Category: Primary 3

In writing this week, we made posters to advertise our Shoe Box Appeal.  We watched a video about the Shoe Box Appeal, looked at what to include and what not to include in a shoe box and which date our shoe boxes need to be ready for so that we had all of the important information needed on our posters.  We also looked at features of an effective poster and we made sure that our posters were clear and easy to read, bright and eye-catching and that we included all of the important information. We worked with our learning partners to make our posters. They will be displayed throughout our school to encourage people to bring in a shoe box and help children in areas of the world who might not get as much as we do at Christmas. We are looking forward to organising and leading the Shoe Box Appeal at Springfield.

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we revised rounding to the nearest 10 and we learned how to read and write number names. On Thursday, we were learning how to select and use the most appropriate way to gather and sort data. We revised how to use tally marks. We are very confident with using tally marks since we use them to record our house points. Afterwards, Miss Harrison asked us what our favourite Australian animal was and we used a tally mark chart to record our data. To present our data we made bar graphs. We had to include a title and labels!

This week we looked at Indigenous Australian Art.  We listened to an Indigenous dreaming story and then we looked at different examples of Indigenous Australian Art.  We looked at dot painting and then we created our own paintings of Australian animals using a dot style. We worked really hard with our art work and our paintings look fantastic!

On Thursday we started to explore the natural environment of Scotland. We looked at photographs of native Scottish animals and with our learning partners, used the internet and fact sheets to find information on our chosen Scottish animal. After the holidays we will begin to compare the Scottish animals to the Australian animals.

In French this week we learned the names for parts of the body. We listened to a song about parts of the body, watched a video on High Five French which taught us five different body parts and played ‘Simon Says’ using our new vocabulary. We also did ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in French!

On Friday we went to our P1-3 Pupil Voice Committees. There are six committees; Play, Eco, Health and Wellbeing, Pupil Council, Reading and 1+2. We will be helping to make important decisions and we will be involved further in the life of the school.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely October break.

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

We have had another fantastic week in P3A and we won Class of the Week again today!

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we have been learning to count on in fours and fives, estimate numbers on a number line and round numbers to the nearest 10. We completed sequences by counting on in fours and fives and we made a human number line to help us with our rounding. We also played games on Education City to consolidate rounding and estimating and we completed written work in our jotters and workbooks.

In Literacy this week we have been looking at retelling a story in sequence. We listened to the story ‘The Frog Prince’ and we took notes on the setting, characters and structure of the story. We then used our notes to write the story in the correct order. We had to make sure that we included the beginning, middle and end and that we put the events in the correct sequence. This week we have also been continuing to spell words with different letter patterns and we have been practising our common words.

On Friday (we now call this ‘French Friday’) we revised the colours in French. We listened to the Rainbow Song in French, played different games on our Promethean board and used our knowledge of colours in French to complete a paint splat activity. Afterwards we worked with our learning partners to test each other on the French colours.

This week our class were given a very special job! Our house points were relaunched on Friday at the assembly and we have a new House Points display near the hall. Miss Baillie asked us if we could create line drawings for the new House Points display. We looked at photos of Champfleurie, Hopetoun, Ochiltree and Binns and we discussed the lines and shapes that we could see. Miss Harrison then showed us how to create a line drawing by sketching and looking at smaller shapes which go together to make a big picture. We worked so hard on our drawings and we can’t wait to see them up on the new House Points display!

Last week we told Miss Harrison that we would like to learn about Australian animals so this week we started to explore the natural environment of Australia. We watched a video about koalas and then we took a trip to Australia to learn about other Australian animals. Afterwards, we selected which animal we would like to research. We completed our own Animal Fact Files! On Thursday we used a search engine to find information and we looked at using key words to find the facts that we needed. We took notes on our animal’s description, habitat and diet and we noted down any other interesting facts. Next week we will be transferring this information onto our fact files.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

We have had a busy 8 days in P3A!

Last week we were the peg challenge winners again and we were also Class of the Week! Miss Harrison was extremely proud of us and we are going to continue to work hard to ensure that we win them again!

Last week we created newspaper reports on James and the Giant Peach. We were writing reports about when the peach landed on the Empire State Building! Firstly, we looked at features of a newspaper report and we created our own interesting headlines! Then we looked at the key facts and wrote these down on our planning sheets. We also used our planning sheets to take notes on the introduction, main story and conclusion. Afterwards we created our first copy of our newspaper reports in our jotters. We had to make sure that we used capital letters and full stops, put the events in the correct sequence and included who, what, when and where. Miss Harrison looked at all of our reports and checked our spelling. Finally we created final copies of our reports and made sure that our writing was neat and that we included a picture. Our newspaper reports are absolutely fantastic and we have displayed them inside and outside of our classroom.

This week we have been continuing to look at different reading skills. We have already looked at summarising and question writing and this week, we looked at illustrating. We looked the job of an illustrator and looked at some examples of famous illustrators and their work. Miss Harrison read us the last two chapters of James and the Giant Peach and we had to use our visualising skills and information from the text to create illustrations for those chapters. On Tuesday, we used our summarising and illustrating skills to create alternative blurbs and front covers for James and the Giant Peach. When we were writing our blurbs, we worked hard to summarise the story and not give too much away to the reader. We also tried to use interesting words. We definitely have authors and illustrators in the making!

This week it was European Day of Languages.  On Friday, we learned different colours in French. We listened to a song about French colours, we played some different games on the Promethean Board and we played a French colours game in our classroom. Miss Harrison will be using different French words and phrases that we learn throughout the week to help us to develop our language.

Over the last fortnight, we have continued to look at symmetry. Last week we reflected shapes and pictures in mirror lines to make them symmetrical. We also created our own symmetrical patterns. This week we concluded our learning on symmetry and we used our knowledge of lines of symmetry to create our own symmetrical designs on squared paper. We had to check if our designs were symmetrical by comparing both halves to check if they were a reflection of each other.

This week we have been learning to find 1 and 2 more or less than and 100 more or less than with numbers to 1000. We have also been learning to count on in twos and threes. When we were revising odd and even numbers, we played a game called ‘Popcorn’. Miss Harrison called out different numbers and if the number was even, we had to ‘pop’ up and if the number was odd then we had to ‘pop’ down!

On Thursday after break we arrived back into our classroom to discover boarding passes to Australia on our seats! Miss Harrison had a suitcase filled with sun cream, a sun hat, sunglasses, a story book called ‘What’s in Your Pocket?’, a weather map of Australia and photographs of Ayres Rock, Sydney Opera House, coral, kangaroos, koala bears, the Australian flag and Australian rugby players.  We discussed what we already knew about Australia and then we wrote down what we want to learn. We are going to be exploring the natural environment of Australia and by comparing the weather in Scotland and Australia, looking at how climate affects living things.

This week we had a very special party in P3A. A member of our class has been undergoing treatment for the last two years and this week, it was the end of her treatment. We are all very proud of how brave, strong and resilient she is and we wanted to celebrate! Miss Harrison also wanted to celebrate how kind, supportive and understanding we are in P3A. We ate lots of party food, listened and danced to music and had lots of fun!

Thank you very much for reading our blog post.

We hope that you have a lovely weekend,

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

Congratulations to two members of our class who took part in Pedal for Scotland last Sunday. Well done boys! We are very proud of you!

In Literacy this week, we have been looking at answering and creating questions about texts. On Monday we looked at the role of a questioner and in pairs, we constructed our own questions using ‘who, what, where, when, how and why’ openers. We played a game on Education City called ‘Wild River’ where we had to answer who, what, when, where, why and how questions about events in the story. Afterwards, we read an extract from Jack and the Beanstalk and we answered questions about the events to show our understanding.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been working with numbers to 1000. We have been learning to find numbers before and after a given number and to find numbers between. We used different songs and a Splat Square to revise numbers before, after and between to 100 and then we used this knowledge to find numbers before, after and between to 1000.

On Thursday, we continued to learn about symmetry. We revised finding lines of symmetry using a mirror and then we looked at shapes which have more than one line of symmetry or none at all. We also explored how to make pictures and shapes symmetrical.

This week we started to use the 5-Point scale. We looked at different cartoon faces and discussed how we felt each of the faces was feeling. We listened to a story called ‘When My Worries Get Too Big’ to help us to understand the 5-Point scale. Miss Harrison read out different scenarios and we had to rate how we would feel and decide where we would be on the scale. We will be using the 5-Point scale in our class everyday as it is very important that we are able to talk about our feelings.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that everyone has a healthy and happy long weekend.

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx