In Numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and have been calculating halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of shapes and numbers.\u00a0 We know that if we are confident counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s this will help us to calculate fractions of numbers.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Our teachers did some training on something called ‘Reflective Reading’ and they taught us some of the skills that they learned and the skills that we need to make us better readers.\u00a0 We did things like ‘Blankety Blank’ where we had to work in groups to think of words to make a sentence make sense.\u00a0 We also did a ‘Picture It’ and had to read a gruesome description of The Bloodbottler from our new novel ‘The BFG’ and we had to draw a picture of him.\u00a0 Lastly we did a ‘Spot the Silly Word’ where we had to replace a silly word with a sensible word.\u00a0 We did this through our topic The Ancient Egyptians.\u00a0 We realised that we already know lots of interesting facts about The River Nile and the pyramids.<\/p>\n Last week we finished our class novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ and this week we have been enjoying watching snippets of the original movie each day and have been comparing and contrasting the book to the film.\u00a0 We realised that there are quite a few differences between the two.<\/p>\n We visited the library this afternoon and enjoyed choosing a new book to read.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n In our Digital Learning we were using an app called Stickbot Studio and we were creating our very own animation projects.\u00a0 We realised that we had to move our objects little by little in order for it to look like it was actually moving.\u00a0 It was great fun doing this and working as a team.<\/p>\n We had a visit from Fr Jeremy and a visiting priest from Nigeria called Fr Francis.\u00a0 He told us all about Nigeria and he will be helping us when we make our First Reconciliation.<\/p>\n What a busy week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and have been calculating halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of shapes and numbers.\u00a0 We know that if we are confident counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s this will help us to calculate fractions of numbers. \u00a0 Our teachers did some training on something called … Continue reading P3 Weekly Update<\/span>
![\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nOur teachers did some training on something called ‘Reflective Reading’ and they taught us some of the skills that they learned and the skills that we need to make us better readers.\u00a0 We did things like ‘Blankety Blank’ where we had to work in groups to think of words to make a sentence make sense.\u00a0 We also did a ‘Picture It’ and had to read a gruesome description of The Bloodbottler from our new novel ‘The BFG’ and we had to draw a picture of him.\u00a0 Lastly we did a ‘Spot the Silly Word’ where we had to replace a silly word with a sensible word.\u00a0 We did this through our topic The Ancient Egyptians.\u00a0 We realised that we already know lots of interesting facts about The River Nile and the pyramids.<\/p>\nLast week we finished our class novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ and this week we have been enjoying watching snippets of the original movie each day and have been comparing and contrasting the book to the film.\u00a0 We realised that there are quite a few differences between the two.<\/p>\nWe visited the library this afternoon and enjoyed choosing a new book to read.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nIn our Digital Learning we were using an app called Stickbot Studio and we were creating our very own animation projects.\u00a0 We realised that we had to move our objects little by little in order for it to look like it was actually moving.\u00a0 It was great fun doing this and working as a team.<\/p>\nWe had a visit from Fr Jeremy and a visiting priest from Nigeria called Fr Francis.\u00a0 He told us all about Nigeria and he will be helping us when we make our First Reconciliation.<\/p>\nWhat a busy week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and have been calculating halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of shapes and numbers.\u00a0 We know that if we are confident counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s this will help us to calculate fractions of numbers. \u00a0 Our teachers did some training on something called … Continue reading P3 Weekly Update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,166,164],"tags":[126981],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-primary-3","category-school-news","tag-p3-weekly-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/02\/IMG_5080.jpg\"){kind=link}
![\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nIn our Digital Learning we were using an app called Stickbot Studio and we were creating our very own animation projects.\u00a0 We realised that we had to move our objects little by little in order for it to look like it was actually moving.\u00a0 It was great fun doing this and working as a team.<\/p>\nWe had a visit from Fr Jeremy and a visiting priest from Nigeria called Fr Francis.\u00a0 He told us all about Nigeria and he will be helping us when we make our First Reconciliation.<\/p>\nWhat a busy week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and have been calculating halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of shapes and numbers.\u00a0 We know that if we are confident counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s this will help us to calculate fractions of numbers. \u00a0 Our teachers did some training on something called … Continue reading P3 Weekly Update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,166,164],"tags":[126981],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-primary-3","category-school-news","tag-p3-weekly-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/02\/IMG_5089.jpg\"){kind=link}