In Maths we have been learning the Months of the Year. We really enjoy singing along to this song to help us remember the months of the year.

We read Katie Morag Delivers the Mail and Kayla brought in her dad’s mailbag to show the class. Some of the class thought it was made of soft leather and some others thought it made of plastic because it felt rough.

Big Writing – Our Trip to Inchcolm Island.

Star of the Week

Aaron Kennedy – For using the ‘Stretchy Snake’ strategy to help sound out tricky words during Guided Reading Time. (photo coming soon)

Class Dojo Champion

Our weekly champion was Joseph with a fantastic total of 46 points and Lily coming a close second with 41.

You have all worked very hard this term and I hope you have a restful October break. Mrs Sinclair

This week P3 continued working on numbers to 100. Some groups have been adding numbers over 100!

Yesterday we enjoyed make shoreline pictures using tissue paper to great effect.

We are nearly at the end of our Katie Morag topic and this week we put speech from a story into speech bubbles and we also read Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted. We shared things that make us angry and frustrated and spoke about ways of calming ourselves down.

Through our writing we were reminded of our adventure to Inchcolm Island last week.

We are all looking forward to our holidays next week.

Some of our children have started writing very grown up reports on a subject they choose.  Mrs Horne is really looking forward to reading these when they are finished.  We have also started to look at the different ways animals can be sorted into groups.  We learned about fish, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, birds and insects.  We are really looking forward to our zoo visit where we will learn more about animals from these groups.  Some of the boys and girls have been learning that when two lines meet they form an angle.  They have had fun trying to find right angles all around us.  Miss Hao came in and helped us to remember the numbers 1- 10 in Mandarin and we even learnt a song in Mandarin.

Brooke, Laura, Darcy, Iain and Keigan had fun singing the song with Miss Hao, while Katie liked dancing to it.  Louise liked learning to count from 1- 10 in Chinese.

Zoe and Carlos enjoyed the activity to group animals.

Morgan and Erin had fun writing their reports.

During the past couple of weeks we have had lots of fun designing, making and painting our shields as well our Roman Armour. Look out for them at Parent’s Evening.

P.E.

Our teacher always put us through a fast pace warm up which means we are tired out before the main part of the lesson.  We were practising shooting into the basketball net and some of us managed to score a basket unfortunately Mrs Sinclair didn’t.

World Book Day

As you can see from our photos we had lots of different characters in our class today.     Well done P3, you look amazing!

In Maths we have all been busy learning and practising working with numbers.  Some of us have been continuing with our 2, 5 and 10 times tables, whilst some others have developed this onto dividing too.  Still others were practising subtraction numbers stories for numbers to 20.

In Literacy, we have had some people learning all about verbs and how to make these past tense (like they have already happened).  Some verbs just need you to add –ed, for example whisper +ed = whispered.  Others which have an ‘e’ at the end need you to take off the ‘e’ before adding –ed, for example like becomes liked. There is still another way to make past tense verbs – this is more complicated, as you need to look at the letter before the last consonant.  If this letter is a vowel, which makes a short vowel sound then you need to double the end consonant and then add –ed.  Here are some of our examples –

Katie – hop becomes hopped, Darcy – bat becomes batted, Alex – jog becomes jogged, Kai – pat becomes patted.

Meanwhile other children were learning about words to show possession, for example –

Erin – their dance,  Zoe – her car, Brooke – my pencil, Keigan – his toy.

For our community topic we took a walk around some areas of Dedridge and we thought about what there is in the community to provide for our needs and wants.  Our needs are provided by – the health centre, the chemist, park for exercise, shops for food, houses for shelter.

Of course we needed to try out the park for providing for our need for exercise and our want for fun!

In maths, some of us have been working on our addition and subtraction – including learning some other words which mean the same as add or subtract.  Meanwhile, some others have been learning times tables –  trying to learn to say our 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

Erin enjoyed the textbook exercise using her 10 times tables, while Carlos enjoyed learning more about his addition and subtraction, particularly the vocabulary used for add and subtract.

In Literacy, the Primary 3s were looking more at adjectives and trying to use them to create good descriptions.   Some of us have written stories about an alien.  We have also been thinking about our needs, what do we need to survive.

We also spent some time thinking about Miss Barr and we enjoyed making cards to send to her at this time, because we miss her so much and are hoping she makes it back to Bankton soon!

Learning Fact for Mrs Stewart:-

• ‘subtract’ and ‘find the difference’ are both ways to say take away,
• ‘total’ and ‘altogether’ are words used to tell you to add