Today was the last day for Roots of Empathy in P3A. Everyone got a certificate! We thought about all the things we have been learning this year in Roots of Empathy.

Primary 3 Newsletter

Here is our class newsletter. Contact the office if you would prefer a paper copy.

Enjoy the long weekend

We finished our painted tartan designs – look out for them on a display soon.

We were learning past and present tenses of verbs in Grammar. We can do this by adding ed and ing on some verbs.

The Squares have been learning about taking away. We were learning quarter past and quarter to on an analouge clock.

The Triangles have been doing a check up to see how much we have learned about subtraction. We were learning about quarter to and quarter past on a digital clock.

The Circles have been learning a new strategy for adding 2 digit numbers. We were learning how to change times from analouge to digital and solving time problems.

In Writing we were learning how to make up a Fairy tale.

In Spelling some groups were learning the igh pattern and the magic e with u.

Others were learning words with the ur, ir, or letter strings.

We started our new topic all about Castles. We have made a huge list of all the things we want to find out. We are going to be busy.

We were practising different skills with Mr Benyon in PE.

Head Teacher Awards this week is for Lewis Dickie and his fantastic Monster Story. He used his planning sheet well and wrote an exciting tale.

Our focus skill for this week is EVALUATING

Pupils who have been demonstrating the skill of evaluating in their learning this week are:

Primary 1F

Abbie McAllister and Lyle Strachan

Primary 1B

Aleisha Quinn and Manda McCrae

Primary 2/1

Liam McCabe and Teresa Watt

Primary 2

Lennon Cameron and Alex McLean

Primary 3/2

Eryn Mushet and Morgan Thomson

Primary 3

Robbie Yates and Rachel Mighton

Primary 4

Lara Findlay and Connor Martin

Primary 5/4

Corey Thomson and Lenny Ndjoba

Primary 5

Charlotte McCabe and Amyleigh McAuley

Primary 6

Anthony McMullan and Brooke Devine

Primary 7/6

Alyx Bonnes and Sherelle Sneddon

Primary 7

David Charker and Cameron Stewart

Congratulations our ‘Skillionaires’ will be recognised at our assembly on Friday 6th February

In writing this week we were writing about When I found a Monster. We used our Planning Sheet to help us.

In Grammar we were learning all about adjectives.

In spelling, one group  we were learning words with er. Another group were learning ing words and magic e with the letter u.

In PE we were doing different stations with Mr Benyon. We were learning skills with a hockey stick – stopping and striking. We were improving our jumping skills- jumping over ropes. We were also using our balancing skills – walking slowly on a narrow upturned bench. We also had to sit on a large bouncy ball and throw another ball and keep our balance. We were also learning to climb up the high climbing frame.

In Maths one group were revising quarter to and quarter past and converting from analouge to digital.Another were practising all the times with an analouge clock. Another group was learning o’clock and half past and using the clocks we made to help.

In Art we were creating our own Tartan with different coloured paints. This is still a work in progress, but they are looking good.

In Roots of Empathy – Ali came in with baby Erica and Mummy Kelly. Baby Erica had grown alot since we last saw her.

The Skillionaires this week were :

Ellie – for understanding some of the Scots words we have been learning.

Zac – for explaining in his own words how to add 2 digit numbers together.

Next week the focus is on EVALUATE …………..

We have been busy this week practising for our Scottish Burns Assembly.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED OUR AMAZING ASSEMBLY.

We have learned how to do Strip the Willow dance – which was great fun!

We made fantastic bagpipes as a Homework Challenge.

We started our mini topic about Scotland.

Rachel Ferguson and Ross Howard won a Head Teachers Award for magnificent Scotland covers in our Topic jotters.

We have been learning facts about Robert Burns.

In maths we have been learning TIME and some of us have been adding 2 digit numbers in chimney sums. Some of us have been subtracting from 20 and 30.

In Early Intervention some children have been learning how to spell words that end in double letters. Some have been learning the magic e and some learning words that end in “ing”.

Well what a busy week we’ve had. We have particularly enjoyed…

• learning how to play a snowman drive by working in groups. We were really good at taking turns.
• our party on Tuesday afternoon with lots of singing, dancing and party games.
• watching The Croods for our DVD and popcorn treat as we were the winning class for collecting house points last week!

We’re looking forward to having fun on Monday and Tuesday but from all In P3/2 have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!