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Primary 3 Wednesday 20th May 2020

Ca va Primary 3?

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to a quick online check-in today. I know we are! It is the highlight of our weeks! Remember to log on to Teams today at 10am to tell us your news and how you all are.

For a little bit of Science, why not get involved with Dr Chip’s Daily Dose, at 10am there is a link to follow for today for ‘Wonder Wednesday’, looking at ‘Biomimicry’ taking inspiration from nature for engineering.

Mrs Fox has also given us a little Art lesson should you wish to try it out.

Drawing a symmetrical Mask. The video guide can be accessed here: Symmetrical Mask Guide and the outline can be downloaded from here:Symmetry Mask Outline.

Word Boost Word definitions has been added to assignments in Teams. The words are as follows:

Cat’s Ahoy – Miss Smith’s Class:

Verbs: clamp, steer, quiver, abandon

Adjectives: silent, solemn

Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary – Mr Woodward’s Class:

Nouns: directions, souvenir

Verbs: drift, glisten

Adjectives: rickety, glum

Writing: For this week’s writing we are jumping back into space and we are going to spend a day on the International Space Station. Watch this short video to see 2 real astronauts on the ISS and what they get up to on board – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRMAVoHRbk

Write a diary entry of at least half a page of A4 about a day in space. What would you do during the day, what things would you see, who would you speak to and what would you say, how would you enjoy yourselves, what would it feel like and how would a day on the ISS make you feel? Remember to SHOW the reader what you see and do, don’t just tell them. Use your descriptions and choose the best words!

Maths: For today’s maths we are looking at Tesselation. Tesselation is the creation of patterns using shapes tiled together, e.g.

Your challenge is to create your own tesselation pattern. You can draw the shapes, using a ruler for straight lines, you can use Paint or another art programme on your computer, or you could go outside and create a tesselated pattern in your garden using natural materials.

Today’s Number Talks:

3 x 8 2 x 325

2 x 6 2 x 300

8 x 6 6 x 300

Challenge Sum

362 x 28

Have a great day, and looking forward to speaking with you all.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 3 Tuesday 19th May 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you had a restful Monday and are ready for some new activities this week.

Reminders for this week:

We have our class online check-in tomorrow on Teams at 10am.
Carmondean Primary School have registered with Get Set. This will allow families to get active together at home and log their activity to their school team. There will be chances to win weekly prizes, for teams to beat weekly goals and also share their activity to win amazing prizes like fitness trackers. Set out below are instructions as to how to register your activity.· Click on the following link www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo· Click on the families tab· Click on Find school and enter the post code EH54 8PX. Carmondean should pop up and you should click on the name and press submit.
· You will then see a list of teams by primary stage. The school team option is for the staff and their families to log their activity too so we are all taking part! Log your activity and we are all set!
Annual Council Survey on use of school meals accessed here: WLC Survey

Article of the week:

Article 28 – The Right to an Education.

Some of the activities include watching: Be a Mr Jenson for inspiration on what makes a good teacher. Can you think of words to describe what a really good teacher would be like?

Do the same as above, but this time, think of words to describe what a really good learner would be like.

Imagine you have been asked to create your ideal lesson timetable for a day or a week at home or in school. Plan it out and decide what you would include and what you would leave out. Make sure it will provide children with a really good quality education!

Watch The Right to Education and use it to write a poem about education and learning.

Go have a look at The Book of Hopes and read through some of the poems and short stories together. Choose one you like best and teach someone else about it and why it stood out to you.

Maths: Remember there are instruction videos in the Teams Files. Please ask if you need reminders for any of the work. We would be happy to make a resource to help, or even meet online to discuss problems.

Addition Carrying 10s and 100s

Reading: There is a new Word Boost story in the Literacy file in Teams for you to listen to. Your reading task for today is the read the first half of your reading book. New books can be accessed at www.oxfordowl.co.uk Should you have any problems accessing your books, please let us know.

Level 6 – Don’t Press the Buttons

Level 7 (Blue Group) – The Empty Palace

Level 8 – The Sands of Akwa

Level 10 (Red Group) – Tom Thumb and the Football Team

Level 11 (Yellow Group) – Stinky Street

Today’s Number Talks:

2 x 16 4 x 250

8 x 5 4 x 6

8 x 10 8 x 200

8 x 6 8 x 50

8 x 16 8 x 6

8 x 256

Challenge Sum

816 x 45

Keep working hard Primary 3, we are so proud of you,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 3 Friday 8th May 2020

Good morning Primary 3.

Today is a special day indeed. Does anyone know why?

No, not just because it is Free Time Friday day, it’s because it is VE Day!

VE stands for Victory in Europe and this day is celebrated and remembered. On 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an announcement on the radio at 3pm that the war in Europe had come to an end, following Germany’s surrender the day before. It is important to remember that the war was sill being fought on this day in other areas of the world and lots of the soldiers were still being held as prisoners of war elsewhere as well. To mark VE Day, there is a 1 minute silence at 11am. Lots of online things are happening to celebreate VE Day today. Let us know if you do anything with your family.

If you want to find out more about VE Day have a look here on Newsround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749

Your Mental Maths for today is below. You can choose which one you wish to complete. I will post answers at the end of today for you to check. Remember to try to beat your time taken to complete them accurately from last week.

Mrs Fox has given us some ideas to continue your Art in the link below. Since the weather has been so nice, why not try some of the outdoor activities and let us know how you get on!

Indoor and Outdoor Activity Sheet

This week our Topic Challenge is about living in Space. Tim Peake was the first official British astronaut to walk in space in 2016 and so part of your challenge is to find out all about him. The main part of your challenge is to design your own livable space habitat. Remember our needs and wants challenge? Think about what you would need to survive and how you might get it/ make it/ grow it in space. Design your space habitat and then if you have time and you have asked permission you could try building a model. The challenge will also be posted in the Interdisciplinary folder in Teams.

Here are some links to websites that might help you with some ideas:

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-habitat/en/

https://www.esa.int/kids/en/learn/Life_in_Space/Living_in_space/How_to_build_a_house_on_the_Moon

https://www.kidsnews.com.au/space/nasa-reveals-3dprinted-habitat-tower-that-humans-could-live-in-on-mars/news-story/fa1e702a09e22e9c4d3897e7ddcfca53

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Well done for your continued hard work.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3 Thursday 7th May 2020

Good morning everyone! Yesterday was our second ever class call and it was so lovely to speak to you all again and hear your voices sounding happy and healthy. It really is the highlight of our weeks! We hope you made the most of the sunshine after our call, the weather was beautiful.

Here are your tasks for today should you choose to complete them. We hope you have a lovely day!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Phonics stories have been put into folders in Teams.

Maths – Babylonian Number system:

Watch this short clip on Youtube about Babylonian number systems of a lady talking you through how we would write the numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbFJeYSKfoo

Can you go into the garden and make the numbers from natural things you can find outside or things you can find around the home, eg. twigs, grass, cocktail sticks, crayons, wool? The numbers are all made from straight lines. See how far you can go with your numbers.

Reading today is a written task. There are two in the Teams assignments because we had a holiday, however, posted below is just one of the activities so that we don’t take up too much room on the Blog. Please message if you can’t access Teams and would like the other one to go with your book.

Yellow group / Level 11 – Brer Rabbit

A simile is a sentence that describes something as something else using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ e.g. It was as dark as the night.

Can you write a simile to describe:

Brer Fox’s tail

Brer Rabbit’s tail

Brer Wolf’s teeth

Brer Terrapin’s head

The swarm of angry wasps

Red Group – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Answer the following questions in sentences.

What advice did Nelly’s Dad give her that meant Nelly was not scared of the first monster?
What advice did Nelly’s Mum give her that meant Nelly was not scared of the second monster?
Why do you think the 3^rd monsters were called thwuckery, suckery?
In your opinion, why are the monsters worried when they first open the door?
If you had the opportunity, would you ever babysit for monsters? Explain your answer.

Blue Group – Tiger’s Discovery

Sentence Level Activity

Choose the correct punctuation for the end of the sentences and write them on the line. Choose between ! ? and .

What a mess__ Mrs Mills said.
Where do you think you lost it__
What a shame__ said Mrs Mills__
I will look for my earring later__
Oh no___ cried Tiger ___

Level 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Choose an alternate word for the underlined word in the sentence. Re-write the sentence using your new word. The word should still make sense in the story.

A rough set of steps led inside it.

The friends followed Breni along the narrow path.

The deeper they went, the colder it became.

They followed her into the eerie waters of the lake.

They saw a huge column of water spinning around and around.

Level 6 – Blast Off

Choose an alternate word for the underlined word in the sentence. Re-write the sentence using your new word. The word should still make sense in the story.

The engines thundered as they zoomed up into the air.
Their own planet was getting smaller and smaller.
Tiger felt sick.
Nok reached for the controls.
The controls were not responding.
The steering must have been damaged in the crash.

Here is your Number Talks for today, the solution to yesterday’s challenge sum will be posted in Teams -> Files -> Numeracy -> Instructional videos:

3 x 10 10 x 10

3 x 9 10 x 21

3 x 19 12 x 21

14 x 29

Challenge Sum

436 x 74

Primary 3 Wednesday 6th May 2020

Good morning Primary 3 and welcome back! Please remember there is a class check-in at 1:30pm for anyone who is available to join. Have a think in advance of something you have been proud of learning during the time the schools have been closed.

Well done to everyone who found out Hubble’s birthday! You were right, it was on the 24^th April and he is 30 this year! We hope the challenge is going well if you have decided to complete it.

Please can we take this moment to reiterate that although there are lots of activities given each day, as well as Education City and our continued home learning grid, the expectation is not for every single task to be completed and handed in. We are providing the work, and should it fit in with your home/working life, that’s a bonus. However, it is up to you what you believe is manageable for your situation. We are all new to this and you should do what works for you.

The main thing we would love to see completed each day is the establishment of a routine, and to ensure everyone in your household is safe, happy and well. If that happens, the learning will naturally happen from there anyway. Thank you all for your continued efforts, we really do appreciate how difficult this situation could be.

Thank you,

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith.

If it fits with your day, the work that can be completed today is below:

Today we are looking at perimeter of 2D shapes. Perimeter is the length of all the sides of a shape added together. There will be an instructional video put up on Teams in the Numeracy/ Maths folders to explain perimeter as well as a Shape section on Education City with activities and learning videos.

Choose your own challenge level for completing the perimeter task:

Mild

perimeter-1

Spicy

perimeter-2

Hot

perimeter-3

And your Number Talks for today:

4 x 5 3 x 25

5 x 9 4 x 25

5 x 19 7 x 25

4 x 19 12 x 25

17 x 25

Challenge Sum

23 x 463

Article of the week for RRS: Article 7 The right to a name and nationality.

Spelling words:

Spelling Words Week Beginning Monday 4th May

Reading: Read the first half of your new books. New books can be accessed at www.oxfordowl.co.uk Should you have any problems accessing your books, please let us know. New book titles are below:

Miss Smith’s Class:

Yellow Group / Level 11 – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Red Group – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Blue Group – Tiger’s Discovery

Mr Woodward’s Class:

Level 11 – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Level 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Level 6 – Blast Off

Activities related to this can be found in Teams, but also below for ease of access:

Yellow / Level 11 – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Brer Rabbit stands for ‘Better Rabbit’ .
Brer Fox’s belly was red.
Brer Rabbit had ears as dark and soft as cotton wool.
Brer Rabbit had replaced Brer Terrapin with a hive of bees.
Brer Fox was helped by Brer Wolf to trick Brer rabbit.
Brer Rabbit still managed to fool Brer Fox during Brer Fox’s prank!

Red – Nelly The Monster Sitter

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

The author is Kes Gray and the illustrator is Tony Ross.
Nelly’s Dad told her that monsters never go out because they can never get a babysitter.
Nelly knocked the door and a big green eye peeked out.
When the first monsters arrived home, they had a big tub of ice-cream for Nelly.
When the second monsters arrived home, they gave Nelly a big stick of purple candy floss.
Nelly had to babysit twins.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Miss Jones is Tiger’s teacher
Miss Jones has found something and she sounds happy.
Tiger liked to see Miss Jones upset.
Tiger turned his watch and he shrunk.
Tiger had to hide behind the bin.
Mrs Mills left the rubbish lying on the floor in the staff room.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Comprehension: T/F Read the following sentences as and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False.

The children were on a school trip at first and they shrank.
The space ship was under a pile of rubbish.
They met Six the robot.
The space ship took off and everyone inside fell.
Tiger felt sick when he saw Earth getting smaller.
Seven couldn’t turn the systems off.

Primary 3 Friday 1st May 2020

Good morning boys and girls! Well, it is now May! Can anyone remember how to say “the first” in French? Let’s see who remembers and can tell us!

Today is Friday, so that means you have to make sure you get some free time today! We have a special job for you today. Your special job is to make sure all of the adults at home have some free time to themselves today, because they have been working just as hard as you this week! Especially helping us with our class chats on Wednesday! Can you do that!?

Today we have a little Friday challenge to keep you busy next week. It is about the Hubble space telescope and we hope you enjoy learning about it. It was Hubble’s birthday last week. Can anyone find out what age Hubble is? There are a few links for you to investigate to help you with your research.

Link to Pdf and screenshot of challenge:

Critical Skills Challenge Hubble

We also have a little mental Maths test for you to complete. I will upload the answers later on in the day for you to check your work. You can choose whether to do Number 2 or Number 16 this week.

Please remember it is a holiday for you next Monday and Tuesday, so there will be no new work posted for you on these days. If you are treating it like a normal day, there are plenty of activities for you to work on, in your learning grid and on Education City.

We will speak to you again on Wednesday, where we will have another class check-in online at 1:30pm. If you are free it would be lovely to welcome you and hear your news. Remember to join with microphones and videos off. We are really looking forward to it!

Thank you all for such a productive week and we hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

Primary 3 Friday 24th April 2020

How are you all Primary 3? Still keeping safe and well I hope! Happy Friday!

Every Friday, we will upload a challenge for our new technology topic (chosen by you). This will involve a tiny bit of research through reading or watching something and then an activity to go with the new information you have learned. Today’s challenge is a little introduction to technology.

We have seen lots of examples of you working through the activities on your learning grid which is great. Remember that Education City is also available to supplement Maths and Literacy too. Should you need a reminder of your password, please do not hesitate to message Mr Woodward and I. We will be happy to pass it on.

As you all are aware, we have our Rights Respecting Schools Article 24 as a focus for this week also. The theme with this is Health, water, food and the environment share using: #RRSA on Twitter, or share it on the RRSA Facebook community page.

West Lothian would also like to keep up to date with all of the amazing Health work we are doing, whether it be daily exercise, obstacle courses in the garden, baking and cooking or hand-washing to name a few. They would love to encourage you to share your work with them also following @WLHWBchamps on twitter and use the hashtag #WLHWBathome whenever you are doing anything HWB related.

Here is a little Friday Mental Maths. Time yourself to see how speedily and accurately you can solve the questions. You can choose which one you wish to do, or indeed, try both! Answers will be posted later today.

Also – don’t forget that today is a Friday, therefore, you have definitely earned your 30 minutes of free time today.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3 Thursday 24th April 2020

Bonjour and good morning to you all!

Today’s Maths task is based on different number systems, focusing on the Roman number system. The Roman number system is slightly different to ours in that they used capital letters to represent their numbers. The letters are I, V, X, L, C, D and M. See if you can use this to complete the worksheet today. Click on this link to be taken straight to the pdf Roman-numerals

or here is a screenshot of the sheet if you do not have software to download.

In the files and Literacy tab in teams, the new word boost screens have been uploaded. See whether your answers to the definitions task set in the assignments are correct!

We have also uploaded a little lesson video on multiplication with carrying numbers. If you would like more of these, please let us know. Equally, if you found these helpful, or otherwise let us know so we can learn from this going forward. If they were a success, we may look to doing this and uploading more for more curriculum areas. Check out yesterday’s blog post and also your class Maths file on Teams for the videos.

Number Talks

2 x 50 3 x 50

4 x 50 50 x 50

8 x 50 53 x 50

53 x 48

Challenge Sum

84 x 352

Reading: Answer these True or False questions in full sentences. When you have completed these, make up at least 3 of your own for someone at home to try and find.

The Frog Prince

The girl wanted a ball made of diamonds for her birthday.
The girl lost her ball in a pond.
The frog made the girl promise to give him the crown.
The frog got the girl’s ball back.
The girl did not say thank you to the frog.

Attack of the Buzzles

The micro-friends were in an alien forest.
The hid the ship by covering it in leaves.
The loud rumbling sound was two giant crystal balls rolling by.
Buzzles are only dangerous in swarms.
Nok’s home was very far away.

Attack of the Centipede

Tiger and Cat went to get a drink at the café.
Compost helps plants to grow.
Ant’s watch was working perfectly.
Sydney is a giant Canadian centipede.
Centipedes are carnivores.

Eric’s Talking Ears

Eric’s Dad explained the stuff belonged to an old safari park guide.
In Giraffe talk, two twitches and a waggle of both ears means your water hole has dried up.
Eric’s Dad told him to throw the stuff away but Eric took the box home with him.
Eric started using his ears to talk to 2 adult Elephants.
The gazelles were confident and unafraid.

Clever Monkey

Mr Otterbank, who was the head keeper, lost his big bunch of keys.
The monkeys gave Mr Otterbank his keys back straight away.
Sandy didn’t know what a fridge was.
Dad said it sounded like a real old jumble sale.
The monkeys had to break up into groups to see more of outside Monkey Land faster.

Did you do anything to mark World Earth Day yesterday? If so, let us know about it. Also, let us know if you have tried any of the Rights Respecting Schools Activities and don’t forget to share what you have done!

I have loved seeing all of the space work and science projects happening in P3S.

Have a lovely day and remember we are here to help,

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

Primary 3 Wednesday 22nd April 2020

Good morning Primary Three, I hope we are all managing to access all of the resources so far and are having fun trying out the music resource from Monday’s blog post. No-one has said they had any problems with the multiplication in Maths involving carrying, but please let us know if you need a little refresher on this and we will be happy to post a little reminder.

Just a quick reminder of login details for the reading resource:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ then go to my class login.

Username: Mr Woodard Password: Carmondean1

Username: Miss Smith123 Password: Carmondean1

An assignment has gone live for this week’s word boost words. If you have access to Teams, watch and listen to the story then see if you can write the definitions of the word boost words. The pdf of the power point we use on a Thursday will go up tomorrow with the answers!

Just for information, today also marks the 50th anniversary of World Earth Day.

Go to https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-live/ Have a look at the Earth Day Live Global Programme on this page to see if anything takes your fancy throughout the day! There are speakers, performances, meditation and street art, with everyone taking part, fighting to stop climate change.

Some shape based maths for you to try today:

Writing: Our topic this term is technology. Can you write a short story about what it might be like to be a robot being switched on for the first time? (think C3PO in The Phantom Menace). What would you see, who would you see, what would you feel and think? What would you do in your first day as a robot? What type of robot are you, could you describe yourself? How would you describe the world around you?

During Number Talks and numeracy we have started to look at multiplying with carrying and so here is a short video explaining carrying with a simple sum. It is the first time we’ve tried to record like this so hopefully it’ll work!

Carrying Video 2

Number Talks

2 x 25 2 x 150

4 x 20 10 x 150

2 x 50 12 x 150

4 x 50 12 x 149

Challenge Sum

52 x 294

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3 Tuesday 21st April 2020

It was lovely to hear from so many of you yesterday, and great to see how keen you all are to get back to work!

Each week we are going to make a Rights Respecting Schools Article focus for you to ponder or do an activity about. Anything you do, please keep or send on, because as you all know, we are going for our reaccreditation of our Gold Rights Respecting Schools Award. You can also post your work with the hashtag #RRSA on Twitter, or share it on the RRSA facebook community page.

This week, we would like you to focus on Article 24. It seems very fitting

In case you can’t make this out activities include:

Draw or list people who can help us stay healthy and safe. Explain their job.
Make a list with words or pictures of as many kinds of exercise you can think of.
Set up an obstacle course and challenge someone in your house to have a go.
Read Coronavirus: A Book for Children and talk about what you are doing as a family to keep healthy during this time.

Spelling words for this week are as follows:
Here is the links to the documents. You can also access these in the files section of Teams.

Blue Spelling ie Week beg 20th April

Spelling Words Week Beginning Monday 20th April

Yellow Spelling o_e week beg 20th April

Maths for today is multiplication 2 digits by 1 digit. However – be careful as it involves numbers over 10. You must remember to carry. We looked at this in the week before schools were closed, therefore, if it is too difficult, please let us know. We can upload a video explaining how we do these types of sums to refresh us! Good luck!

If you can access Teams your Word Boost story for this week will be posted in Files -> Literacy -> Word Boost.

For your reading for today can you please read the first half of your reading books? Your reading books were listed yesterday and here are the log ins to access them:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Mr Woodward’s class:

password: Carmondean1 (the C must be a capital)

Miss Smith’s Class

same password as Mr Woodward’s class

And your Number Talks for today:

7 x 5 6 x 40

7 x 10 10 x 40

7 x 9 16 x 40

16 x 39

Challenge Sum

546 x 43

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3, Monday 20.4.20

Good Morning Primary 3. Welcome back and we hope you have been having a restful couple of weeks on your Easter break. I’m wondering how many of you still have any of your chocolate eggs left!?

As much as we would love to be welcoming you back in person, we will continue to use our online classroom (the Blog and Teams) until we are told we can return to school, so it is going to be an interesting term with the topic you have chosen, “Technology in; sports, space, transport, programming and robotics.”

Reminder:

Primary 3, the majority of your work for the next 6 weeks or so will be in the form of another grid which we have attached at the end of this post. Please work through this at your own pace and preference. We may highlight and refer to some parts of this week to week that we think would be good for you to complete. Again, we will not be expecting all of your completed work to be sent to us, however if you wish to share what you have done with the rest of the class and ourselves, we are more than happy to receive copies or photos or even just a little blurb about how you are getting on. We will continue to add daily activities too, such as Maths, Reading, Spelling, Number Talks and Word Boost.

We will continue to dabble with ‘Teams’, so if you have access or have been using this before the holidays, keep your eyes peeled for new assignments, quizzes and resources on there. The main work and resources needed, however, will be duplicated on the Blog for those who do not have access to Teams.

Your first task for today to ease us back in nicely is a quick check-in. Update us on how you are feeling, ask the class a question to get a discussion started or simply share with us what you have been up to over the holidays. Do this via the posts on Teams, or even in the comments section of this Blog Post. Either way, we would love to hear from you!

Here is the link to the bulk of the activities for the next few weeks.

Learning Grid T4

(Screenshots below – Please let us know if you have problems with access to these.)

We are going to be looking at ICT and music through the use of Bandlab this term. It gives you the opportunity to create songs in a similar way to garageband which some of you may be familiar with.

Reading Books:

Group 6 (Mr Woodward’s class) – The Frog Prince

Group 7 (Miss Smith’s Blue Group) – Attack of the Buzzles

Group 8 (Mr Woodward’s class) – Attack of the Centipede

Group 10 (Miss Smith’s Red Group) – Eric’s Talking Ears

Group 11 (Mr Woodward’s Class and Miss Smiths Yellow Group)– Clever Monkey

Before you read your books – look at the front cover of your books and write at least 5 sentences predicting what will happen in your books. There should be a beginning, a problem, how the problem is fixed, and an ending. Think about characters and setting for your beginning and use the cover and the title to try and figure out what the problem in the story might be?

Band Lab

Username/ email: p3_carmondean@outlook.com

Password: p32020carmondean

Go to bandlab.com.

Click on log in and enter the email address and password.

Once logged in click on the red button in the top right corner that says +create.

It will give you a few options, click on the option that says ‘browse loops’.

Then choose a type of music and it will give you a variety of loop tracks to add to your song.

Click and drag the tracks into your song. When you want to add new tracks add them underneath tracks you already have.

Have a play around with different tracks/ genres and instruments.

Change the name of the track by clicking on ‘new project’ at the top of the page and give your song a name so you can remember it.

When you are done, click save and it will save your work.

Next time you log in click on the profile button (it looks like the shadow of a head in the top right corner) and you can find your project to keep working.

Remember that this profile is for everyone to use so please make sure you only create 1 song at a time and only save songs you are happy with.

Here are your Number Talks for today

Remember the different multiplication strategies for multiplication we have looked at: repeated addition e.g. 4×25=25+25+25+25. Or by removing the zeroes and adding them back in e.g. 30x20 = 3 x 2 = 600. Or splitting the numbers up e.g. 36×20=30×20 + 6×20.

2 x 25 6 x 20

4 x 25 30 x 20

6 x 25 36 x 20

8 x 25 36 x 19

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

Primary 3 Friday 27th March

Bonjour tout le monde.

I am missing our French conversations in the morning. La date aujourd’hui est ……?

Oui, Vendredi vingt-sept Mars.

So, today is Friday and marks one week of you all learning from home. We are so impressed with how well people have been engaging with the lessons and even with how inventive you have been with your own learning ideas. We want to thank you all, parents and P3 for your hard work this week. Remember, because today is Friday, you have a half day usually and have earned 30 minutes of Free Time Friday where you choose what you wish to do.

Today, we want you to focus on checking in with all the members of your family. Ask them how they are, discuss how you are feeling. Take some time out to reflect on the week that has passed.

Something to think about for next week is the RSPB page. using the hashtag #BreakfastBirdwatch

Take photos and post the pictures of the birds you spot in your garden. You could even follow one of their handy guides on their website to make a bird feeder or bird house:

RSPB Activities

Just a little reminder:

A few of you have messaged saying you have had trouble with the sheets and resources we have been uploading. We have been instructed to save the resources as a picture or a screenshot the allow every person access to their learning. It means no-matter what software you have on your device and no-matter what device you are using, you can see the image of the learning task and therefore can complete it in your jotter or on paper.

If you would rather complete it on the physical sheet, try saving it and printing it off to make a physical worksheet, then you can write straight onto it.

We do not expect absolutely everything to be saved and sent to us, however if you wish to send things for clarification, marking or just because you want to share it with us, we are more than happy to receive your work. We love to see how you’re doing and what you have all been learning.

Rather than Number Talks for today here is some more Problem Solving for you to try, we will post the answer later today.

And thank you to Shrihan for alerting us to this great website for those who want some brain training chess action: chesskid.com a fun way to learn chess!

Have a lovely day and a fantastic weekend ahead. We look forward to beginning a new learning week with you all on Monday.

Stay safe and well done for all your hard work and efforts this week. We are so proud of you, as this is new for everyone.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3 Thursday 26.3.20

Bonjour tout le monde. Good morning, everyone!

Today is not such a nice day outside so why not try Joe Wicks’ workout for your daily dose of exercise at 9am:

Joe Wicks Work Out

Today, Hobbycraft’s daily arts and crafts is pom poms! Log in to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to join them live at 11am.

To find out more, follow the link below. They use their own pom pom makers, however, two circles of cardboard from a cereal packet works the same way! Perhaps you can make a colourful Easter garland with left over wool you may have lying around?

Kids Craft Club – Thursday

Here is the answer to yesterday’s problem solving task also. I will upload this to the files in teams to access later if you didn’t have the chance to try it yesterday.

Today, we have a little bit of multiplication for Numeracy. It is using vertical (chimney) sums which we began just before we left school. If there are any problems with this or how to do it, please let us know and we can talk you through the process again as a reminder.

Remember all of these activities are a supplement to your paper pack. Let us know how you are getting on with things or if we can help you out in any way. It has been fantastic being able to chat with you over the last few days. It has made missing being at school more bearable, especially seeing examples of what you have all been doing!

I saw a little challenge to brighten up people’s day, rainbows have been put up in people’s windows. Have any of you done this yet? It would be great to see them here on the blog or in our team space to brighten up our day! You know how we all love the colours of the rainbow!

Your reading task for today is to use the poem you looked at yesterday and try to write a descriptive paragraph putting yourself into the poem. Imagine that you are experiencing what is happening in the poem, how would you feel, what would you see, what smells would there be, would there be food and what would it taste like and what could you hear? Write it as a story and not as a poem, your paragraph does not have to rhyme.

Your Number Talks for today:

Remember, have fun, stay smiling, and stay safe!

Thank you to you all, both parents and pupils for your continued hard work, dedication and support at this time.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.

Primary 3 Wednesday 25.3.20

Good morning Primary 3 and your families.

We hope you are all well! Yesterday was a success in terms of learning for lots of you. We loved seeing what you have all been up to! We had photos uploaded of Science experiments, the work you did on assignments in your jotters and things you have been doing outside. Keep these coming as it makes our day!

Today, below, you will see a problem solving question based on time. We will post the answers later on tonight if you want to try it. If you feel like it, work in your share-it jotters, answer in the comments below, or in the posts section of teams and we will see if you got it right later on.

Hobbycraft today, Wednesday at 11am on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are doing Nature-Inspired Crafts. Log on via any of the above mentioned platforms and join in. Today’s craft will allow you some fresh air also! Let us see your makes 🙂

Here is Marley with his own Nature-Inspired Craft from yesterday:

Let us know if there are problems accessing anything, especially the reading resources from yesterday’s post. Please go have a look if you missed it, as this will provide you with books like the ones in class.

Here is the problem solving for today:

Here is a Maths worksheet for you to try. There are QR codes, if you have a QR code reader app on your phone, try hovering over the QR codes to mark your work. If you don’t, don’t worry, just ask and we will post the answers.

Here are your Number Talks for today:

A Rhyming Reading Task if you have managed the comprehension from yesterday. (Don’t worry if you’re still working through yesterdays task!)

Special Days Poems Rhyming Task:

Look at the Chinese New Year poem. In every verse (the groups of 4 lines) there are rhyming words. Can you write down what these rhyming words are and try to come up with 2 more rhyming words for each verse?

e.g. The first verse has ‘old’ and ‘gold’. Other rhyming words could be cold and bold.

Try to write at least 2 sentences that end with your own rhyming words, e.g.:

It was during the winter and I was cold.

I went outside because I was feeling bold.

Minibeasts Poems Rhyming Task:

Read the Water Boatman poem. In every verse (the groups of 4 lines) there are rhyming words. Can you write down what these rhyming words are and try to come up with at least 2 more rhyming words for each verse?

Try to write at least 2 sentences that end with your own rhyming words. If you can try to make your sentences about Mini Beasts.

Castle Poems Rhyming Task:

Have a look at Time Slip. In every verse (the groups of 4 lines) there are rhyming words. Can you write down what these rhyming words are and try to come up with 2 more rhyming words for each verse?

Try to write at least 1 new verse of your own using your new rhyming words. Try and make them link to the poem if you can.

Pirate Poems Rhyming Task:

In I Wish I Was a Pirate there are rhyming couples throughout the verses. Can you write down what these rhyming words are and try to come up with at least 2 more rhyming words for each verse?

Try to write at least 1 new verse of your own using your new rhyming words. Try and make them link to the poem if you can.

Good luck today everyone and we look forward to chatting to you all!

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

Primary 3 Tuesday 24.3.20

Thank you so much to everyone who was working from home yesterday and was able to share some of the things they have been doing and learning about. Mr Woodward and I loved reading your comments. Hopefully today we will have less teething issues with our new way of learning, but it is quite exciting to see all of the new skills we are all learning in the process!

The word boost stories will be uploaded later today for you in the files section of teams. Turn on your speakers and enjoy a little story read by either myself of Mr Woodward.

Each day at 11am, Hobbycraft are doing a Kid’s Craft Club. Today’s craft club is colouring. They have colouring pages free to download, print and colour in. Take time out to do some mindful colouring and let us see the results if you choose to do this.

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/kids-craft-club

Education City had some problems yesterday too, with so many people trying to access it. Hopefully today will be better and perhaps you can try some of the multiplication and division games. Well done to Chloe who managed to send us a picture of her completed Maths sheet. It looks like you have been practising your times tables. 🙂

Your weekly spelling words were uploaded too along with the stories. Today, have someone read out the story to you and see how many words with your sound you can hear, just as we do together in class.

Hopefully we will chat to a few of you later. Good luck today, have fun and stay safe!

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

Please see the attached file for the Learning Grid sent home in the packs in digital version in the event you did not have time to pick up the physical pack.

Home Learning Grid

Here are your Number Talks for today, remember to choose the set you are most comfortable with!

For your reading this week can you access this website:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

And from here the two classes have their own class log ins, there is a pink tab to class log in at the top of the page. Please copy the log ins exactly with spaces:

Mr Woodward’s class:

password: Carmondean1 (the C must be a capital)

Miss Smith’s Class

same password as Mr Woodward’s class

You will then need to go to your bookshelf and search for your own group’s book in the search bar. You may need to reload the page if it doesn’t work first time.

Mr Woodward’s reading groups should search for:

Group 5/6 – Special Days poems

Group 8: Minibeast Poems

Group 10/11: Castle Poems

Miss Smith’s Reading Groups should search for:

Group 7: Minibeast Poems

Group 10: Castle Poems

Group 11: Pirate Poems

Can you please check the comments section of this post for your books comprehension questions.

Primary 3 7.2.20

We are part way there with our life size knights, they are taking slightly longer than we thought! We will update with pictures once they are completed and guarding our classrooms.

We tested our Bows as well and had great fun practising our battle faces!

Pom poms were used instead of arrows for safety, and we tested the distances travelled using a variety of forces from a light force to the strongest force we could manage.

Here we are using the metre sticks to measure the distance travelled.

We also had a visitor this week from Lynne at EOS (Eczema Outreach Support) who came to raise our awareness of the condition and what it meant for sufferers. She assured us eczema cannot be caught, and allowed us to use a moisture monitor to understand the water content of our skin. She explained that people with eczema have less water in their skin and therefore have very dry, sore skin.

It was very interesting and the whole visit was interactive. We enjoyed learning about it.

We also ended our germ experiment with the slices of bread this week. It took 4 weeks to get to this stage but very clearly shows that it is important to wash our hands. Bag one shows a piece of bread untouched by hands, and the slice of bread in bag 2 was passed around the whole class to touch. We were disgusted with the results and are aware of what this means for us, and the importance of washing our hands before we eat:

Reminders:

PSA Dress down on Thursday 13th February – Dress to Impress or dress for Valentines Day. 50p donation for the if you decide to take part.

Class talks will take place on Wednesday 12th Feb, despite the homework for this being set for Monday 10th.

Sorry for the inconvenience of the GLOW passwords not working. New ones will be handed out on Monday as a mass reset was needed after people locking themselves out. Thank you for your patience with this.

PE – P3W Monday – indoor, Thursday – Outdoor

P3S Wednesday – indoor, Thursday – indoor (for the next 2 weeks.)

Thank you once again for all of your support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 3 24.1.20

This has been a busy week for us yet again topic wise. We have learned how to become a knight in the Medieval Times and learned that the process started at age seven! Our ages! We couldn’t believe how many chores and responsibilities they had at our age in order to prove themselves before becoming a squire, then eventually a knight.

We began making our own life-size pictures of knights and look forward to finishing them off to provide guards for our castle and classrooms.

In Science, we were introduced to the term ‘forces’ and were investigating types of forces, whether it be push, pull, twist or bend. We will investigate the forces involved with magnets next week.

We had our poetry competitions and MR Woodward and myself were blown away by the calibre of recitals this year for P3. The confidence shone from the children and every last child made an attempt to learn their poem. Thank you for helping your child learn these as it is an important part of the Scottish Curriculum. We have our annual poetry competition today as well so it is exciting times!

Child Smile were in this week checking our teeth and explaining to us the effects of sugar on our teeth in every day foods we may eat.

Miss Smith was shocked to learn that one packet of Drumstick Squishes had the equivalent of 33 sugar cubes in them! She’s put off for life!

Reminders:

Look out for a letter about our shared start and shared finish dates. The focus will be on Education City.

PE days – P3S – Wednesday, Thursday

P3W – Monday, Thursday

Please put a name on all items of PE kit and school uniform to avoid having lost property.

Thank you as always for your continued support.

Primary 3 20.12.19

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The children performed wonderfully in the Nativity this week. We felt so proud of them and all of their hard work. We hope you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed doing it. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support in this year so far. It was wonderful seeing so many of you at the Nativity too.

We will be updating the blog to show you the children’s stop start animations of the Christmas story from earlier this week. It was our first attempt using this software and we are proud of the results. We will hopefully be able to put our new skills to practice in the new year!

We also had some fun creating a music video to say Merry Christmas to everyone, so keep your eyes peeled for this too.

We would also like to wish Jody lots of luck at his new school. We will all miss you, but we are certain you will shine. They are very lucky to be gaining you.

We will finish this term again by wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. All the very best for 2020 and we look forward to seeing everybody in a couple of weeks on Tuesday 7th January fresh and ready for a full term of learning and fun. Stay Safe and have fun!

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

A Christmas Update in P3 16.12.19

Primary 3 have been experimenting with our ICT Skills, using the I-pads and Laptops in our learning.

We had our first shot of stop motion animation and we are really proud of our attempts at telling the Christmas story. Watch out for the final film once we have put them all together.

We had our Christmas party and had a ball! The children were fabulous sports when it came to the games and it was very enjoyable for everyone involved!

We have also been putting our technology skills to use, measuring, cutting and assembling 3D paper pictures. We hope you like our windows! We were so impressed with them.

Primary 3 11.10.19

It was so lovely seeing the parents and carers of Primary 3 over the last two nights at Parents’ night. It was great to be able to show the progress the children have made already in this short space of time, and to have time to chat with you all.

We can’t believe it is the end of the first term already. We have completed so many challenges, experiments and pieces of work relating to our Weather topic and it is now time for us to say goodbye to SummerWinter. We had a lovely party and celebration for all of our hard work and it was well deserved! We will be sad to see her go.

This week, we completed our learning about cloud types. Ask us about some of the types of clouds we know about.

We have been learning the language of persuasion and have written our first piece of persuasive writing in the form of a letter. This will be our Writing focus until Christmas.

We are looking forward to starting a new topic, looking at our community and how there are groups and places to help people who are in need of help.

We Will continue talking about how we feel using our Blob Tree and will be creating our very own ‘Blob’ to position and demonstrate this.

Two of our pupils are leaving this week and going to a new school. We will miss you both and wish you all the best in your new adventures. Don’t forget us!

Please accept our apologies for homework due date being in the holidays. This was an oversight on my part. It is fine to hand it in the first day back from holidays.

Homework will then resume as usual the following week.

We hope you all enjoy a restful and well earned break.

Happy holidays, looking forward to seeing you all when we return on Tuesday 22nd October.

Thank you again for all of your support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward.