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Y3 Spring Block 2 WO1 Pounds and pence 2019
Y3 Spring Block 2 WO2 Convert pounds and pence 2019
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Thinking Skills How Many Ways Can You 1
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Good morning,
I have been passed on this wonderful information from the staff at the Antonine Wall in Falkirk:
‘I wanted to just flag some resources in case you want to highlight them to pupils studying at home.’
Amazing resources for you to use at home to help support our Roman topic!
Kind regards,
Mrs Love
Well folks, what a week it’s been in school and I can’t praise the children enough, they have been wonderful! Their smiles this week have made it worthwhile!
This week Primary 1 children from P2/1 class joined us for a few days and we have had great fun practising for our assembly which we shared this morning, sorry we were unable to invite parents and carers in to watch. The children were amazing and all said their parts with confidence. Perhaps they will tell you about it at home.
In literacy we have been learning the sounds aw and are and we worked together to sort out real words from nonsense/alien words. We learned the tricky words where and were, it was a wee bit tricky to tell these two words apart so please practise these at home.
In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and had to sort some real life objects according to their shape. Perhaps you could talk about 2D and 3D shapes at home. In numeracy we have been practising our fact families and we did some addition and subtraction sums.
This week we have also been working on our Wellbeing Web and have talked about the eight different Health and Wellbeing indicators and the children self-evaluated each of these. We’ve talked about how we were feeling and the children have been supported to share their concerns around the Coronavirus.
As the children leave today I have a mixture of emotions. I will miss them all over the coming weeks but I want you all to stay safe and healthy. Your child has brought home their home learning pack today and I hope you will support them in continuing their learning. Please take good care of each other and I look forward to seeing you all back in school soon.
Mrs Clyne
We note today’s announcement by the First Minister regarding schools closing to pupils from Monday 23 March.
We are awaiting further details from the Scottish Government, and will confirm details with pupils and parents/carers as soon as we can.
Extensive preparations have already been made for this situation and we will work to maintain learning and to support students at this difficult time.
P2/1 have had another busy week learning lots. In Literacy P1 have learned two split diagraphs o-e and u-e and the tricky words one and anyone. We wrote words, built words on our magnetic boards and played roll and read. P2 have been focussing on the ‘-all’, ‘-ell’ and ‘-ill’ spelling patterns. We looked for them in a word search, wrote them in rainbow writing, made them on magnetic boards and played bingo. In writing we wrote about our mums and what makes them special. In numeracy this week P1 have been working on adding and subtracting within 20. We played games and used Numicon and number lines to help us. P2 have been looking for one more/less than, comparing and ordering numbers to 50. We have used base 10 to help us. P1 have started learning a song and have taken part in a little drama in preparation for their assembly. P2 learned how to draw daffodils in art this week. We used our pencils to sketch and then we coloured them in using pens or pencils. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
“I enjoyed playing mystery numbers in Numeracy. I also enjoyed planting the cress seeds.”
“I enjoyed completing the word search of –all,-ill and –ell words.”
“I enjoyed sketching and then colouring in the daffodils.”
“I liked playing mystery numbers in Numeracy.”
“I enjoyed learning the new sounds o-e and u-e.”
“I enjoyed learning our new sounds.”
“I enjoyed Science and planting cress seeds.”
“I enjoyed planting the cress seeds with Miss Whigham.”
This week P2 have been revising the spelling patterns for words with sounds beginning with fr-, ending with –ag and i-e. For writing this week the children designed hand wash posters. They had to list all of the steps clearly and draw pictures to go with each step. In numeracy the class have been making equal groups and adding them together. They have also been skip counting in 5’s. P2 also finished off capacity and volume, investigating which vessel holds the most water.
Isaac – I enjoyed making a hand wash poster. I did a goal with steps. You tell the people what to do when you wash your hands.
Ziva – I liked skip counting in 5’s.
Leo – I liked counting in 5’s. I can count to 200 in 5’s.
Nicholas – I liked counting in 5’s I can count to 100 in 5’s.
Austin – I liked doing the poster. We did a wash your hands poster. The steps are first wet your hands. Put some soap on your hands and scrub them together and sing happy birthday twice. Then you rinse the soap off. Get a paper towel and dry your hands off.
Lewis – I liked making the hygiene posters. We made them bright and colourful to encourage people to wash their hands.
Kaelan – We did graffiti words for spelling. I made words with the i-e sound. I did tide, hike, like, bike and time.
Rory – I enjoyed sharing my homework with the class. I wrote about how to make a Nutella pancake. I did sounds from Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I made lots of bar models for 11.
Euan – I liked doing the jug worksheet. We had to work out how many glasses the jug could hold.
Poppy – I liked doing the jug activity and we had to add up all the glasses to work out which container could hold the most. The jug could hold the most.
James – I liked rainbow writing our spelling words. This week I did sound beginning with fr. I wrote frill, from, free and frog.
Leighton – I liked when we were doing our spelling graffiti posters. I did bubble writing and block writing.
Lois- I liked making the graffiti posters off our spelling words. I was doing the i-e sound in bike and hike.
Sevinc – I like when we were doing our words. I did the green spelling words. It was split digraph i-e.
Charley – I liked making the hand poster. We wrote some things down. First you have to put water on your hands. Then you put soap on your hands. You rub your hands and sing Happy Birthday twice. Then you wash the soap off your hands with the water. Then you get a paper towel and dry your hands. You turn off the tap with the paper towel. Then you put it in the bin.
Coben – I enjoyed making pizza. We made the dough then we put it in the oven. When it crusted up we put on the ketchup. Then we put on some cheese. You were allowed to put peppers on your pizza if you wanted to. I put peppers on my pizza.
Emma – I enjoyed doing my spelling learning. I was spelling words with the fr sound.
This week we have continued learning about magic ‘e’ and how it changes the vowel in a word from its sound to its name. We focused on making words with the o-e and u-e sounds and we worked on sorting real words from alien words. We have also completed our sound assessments and Mrs Smith and Mrs Clyne are very impressed with the progress we are making with our reading. Reading bags will not come home this weekend to allow us to sort the new reading groups and have the books ready for Monday. In writing we were writing about why our mums are special and we wrote some lovely things.
In Maths we have been continuing with our number bonds and we were making kites to show the different number bonds to 10. We have also been learning the months of the year and learned a wee song to help us remember the order of them.
In science we learned about springtime and we talked about it being a time of new life. We learned about the lifecycle of a butterfly and we had to sequence the different stages of a butterflies life.
We started to practise for our assembly next week and have been learning some songs and making some video clips to share. Unforunately we will no longer be inviting parents to join us at the P1 assembly. While we are sorry this is the case we appreciate your continued support as we follow guidance surrounding the current circumstances.
What P3 enjoyed this week –
A – I enjoyed World Book Day – We had croissants at breakfast club while we enjoyed a book.
A – Dressing up as my favourite book character.
A – I enjoyed the whole of today as we got to wear costumes, have cakes and juice.
J – I enjoyed doing division – When you divide by ten you just need to take away a zero from the other number!
C – I enjoyed writing about how to wash a car, I found it a bit tricky because I haven’t done it in a while.
P – I liked doing the mnemonics because I was able to spell my spelling words using silly words.
A – I loved bouncing the balloons on badminton rackets.
In Literacy P1 have learned two split diagraphs a-e and i-e and the tricky words any and many. We wrote words, built words on our magnetic boards, coloured real and nonsense words and played roll and read. P2 have continued to focus on the ‘ck’ spelling pattern. We looked for ck words in a word search and made them on magnetic boards and played bingo. In writing we wrote about the superhero we have made. In numeracy this week P1 have been working on learning our number bonds to 20. We played games and used Numicon to help us. P2 have been exploring numbers to 50, place value and representations of numbers. We have used concrete materials to help us. On Tuesday Morning we watched Author’s live with Michael Rosen. On Wednesday morning we went to the Professor Eco show. It was all about schools who had problems to do with Science and he helped solved their problems like planting trees so the spiders didn’t come in to school. Thursday was World Book day. We had 3 drop everything and read sessions; we shared our favourite book and had another teacher come to read to us. Mrs Smith read Goldilocks and the Three Bears to us. On Friday we had our World Book day assembly and our Mad Hatter’s tea party. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
“I enjoyed the Mad Hatter’s Tea party, the Professor Eco show and Mrs Smith reading to us.”
“I enjoyed the tea party. I got to eat a cake.”
“I liked the tea party because it was all about Alice in Wonderland.”
“I enjoyed the tea party. I liked the photo props.”
“I loved assembly and dressing up as a book character.”
“I enjoyed using the photo props at the tea party.”
“I enjoyed learning our new sounds a-e, i-e and tricky words many and any.”
“I enjoyed playing bingo when learning the ck pattern.”
In literacy this week our spelling focus has been: a-e magic e, words beginning with dr- and words ending with –ad. In numeracy we have been counting in 2’s and 5’s. Our numbertalks focus is subtracting by adding on the difference from the smaller number to the larger number. We have also investigated weight and mass using the balance scales. Everyone enjoyed the World Book Day activities yesterday, especially drop everything and read! Today our assembly was led by Maleficent and lots of children dressed up as a character from a book. After assembly we were all invited to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!
Emma – I think it was nice to see everyone in costume and acting like their costume.
Nicholas – I liked counting in 5’s. I can count to 50!
Subhan – My favourite book is Harry Potter. I like Harry because he has a wand.
Lois – I like the book My Secret Unicorn. It’s all about unicorns and there is a girl who has got a nan and she went to her Grandma’s house and she bought a unicorn for her.
Austin – I liked World Book Day. When the bell went we had to drop everything and read our books. I was reading Hidden Treasure, it had ship and maps and it tells you where the treasure is.
Isaac – I am reading the Demon Dentist. The Demon Dentist was trying to take peoples teeth out.
Sushanth – I liked the Mad Hatter’s tea party. We had juice and sandwiches. We had a party to celebrate World Book Day!
Sevinc – My favourite book is The Naughtiest Girl by Enid Blyton. My mum read it when she was little and now I am reading it. The girl is really naughty because she does not want to go to school.
Rory – I was thinking why lots of people were wearing Harry Potter costumes today. It is because it is World Book Day. I like Harry Potter because he is a wizard and I like wizards.
Leo – I liked the tea party. We got sandwiches and the sandwiches were really yummy!
Euan – I liked weighing. I weighed lots of things to see how heavy they were. The water bottle was so heavy!
Lewis – I liked weighing. We used the pan balance. If the arrow is pointing in the middle the things weight the same. If one side goes down it means its heavy and the other side is light.
Charley – I liked the tea party. We were celebrating world book day. We drew our favourite book covers.
Ziva – I liked the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. We were having a party with Alice and her friends.
Coben – I liked the assembly today. We all said our favourite books and we got to dress up.
Kaelan – I liked the assembly because there was a lot of Harry Potters. Mrs Mill was Maleficent. We were dressed up because it was World Book Day!
