We have been working hard in maths, and are enjoying using some of our new resources.
We have colour coded baskets of maths resources including dice, dominoes, cubes and counters.
We have been using our problem solving skills to make pyramids. We tried using cubes, and we also had a challenge using some cardboard. It was great fun – we managed to create some square based pyramids and a triangular based pyramid.
….Find out what it means to us!
This week we have been working hard on one of our school values “Respect”. We have been working in small groups to make mini drama scenes for each of the letters in the word respect.
We presented the values assembly for the school, and we were very enthusiastic singing the R E S P E C T song. We worked together to make up actions for the respect song. At the end of the assembly, we taught all the classes our dance moves.
Well done to Joshua Duncan-Coat from P3/4 for creating the winning Fairtrade poster. Joshua’s poster will be displayed throughout the school to promote Fairtrade products and encourage us all to buy Fairtrade.
Primary 3 have been busy writing dog stories. We have lots of soft toy dogs in our class, and we love reading with them. We were imagining what the class dogs might do once everyone had gone home, and we have written some lovely stories. We have been learning to type up the stories on the computer, and this week, we have been taking photographs of the dogs and inserting the pictures into the stories. We decided to make a book of short stories. We had a class vote to decide the order of the stories. We have been learning about alphabetical order, and we have put the stories into dog’s name order.
On Friday, there was a surprise parcel in the class……..
……our book has been finished, and we are able to launch it this week. We are very excited about sharing our work.
We have had another very busy week. We are learning about multiplication and division, and we are sorting items into groups to help us with our times tables.
We had a big surprise this week. Inside the hamper were clues about our new topic……
…….some hieroglyphic writing, an ancient jar, a book on pyramids and a book from ancient times. We were very excited to discover that our new topic for this term is Ancient Egypt. We are going to be working in groups with children and teachers from P3/4 and P4, as well as our own class. Watch this space for more exciting news about our topic.
Although we have had a very short week as we were on holiday on Monday and Tuesday, our time in class has been very exciting. Last week we put together a wish list for some resources that we would like for our classroom, and most of the things we wanted were ordered. They all started to arrive this week.
We are all looking forward to putting our new resources to good use in class next week.
We have had a very busy week working on our maths. We have been given budget of some money to spend on new resources for our class. We looked through catalogues to get ideas of what we would like to buy. We made a shopping list of the stuff we really wanted. Unfortunately, we were way over our budget and we had to take some things off our list. We decided we wanted a numbers rug for our maths zone, and we measured the space to check the rug would fit.
We have also been working on fractions, and exploring the relationship between multiplication and division.
We made lovely valentine heart pictures using chalks and stencils.
Last week we performed a simple version of a Scottish dance at the Burns Assembly. We enjoyed wearing the tartan sashes for our dance.
As part of our Scots focus this week, we have added more steps to our dance, and now it is becoming quite a challenge, but we are all having fun learning. We have also been learning about different Scots words, and listening to stories written in Scots. Sometimes it is easy to guess, and sometimes not. We were all a bit stuck with translating “loon”.
We have been creative with our imaginative writing, and have been writing more stories for our classroom pets. We have now started to type them on the computer. We will try to put some of our stories on the blog, once they are finished.
This photograph was taken on Monday, at the front of the school. During the week, we have discussed silhouettes, and using chalks. We have made some lovely pictures using the photo as our inspiration.
“I enjoyed using the chalks – it was very messy” EC
“It was lots of fun” LM
“Nobody knew the picture was taken from our school” AD
Maths
This week we have started learning about quarter past, half past and quarter to times. We are using analogue and digital clocks. We have also been learning to use the mathematical symbols > greater than, < less than, and = equals. We are also practising rounding numbers to the nearest 10.
Burns Assembly
Today we had Burns Assembly in school. We all took part in a Scottish style dance. We wore sashes and we looked very smart.
Reading & Writing
We have been reading and writing with our class pet dogs this week. We have been writing stories about our pets, and what they might get up to when we are not in class.
“It’s always more fun to read with a dog” “It was fun writing about the dogs”
We all enjoy reading to our pet dogs, but we don’t quite have enough for one each yet. If you have any toy dogs you no longer need and would be willing to donate to our class, please send them into school. They will be looked after, and read to often.
It is nice to be back together after our Christmas holidays and are looking forward to the term ahead. A reminder to Parents/Carers to ensure your child brings gym kit on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (P4 children only) and please ensure your child has appropriate indoor shoes.
Literacy
After watching Newsround, we were interested to learn that schools in Paris may open later, allowing children to spend more time at home. This inspired us to write a persuasive piece of writing on the subject and to include different points of view. Fraser thought it would be a good idea to stay home longer as he could” spend more time caring for his guinea pigs.” Debbie thought it would be a good idea for schools in Scotland to open at the normal time as she has to ” get up at the same time anyway as her Mum goes to work.”
Numeracy
During our number talks sessions we have been revising our strategies to help us double numbers. Aleena and Liam suggested two different methods to use. Please keep practising this at home.
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