This has been another busy week.

In PE we learned two social dances with Mrs Scott.  We learned The Flying Scotsman and The Prince of Orange.  We had lots of fun remembering the steps and enjoying the music.

In numeracy we have progressed to adding a two digit number to a two digit number bridging over a ten e.g. 33 + 28 =.  We have also answered questions using a table and completed a bar chart.   We have created our own small survey in pairs to gather some information.

We completed our Recount Assessment Writing trying to include all the things we had been taught over the block.

In Health we looked at all our similarities and differences and recognise that we are all unique.

In Science we looked at how the earth orbits the sun and this takes 365 1/4 days.  We know that this 1/4 day is the reason we have a leap year, which is an extra day in February every four years.   We made a card model of the sun, earth and moon.

We also drew these day and night pictures of the same house.

Over the week, we have been observing the moon at night or in the morning.  So far we have seen a waning gibbous moon.

Book Week

Wow what a lovely week we have had sharing our favourite books in class.

For our class book, we read The Last Wolf by Mini Grey.  We then made these fantastic  Last Wolf Treehouse pictures.  Mrs Ryalls is going to display them around the school.

We were given these brilliant Book Bags from Read Write Count.  We were given our very own copy of The Last Wolf.  This is what was inside the bag.

Some of our favourite books were:

Lucy – Supermarket Zoo, Angus – I Need a New Bum, Ciarian – The Bean Machine,

Ross – The Twits, Logan – James and the Giant Peach, Elsie – Take Away the A,

Eli – Mr Penguin and the Catastrophic Crews, Max – See Inside London, Ayla – Squishy McFluff, Supermarket Sweep,

Gray – The Wrong Kind of Bark, Imogen – Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball, Eva – 365 Stories,

Mia – Flora the Fairies Magic Spells, Evie – Evie the Mist Fairy, Sophie – Code Name Bananas, Emily – Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2019,

Rory – What a Mess and the Cat Next door, Anna – Minecraft, Isaac – Aladdin and Jamie – Tom Gates Super Good Skills.

In literacy, we wrote a Recount text about our Monday at school.  We had to choose 5 important events for our time sequence.  We really worked hard on this over three sessions.   We need to remember to use our wonderful plans to help us.

In numeracy, we are still working on addition.  We can now add on a teens number eg 34 + 15.  We add the ten first then the units.   We need to keep practising our number bonds within 20.

In science, we studied the moon and the moon phases.  We know that the moon orbits earth anticlockwise.  The moon rotates on its own axis anticlockwise as well.  On earth we always see the same face of the moon at all times as both earth and the moon’s rotation are synchronised.  Over the next three week’s our homework is to observe the moon and draw what we see.

For health and wellbeing we have recognise and named the special people in our lives.  We drew circles around ourselves with our back-up team on the inner and outer circles.

We did French again this week.  We learned the names for colours.

In PE, with Mr Harkins, we played Shipwreck and Octopus.  We also played Train Tig.

Lest We Forget

On Thursday 11th November 2021 at 11.00 am we had a minutes silence to remember all the veterans who have died in any war.   We listened to the poppy story.  We did some brilliant art.

We finally finished our dragon boxes – little homes for our imaginary dragons.

We wrote a recount text about Bonfire Night.  We followed the structure and used time connectives.

In numeracy we have still been practicing our number bonds to 10 and 20.  We started to look at bonds to 100 using multiples of 10.  We then added 9, 19, 29 and 11, 21, 31 etc by using the strategy add ten subtract one for nine and add ten add one for eleven.

We finished our  resilient super heroes.  We have to think of ourselves as super heroes when things get tricky.

Next week is Book Week and we can bring in our favourite book to share with the class.

We managed to finish our Haunted Houses which we did for Halloween.

Our dragon eyes are finished –  painted and varnished.  Here are some for you to see.

On Tuesday we watched a live performance of the Lorax from The Old Vic Theatre.  It was about important issues around sustainability.

We wrote a Recount Text together with Mrs Scott about our Hallowe’en Party following the text structure of:  Title, Orientation, Sequence of Events and Personal Comment.

Halloween Recount Writing 1  click on the link to open the word document.

We used what we had learned about alliteration and wrote a Countdown to Bonfire Night poem and created some firework pictures.

In numeracy, we have been working on addition.  We are learning our number bonds to 10 and 20.  Remember to play Topmarks hit the button and Topmarks daily ten to help you practice.

We made this card to say goodbye and good luck to Mrs Ward.

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;.

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.

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.

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.