Over the last six weeks, primary three have made a super start to the new term.

In the first two weeks, they started off the new session looking at the story of The Little Iceberg by Nicky Murray and explored many different cross curricular areas to really understand the themes of hope, friendship and belonging. Lots of fantastic work was produced and a fabulous display in the main corridor of the school was created.

In numeracy, along with SEAL activities, they have been focusing on place value and in maths they have been looking at collecting, sorting and displaying information. The children have all worked exceptionally hard to understand the value of digits within two and three digit numbers and have used concrete, pictorial and abstract forms to show their understanding in different ways. Graphs have been produced for both favourite colours and their favourite Julia Donaldson books and independent work was very impressive.

In science, everyone had great fun showing the different phases of the moon with Oreo cookies and it was an added bonus when everyone got an extra snack when they were finished 😀 The children all did a fabulous job and were very proud of their work within their teams.

In IDL, habitats has been our focus since our return and the children have been outside looking at our local environment identifying habitats within and out-with the school grounds. They have also explored the polar regions and the rainforest habitats, identifying animals found in each while discussing similarities and differences. A challenge was also given to produce a habitat for a selected animal and each group gave fabulous results using a shoebox as their prop. We even ended up with a fairytale castle as a habitat for a dragon!

Their writing has focused on the recount genre so far and a wonderful recount of the Three Little Pigs was turned into a newspaper report. The children are now working on a persuasive piece of writing, trying to encourage others to stop plastic pollution in our ocean habitats. So far I have been very impressed with their knowledge and great ideas 💡

It is now only two weeks until term 1 is over and I cannot believe how many wonderful things the children have produced in such a short time. We look forward to sharing other learning with you soon! Stay posted for more.

Mrs Hunter 😀

We are going to tell you about some of our learning from the last week. We couldn’t tell you everything or it would be a really long post so here are the highlights.

Last week in primary 7 we started to learn about the emotion cogs, we focused on emotion words and actions.

Our Math last week was all about “BLAST” Bars, Labels, Axes, Scales, Titles and what this means for bar charts. We also all set ourselves targets for our math and writing.

We started our amazon rainforest writing and done our plan, then we rewrote are introduction.

We even had time to stop and get our school photos done aswell. This will be our last school photo at Falla Hill!

Miss Lynch and Miss Flyn took us for PE on Wednesday we played capture the flag and some team games. Miss Lynch joined in to help even out the teams when we played girls vs boys!

Then later in the week Mrs Pearson and Mrs Doohan took us for PE on Thursday. We played a short game with miss Pearson and played a football match with Mrs Doohan. 

In French we were just going over the words we learned before to get a fresh memory and talk to our partner saying hello, how are you, what’s your name. After we done our French puzzle.

On Friday we had our very special house captain assembly, the captain of the kelpies is Grace, and her vice-captain is Calvin, the captain of the Edinburgh castle is Max his vice-captain is Xander and  the captain of the fourth bridges is Beau and his vice-captain is Aureja.

As you can see, we have been very busy! Another group in class will update on our learning next time.

P2/3 have been learning about cold colours and hot colours over the last few weeks.

We began by linking our art to our work on The Little Iceberg at the beginning of the term. We used chalks and tissue paper to create our icebergs and we used crepe paper to make our cold colour fish.

We then looked at hot colours and used finger painting to blend the different colours together to create a painting of a campfire.

Finally, we combined and contrasted hot colours and cold colours .

They look really effective, don’t they?