Author: Mrs Spence

P3a Sharing the Learning

Our adults came into class to see what we have been learning. We showed them our Numeracy skills by working through an Esti-mystery. Then we got out lots of different concrete materials so we could show them how we use them. We had thousands, hundreds, tens & ones blocks and rods out to make numbers up to and beyond one thousand, counters to show our division work, iPads to show how we work on our tables online and a Maths table with shapes, money and geo-boards to work with. We introduced our adults to some different resources. It also gave them time to read what is on the walls in our classroom.

P3a Problem Solving

Today we were set a task to find out how many different towers we could make using one green, one yellow & one red block.  We used the cards to get into random partners. We got out the blocks and worked together on the towers. We came up with our success criteria together. We needed to –

  • work together
  • try
  • Used different colours of blocks
  • write / draw our answer
  • have same answer as partner

Once we had found a tower we had to record it on our sheet. We discussed our strategies and shared how we got our answers.

Once we had found as many towers as we could, we thought about what would make it harder.  We decided to add another block, this time a blue one.

P3a Division

We used concrete materials to work on division. We started off dividing by 2 as we all know that table. Once we worked one out we wrote the sum on our table. We worked out lots of different sums. Then we moved on to dividing by 3 and some of us even tried dividing by 4.

When we work in pairs we have started using numbered cards to find out who we are working with. This makes it totally random so even the teacher doesn’t know who we will end up with. It also keeps our brains working as we are not able to rely on the same person each time.

P3a Numeracy

Continuing on from last week’s learning on place value we have been working on Hundred’s, Ten’s & One’s.  We had to find our partners by working out how many HTO’s a number had, then we had to get into order smallest to biggest.  We had checkers to make sure we had completed it correctly.  Then we got into our groups and worked on different activities.  One group work on Seesaw and had to put numbers in order and say which were greater than & less than while another worked with the concrete material.  Another group were given a 3 digit challenge to work out all the numbers that could be made from the 3 digits.  They then had to work out which were odd and which were even and then put them in order.  They were then challenged further by using 4 digits.

Primary 3a Number Talks

This week we have been learning about the value of numbers. We used the 100 square on the smart board and had to click on the correct number. If the number had 5 tens and 3 ones we would click on 53. Once we were confident in this we moved onto numbers to 1000. For this we used the place value flip chart. If the number had 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 3 ones we had to make the chart read 348. We are going to keep working on this next week.

P3a Handwriting

Every Friday we work on our handwriting. We practice our letters lots of different ways – white boards, smart board, jotters and wipe clean boards.  We work on our letter formation so that we do it correctly in all of our work. Later on this year we will start to join letters so really need to be writing them the correct way.

P3a Book Week

During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen.  We also listened to stories and read with each other.  We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.

P3 Literacy

Something strange was in our mystery box this morning. A few of us tried to guess. Some said a number 2, which was quite a good guess. Others couldn’t find anything. After lots of discussion round what sort of shape it was, Harris worked out it was a question mark. We looked at the shape then tried to draw a few ourselves. We were allowed to draw it on our desks!! Then we thought about words that could be used at the start of a question. We wrote them on our desks too and then discussed them as a class. Next we had to think of questions we could ask, using these words.

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