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Book Week in P3

Primary 3 have had an exciting and engaging week during Scottish Book Week. We are all enjoying reading Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and have used this as inspiration for our writing. The children wrote letters to Mr Wonka persuading him to make their own sweet or chocolate invention in his factory. The children carefully considered the structure of their letters along with different examples of persuasive language they could use. Their hard work has definitely payed off and I don’t think Mr Wonka could refuse!

We also worked together to design and create a Charlie and The Chocolate Factory themed door display and were very pleased with the end result!

Our book week came to a great end as we all received our Read Write Count bags. One of the books in the bag was an atlas, therefore the children enjoyed a tasting session of different types of bread from around the world.

Here are what some of the children thought about our book week;

Aiden – “I liked playing the guess the book game best. Sometimes I didn’t even need all three clues.”

Rebecca – “My favourite bread was the French brioche bread, it tasted sweet.”

Lexi – “I liked writing an acrostic poem about reading and getting to share it with everyone at assembly.”

Iona – “I liked getting to do a book personality quiz with my Dad at Biscuits and Blethers.”

 

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P2/3’s Book Week

This week has been exciting for P2/3 as it was Book Week! Our week began with our assembly on Monday where Miss MacPhail shared some of her favourite books with us. We then went back to class feeling very inspired and excited to read our ‘drop everything and read’ (DEAR) time books. We also decorated our classroom door with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme using different colours and patterns.

Carrying on from our Wonka topic we also wrote some letters to Willy Wonka convincing him to make our chocolate bars in his factory. We were encouraged to think about the structure and purpose of the letter, a description of our chocolate and why he should make it. On Friday we played a game of character charades. We were given a character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which we had to keep secret and act out for the rest of the class to guess. The children were all so engaged with this and the class was roaring with laughter!

Our book week ended with P3 going through to Miss Duffy’s room where we were very lucky as we got to taste different types of bread from around the world. This was inspired by our read, write, count bags which contained an atlas. P2 read ”Open Very Carefully” by Nick Bromley with Miss Gill and then went on a hunt around the school for clues which the crocodile had left us. Our hunt ended back in the P2/3 classroom and we arrived to find some read, write, count bags waiting for us. We were all very excited to open them and explore the goodies inside. Overall we had a great book week!

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Weekly highlights from P2/3

On Monday afternoon the whole school first met with the Rookie Rockstars team to learn and sing some new songs which we practiced every afternoon in preparation for our CD recording. Come Thursday we were all very excited to record the CD and did a fantastic job. We will be performing our songs at our concert on Thursday 22nd November and I definitely think P2/3 have some future rockstars in the making.

In Numeracy we are continuing to order and sequence numbers and work on getting faster at our human number line. We have enjoyed regular ”number talks” where a sum is presented and we need to solve it mentally. This has encouraged the children to use a variety of strategies and generates a discussion amongst the class about what strategies are the most efficient and develops children’s justification skills.

Our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic continues and this week we have had some discussions about the characters that we have met so far and have started to form our own opinions about them. On Friday we were thinking about some adjectives that we could use to describe Augustus Gloop and are putting them towards our character profiles. We have also been summarising the chapters we have read and using clues from the text to make predictions about what might happen next.

On Friday it was Children in Need day and we got the chance to dress spotty and bring in some money to donate. In class we decorated spotty biscuits!

 

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This week in primary 3 we have been lucky enough to spend each afternoon singing and learning new songs with the Rookie Rockstar’s team. We have all thoroughly enjoyed this experience and working collaboratively with the whole school to record our own CD of the songs we learned. We hope you can all make it to our concert on Thursday where we will be showcasing what we have learned!

We also had a ‘spotacular’ day today dressing up and decorating spotty biscuits to raise money for children in need.

 

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Human Number Line Challenge

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Over the past weeks in maths we have been learning to sequence and order numbers. We were each given a number written on a whiteboard and were timed to see how long it could take us to order ourselves from smallest to largest. We have now been doing this as a warm up activity and so far our record is 47 seconds!! This collaborative activity encouraged a lot of discussion amongst the children about where they should stand and why. Our class record is yet to be beaten but every time we do this we find we are getting faster and faster!