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This week in Primary 3

P3 are Telling the Time!

This week in Numeracy and Maths we have been focusing on Time. We have been looking at O’Clock, Half Past, Quarter Past and Quarter To. We made our own clocks and have been using these to help us. We enjoyed creating our own designs on the clocks. We have been working hard to learn our times and Mrs Hillan will be asking us our times often throughout the day. Some of us have been matching written times to the clocks and some of us have been recording times in digital and analogue.  As a class we have been using some interactive games to test our knowledge and also help us learn something new. We will continue to consolidate the times we have learned so far, as well as trying new ones next week.

 

“When the big hand is pointing to the 9 it means quarter to”– Ryley

 

“When the big hand is at 9 on analogue, on digital you would write 45 for quarter to” – Summer

 

“When the big hand points to the 3 and the small hand points to the 8, it is quarter past 8″– Olivia

 

“When the big hand goes from one number to another number that means it’s been 5 minutes” – Erin

 

“When the big hand gets to the 6 that means half past” – Lewis D

 

“When the big hand points to the 12, it is o’clock” – Shay

 

 

P3 Filming with P3/4

This week we filmed our TV adverts to encourage people to visit Glasgow. We were working with P3/4 in mixed groups. We had to create a script as well as a piece of drama. We had lots of fun and had a few laughs along the way! We gave feedback to each group as we watched and filmed. A lot of similar feedback came up for our next steps, such as projecting our voices more and not having our backs to the audience. There was also a lot of positive feedback such as good acting in our dramas, sharing good information and some of us spoke loudly and clearly.  Unfortunately we can’t upload the videos as the files are too large!

 

P3 ‘Touring’ Scotland

This week we have been continuing to focus on ‘Oor Wee Tour of Scotland’ topic. We have been working individually and collaboratively with our class members as well as the pupils in P3/4 to complete our leaflets, factfiles and group posters; all of which provide information on a different city in Scotland. We have had to use good communication skills in order to gather and record our facts, as well as being mindful of the feelings of others and taking everyone’s opinions on board. We used our ICT skills as well as our skills in researching and recording of information. We discussed as a whole group how our work had to be ‘presentation perfect’, which means neat writing, colourful pictures and completed tasks. Our work is now getting to the completion stages and ready to be displayed for everyone to see! We are looking forward to ‘visiting’ another city soon, and this time we are going to be using our skills in drama to create a TV advert to tell others about our next city!

 

“I have enjoyed doing the poster because we got to work in groups and we could do pictures and writing.”  commented Erin

“I enjoyed doing the leaflet because of all the writing we could put in and it helped me spell words that I didn’t know” said Joseph

“I liked doing the poster because it was nice working with people on this. We weren’t all doing the same but we did it together so it was all of our work!” commented Maisy

“I liked doing the group poster because it had four boxes that we could fill with lots of stuff.” said Daniel

Wizard of Oz Characters

This has been a very short week, but we have been working hard on our Wizard of Oz topic.  We made red, sparkly Dorothy shoes and it was fun.  (Chloe)

We have discovered an interesting fact about Dorothy’s shoes.  Her shoes were silver in the book, but they were red in the movie.  (Summer)  We have been writing character descriptions of Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Lion and the Scarecrow.

We have made a model Lion and a model Dorothy for the class.  We are working on the Scarecrow and the Tin Man.

Welcome to Primary 3

We have had a very busy start to our new school year.  We have been learning all about our P3 class and our new friends.  We have been playing some getting to know you games.  We have drawn pictures of ourselves looking great in our new school uniforms.


This term, PE  will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays – shorts, tee-shirts and no earrings on PE days please.

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.

P3 Art

We have finally reached the part in our novel, James and the Giant Peach, when the peach lands on the Empire State Building in New York.  We have been looking at the shape and form of skyscrapers, and in art this week, we have been making line drawings of the Empire State Building.
“it was hard at first, but it’s fun”  “can we try this again?”

We think our drawings are all unique – we hope you like them.

P3 use Comic Life in ICT

One of the highlights of the day today was using the comic life program on the laptops to make a comic strip.  We used some of the photographs we took when we made the peach crumble last week.  Although we need to finish off our comics, the children were very enthusiastic and commented “it was great fun”  “it was hard at first”  “can we do this again?”.

Our next step will  be to add speech bubbles to our comic pages.

P3 Get Cooking

 

P3 made peach crumble as part of the James and the Giant Peach topic.  In writing we wrote out the recipe.  Then in the afternoon, after we washed our hands, we got started making our peach crumble.

We made two crumble dishes, one with  fresh peaches and  one with tinned peaches.  We compared the similarities and the differences between them.

First we put the peaches in the dish, then we weighed the flour, sugar and margarine.  We mixed them together and put the crumble mix onto the peaches.  We baked the crumble in the oven for 30 minutes.  After it cooled, we all had a taste of each crumble.  Most people in the class preferred the tinned peach crumble.

 

Autumn Leaves

Primary 3 went for a lovely Autumn walk this week and we collected some leaves.  We have been learning to write acrostic poems and we used the words leaf and leaves for our poems.  We made leaf rubbings with crayons, and we have created a lovely display in our classroom.

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