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Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 27.5.19

Last week while Mrs Clyne was at P7 Cluster Camp, Primary 3 worked hard with Mrs Fraser and Mrs Stewart.

Here are some of the children’s highlights:-

Olly “On Thursday we made spiders and frogs out of paper.”

Luke N “Miss Greig came in and taught us 3D shapes.”

Lakshya “We went into the back garden to find some shapes.”

Jarrad “On Friday we had Bikeability which I am enjoying.”

Ethan “We went outside for PE and Mr Keast got us to run about to see how exercise affects our heart.”

Joe “On Tuesday, Mrs Fraser took us outside for PE and we were developing our running technique.”

 

Primary 3

Weekly Update 13.05.19

Since we last posted we have been learning about speech marks in literacy.  We have been identifying speech marks in our books and also adding these to sentences to punctuate them correctly.  In spelling we have learning to understand the oa/ow sound and have discussed when to use each spelling.  In writing we have begun to look at writing a description and were encouraged to think about using the literacy bubble to add more detail to our writing.

In maths we have been learning about money and talking about different ways to make given totals.  We talked about how to write amounts correctly using the ‘£’ and ‘p’ signs.  We have also been trying to solve problems which involve money.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been talking about the different stages of the human life cycle and we thought about why we have different nutritional requirements at these different stages.

With Mrs Stewart we have been learning the technique of paper folding which is called origami.  Some of the animals we have made include a whale, a cat and a caterpillar.  In drama we have been reading stories about pirates and we have been making pirate hats and acting out the stories.

The children have enjoyed several assemblies over the past few weeks including one from P6 about their residential and one from P7 about sport.  Mrs Mill lead an assembly about ‘Respecting yourself’ and the children have been thinking about their own special skills and qualities that make them unique (we are looking forward to seeing the homework sheets when they are returned on Wednesday).

Lastly, we have been writing comic strips as part of the ‘Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail’ project which we are involved in.  The whole school had to write a comic strip and two people were chosen from each class to have their comic strips stuck onto our ‘Oor Wullie’ sculpture.  In Primary 3 the children who were lucky enough to be chosen were Emma F and Sophie.  Photos of the completed sculpture will be posted soon.

 

Primary 3

P3 Window into Learning Term 4

We are all set for our final term of Primary 3 and it’s going to be a busy one!  Can you believe the children are only 8 weeks away from the end of P3.  They say time flies when you’re having fun and we have lots more fun and learning to do before the end of session.  Have a look at our Window into Learning to see what our focus will be for the term ahead!

P3 Window into Learning – Term 4

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P3 Weekly Reflection 29.4.19

What a busy first week of term it was!  We had several visitors in school last week and the children enjoyed all of the interesting information they had to share with us.  The PDSA came to share a whole school assembly and an exciting project was launched by Jacqueline from the Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity.  The school will be taking part in Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail and we have to decorate a statue of Oor Wullie.  All children will contribute towards this over the coming week by drawing their own comic strip of Oor Wullie and his adventures.  The statue will then be returned to the Charity to be added to the trail which we will all be able to take part in over the summer holidays.  We are all very exicted.

Last week saw the closing date of the Young Writer’s Poetry Patrol Competition and we are now all eagerly awaiting the publication of the book so we can see all our hard work in print.

Some of the children’s highlights are as follows:-

Olly enjoyed learning how to make an origami caterpillar.

Luke N and Freya enjoyed listening to Emma from the PDSA telling us about Canine Communication.  Jarrad enjoyed the whole school assembly where the children learned more about pets.

William said he enjoyed learning a new game in PE, Team Dodgeball.

Lots of the children enjoyed the assembly from Jacqueline at the Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity.  She introduced us to Oor Wullie and launched Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail.

Kayden enjoyed when we did number talks and Mr Valentine came to watch.

Finn liked when we learned about money.

Teme and Harris Si enjoyed when the class were learning about rounds in Music.  Mrs Stewart said they were very quick to pick up how to sing a round and Mrs Clyne agreed that the children did very well to learn how to sing in a two-part round in only one day.

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P3 Weekly Reflection 15.02.19

This week we were practising our spelling words using plasticine and art straws, it was not as easy as some of the children made it look!  We have been learning about Magic ‘e’ and how it changes the sound of a vowel from it’s sound to it’s name.  I wonder how many examples of magic ‘e’ words the children will be able to tell you?

In maths we have been learning about halves and quarters.  We know that a quarter is half of a half and we talked about the numerator and denominator, tricky words but we are becoming more confident about what these mean!

In our topic work we have begun to look at key dates in the life of Ancient Egyptians and we talked about why the River Nile was so important to the Egyptians.  We are looking forward to learning about hieroglyphics and the process of mummification in the next few weeks.

In P.E. we have begun to work on gymnastics and we have been practising our jumping and rolling this week.  The star shaped forward roll using the springboard was a definite hit!

Here’s some of the children’s highlights:-

Luke C “I enjoyed when we did Humpty Dympty in different voices in Drama.  I also like when the nursery sang Baby Shark.”

Joe “I liked doing rolls and especially the star jump forward roll in gymnastics.”

Rohan “I liked doing homophones with Mrs Stewart.”

William “I also liked the homophones.”

Kalista “I enjoyed learning about Egypt when we were learning about the timeline of important events.”

Have a lovely holiday weekend and I look forward to hearing all the children’s news on Wednesday.

General Information, Primary 3

P3 NYCOS

NYCOS West Lothian Wee Sing

Wee Sing is a completely free project that introduces Primary 3 children to singing through musical games.  Over the course of the project the children will learn new songs, develop musical skills, gain confidence and make lots of new friends

AGES: 7-8 years

DATES: Thursdays, 28 February – 28 March

TIME: 5 – 6pm

ADDRESS: West Calder High School Limefield Lane, West Calder EH55 8BF

COST: Free

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P3 February Homework Grid

Please find attached a copy of the children’s homework grid for February.  The only tasks the children must complete are practising their spelling and preparing a class talk on an aspect of the Ancient Egyptians.  P3 Home Learning February

A copy of the Frys Words spelling lists are attached here, Frys Words complete 1000.  Most children are focused on the First Hundred but if they would like to challenge themselves, please have a look at the Second Hundred.

Homework is due on Wednesday 27th February.  I look forward to hearing all the class talks then.

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P3 Weekly Reflection 01.02.19

Another busy week in class.   Here’s what the children had to say about their learning this week:-

  • We  enjoyed the races in badminton in PE.
  • We enjoyed watching the P1’s assembly about Chinese new year, we learnt it isn’t celebrated at the same time each year and we learnt about the race with the animals that made the order of the years. Kalista had seen the lanterns at the zoo which had also represented the race.
  • The chinese decorate their house and make signs with Chinese writing and they have a dragon dance. They clean the house to start the new year fresh and to get rid of the bad things, they wear red for luck.
  • In maths, we’ve been learning about greater than and less than.
  • We were also learning about arrays and multiplication.
  • In Newsround we learnt about the polar vortex and the freezing temperatures in Chicago. The newsreporter threw boiling water into the air and it turned into ice.

 

 

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P3’s First Reflection of 2019

Happy New Year!

It has been great to welcome the children back to school this week and hear all their lovely news from their holidays.  We have been delighted to welcome Teme and Blake to our class this week and look forward to getting to know them over the coming weeks.

As it is the new year, we began this week by writing our new year’s resolutions.  We discussed the things we thought we needed to improve and wrote our own targets for things we will try to improve at home and at school.

This week we also started our Scottish Focus and the children were given their poems home to practise.  They have the choice of three poems to learn and will recite these to the class on Wednesday 23rd January.  The poems choices are The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate, Crocodile by JK Annand and Mince and Tatties by JK Annand.

We have also begun looking at Scottish Food and Drink and will continue this next week.  Perhaps we will finish our Scottish Focus with a tasting session?

In our number work this week we have been revising the 2x, 5x and 10x tables and have begun to learn the 4x and 8x tables.  We have been looking at patterns between the tables.  Please practise the times tables with your children at home as a quicker recall of the table facts will be beneficial to their mental maths.

In art this week we were learning about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and enjoyed exploring colour mixing with the paints.

Some highlights from the children:

Joe and William particularly liked the colour wheel in art.

Anna enjoyed the assembly on Keeping Connected which helped us learn more about having a back up team to help us through the low points in our life.

Freya enjoyed when we were listening to everyone’s Christmas news.

Luke N enjoyed having Teme and Blake join our class.