This week we have been working on our editing skills. We were given a sentence with lots of mistakes and had to work with our partner to correct it. There were missing capital letters, full stops and lots of spellings to correct. It made us really think. Hopefully this will help us edit our own writing.
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.
Primary 5 and Mrs Campbell were delighted to welcome Alan Hamilton into school on Thursday afternoon. Alan has previously been a regular visitor to our school, working with P6s and P7s on their World War IDL contexts. He is a mine of information about WW1, WW2 and everything in between!
Alan came to speak to Primary 5 about Remembrance and gave us a real insight into the life of a soldier, from rations and trench foot to horse dung and ‘sweet pea mixture’ (ask your kids!). He brought along his own medals and some interesting artefacts to show us and also very kindly left us copies of his own sketches which he made whilst serving in Iraq.
The pupils were highly engaged in this session and understandably had many questions which Alan did his best to answer!
Our new phonics sound in Literacy this week is the “sh” sound. This morning, we had the opportunity to be word detectives to help us spell “sh” words. We worked with our partner to spell “sh” words using the letters written on the sticky notes. We challenged ourselves and some of even used extra letters to extend our words.
We were also very excited to work in randomised groups for the first time. This means we didn’t choose our partner and Miss Marra didn’t choose our partner either. All our names are in a tub, and we picked a name card out. The name on the card was our partner. It was exciting to have a surprise when we found out who we were going to be working with. We were all engaged in our learning and on task. Miss Marra was very proud of us all.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
Lucas was very proud of himself for creating the word “shrimp.” 
We have only been back at school for a week and a half, but we have been working so hard. In Number Talks, we have been learning to combine numbers. We used a Smart board game called “Dreambox Teacher Tools” to talk about the different ways numbers were represented on ten frames. We started with numbers to 20 and then moved on to numbers within 100. It was interesting to talk about our strategies and share our thoughts on other ways to make that number. We tried to identify the most efficient strategy.
We have also started learning multiplication this week. We started with the mystery box and found counting sticks inside. We used the sticks to demonstrate our knowledge of the two times table. Miss Marra then wrote a calculation on the board “3 x 2” and we worked in pairs to make this calculation using concrete materials.
We then drew our strategy and wrote it down in our Maths jotters. Some of us then worked on the three times table as a challenge.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
We take part in Number Talks every day. We have been learning to count forwards and backwards in decades using a 100 square. We know that the most efficient strategy is to count in tens.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
This was our Learning Intention for Number Talks. We always link our learning to the UNCRC.
“30 less than 102 is 72. I counted back in tens.”
“40 less than 101 is 61. I counted back four which is the same as counting back four tens.”
“60 less than 88 is 28. I wouldn’t count back in ones because that would take ages. I counted back in tens. I counted back six tens.”
During our last week of Term 1, we engaged in Art which provided us with the opportunity to unleash our creativity. We each received a piece of paper with a black round sticker places somewhere on the page. We had a great discussion about what the sticker could represent and we used our ideas to create our own pictures. Have a look at some of our wonderful creations.
We had a very busy week in P3B. It was Maths Week and we were excited to find another surprise in our mystery box. This time, we opened our box to find some 2D shapes. This started a discussion about the names of the shapes and we started discussing their properties.
We then watched a video of a shape story which led to another discussion about the features of 2D and 3D shapes. Then we took part in four stations over several days and we really enjoyed our learning. We had the opportunity to consolidate addition and subtraction by playing Sumdog on the ipads. We are developing our independence logging in using our usernames and passwords. We also practised adding coins at another station. We used the till, labels and money to set up a “shop” to consolidate adding coins to make different amounts of money.
The other two stations involved exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We used 2D shapes to make pictures and we also used the shape construction to make 3D models. This initiated discussion about all the different shapes we used.
“We are making a house and we’re using rectangles and squares.” Emmi and Sofia
“I didn’t make a picture, I traced the shapes. I used triangles, squares and rectangles. I learned the name of a new shape too. I learned the word rhombus.” Sophie B
“I made £3.5o with 50p coins.” Struan
“I love Sumdog. The questions are getting harder and it’s a good challenge.” Lucas
We also delivered our class assembly this week. It was amazing and we got so many compliments from other children and adults in the school. Miss Marra is very proud of us. We all read fluently and with confidence. We organised everything ourselves before the assembly started and we remembered when to say our parts. We also sat so quietly during the assembly to show respect towards the person who was speaking. One of our favourite parts was performing when I Grow Up from Matilda the Musical. We sang so well and used fantastic facial expressions. We got extra play as a special treat for all our hard work. Thank you to Miss Baldacci for helping us with the sound.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
In P3B, we love Numeracy and Maths. We take part in Numeracy every day and on Tuesdays, we focus on our Maths Topic. “Money” is our Maths topic this term and we have been learning through play.
Miss Marra gave us a selection of coins and we worked with our learning partners to answer these questions:
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
We had lots of questions about the coins and notes. We all recognised the bank cards and could talk about times when we had seen family members use these to pay for items. We had a class discussion about how most people use Apple Pay or bank cards to pay for items nowadays. During this discussion, we realised that it is still important to learn how to add coins to help us understand the value of money. This will help us to pay for things and budget when we are older.
We started using the money in different ways depending on our interests. Some of us collected one particular type of coin and added them together. Some of us started ordering the coins from smallest to biggest. We noticed that the largest coins are not always the highest in value. Some of us started adding the coins and showing Miss Marra the different values we can make. This then started the ball rolling with a different discussion. How much can we make with the coins?
We were confident sharing our learning with each other. We have photos on our Maths and Numeracy wall with examples of the discussions that took place. We are very excited for our parents and carers to see this on Parents Evening.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
In P3B, we love our “Mindfulness Moment” after lunch every day. This is our ten minutes of quiet time where we choose to read, draw, use play dough or build a model with construction. We have started taking part in “Relax and Read” once a week during Mindfulness Moment. This is when we find a comfy spot in the classroom with a book to read for enjoyment.
Miss Marra took photos for our reading display and she asked us to explain what we love most about reading. Here are some of our responses:
I love reading because I love to learn new words.
I love reading because it is relaxing and it helps my brain.
I like reading because I like looking at the pictures.
I like reading because I like to learn new facts. I like non-fiction books.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
We extended our learning on money by thinking about answering the question, ‘how are we going to show we know how to use money?’ Lots of discussion and groups then started setting up their own shops, writing labels for what they had on sale and making sure they gave the correct coins.
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