We had a very adventurous week!  For our writing we got stranded on a deserted caribbean island and found a treasure chest.  We are busy writing about and cant wait to share them with you on didbook.

We are trying hard to learn out times tables and really need your help!  The next time we are in the car can you test us?  We have agreed that we need to learn them and every opportunity is a learning one – so please help us!

We finished off the week getting into the Christmas spirit by preparing for our Christmas enterprise – which we hope you will enjoy at the Fayre.

Have a good weekend!

We had a fantastic Children in Need day and the classroom was taken over by lots of Pudsey bears and Blush bears! We all looked fab! Well done and thank you for raising money for this charity.

We have been busy making Santa lists and hot chocolate reindeers for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 26th of November.  We are selling them at this price…£1 for the reindeers and £1 for the Santa lists.  If you wish to buy beforehand you can 🙂

We have been learning about the 50p coin and counting in 10p’s and 20p’s up to £1.  We found it a little tricky so will be keep practising our coin work.

Achievements this week:

Rosie has been practising her roly polys

Archie has now managed to learn the butterfly stroke at swimming

Luke, Lois and Emily have been practising pool gymnastics

Kyle and Daniel continue to work hard at Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has earned his dark blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Well done to everyone who is now on step 3,4 and 5

Pupil of the Week-Daniel

Hi everyone!
This has been another great week!

The best bits of this week have been:

Emily – “Pudsey day because we get to raise money to help other children”

Cameron – “Making hot chocolate reindeer for our class enterprise”

Leah – “Dressing up to help raise money for Children in Need”

Max – “A dragon arrived at imagination station.  We called him Sparky”

Jonah – “learning z in phonics – I liked making a zoo”

Rio – “Practising for the school show.  I know my line”

Brandon – “Getting to build a castle at the construction station”

Breaghannon – “Making hot chocolate reindeer too!”

Ellie – “Sequencing the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears'”

Rory – “Learning about Pudsey day”

Teigan – “Listening to the story of Goldilocks and doing the voices”

Keegan – “Everything.  It has been a good week!”

Marley – “Pudsey day and my t-shirt”

Leila – “Dressing up and even getting to come to school in our pyjamas”

Poppy – “Making a map of Fairyland with our p7 buddies”

Griffin – “meeting my p7 buddy and my class. I like p1”

Regan – “Buddy time was my best bit too because I liked using my castle book”

Millie – “Pudsey day because I got to dress up”

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Writing

After consolidating our learning about verbs we have been learning about adverbs.

Ranna – adverbs describe verbs

Euan – jumping (verb) quickly (adverb)

Alex – run (verb) slowly (adverb)

In our writing this week we have been focussing on using interesting adverbs to describe verbs. We have also been trying to start a sentence using an adverb.

Suvi – Quickly I ran away.

William – Slowly we started to take off.

Ranna – Silently I read my book.

Jason – Swiftly we ran across the road.

Maths

This week we have been learning about the decimal point and adding and subtracting money. As well as the written method we used coins to give change.

Megan – you have to remember to put in the decimal point

Lucas- you have to use the pound sign

Ranna – I think it’s easier to work out change using the coins

Expressive Arts

Over the next few weeks we will be taking a look at different artists

This week we were learning about the style of Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at some of his most famous paintings then had to recreate ‘Starry Night’ We discussed the picture before choosing the right colour of chalks we would need then we had to make sure we used the same flowing line style that Van Gogh used. Here are a couple of our pictures –

P.E.

This week in P.E. was fun as we have been learning about moving in flight using gymnastics moves. The ultimate goal was to be able to perform the move and land securely on two feet.

Alex – the ‘bravery test’ was part of the gymnastics and it was fun because we had to stand up and fall back onto a big squishy mat

Teighan- I liked it when we had to jump as far as we could and land securely then we had to place our bean bag down as a marker

Have a great weekend!

This week we began our new context for learning ‘Exploring China.’  We started by sharing our previous knowledge and discussing what we would like to learn throughout the topic.  We started by finding out general facts about China including; the population is 1.35 billion, Mount Everest is in China and Nepal, there is no alphabet-they have characters instead and the capital city is Bejing.  We then worked in groups to complete a map activity where we filled in major cities and surrounding countries.

We also learned about manga art.  This is a popular type of artwork popular in Asia- particularly China and Japan.  We have seen manga art before in Pokemon, Dragon ball and Anime. Key features of manga art include; large eyes, big heads, tiny noses and mouths, small bodies and spiky hair.  We used manga to create our own characters.

This morning, we used our manga characters to create a comic strip.  Our comic strips had to include; caption boxes, thought and speech bubbles, onomatopoeia, and a plot with our created character.  We learned that there are different types of speech bubbles. For example, a jaggy speech bubble shows someone is shouting whereas a dotted speech bubble means that the character is whispering.  We thoroughly enjoyed this activity! 🙂

Last week’s pupil of the week- James

Table of the week- Mysterious 6

Class Dojo winner- Meadow

Primary 3a have been super busy over the past couple of weeks…

Literacy

In reading we have been showing our understanding by writing about the characters in our reading books and we have been sequencing our stories too.

We have also been learning all about connectives so we can stretch our sentences to make them longer.

Maths

The pentagons and pyramids have been learning how to add on 11 and 9.

The spheres have been learning about adding multiples of 10 to a two-digit number.

We enjoy our stations in maths as we get to do lots of different activities.

LAC

Our topic this term is all about weather and we are really enjoying it so far.

We have learned about different types of weather and also learned about the seasons in the year.

We all made an acrostic poem all about weather which is going up on our display wall outside our classroom.

We made a collage using different materials to show seasons of the year.

We really enjoyed learning about extreme weather and watched a video of a tornado!

Achievements

Our new step 3 people are Arran, Charlie, Erin, Lily, and Samuel- well done!

Arran received a certificate for golf!

Maisie won 5 golf medals!

Cameron also won a golf certificate!

Charlie is starting boxing classes soon and Samuel has been building a castle in mind craft.

Ellis got his second stripe in Tae Kwon Do and he is also our finalist going through to the talent show!