In Primary three we have worked our socks off this week and have had masses of fun incorporated!

We started off our week joining the primary sevens, actively listening to their fabulous rainforest presentations and we all did a fantastic job of meeting targets in both listening and talking.

A huge well done to all of the primary sevens and a great big thank you to Miss Lynch and Mrs Doohan for letting us join them!

We also had a fabulous fun filled day on Thursday, when we focused the learning around Disney’s A Bug’s Life movie as a themed day for the end of our IDL habitats topic.

We made symmetrical bugs, used IPads for research and recorded our facts, answered questions relating to an ant comprehension, built new ant colonies, designed new minibeast mansions, made tessellation patterns, created a new gadget that would help the ants and we even became ants ourselves following a map to get through the colony and deliver food to the Queen 👸. It was great fun and we all loved it!

We now can’t wait for term 2 to begin but first we need a well earned rest!

Enjoy the October break and stay posted for more P3 highlights on our return 😀

What a fantastic first term we have had in P2/1!

We have been learning lots of new sounds, learning how to form our letters and blend sounds we know together to read words. In our writing lessons, we have been learning how to write a recount and how to write a persuasive text, arguing one side of an argument. We have been trying really hard to use our sight words and our new sounds in all of our writing. Sid the monkey was helping us with our writing, he thought we were fantastic!

 

In numeracy we have been working on counting forwards and backwards from a given number and identifying numbers. We have also been reciting our days of the week, months of the year and learning about the four seasons. We learned how to identify o’clock on an analogue and digital clock, some of us were learning half past the hour. We had great fun using stop watches to time ourselves and our friends doing various challenges and activities.

Our topic this term was ‘Fauldhouse’, we enjoyed learning about various buildings and features in our village. We learned about the different types pf houses an used google maps to find our own houses and used the building blocks to make an design a house. We used our data analysis skills to record traffic in our village using tally marks and then transferred the information on to a bar chart for our topic wall display.

We have been focussing on friendships and kindness this term in our Health and Wellbeing. We discussed what makes a good friend and what we can do to show our friends kindness. We have also been learning how to recognise, name and show our emotions, describe what triggers different emotions and how we react to various situations. We learned our bodies are like cogs and they all need to work together for us to be healthy and safe. We created our own ‘coggles’ to use when we are reading books so we can spot emotion words.

Mrs Howley is extremely proud of all our hard work this term and said we deserve a lovely October break.