Lets hear a bit about our learning this week!

On Monday we had our outdoor learning lesson. We planted sweet peas in pots with soil or cotton wool. We are going to see which grows the fastest.

In numeracy this week we have been counting by 5s and 10s. We have been learning our multiples of 5’s and 10’s. We have been learning different strategies to do this; arrays, number line jumps, making groups, and more.

In literacy this week we practiced our spelling words, handwriting, and reading.

In PE this week we were playing dodgeball and hoola hooping.

In IT this week we learnt how to make PowerPoints. We learnt how to add a title, pictures, choose a design, create a new slide, and then save it.

We did a fun Art lesson called still life. We used different materials; paint, chalk, and pencils.

In music we learnt about high notes and low notes.

Thankyou,

From P3 and 3/2.

In PE we were working on our teamwork skills by playing Dodgeball.

Yesterday, we learnt about St Patrick and we created some mosaic shamrocks using tissue paper in different shades of green.

We wrote fantastic beginnings this week working on making sure we included who, what, where and when in our introduction to an imaginary piece of writing.

We were working on putting things in alphabetical order and working on our dictionary skills finding different words and their meaning.

In Maths we were working on the 4 times table, learning how if we multiply by 2 we can find our answer to the 4 times table by doubling it. We were making arrays to help us too.

We also practised rounding numbers up or down to make them friendly numbers. This makes it easier for us to add or subtract.

Some of us went to Mass this week, and practised for making our Sacrament of Reconciliation which we are making on Tuesday night. This week we have been learning two songs to sing during this.

In Music, we were learning different actions to songs.

In Spanish, we were practising our numbers up to 20 by singing songs.

We continued reading our class novel, The Twits.

In our topic lesson, we found out about the Greendykes Bings and we were discussing the different jobs to do with shale mining. We were acting out characters with different jobs and guessing what character our classmates were, by asking them different questions such as how many hours do you work and how much are you paid a week?

This week in Numeracy we recapped o’clock and half past. We learnt about quarter past and quarter to.  We used gameboards, dice, counters, and analogue and digital clocks to help us.

In Literacy we have been learning about poetry.  We were remembering the famous poet ‘Rabbie’ Burns who was born on 25th January. We learnt some Scottish poetry and performed it. We learnt that poetry needs emotion, rhythm, rhyme, and pattern.

This week in Outdoor learning we looked at different birds for big garden bird watch.  We also refilled the bird feeders that we made last week.

In Music we sang a Scottish song about Katie Birdie.

We have been doing activities about getting fit in PE.  We have been doing a lot of skipping! We learnt different types of skipping; jogging skipping, front skipping, backwards skipping, and 3 part skipping.

For our topic we are doing the Sun, Moon and Stars. We learnt about about how many minutes it takes for the suns light to reach the earth (8 minutes!) and shadows. We went outside and we drew around our partners shadows. They were much taller than us! This was because the sun was low in the sky.

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