On the 1st February it is Chinese New Year. The year 2022 is represented by the tiger. Last year was the year of the ox.

Can you find out what animal will be represented in 2023 ?

What animal represented the year you were born in ?

 

In class we were so excited about using the iPads to explore Chinese New Year through Numeracy and Reading. It was so strange not having to wait our turn on the Smartboard because we all had our own iPad to work on. This meant we could work at our own pace and a little faster.

Although we have really had fun drawing on the iPad we felt very grown up when we did ordering, sequencing and reading real facts about the Chinese New Year festival.

We say goodbye to the year of the ox today and we look forward to greeting the year of the tiger tomorrow. 🐅

 

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! 🐲

We have also been working very hard on our Scottish theme and we are really looking forward to sharing our learning with you on Scottish Afternoon on the 3rd of February.

On Monday we recited our class poem The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate.   Everyone who said the poem to the class or to Mrs Scott and Mrs Cormack was presented with a Burns Poetry Certificate,   Great work Primary 3.  This can be quite a scary thing to do.

Some children entered the Burns Competition and the winner for Primary 3 was Max Caldwell and the Runner-Up was Emily Gray. Congratulations.

For the school video each table group recited one verse and we made a class video of us all reciting The Sair Finger,   This will be on the whole school Scottish video for you to watch.

We worked very hard on creating a poem about a family member in Scots.   We then had to practise saying our poem for the school video.   We hope you enjoy hearing us read them.  Here are a couple of examples of the poems we created.  A copy of this poem was sent home on Thursday 27.1.22.

Ma Brither

Ma brither haes short, dark, broon hair.

Ma brither haes blue een.

He is awfie tall wi lanky legs.

Ma brither ‘supposed tae wear his glesses.

He wears Nike claes.

Ma brither haes a bonnie face.

Ma brither is guid at makin mac ‘n cheese.

He’s awfie guid at fitba’.

Ma brither maks me heppy

Me and ma brither play the gither at collie backs.

Ma brither looks efter me, he’s a guid brither, the best brither in the world.

I widna be withoot him.

by Mia 

 

Ma Dug

Ma dug is cawd Winne.

She haes black fur an’ white splodges.

Ma dug likes tae fetch sticks fae dawn tae dusk.

When I’m sad ma dug snuggles up.

She loves tae be stroked.

When it’s bedtime she snuggles up next tae the feear.

In the mornin’ she gets up an’ eats her scran.

Ma dug loves to gang a walk in the efternin.

I love ma dug Winnie wi aw ma hert.

By Drew and Jamie

We had some fun singing and doing all the actions to Head,  Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Scots.  The words we used were: Heid, Shodders, Knaps an’ Taes and of course een, lugs, mooth and neb.

We found out some facts about Robert Burns.  We listened to Auld Lang Syne and said The Selkirk Grace.   We listened to the poem To a Mouse.

Rory – Robert Burns was born in Ayrshire;

Imogen, he died at the young age of 37 years old.

Drew, he died the same day his 12th child was born;

We learned about the Scottish artist Steven Brown and his fabulous McCoo artwork.  We then created our own ‘McCoo’ in his style using oil pastels.   This has also been made into a video for the whole school Scottish video.

We used the iPads this week to reinforce our symmetry work.  We used the App SketchesSchool and the symmetry tool.  Here are two examples made by Rory and Elsie. We also played Symmetry Invaders on Topmarks

 

We have been exploring Scotland this week.

We have also been learning our Scots poems and working hard at adding actions and gestures because most of us know the words off by heart now.

We designed some tartan and we will keep working on this. We will share these photos with you in the whole school Scottish Afternoon video.

We have been learning about symmetry in Maths and have had so much fun with the interactive games on the Smartboard. These games have helped us with the language and they have also given us a deeper understanding about symmetry.

We are exploring some Scots words for animals and it has been fun trying to say these to our partners.

We have been reading our non-fiction books in class and we are now becoming quite skilled at reading about real facts and then talking about them in our groups. We are not finding reading non-fiction texts as challenging as we did at first.

Together we have been continuing to learn our Scottish poem – The Sair Finger.  We have added gesture and thought about volume and being clear when we speak.  We have recited it individually, in pairs and in groups.  Well done everyone.

We have now planned our last narrative piece of writing about a Space Journey.  We created an astronaut, an alien and a planet.  We have thought about different adjectives to describe them.  Next week, we will use everything we have learned and write our narrative text.

In numeracy, we are now working on subtraction.  We are trying to use our number bonds and link our addition learning to subtraction.

We have continued to look at Similarities and Differences in our Health and Wellbeing work and this week we have considered stereotypes and gender biased expectations.   We know that is is okay to be who you want to be, that we are unique and that we can be any kind of boy or girl.

We have had fun hearing about the story of Grey Friar’s Bobby and we used drama (in role, using language in role and still pictures) to retell parts of the story.

We are learning to work collaboratively.   The skills we have worked on are:  getting into a group quickly and quietly and gathering all necessary resources.  Today’s task was to gather all materials needed to make a jam sandwich.   After doing that, we had fun making the sandwich and of course, eating the sandwich.

Each day, 4 children have been chosen to be – Me a Special Person.  The class then write something positive around the self portrait.  The children are absolutely delighted once their portrait is returned and they read the lovely things that have been written about them.

We used the iPads this week learning about some of the Notes App features.  We got to practise our spelling patterns on Spelling City and our number work on Hit to Button or Topmarks Symmetry.

The MUGA day for Primary 3 is now a Friday.

Happy New Year and welcome back.

Every January each class has a Scottish Poem to learn and recite. Primary 3 have been working on The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate.  We have learned a verse each day and have enthusiastically stood in front of the class in pairs or in groups saying each newly learned verse.  Well done everyone.   Next week we will be thinking about making sure we are speaking loudly and clearly, at a good pace and adding some actions.

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man!

         Your pinkie? Deary me!

Noo, juist you haud it that way 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, tae 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 .

       Ye’re only lettin on!

Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are,

       Row’d up the same as John !

We read The Gruffalo in Scots and enjoyed working out the meaning of the Scottish words.

In numeracy, we have been revising all the strategies we had been taught in addition.  We have been learning and chanting our number bonds to 100.   Please continue to practise using Topmarks Hit the Button.

We have continued to work on long vowel letter patterns in spelling and our words are on the website Spelling City.

In Health and Wellbeing we completed our work on Similarities, Diversity and Respect studying what we have in common and what is different.  We then chose four children to be – Me, as a Special Person and wrote all the lovely things about them around their self-portrait. Next week, every day a different set of four children will be chosen.

For 2022 we thought about a goal and designed a trainer with our New Year’s Resolution.

Rory – to learn to play the guitar

Logan – to make a very big Hot Wheels Track

Drew – to improve my gaming skills

Mia – to be kinder to my brother

Lucy – to get better at football

Ayla – to spend more time with my bunnies

Well done Primary 3, you have all worked very hard and settled back into the school routine after your holiday.

 

Happy New Year !

in P3 we have been working very hard to learn a Scots poem.   Our poem is, ” The sair finger” by Walter Wingate.

We have to learn as much of the poem as we can memorise.

We also spent a lot of time trying to translate the Scots words into English so that we could understand the poems.

Next week we will work on pace, clarity, expression and gestures when we are saying our poems.

We also listened to a story about Bea and Brodie that is set in Scotland. Some of the words were in Scots so, we enjoyed trying to work out their meanings in English.

In Numeracy we have been focusing on addition and for MSHD we spent some time handling 3D shapes and chatting about their properties. We have also started to look at symmetry and we have played some fun games to help us to learn about symmetry.

 

We also made some New Year’s Resolutions to try to start or improve on something in 2022.

A hard working first week back, P3. Well done!