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P3 – Sharing the Learning

We are now back at school after the Easter break,  for our last term in primary 3.  Although it was a short week, we have been very busy.

We had a very exciting afternoon on Thursday, when we had our Sharing the Learning afternoon.   In writing we wrote invitations to parents and friends inviting them to come to visit our class. We used ICT to make power point presentations, and we learned how to insert a picture onto a slide and add a sentence.  We planned our script to accompany our powerpoint presentation.  As a class, we chose which activities we wanted to share with our families.  At the end of our presentation, we performed our “Walk like an Ancient Egyptian” song.

 

Lots of people came to visit our class.  At times,  it was very noisy and very hot, but we enjoyed the afternoon – a big thank you to all who attended and made our afternoon such a success.

 

 

Egyptian Week in P3

This week we have been working on our Ancient Egyptians topic.  We have been writing hieroglyphs for our hand writing – it is great fun but a very slow way to write.

We have been working on our maths using the number system that the Ancient Egyptians used.  It is really tricky, we managed to write the date quite easily but adding up Ancient Egyptian numbers was really challenging.

We had a fabulous trip to the Museum of Scotland where we visited the newly opened Ancient Egypt Gallery.  We saw lots of lovely artifacts and exhibits.  Our favourites were the canopic jars (Emily ), the mummies ( Kyle), the hieroglyphic slabs (Emily C) and the bust of Nefertiti (Oscar).

“It was lots of fun” Lily   “It was amazing” Sophie  “We were all very tired after our trip” Emily  “We enjoyed a play in the play zone” Kara

We have been creating some lovely artwork in the style of Nefertiti.  We saw a bust of Nefertiti at  the museum, and we tried to create our own pictures in a similar style using a black and white photograph and wax crayons.

Ancient Egyptians

Primary 3 are working hard learning about the Ancient Egyptians.  This week, we have been learning about mummification, and we have been creating beautiful sarcophagus designs.

We have written letters to Mrs Wallace about a trip to the Museum in Edinburgh, and we are planning to visit the new Ancient Egyptian gallery there next week.  We have created a large pyramid in our class.  It has blocks on the outside, and hieroglyphics on the inside.

We have been learning to play a game from Ancient Egyptian times.  It is called Mehen,  and it is quite tricky but a lot of fun.

Maths Fun

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.

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