Author: Miss Simpson

We have been learning about Shetland’s wildlife. We have been thinking about animals that live on Shetland’s coastline. Miss Ross brought in a selection of sea creatures for us to look at. It was like having our very own indoor rock pool!

“We loved hearing about all the animals when Miss Ross told us about them. They are all really cool. Some of them are spiky and different. They are amazing with how cool they are!”

“It was wonderful to see new creatures and to find out what they are about.”

“It was really fun and we got to touch them!”

“When we were there we got to see lots of animals move. Everybody thought it was really fun and we all had a great time.”

“It was good to see the rock pool creatures because I’ve never seen such a big starfish. I didn’t know that some starfish have spiky bits on their legs!”

We have started learning Shetland Dancing with Miss Simpson as part of our Shetland topic. The first dance on our list has been the Canadian Barn Dance.

“We really enjoyed dancing with our partners. It was fun when we were spinning around.”

“We were spinning around and it was really dizzy. We swapped partners after a while.”

“It was fun and we had time to do some extra dancing. Miss Towers came in to watch us. We had Shetland music.”

“It was funny. We counted when we danced.”

“The music went on for a long time.” “We were tired after!”

 

Here are a selection of photos of us taking our work outside during the sunny weather last week!

On Friday we visited the Shetland Library. We took part in a scavenger hunt around the library and met the librarians. After this we were given the chance to borrow books. We had so much fun that Miss Simpson forgot to take photos while we were there! Here we are back at school with our books.

 

Today we were learning about multiplication. We made arrays using grids and stones outside to help us solve multiplication problems.

“We did stone arrays outside in the playground and we had partners to work with.”

“We asked our partner to do a times table question and they had to work out the sum with the stone and they told us the answer and we counted to check the answer.”

“It was fun and exciting. We got to collect stones and I really enjoyed doing our maths with stones outside.”

“It was pretty hard with some of the maths because our partners might have told us some hard ones like 9 X 9! It was fun because we got to search around like detectives looking for stones.”

“We got to learn something new.”

“We got to do some new sums and some outdoor maths.”

This week we have been learning about how to keep our bodies clean and healthy. We learned about the importance of washing our hands, teeth and bodies to keep germs from spreading. To finish off we played a board game of snakes and ladders. Although, instead of snakes and ladders, we played germs and ladders!

Jonathan Wills came in to talk to both P3 classes about his book, The Travels of Magnus Pole. He read the story to us and then told us a little more about the places and characters in the story.

On Friday for our class circle time we read the book, Have you filled a bucket today? by Carol McCloud. This book tells us that everyone walks around with an invisible bucket. These buckets can be filled with acts of love and kindness. “When your bucket is full it feels nice and when your bucket is empty it makes you feel sad.”

We can fill someone else’s bucket with acts of kindness. “An act of kindness is like being polite to the bus driver or smiling at each other.” We learned that being kind and filling someone’s bucket makes them feel good and you also fill your own bucket too!

We read that sometimes you can also dip into someone’s bucket by doing or saying something unkind to them. Dipping into someone’s bucket takes out some of the good feeling and it also dips into your own bucket too.

Primary 3 have decided that we all want to be bucket fillers and we want to try really hard not to dip into anyone’s bucket. We gathered our ideas for ways we could fill the buckets of the people around us. We hope you like our suggestions!

• “Before school you could maybe help your Mum or Dad tidy.”
• “You could maybe say hi or smile to another person.”
• “You could play with somebody and help them.”
• “You could help your Mam and Dad make the breakfast in the morning.”
• “You could help your class do some jobs.”
• “You could make sure everyone has got someone to play with.”

 

 

We have been making Viking shields this week as part of our Viking topic and for Up Helly Aa. We designed dragons for them with a fire background.