Primary 3 – Page 21 – Deans Primary School Blog

A Smelly and Tasty week in Primary 3

We have been very busy using our senses this week. We had a smelly quiz where we were trying to guess what things were, just from their smell. We also had a tasting session, and we were focusing on whether the tastes were sweet, sour, salty or bitter. We found it quite hard.

We were also trying our hand at writing sensory poems. It was quite difficult as we were trying to include each of the 5 senses. It looks like, it smells like, it sounds like, it tastes like, it feels like.

We are continuing to work in maths on rounding to the nearest ten. This week we also had a visit from the Transport Police, reminding us to stay away from the railway.

A Busy Start to 2019 for Primary 3

We are all happy to see everyone back in class after the holiday. We have been very busy this week.

We have been learning about place value and we use thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We had fun making different number using the year 2019. The biggest number we made was 9210 and the smallest number we made was 129. We have been practising working with big numbers and sorting them into order.

We have been reading new books, writing thank you letters to Santa and we have been learning to take notes. We have also been exploring our sense of touch and we have had fun using a feely bag.

P3 prepare for Christmas

This week Primary 3 have been very busy preparing for Christmas.

We have been practising our scissor skills cutting and folding paper to make lovely peace doves.

We have been working on cutting along a straight line to make folded trees.
We also worked with our partners to draw around each others hands, then we cut out the hand shape. Together we have put all our hands together to make a lovely tree.

We have been making paper hats and writing funny jokes to put into our handmade Christmas crackers.

We even had time on Wednesday for our Christmas party. Everyone was dressed in lovely party clothes. We had games, dancing and party food.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas from Primary 3.

Electrifying Electricity!

In science, P3/4 have enjoyed learning all about electricity. We learned about how to keep safe with electricity in our homes and school. The children designed a battery operated toy that could light up or make a noise. We also learned about conductors and insulators and the flow of electrons through wires. We used our knowledge to design and make circuits which could light up and spin a motor!

Read, Write, Count

Primary 2 and Primary 3 had a very busy afternoon at our Read, Write, Count event! There were lots of activities to try out, such as, writing a book review, playing lots of fun numeracy games, playing on Education City on the laptops, giant snakes and ladders, enjoying reading on the bean bags, completing a word-search and playing Boggle.

All pupils also got a free bag of literacy and numeracy activities to take home to play with their parents/carers and other family members.

Thank you very much to all the parents and carers who made it along to this event, we were delighted you could join us!

P3 prepare for the Christmas Fair

Christmas Fair Week.
We have been busy all week preparing for the Christmas Fair on Friday. We have made some posters to advertise the event. They are on display all around the school and on some of the windows.

Reindeer Brooches

We have had fun decorating little wooden reindeer and adding some sparkle. We have added a pin so they can be worn. We think they look great.

Yule Log Table Decorations

We have been working hard to create unique wooden yule log table decorations. Every one has helped, and each yule log is different.

Christmas Tree Decorations

We have been adding sparkle to make decorations for the Christmas tree. Our classroom is very glittery now.

We have also been doing Christmas Fair maths this week.

At the fair on Friday, we will have a guess the teddy’s birthday competition – if you guess his birthday correctly he’s yours. too.
We hope you will come and see our table at the fair.

P3 Try Coding in ICT

This week we have started to learn about coding in ICT. We were programming simple instructions to get the angry bird to go and get the pig. “It was amazing.” “It was awesome”. Everyone was able to work at their own pace and we all had fun.

Maths
We have been learning about friendly numbers, such as 10 or 5 and we have been using them in our number talks to help us to add 2 digit numbers. We also learned to play a new game.

Road Safety Week
It is Road Safety Week this week, and we have been looking at the Green Cross Code and writing about how to cross the road safely. We were sequencing instructions in the correct order.

As part of our senses topic, we have been focusing on the sense of hearing this week. We have been on outdoor and indoor sound walks and we even managed to play sound bingo.

Come to our Read, Write, Count Event!

Read, Write, Count is a new campaign to support parents of children in primaries 1 to 3 who want to take a more active role in their children’s learning.

Read, Write, Count’s website gives lots of simple ideas for working fun reading, writing and counting activities into your daily life. These are things you can do while shopping, on the way to school, at bedtime or mealtimes. You can have fun and help your child get the best start in life!

We would like to invite you to our Read, Write, Count event on Thursday 29^th November

P2 parents – 1:30-2:15pm

P3 parents – 2:25-3:10pm

This will provide an opportunity for you to take part in and enjoy activities linked to the free family bag you will receive with your child and also to explore the school library.

Our Senses – P3

We are learning about our senses, and this week we have been focusing on the sense of sight. In writing we tried closing our eyes and used our imaginations to think about what we might see out of the window. It was actually dull and raining out of our classroom window at the time, but we managed to think about seeing lovely views out of our pretend windows.