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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

Bonjour et bon vendredi! We hope you have all had a fantastic week and are looking forward to having two weeks off for your Easter Break.

Today we would have been going to the church and learning all about the Easter story and how important Easter is to Christianity. P3W would like to entertain you by giving you our takes on the Easter story. Each story was retold and created by the pupils in their groups and their mission was to get the story told in under one minute. This proved to be very difficult as there was a lot to fit in. So here are different versions of the Easter story in under 2 minutes!

You could also try some of these Easter crafts if you have time over the holidays:

Easter Chick hand puppets

https://kidscraftroom.com/handprint-chick-puppets/

An Easter Bunny face mask

https://kidscraftroom.com/easy-cute-bunny-nose-masks/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes&utm_term=306974416_8880410_154982

Or find a stone and decorate

Some easier art ideas from Art Angel that you can do as long as you have a paper and pencil/pen:

‘Creating something from nothing. Start by staining your paper, you can use ink or coffee/tea. Once it’s dry start to use any medium to draw into the stains on the paper. Get ideas from the shapes and colours in front of you.’

Try writing a story either on a computer or in your jotters/ on a piece of paper. As an idea for your story: You wake up on Easter to discover that you have become the Easter bunny. What would your day be like as an Easter bunny? Describe your experience and what you do. Try to include a beginning paragraph describing the characters and setting, middle paragraphs describing your problem and some action that happens, and an ending describing how you overcome your problem.

And here is some non-Easter maths problem solving for you to have a go at:

We would like thank you for all your hard work, dedication, support and enthusiasm for continuing your children’s learning, it is immensely appreciated,

Have a great Easter break,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Good Morning Primary 3, hope you have all been having a fun and productive week! We hope that you spend some time relaxing and having some fun on April Fool’s Day yesterday. We have been getting some great updates on what you’ve been up to, from the work you’ve been doing to the food you’ve been making. And the food looks amazing! Here are some of the examples of some great food that has been made over the last week, it’s making us very hungry!

If you have been able to make some delicious food, could you write up a short set of instructions complete with ingredients and we could put together a P3 cookbook?

In keeping with the food theme, why not try to develop your cooking skills with Theo Michaels, a former Masterchef winner who is hosting live cooking classes on his Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/cookwiththeo Although some ingredients might be harder to find just now I am sure that as well as the live classes the back log of cooking videos he has will give you plenty of kitchen inspiration!

Today’s arts and crafts idea comes from a Dundee based mental health charity called Art Angel. They have been doing regular projects on their social media channels. If you have the items needed please have a go.  If you don’t have all the items see if you can maybe improvise with what items you do have at home?

‘Today’s home project is mono printing. All you need is a piece of plastic (old shopping bag) and some heavy bodied paint such as acrylic. Tape the plastic down to a hard surface, we used an old cardboard box. Paint on the plastic with a brush, either one colour of a mixture of colours. Gently place a blank piece of paper down onto the painted surface, then draw onto the paper using a pen or pencil. Once the drawing is finished peel back the paper and see what you’ve created. It may take a few goes to get the textures you would like, but just experiment and have fun.’

If you get the chance to get outside over the coming weeks, there are live football coaching sessions as well as some challenges that you might be able to take part in. Ask your parents to sign up for you and you will get access to these sessions: yfs.news/keepscotlandactivereg

Your reading tasks for today are writing tasks based on the books you have read:

Group 5/6 – Special Days 

Written Task

Using the ‘Christmas Eve’ Poem on pages 12 and 13, can you write 3 descriptive sentences to explain what is happening in the picture. Remember your core writing targets, punctuation and handwriting. It is a very busy picture so your sentence should allow the reader to easily picture the scene with your choice of adjectives

Blue – Minibeast Poems

Written Task

Using the ‘Spider in the Bath’ Poem on pages 8 and 9, can you write 3 descriptive sentences to explain what is happening in the picture. Remember your core writing targets, punctuation and handwriting. It is a very busy picture so your sentence should allow the reader to easily picture the scene with your choice of adjectives.

Red – Castle Poems

Written Task

Using the ‘My Castle’ Poem, can you write 5 descriptive sentences to explain what is happening in the picture. Remember your core writing targets, punctuation and handwriting. It is a busy picture so your sentence should allow the reader to easily picture the scene with your choice of adjectives.

Yellow – Pirate Poems 

Written Task

Using the ‘Pirate Chief’ Poem, can you write 5 descriptive sentences to explain what is happening in the picture. Remember your core writing targets, punctuation and handwriting. It is a very busy picture so your sentence should allow the reader to easily picture the scene with your choice of adjectives.

Here are your Number Talks for today:

For your maths for today we have dividing board games for you to have a go at. These are posted as images and not downloadable files so you will have to save the images if you would like to print them out.

Dividing by 2:

Dividing by 2 and 3:

Dividing by 2, 3, 4, and 5 with remainders.We have not taught remainders in class yet so this could be used as an extra challenge:

Thank you all so much for your continued dedication, support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Bonjour Primary 3, aujourd’hui c’est premier Avril! Or as it is also known, April Fool’s Day! I’m sure that you are all able to think of some great jokes for April Fools that you can leave in the comments on this post, we would love for you to make us laugh!

This morning why not add to your reading by listening to stories read by a whole host of celebrities: https://www.instagram.com/savewithstories/channel/ just click on the play button the story should start! If you find any new favourites let us know.

If you are interested or have some extra computer time on your hands, there is a great website that specialises in conservation of lots of wildlife, mapping of stars and other things too! Why not have a go at being a digital conservationist and try helping with efforts to count penguins on Penguin Watch (of course Mr Woodward would pick Penguin Watch!)

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/penguintom79/penguin-watch

In the Hobby Craft sessions today they are focussing on all things space themed, making rockets, making planets, creating astronaut costumes and possibly more. I’m sure it promises to be out of this world!

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/kids-craft-club—week-2

Please ensure you are also logging onto Education City as well as there are a lot of learning activities on there in a variety of topics. Your log in was attached to the pack pupils received before the closure. If you need your log in details again please contact the school office and they will be able to help.

https://go.educationcity.com/

Here are your Number Talks for today:

Have a go at your problem solving question for today. It is to do with time. Please keep your eyes peeled and we will add the answer later for you to check your work.

Thank you to Amira for a top learning resource! She got in touch to say she was watching a video on Maddie Moate’s channel on Youtube about jousting. I have just watched and it is great! Check it out if you fancy it. It is 18 minutes long.

Jousting Maddie Moate

Today also try learning the names of some pets in French. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLd9VoPgwlw&t=1s, try the matching activity and then try to say all the pets that you have at home. If you don’t have any or many pets, try to say all the pets that you would like to have.The  mathcing activity is only an image and not a downloadable file. You should be able to copy and paste the image or write out the matched pairs in your jotters.

Then, imagine you own a safari park. Draw it out in your jotters or on some paper and draw all the animals you’d want in your safari park then label them in French.

Thank you for all your continued dedication, hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Good morning Primary 3, we hope you are well and have been able to access and complete some more of the work. Yesterday was a beautiful day and hopefully some of you were able to get out for some fresh air while taking breaks in learning activities. We have looked forward to seeing the work and activities you have been up to and it has been brightening our days to see how enthusiastic you all are about making the most of your learning at home.

If you have access to a computer and have ever played, or ever wanted to play Minecraft, they are allowing access to their Education Edition for free currently. To access follow this link

https://education.minecraft.net/login/

And enter your school email address. Once logged in you may need to download to your computer the app. From there you can access a range of lessons across the curriculum, from maths to reading to coding and beyond. Some lessons are aimed at older pupils but there are lessons on there for all ages. https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/lessons/

If you can get it to work and it proves useful please let us know!

On the Hobbycraft Kids Club today they are working on colouring with a variety of downloadable colouring activities to try at home:

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/kids-craft-club—week-2

Here are your Number Talks for today:

If you fancy seeing how well you have read your reading book, here are some true and false questions about each of your books. If you find that one is false, tell us what it should say!

Yellow – Pirate Poems

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements as well as the poems in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Pirate Chief

1. They are setting sail from the Port of Brussels.
2. All the pirates will have daggers sharp and bright.
3. Frank had been completely forgotten about.

The Smugglers

1. 3 small boats glided on the evening tide.
2. The barrels were stacked on the beach.
3. A man flashed a light to warn people on shore.

Red – Castle Poems

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements as well as the poems in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

The Castle on the Hill

1. Through the door there is a portcullis.
2. Across the courtyard there is a door.
3. Across the door, iron bolts are drawn.

My Castle

1. He is going to build a castle with a tower in each corner.
2. He will build walls to keep the arrows out.
3. The dungeon will have lots of windows.

Blue – Minibeast Poems

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements as well as the poems in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

The Wuzzy Wasps of Waspington Pages 2 and 3

1. The wasps are buzzing around the oranges.
2. The Wuzzy Wasps are licking the pears.
3. The Wuzzy wasps think the orchard is theirs.

Spider in the bath Pages 7, 8 and 9

1. He has fed the owls and swans.
2. He has pushed pigs in pens.
3. He was stung by bees on both his knees.

Group 5/6 – Special Days

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

My Birthday pages 2 and 3

1. My birthday’s on Wednesday.
2. The letters on the cake are silver.
3. His friends will all eat it, and the teacher will too.

Christmas Eve pages 12 and 13

1. There was a creaking door.
2. It was dark.
3. Heart thumps softly.

Maths today is based on timetables. Why don’t you try to fill out a timetable of your week. This can be a plan for this week, or you can fill it out for what you did last week. Remember to put the digital times against each activity for practice. Here are 2 blank timetables you can use if you have a printer, or maybe you can create and decorate your own?

We thank you for your continued support and hard work.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Good morning everyone, we hope you had a fantastic weekend and were making use of your time off to relax and enjoy some of the things you like to do. We’d love to hear stories from your weekend and what you’ve been up to to keep yourselves entertained and your spirits high.

It’s been so nice to get a lot of photos of the work and activities you’ve all been doing, here is a selection of different things that have been going on in Primary 3!

Remember at 9 Joe Wicks has been doing daily PE lessons. If you have been taking part have you noticed a difference since you started doing them?

Carol Vorderman has been giving free maths lessons on her website https://www.themathsfactor.com/  so for any of you that want a bit of extra help, or a bit of extra knowledge, this is a great place to learn new maths ideas!

Remember your reading books can be found on: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

To log in please follow the instructions below.

Reading this week will be based on the same books as last week. For today, Read your favourite poem from your book with someone at home, parents / carers or even siblings for practice. Access the books online at

Oxford Owl

Login details:

Username: Mr Woodward       Password: Carmondean1

Username Miss Smith123         Password: Carmondean1

Yellow Group / Group 11 Pirate Poems

Red group / Group 10 Castle Poems

Blue Group / Group 7 Minibeast Poems

Group 5/6 Special Days

We have now added this weeks Word Boost story to the files section of Teams.

We will of course keep the blog updated throughout the day so please keep checking back and any questions you can ask either in the comments or through Teams if you have been able to get onto Teams.

Here are your Number Talks for today:

An idea for Numeracy today working on our vertical sums. Again, if there are any problems completing these, please let us know, as this was a new concept before we left school.

Please note, this is only an image and is not linked to any document. It can be used like a text book and answers can be written in your share- it jotter or alternative:

Spelling words this week – these links will take you to the PDF document and see below for the images.

Spelling Words Week Beginning Monday 30th March

Blue Group Spelling ey could Mon 30th March

Yellow Group spelling i-e Mon 30th March

We hope you are all keeping safe and well,

Thank you for your support and your hard work over this difficult time,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward