We have been learning the alphabet and we drew a poster to show the lower case and upper case letters. How many letters are in the alphabet? We will explore alphabetical order next.

In Maths we have been learning about tiling and the importance of very straight sides on our shapes.

We are very proud of the display Mrs Ryalls has created for our Chinese New Year Art. It caused great excitement in the corridor when she was putting it together.

Mrs Little had set us an iPad challenge and we had fun exploring more on the Notes app that we had started a few weeks ago. We took a photo to show what we have been learning about and then we selected the markup tool to add text and drawings to the image. It was challenging at first but, we rose to the challenge beautifully.

We did a little yoga in class and many of us got so chilled out that we almost fell asleep on the floor of our classroom!

In Writing we have been learning about a new style called procedure and we are looking forward to learning more about the structure of procedural writing.

In Reading we revisited the main idea and what that means and we then wrote a summary about the non-fiction books we were reading this week.

In groups we brainstormed what we already know about water because this is our new Science topic. We are really looking forward to doing lots of investigations and experiments with  water. Some of us found it tricky to work in a group but, we persevered and then we found out that we really enjoyed working with others.

You have worked very hard this week. Well done !

Please bring a book to class on Thursday 3rd March for World Book Day.

** P3 MUGA Day is a Monday. **

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome back after our mid-term break.

In numeracy:  we have been using concrete materials to learn the standard vertical written method for subtraction with and without exchange.  We have also created tiled patterns using squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons.

In literacy:  we have been introduced to Procedure Text Type and the structure.  It has been the c, k, ck, ch  spelling patterns that we have worked on this week.  In handwriting we have concentrated on the joins; an, ap and ar.

PE:  we are working on gymnastic skills;  we balanced, we learned different ways to rotate, and we learned different ways to travel.  We also played some games like Shipwreck and Octopus.

Music: we named instruments and guessed what instrument was being played.  We also tried to make long and short sounds with instruments.

World Thinking Day:  On Tuesday 22nd February 2022 it was World Thinking Day and the Guide and Scout organisations think about their ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ all over the world.  We posted a photo on Tuesday of whose dressed in their uniforms.

It was also Kingsland’s 12th birthday on 22.2.22 and we sang a birthday song.

Mr Harkins played some tunes on his guitar on Thursday and we got to choose what he played (if he knew it)  We also did some mapping and located cities in Scotland.

Please bring in a book to read and possibly share with the class on Thursday 3rd March for World Book Day.

Please bring into class an empty plastic 2 litre bottle for art.   

Many thanks

Primary 3 Uniformed Groups

In Literacy we have been working on plurals – adding s and es to  nouns.

Most nouns add an s (dog – dogs).

Nouns that end in – ch, sh, ss, x, or z- add es (fox – foxes, church – churches).

Nouns that end in y with a consonant before the y – change the y to an i and add es (pony – ponies, baby – babies).

Nouns that end in y with a vowel before the y, just add s (turkey – turkeys, tray – trays).

In spelling we have been using different strategies to learn how to spell some High Frequency Words ( because – big elephants can always upset small elephants).

We have been learning how to use dictionaries and atlases, using alphabetical order and contents pages.   We have studied a map of the United Kingdom and identified the countries and their capital cities.

We are still working on subtraction in number and our problem solving work this week involved different coins.  We have looked at 2D shapes and their properties and know about circles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  For fun we looked at heptagons, nonagons and decagons.  We used squares and rectangles to tile a pattern and we used gummed shapes to make pictures.

We used the iPads to practise patterns with 2D shapes and used Sketches School to create a picture using 2D Shapes.

This week we have been inspired by four artists who use hearts in their art to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Monday 14th.

1. James Goldcrown, who is an American street artist who has created ‘bleeding hearts’ walls.
2. Chris Uphues who is a street artist inspired by comic books.
3. Romero Britto who is a Brazilian artist who creates pop art and graffiti.
4. Jim Dine an American artist who creates sculptures.

We had great fun creating our Heart Pictures.

We wish everyone a fantastic February break.

Have fun and stay safe.

We will see everyone on Tuesday 22nd February 2022.   The MUGA

day for Primary 3 will be a Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been very inspired by the art work of Polly Dunbar from the book, “While we can’t hug.”

It was fun learning how she draws her hedgehog and tortoise. We then drew our own characters and because it’s Valentine’s Day on Monday the 14th of February we decided to add some paper hearts. So, although hedgehog and tortoise can’t hug they can still show each other that they are friends.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone and have a lovely holiday!

This week in Primary 3:

Literacy:  We have written our Space Adventure narrative text following the correct structure.  Our spelling pattern this week was qu.  In groups using the PM Reading, we have discussed the facts and textual non fiction features.  We are continuing to learn about joins in our handwriting.

Numeracy:  We continue to work on subtraction learning ways to subtract two digit numbers from two digit numbers.  In practical maths we have worked on 3D shapes and their properties.  We can describe a shape using the terms edges, faces (curved/flat) or vertices.   We created skeleton models of these shapes using straws.

Throughout the week, we have been learning about Scotland.  We know that the River Tay is the longest river in Scotland and that Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland.  We have identified some Scottish cities;  Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Perth, Dundee and Stirling.  We learned about St Andrew and the Scottish flag;  typical Scottish food;  the National Animal – the unicorn;  the National Flower – the thistle and some famous Scottish people.

We thoroughly enjoyed our Scottish afternoon watching the whole school virtual assembly.  Thank you to Mrs Clyde for providing a delicious Scottie dog shortbread biscuit.

Rory liked looking at all the Scottish art work that the whole school had worked on.  Kelsey liked the Scottish dancers.  Gray liked the McCoo’s that Primary 3 made.

Eli, Drew and Ayla sang Highland Cathedral to the class while Emily danced.

Our PE lessons with Mrs Edge have been throwing and catching balls and shooting in basketball.  We also did some different types of exercises.

 

 

Yet another busy week in our class.  We learned about the willow pattern story that we see on the design of many dinner plates.

We enjoyed designing our pagodas, bridges and turtle doves and then adding some patterns to make our plates interesting to look at.

We think our plates look good enough to eat our mince and tatties from !

 

 

 

 

We have been exploring the skeletons of some 3D shapes then using them to help us to work out the number of faces, edges and corners these shapes have.
We had to really be patient when the models kept collapsing and we had to rebuild them. We became quite resilient though.

 

 

       

 

We are continuing to write in the narrative style and next week we hope to be finished writing our final narrative story. When our stories are completed we will share them with our friends and act them out. When we act a story out it helps us to feel like we are actually there in the story with the characters.

Then we are moving on to exploring procedural writing.

Our  virtual Scottish Afternoon was amazing. We really enjoyed sharing everyone’s experiences of the Scottish topic. Kingsland definitely has talent!

The Scottie shortbread that Mrs Clyde made us went down a treat and we wish Mrs Clyde a very happy birthday today!

 

Mmmm!

 

 

Today we explored the Notes App, typed our text, added emoji’s and drew a picture. Phew !