Book Week

We have had some fun exploring books for Book Week. Our focus has had strong links to Literacy.

We explored the book,” The last wolf” by Mini Grey . This was a book that was in the P3 Read, Write, Count goody bag that we took home on Monday.

We tried to act out parts of the story and we felt that we were actually in the book when we did that. There was lots of fun and laughter at the end when the story had a happy ending.

The book made us think very carefully about environmental issues and how we need to take care to look after wildlife. When hedges and trees are cut down the animals lose their homes and food. So we could be more mindful of this when we make choices.

We are looking forward to sharing books we bring in from home tomorrow.

Click on the link below to hear one of the stories we shared this week.

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Here is a non-fiction book we read this week.

 

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Numeracy

We learned a new strategy this week. We had to do more than one sum to work out the answers to the scores on dart boards.

We were so proud of ourselves when we mixed the sums too. For example we had to use Multiplying and addition together to find our answers. We are going to make some dart boards to explore this with our learning partners.

Here is an example :

2×4 =8

8+2 = 10

Well done, P3. This was challenging for you!

Sustainable Squad meeting 1.

We had an early morning meeting and felt very grown up when the tables were rearranged to make our meeting more formal.

We took the meeting very seriously and our responses were very mature.

Here are some of the things we discussed.

P7 will be planting legacy trees in the school grounds in December and January. This will provide shelter and shading and be good for our wildlife. We can also think about the P7’s who planted them.

We are looking forward to finding out more about the polytunnel that we are going to have in Spring.

The Squad are going to request recycling bins for the playground by emailing SBC for permission.

Finally , we had a super discussion about how we can look after our wildlife in Winter.

Here are a few of our thoughts:

Make some bird food like fat balls in class.

Use less plastic or recycle old bottles to make seed/water feeders for birds.

Make fruit kebabs in class to make food for birds.

Provide more water stations for birds – even though water sometimes freezes in Winter!

Make more bug houses/hotels

Plant more flowers

What an interesting meeting we had. It was lovely to hear everyone’s ideas. We are really looking forward to making these things for the birds and beasties.

 

Writing

We continued to explore how to write a recount this week and we tried really hard to write more. This was challenging and we had to really persevere and not give up.

We wrote about getting ready for bed this week and had some fun miming this one. Being active helped us to be more creative with our writing.

 

Surprise!

Mr Swinney surprised us by dropping off some of the jigsaws and games our teacher had ordered. Mrs Ward gave each class money to spend and we are really excited about exploring our new games.

Thank you to Mrs Ward as these games will make our learning and play even more exciting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remembrance day

 

 

This week we have been finding out about how the poppy became the symbol of Remembrance Day.

At 11 o’clock on the 11th of November we fell silent in class for a 1 minute silence. We were respectful and thought about the ex-servicemen and women who had lost their lives in war.

We made poppy wreaths and painted our own pictures of poppy fields like the ones in Flanders, Belgium.

 

 

 

 

 

Non-fiction

We are enjoying exploring our new non-fiction books.

Bonfire weekend recount

Writing was challenging for us this week because we had to have a go at writing our recount independently. We all worked very hard at this.

Maths and Numeracy

In Numeracy we explored some word problems and learned about how important it is to read the words very carefully. this then helps us to work out what the sums is. We recorded our answers in drawings and then number sums.

For practical maths we are going to explore weighing with a variety of non-standard units like straws and marbles and we might even try Lego bricks.

 

On Friday  19th  November you can bring in a favourite book from home to share with the class. The read, write, count books look amazing this year!

 

We have been working very hard in P3 this week.

 

Our highlight was sharing the little book we made for Mrs Ward’s farewell. It was lovely to share it with her when she visited our classroom to say good bye.

We enjoyed learning about Greta Thunberg, COP 26 and climate change and we are very proud of the posters we made.

 

In science we investigated the Moon and learned that the Moon does not shine but, when the Sun is reflected on it this makes the Moon appear to light up in the night sky. We explored this with a torch and a rotating globe. This also let us see that when it is daylight on one side of the earth it is night time on the other side of the world.

We also took our learning outdoors on Thursday. We collected leaves, twigs and bracken for our dragon dens by scavenging in the school grounds. It was a beautiful crisp afternoon so, we took advantage this after all the rain we have had recently. Kingsland is very beautiful with the Autumn leaves on the ground. We then had great fun with our friends running around in the leaves.

On Fireworks day we got very creative and used chalk to recreate fireworks in the night sky. It looked like we were having our very own fireworks display in our classroom.

We wrote a recount about last week’s Hallowe’en party and our teacher helped us to write this by modelling it. Next week we are going to write our recounts independently.

Although it has been challenging learning how to set out our sums when we use our textbook we have persevered and now we are really proud of ourselves.

 

We have been reading non-fiction texts from our new reading scheme and it has been interesting exploring a wide range of topics.

Happy Bonfire weekend everyone!

 

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! 🎃

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.

 

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 !

 

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 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!