking about and looking at words with e in them. Can you spot any at home?

We have been thinking about being good friends for HWB and also how we can be kind and caring towards others. We made friendship bracelets. Our first attempt with wool was a little tricky so, we tried an easier version with paper the next day. We were pleased with both designs.

For our senses work this week we explored smell and it was fun smelling the different smells in the jars. Some of our guesses were quite close but, the onion salt had us puzzled – we thought it was crisps. That one had a strong smell and made our noses twitch!

In our play we have been having a great time exploring sight and making funny glasses. We have enjoyed being very creative in our designs. Maybe we have some opticians in the making!

We were so excited to discover what was in the box Mrs Little had dropped off. It was a box of dragons and dinosaurs and we had so much fun playing with them. Maybe next week we will get very creative with them in our play.

For our writing this week we spent a lot of time exploring describing words, looking very closely at the character of Tomas in our class novel and then drawing what we thought he looked like. We found the coloured picture on the cover gave us the most clues about what Tomas looks like. Our labelling is becoming much clearer and neater now.

We have been measuring with rulers  today and we are having  a guess   (  estimating)  the measurements. Some of us have found it hard to understand that our guess can be quite different from the actual measurement.

Can you find anything at home that you think measures 15 centimetres?

Thank you to everyone who has brought in a shoe box. A big thank you to Miss Muir who has been collecting boxes for all 3 classes!Next week we might find out what we are going to do with the shoe boxes!

Today we used our senses to investigate dragon fruit.

We looked at them,  smelled them and touched them.  Then we created an observational drawing.  We cut one up and drew what it looked like on the inside.

We then got to taste the dragon fruit.

It tasted like watermelon.  Angus and Sophie

It tasted like pear.  Jamie

It was like mushed up sweet potato. Drew

It tasted like rotten apple and rotten pear.  River

I wanted more dragon fruit.  Rory

The texture was a bit like pear and it tasted like watermelon but with less flavour.  Maybe the little black seeds were mini dragons. Imogen

It tasted like watermelon and pear mixed up.  Lucy

It went all over my face and was very messy to eat. KC

I was disappointed that there were no dragons inside. Ayala

Another busy week for P2/3.

We made paper chain dragons and it feels like we are in China in our classroom!

We observed, touched and smelled real dragon fruit. Then we did observational drawings and colour studies of the dragon fruits. We were amazed by them. They looked like they were from Outer Space. inside the runny juice looked like beetroot juice!

The fun part was tasting the dragon fruit and getting it all over our faces. It looked really funny when we looked at each other. We looked like clowns!

We also made a graph of our eye colours.