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P3 Easter STEM Challenge

Hello again Primary 3!

As we are coming up to Easter we are setting you an Easter STEM Challenge. Below is your challenge. Remember you can try it more than once to see if maybe using different materials would help it to work better – trial and error! You could record information for each trial and then say which version worked best. If you can please take photos and you can send these to the school email: wldeans-ps@westlothian.org.uk

EGGY ZIP WIRE

Can you build a harness to transport an egg down a zip wire? This is a great activity for learning about friction. Try changing the type of string used to make the zip wire to investigate.

 

There are many more challenges you could try by following this link or simply googling ‘Easter STEM Challenges’ : https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/79798224623702686/

 

P3’s week

This week in Primary 3 we have been looking at durations of time. Mrs Hillan has given us two times and we have had to work out how long is between them. We have been finding this tricky, but collaborating and communicating in small groups for this has helped to boost our confidence. We will continue to work on this. We have discussed how it is important it is to know the time so that we aren’t late for our work in the future or we don’t miss an appointment. We also discussed that we need to know how long is between two times so that we know how long something lasts, for example when we go to see a movie at the cinema.

We are now becoming more confident in showing our understanding of a text through completing our comprehension activities. We have been able to use these skills to then help us build up an understanding of our new class novel just by looking at the front cover and then by reading the blurb. We were all able to make predictions of what we think is going to happen in the story and we could then change our predictions once we had read the blurb. We have enjoyed working collaboratively to create a piece of drama retelling our predictions!

We all enjoyed celebrating World Book Day last week, and as promised, here are some pictures of us in our pjs with our teddies and books!

A Busy Week for Primary 3

Primary 3 have been working with Mrs Smith on designing and constructing models while cooperating in a group. This is part of our Technology and will eventually link to our next class topic. The children had the challenge to build a tower from the materials provided – marshmallows and spaghetti, which you will see from our photographs. Our challenge worked to an extent, but unfortunately the spaghetti broke easily! Thankfully each group did manage to build something. This week the children will try using wooden sticks and marshmallows to see if that makes a difference.

Primary 3 have been continuing to work on Time in our Numeracy and Maths. We have looked at recording times on clocks as well as saying times one/two hours before and after a given time. We have been finding Time tricky, but if we continue to practise at home as well as in school, this should help us!

 

For World Book Day this week, we have taken part in a number of activities. The theme for this year is ‘Share a Million Stories’. We have been sharing some of the stories we enjoy most, and have picked out quotes that we like best from these. We have also listened to short parts of a number of stories which we have really enjoyed. The children have created mini book covers, book bubbles on why we share stories, posters to advertise our favourite books and made book marks. We will use some of these to display in our library area in class. Hopefully next week we can share some pictures of us in our pyjamas with our teddies and favourite stories.

This week in Primary 3

Primary 3 have been learning about Time in Numeracy. This week some of us have been showing our knowledge of half past the hour, whilst the rest of us have been sharing our knowledge of quarter past. We have been demonstrating this knowledge through communicating with everyone during the class teach, through recording it and also by playing some online Time games. This is something we will continue to explore and extend our knowledge of.  Next week we will hopefully create our own clocks to help us.

In literacy this week we have been discussing the importance of comprehension and why it is necessary that we understand what we read. The children were able to explain how this helps them now for their own enjoyment of a text as well as being able to explain it to others, but also how these skills will be vital in the future when it comes to interviewing for a job as well as within the jobs we may pick. We decided that being able to understand text of any sort would be a key factor in all jobs. We have been using our group reading books to show our comprehension skills and we have been answering different types of questions to demonstrate this. Primary 3 have also started looking at the Blooms Superheroes who help us to use and develop our skills in Remembering, Understanding, Applying our own knowledge, Analysing, Evaluating and Creating within our reading.

Update from Primary 3

This week P3 have been demonstrating how well they can read to Mrs Hillan by reading their group readers to her. We have some very fluent readers in P3, as well as some children experimenting with using expression. Keep it up Primary 3!!

In Numeracy this week we have been looking at counting on and counting back. We used some Interactive games online to support this. We had to use our communication skills and collaboration skills in order to work together on these games.

 

As part of our ‘Wee Tour of Scotland’ we have looked at Edinburgh and Stirling this week. We have worked collaboratively on the laptops to find information to create factfiles and leaflets. We will work hard to complete these next week as well as hopefully looking at another city in Scotland.

Next week we will be making shortbread with Mrs Wood after us writing our own instructions for how to make shortbread last week.

 

Primary 3 have been enjoying Zumba during our PE time. The pupils were great at following the routines! The children had the opportunity to select which Zumba tracks to follow. Hopefully next week we can maybe try individuals leading learning through our own freestyle Zumba!

Busy Times in Primary 3!

This week in Primary 3 we have introduced our mini topic ‘Oor Wee Tour of Scotland’. We have been working alongside P3/4 which has seen us using the elements of our Social Intelligence Skills – collaboration, communication, leading learning within our groups and being aware of the feelings of others within our groups when listening to and accepting everyone’s answers. We created mind maps of what we already know about Scotland and then came together as a whole group to discuss what we would like to find out Scotland. P3/4 then helped us to locate the main cities of Scotland on a map. We used an atlas to help us.

We also all decided on our own New Year’s Resolutions which have now been displayed in class. It will be good to look back on these to see if we have managed to stick to them!

This week in Number Talks we have been looking at Making Ten. The pupils came up with lots of different sums to do this again this week. We were also very lucky to have Jemma from Nationwide in to visit us during our Numeracy time. She talked to us about her role within the Building Society and spoke to us about saving money. We got to see some of the fancy 50 pence pieces that have been in circulation too! Jemma very kindly brought each of us our own little piggy bank which we got to paint and take home!

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