We were amazed by all the fantastic pumpkins we saw on display in the school this week! Well done everyone!

We had lots of fun at our Hallowe’en party . We played some games, heard a story about,”Pumpkin soup” by Helen Cooper and we made a little lantern and designed our own mask.

Thank you to Mrs Ward, Mrs Hope and Mrs Istephan for giving us our yummy Hallowe’en snacks. These went down a treat!

Another huge thank you goes to the P7 Prefects who looked after us at playtime and lunchtime during our indoor breaks. You worked hard to keep us entertained and active!

Happy Hallowe’en everyone! 🎃

Primary 3 have writtenthese super alliteration Hallowe’en poems.  Above are some examples.

We started to create some Haunted House collage pictures.  Once completed these will be on the Blog.

In numeracy, we have started on addition and have been revising the number bonds to 10 and 20.   We are using Topmarks Daily Ten to help with our speed and accuracy of recalling these bonds.   Choose Level 1 Addition Bonds to make 10 and Bonds to make 20 and keep practising.

In spelling we are now working on long vowel sounds.  Check out Spelling City to see the letter patterns.  Play some of the games to revise the work we have done in class.

We are working on kindness and being kind and on Monday we were given a secret mission.  We were given the name of a person who we had to be kind to or pay the person a compliment without them realising.

Emily has noticed that Mia has been kind to her – she likes my hair.

Imogen has noticed that Anna was being nice to her- she had complimented Imogen’s hair and water bottle.

Angus said that Drew was being nice to him.

Alice noticed that earlier on in the week Imogen had complimented my hair.

In PE, we were working on gymnastics and using the apparatus.

In Music, we have been clapping rhythms and listened to the song 5 Little Pumpkins.  We also learned the Macarena Dance.

We thoroughly enjoyed our Hallowe’en fun day today. We had a party in class.  We played the Corners Game, Bat Drive, Wrapping a Mummy, Musical Tombstones, Dooking for Apples (with forks) Eyeball and Spoon Race.  We played lots of music and danced.  We listed to Funny Bones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

Emily liked dressing up.   Alice and Isaac liked seeing everyone’s costumes.

 

River and Elsie enjoyed the eyeball and spoon race.

 

Kelsey liked doing the bat drive game (a version of Beetle Drive).

Mia enjoyed the musical tombstones.

Angus, Ayla , Ross and Rory  liked the mummies game – wrapping a mummy in toilet paper.  Lots of other people liked this game as well.

Evie loved everything.

Ayla liked dancing to the Spooky Scary Skeleton song.

Thank you to the Social and Leisure Committee for our yummy snacks.

 

 

 

 

It was great to be back in school after our mid-term break and we all returned ready for learning.

In numeracy, we have been finding the number halfway between two numbers, estimating the position of a number on a number line and rounding to the nearest ten.  We know that if a number is halfway you round that number up.  So 55 to the nearest ten is 60.

In literacy, we have started to look at the text type Recount and studied the structure of this text.   A recount text is a text that retells and evaluates events and experiences.  The structure to follow is:

Title – what the text is about.

Orientation – When?  Where? Who?

Sequence of Events – What happened using time sequence words like First, Then, Next, After that

Personal Comment – How did the events make the writer feel?

We will be working on this type of writing over the next few weeks.

We have also worked hard this week completing a lot of assessments on all the work we did in Block 1.  Phew!

Today we did some coding to make a robot (ourselves) move.

Here are a couple of the programs that we made.

Evie thought the coding was fun.  Elsie thought it was fun but also weird doing lots of different things.  Mia thought it was hard when her partner had used lots and lots of ‘forwards;.

Welcome back, Primary 3!

We had a very busy start this week.

Before the October holidays we had a vote about our new class novel and most of us agreed that it would be lovely to find out what happens to Tomas and Flicker next. So, we decided to read,”The boy who dreamed of dragons” by Andy Shepherd. some of us felt that we already knew the characters and we would be familiar with them.

We spotted straight away that Flicker the dragon looks more grown up when we discussed the front cover. We knew that Tomas could not fly on Flicker’s back at the end of the first novel.

In Spelling we explored short vowel sounds and learned to recognise these words, spell them, rhyme them with other words and we also wrote sentences.

Mrs Hope gave us some Base Ten materials and we had a great time exploring Place Value and how numbers are made. Using the Base Ten really helps us to see how the numbers are made up and it was lovely to be able to chat to our learning partners about big numbers.

Our highlight this week was learning about Coding. We had such fun using the little picture cards and getting our friends to move around the classroom. We even had to pretend we were sleeping for one of the commands! Then we created our own codes for a partner to follow. We had to have a clear start and a clear finish so we started with a green flag and finished with a red flag.

We are looking forward to turning these into programs for the Beebots. We enjoyed Coding so much that we will research other activities that we might like to explore. Coding really challenged our thinking this week but, we felt so proud of ourselves when we had created our own programs.

We also started to look at RECOUNT in our Writing. This is quite different to the descriptive writing we did in Block 1 but, we are looking forward to learning how to write a recount and then write our own.

In groups we also thought about what we already know about night and day as this is our new Science topic. At first we thought we only knew a few things but, when we started recording it on our sheet we were amazed that we had written and drawn so much.

We are looking forward to finding out more about night and day.

 

This week we have planned and written our own dragon description for our writing assessment following the correct structure (title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation).

We have continued to work on the sequence of numbers to 1000 identifying larger/smaller numbers and putting numbers in the correct order from largest to smallest or smallest to largest.

Our novel is The Boy Who Grew Dragons and we created dragon eyes made with clay.  Here are some examples

We investigated the sense of taste and excited our taste buds with salty, bitter, sour and sweet foods.

Ayla, Emily and Max did not like the bitter taste of the unsweetened chocolate.   Ayla and Emily enjoyed the sweet taste of the fruit pastel.  Ayla also liked the sour taste of the lemon and Emily liked the salty taste of a crisp.

We also carried out the experiment ‘ Can you taste without your nose?  We were blind folded and had to hold our  noses.  We were then given two different foods – apple and potato and had to identify which was the apple and which was the potato.   We all managed to do this.

However, taste is more  complex than a simple message from the taste buds on the tongue.  Foods stimulate the nerves in the nose as well as the mouth and can be difficult to identify the food type when there is no information from the nose.

Primary 3 wish everyone a happy and relaxing mid-term break.

See you all on Tuesday 19th October 2021.

This week we looked at the sense of touch and went on a Texture Scavenger Hunt around the school.  We had to find items that were bumpy, hard, smooth, rough, spiky etc.

We also tried to guess what things were in the box with a sock over our hand.  The banana got squished.  Anna felt a mug.   Gray felt a spoon. Max said it was tricky to identify the paintbrush.

We carried out a Paperclip Experiment.  We moulded the paperclip into a U and pressed the two parts on a partner’s skin.  We then had to ask our friend how many points he or she felt.   We did this on different parts of the body.  This should us that different parts of the body have more or fewer touch receptors and sometimes you can’t feel everything that is in contact with your skin.

We studied the different layers of the skin as well.  The skin has three layers;  epidermis, dermis and hypodermis (subcutaneous fat).  Our touch receptors are in the dermis layer.

We have been discussing friends and friendships and we made a friendship tree with ideas on how to be a good friend written on leaves and flowers.

We said a fond goodbye to Mrs Shearlaw who has worked at Kingsland Primary School for 31 years.

 

 

 

 

We have had another busy week with lots of successes.

It has been a long time since we have done Problem Solving so first of all we used cubes to help us to see the answer and then we learned about the strategy – draw a picture. This was fun and it was hard to believe we were doing Maths. When we thought about it we realised that using the cubes was also helping us with our numbers.

We designed a dragon eye on paper then we tried to make it with play doh as a little practice for when we use clay next week. We are all really excited about that!

Mrs Ryalls brought in her dragon kite and we had to guess what was in the box. We thought it was a mungle flap! ( hen ) . The head of the kite is amazing and we have really enjoyed studying it.

Mrs Ward lent us her dragon toys and we got to cuddle them in our class for a few days. They were very welcome visitors.

 

We have been working together and team building but, we still find it a challenge to share and compromise. So, we are going to keep working together on challenges to help us to work with others.

We designed a dragon then made a plan. When we were happy with the plan we wrote a description that included a title, an introduction, a description of the dragon and a personal comment or evaluation. Although this was hard work we were very proud of our descriptions when we completed them.

We are continuing to work on learning the 3 school rules.

I behave safely

I listen to and follow instructions

I respect people and property

 

Well done, Primary 3 !