This week the Children were focusing on Scottish culture for the second week. We had been learning poems at home and three pupils were put to the final and Calum won today for P3. Congratulations Calum! I also want to give the children a big well done for singing the ‘Welly boot song’ in assembly today. You did a fantastic job and sang along so well. I am very proud of you.

In Literacy we looked at the verbs, nouns and adjectives in our procedural writing ‘How to make shortbread’ and then followed the recipe to make the shortbread in the afternoon on Tuesday.

In Maths we revised our 2 and 4 times tables and the strategies to support them.

In P.E. we performed our partnered mirroring of gymnastic shapes and jumps and teddy bear rolls. We had the privilege of attending the sports festival at Xcite Craigswood. The children had a taster of 7 dfferent clubs. Those seven were – Judo (Destination and Jidel 93), Tennis, Athletics, Basketball, Football and Rugby. They had a fantastic time on their outing.

They have also started to create some Scottish art which, once complete, I will photograph and show you.

Here’s what the pupils said about this week…

A – I enjoyed singing the chorus of the welly boot song.

N – I enjoyed the bagpipes at the assembly.

Z – I enjoyed the Sports festival at Craigswood.

A – I enjoyed listening to Mrs Love reading the class novel ‘Gangsta Granny’.

H – I enjoyed using the pastels in our Scottish art.

P – I enjoyed drawing the groups in times tables in Maths.

R – I enjoyed making the shortbread following our recipe writing.

A – I enjoyed eating the shortbread!

M – I enjoyed doing the teddy bear roll in gymnastics.

Mrs Love

Welcome back Primary 3 and a Happy New Year!

Apologies for not posting anything last week.

This week Primary 3 have been learning :

• In Writing – A procedural piece of work linked to the Scottish focus – ‘How to make shortbread.’
• Languages – Matching Scots, Polish and French words to English words.
• Maths – Money this week, more focus on giving change and repeating coins/times tables with money – e.g. – 5x20p = 100p or £1.
• P.E. – Gymnastics – Making different shapes with our bodies and doing a rocket jump, adding 1/4 and 1/2 turns and beginning to make a sequence with them with a partner.
• H&WB – We discussed similarities and differences with pupils families, understanding that we are all different.

E – I liked learning about multiplying values of coins this week in Maths.

C – I enjoyed writing in my learning logs this week.

H – I enjoyed gymnastics this week and doing the rocket jump.

R – I enjoyed my reading this week because I like pirate books.

C – I enjoyed gymnastics this week and working on shapes with my body.

A – I enjoyed doing different routines in gymnastics this week.

I have also included the window into learning for term 3 for you all.

Mrs Love

Window-into-Learning, term 3

In Primary 3 this week, we learned how to tell the time in fifteen minute intervals in our maths (o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to). In literacy we focused on past, present and future tense sentences and wrote spelling words in our handwriting jotters, keeping to the correct lines and keeping our writing neat. In P.E. we worked on dribbling around cones and we played benchball on two courts now we understand the rules. We also created anti-bullying posters in the class and discussed what bullying is.

The children said –

John – I enjoyed maths this week. Learning quarter past, half past, quarter to and o’clock.

Andrew – I have enjoyed listening to our new class novel ‘The magic faraway tree’.

Aiden – I enjoyed playing benchball in PE this week and working in teams. You get a ball and you throw it to your teammate on the bench. The first team will everyone on the bench wins.

Lewis – I enjoyed writing past/present and future tense sentences.

Maizy – I enjoyed writing my spelling jotters in my handwriting jotter.

Sophia – I enjoyed playing benchball.

Maddie – I loved doing my anti-bullying poster.

Mrs. Love

Good evening,

Here is our Window into Learning for Term 2. On this you will find out what the pupils will be learning this term and what our focus will be in Numeracy and Maths, Literacy, Health & Wellbeing and IDL (Topic).

Window-into-Learning, term 2

Mrs Love.

This week we started our new topic of Farm to Fork. This began with our class trip to Mill Farm (Almond Valley Heritage Centre) where the children were learning about the animals on the farm and what food/goods are produced by them. The met a sheep called Dolly and a chicken called Amelia Egghart. They were able to pet them too.

In numeracy this week we wrote numbers up to 1000.

The children loved writing about their week off in their weekly writing books.

In P.E. we were continuing developing our ball skills and were practising dribbling the ball around obstacles in our groups.

This is what the children enjoyed from this week…

Nathan – I enjoyed going to Mill Farm. I liked petting the sheep and the chicken.

John – I enjoyed the book The enchanted wood and was sad that it ended this week.

Elena – I enjoyed writing about the animals and the food that they give us after our trip to Mill Farm.

Andrew – I enjoyed being back with my friends in school.

Arya – I liked looking at the animals at Mill Farm.

Holly – I enjoyed our visit to Mill Farm and learning about Mill Farm.

James – I liked the Paraffin Works at Mill Farm.

Sophia – I enjoyed reading my book in the library.

Anya – I enjoyed P.E. this week and working as a team.

Maizy – I enjoyed the body coach work out today.

Caleb – I enjoyed using the basketballs to dribble on Tuesday.

Here are some photos from our trip this week and what they have learned from it.

Good afternoon families of Primary 3.

What a wonderful Term 1!

Thank you all for such a kind welcoming into the School, parents, families and Staff at Livingston Village Primary School.

Here are some snippets from this weeks learning…

In PE this week, we continued to focus on ball skills. This time we used different sized balls and how you would throw them. We practised our overarm and underarm throws in teams. Then used targets to throw them into. We then dribbled with a basketball around a obstacle and back in our teams.

We had our first library time this term this week. This is something we are hoping to keep up in the next term.

I was super impressed with Primary 3’s homework that instead of choosing one pupil to get the pupil of the week award, I gave it to the whole class! What superb model making of the faraway tree and home learning. Well done class, keep up the hard work for the next term!

As an added bonus, we managed to fill up Mrs Loves clouds of joy for the end of term! We went out for an extra 15 minutes playtime where we played ‘Whats the time Mr Wolf?’. Lets see if we can fill it up faster next term!

With the new term starts a new Topic of ‘Farm to Fork’. We have a trip organised to Almond Valley (Mill Farm). If any parent volunteers could help out, please contact the office.

I hope everyone enjoys their October break. I look forward to seeing you all in the new term. Happy holidays!

Mrs Love

Good afternoon parents and pupils.

Fantastic week P3!

This week in our literacy, we watched a animated short film called ‘The present’. We worked in pairs to think of the different emotions that the boy from the film, dog and how the children felt throughout the film and discussed how emotions can change. The pupils were given the task to write a short story titled ‘The present’. They were able to write about what they thought the story should be about.

In numeracy this week, we have been building our knowledge of addition and subtraction within 100. We were also looking at the relationship between them and how to turn and addition question into a subtraction question.

In our IDL learning, we went outdoors to the trees near the field and collected leaves, fir cones, seeds and sticks. We looked at the differences in the trees and leaves and used a checklist to identify the leaves. We also did bark rubbings in our pairs. On Thursday, we used our collection to create artwork. We used the leaves and fir cones for printing using paint, wax crayon rubbings, chalk rubbings and pencil rubbings.

I asked the pupils today – What have you enjoyed learning about this week?

Pola – I enjoyed writing about ‘The present’ this week.

Arya – I enjoyed using leaves and fir cones and sticks in paint to print.

Lewis – I enjoyed art this week because I loved doing the leaf rubbings.

Nathan – I enjoyed building a new tower with Lewis in our soft start in the mornings.

Alanice – I enjoyed going outside to look at the leaves and picking them up. We looked at the seeds and different leaves.

Poppy – I liked doing the subtraction questions this week and understanding that subtraction and addition are related.

Safia – I liked looking at the different colours of leaves and understanding that the colour changes with the seasons.

Holly – I enjoyed looking at the different trees outside and doing the rubbing on the tree with paper and crayon.

Andrew – I enjoyed writing about my weekend on Monday.

Thank you to the families of P3 for coming in to our curriculum cafe event. So many of the class had someone come into school, I thought it was very successful. I really hope you all enjoyed finding out about your children’s learning so far.

I look forward to meeting you properly at the parents evenings next week.

Mrs Love.

Welcome to Primary 3!

A warm welcome to the parents and children of Primary 3. Apologies that this is my first post and we are a few weeks into the first term. I hope the children are enjoying Primary 3 so far and are excited for the year ahead.

I think the children are off to a fantastic start and I am loving getting to know all of the pupils.

If you missed the ‘Meet the teacher’ presentation and would like to know more about what we will be doing this year, I have the attached the slides for you along with our window into learning for term 1.

If you would like to follow our class twitter page to follow our learning journey and look at what we have been doing in class in the last few weeks, click on the link below.

https://twitter.com/MrsLoveP3

Mrs Love

Window-into-Learning, term 1 Meet the teacher presentation

Last week we were developing our understanding of telling the time using analogue and digital clocks.  We learned to tell the time in 5 minute intervals and we all know that there are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.  We also learned that AM refers to the morning and PM refers to times after 12noon and before midnight.

In literacy, we were learning the spelling rules for adding ‘ing’ to words to make present tense verbs.  In writing we started thinking about the features of an adventure story and we began to plan out characters for our own adventure stories.

We has a visit from the SSPCA and we learned about looking after rabbits by taking part in the Rabbit Rescuers workshop.

The children have now completed their Bikability Training and are looking forward to practising riding their bikes over the summer.  Mrs Hill is hoping to take the children on a cycle ride around the village at the beginning of Primary 4.