P3 have been so busy and it’s only October! As well as all the work we have been doing in class,  we’ve also had fun days organised by the P7’s and by the Eco Club, an author visit and even a visit to the church!

Eco Fun Morning

The Eco Club organised a fun morning to raise awareness about climate change.

Lilly enjoyed making the bird feeders because ‘it was fun to use the pine cone to collect the seed. I liked swirling it around!’

 

 

 

 

Lexi liked going outside to play games. She liked ‘stacking the cans because I made a tall tower!’

 

 

 

 

 

Adeline was very impressed that we were looking after our environment by picking up litter during the Eco fun morning, she loved this activity!

 

 

 

 

Carmen liked the activity in the gym hall because, ‘it was good exercise and I was learning how to recycle.’

 

 

 

 

Author Visit

We had an author visit last week from Cheef Chebe. He came to help us celebrate Black History month.

‘We were solving puzzles and we were playing drums. They were so cool to play.’ Euan

‘I learned how three people could cross a river when one can’t touch the water.’ Sahan

‘I learned how a human being can have four legs, then two and then three.’ Adeline (ask them and they will tell you!)

‘The drums were so colourful and I loved to play them because the noise was so beautiful!’ Parker

Church Visit

We were invited to the church to take part in some activities about the creation story and about how we are all different and special.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy

We have been learning all our phonemes and common words at school and then even practising them in our jotters at home which has been making such a difference when we use them in our work. Well done everyone!

Lilly was keen to say that the class have recently been  ‘learning about non-fiction books and doing a scavenger hunt to find the different features of a non-fiction book.’

‘A non-fiction books tells you facts and it can have a contents page, a glossary, an index and all these things help you to find the information you need.’ Reuben

We have been working on the formation of our letters and Lucy adds, ‘We have started to join up our letters in our handwriting to make our writing neater. I love it!’ And yes, she really did say that!

We have been working on our recount writing. Sahan tells us, ‘That’s when you are retelling events in the right order.’

More recently, ‘we have been writing about how to make a model castle and also writing descriptions of our castles. This will help me to be able to make a model castle again one day.’ Euan

We will continue to work on our descriptive writing over the next few weeks.

Numeracy

We have been working on place value, estimating and rounding, multiplication, addition and subtraction, measurement, capacity and shape.

      

‘We were estimating where numbers went on our number lines to 100.’

Alana

 

 

 

Adeline tells us, ‘I’ve been learning different strategies of how to add and subtract. Learning how to subtract 9 by subtracting 10 and adding the one back on is really helpful.’

‘We have started to do silver, gold and platinum challenges. You choose the level you want to work at.’ Alana

Ashton, ‘likes the hard questions in Platinum.’

‘When you are taking away, the number at the start is the biggest number and the other two numbers are smaller but they can add to make the first number.’ Alana

We are regularly using a new resource called Numicon and it has been very popular! ‘Numicon is really good at helping me work out my sums when I am working with the bigger numbers.’  Billie tells us.

‘We were measuring the leaves outside and putting them in order.’ Kye

Knight and Castles Topic

Our topic this term has been very popular and has been inspiring trips to castles. Carmen went to Stirling Castle and even brought pictures in to show us…’I saw the cannons and the arrow slits and the crenelated  walls and I knew why they were there.’

Jessica C. tells us, ‘we made model castles and it was great fun because you got to make your own castle with historic features and you got to know what happened in the past and it felt more real.’

‘I loved making my own mini castle and even made my own mini figures to go inside.’ Ebony

‘I know the history of the castle now.’  Adeline

Billie says, ‘I liked that we were making castles with a drawbridge and a flag on a pole.’