Category: Primary 3

We have had another fantastic week in P3A and we were delighted to find out today that we were the winners of the Peg Challenge once again!

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week, we have been continuing to look at place value. We explored how to put numbers into a place value chart and we used our knowledge of place value to order whole numbers. This week we also started learning about symmetry. We revised what we already knew about symmetry by looking at symmetrical pictures. Then we looked at lines of symmetry and using a mirror to find lines of symmetry. We looked at different shapes and used our mirrors to check whether or not they had lines of symmetry and we then drew the lines of symmetry on a variety of shapes and pictures. We also played some symmetry games on our Promethean board.

On Monday we looked at words with different spelling patterns. We practised our spelling words by completing lots of different active tasks such as rainbow words, spelling flowers, using letter magnets and creating a wordsearch using our spelling words. On Wednesday we revised our spelling words and we beat Miss Harrison at the spelling game ‘Word Workout’.

This week we continued to work on our punctuation. We played ‘Penguins on Ice’ and investigated whether each sentence needed a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark. We looked at when we use exclamation marks and then we corrected sentences by adding capital letters and exclamation marks.

This week we have been learning to summarise. On Monday, we looked at the role of a summariser and we found out that they write a short version of a story and that they only include the main points. In groups, we looked at an extract from Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we found the who, what, where, when and why for the text. Afterwards, Miss Harrison read us a chapter from James and the Giant Peach and we were able to use what we learned about summarising to write a short summary about the chapter.

We also used our summarising skills this week to write a summary about the tale of Peter Rabbit for Miss Baillie’s display in the infant area. We worked really hard with our writing and our presentation. In Art & Design this week, we looked at the visual elements; colour, shape, line and texture. We created Peter Rabbit drawings for Miss Baillie’s display. We looked at the shapes of different flowers and used oil pastels to create a colourful background. Then we used line to create a fur-like texture on our Peter Rabbits and cut them out and glued them onto our background. It created a really nice contrast and we think that our drawings look fantastic on the display!

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

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

In Literacy this week we continued to consolidate our use of adjectives. On Monday, we looked at the characters, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, from James and the Giant Peach and we worked with our learning partners to come up with adjectives to describe these characters. We used our adjectives to write a descriptive paragraph about Aunt Sponge. Afterwards, we made our own character for the story and we had to use adjectives to describe our new characters.

This week we have also looked at varying our use of punctuation by using question marks. We played ‘Amazing Punctuation’ on Education City and then we looked at how to use question marks in sentences.  In our new jotters, we corrected sentences by adding capital letters and question marks and then we created our own questions, punctuating them accurately. We have been working really hard to keep our jotter work neat.

On Monday we got our first reading book in P3. Miss Harrison was very impressed with our fluency and use of expression when reading aloud. Next week we will start our spelling and spelling homework.

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week, we have been learning about place value. We have been learning to find the value of each digit in whole numbers and we have been learning to partition numbers. We have played different place value games, we have recorded whole numbers on place value charts and we have completed a variety of place value activities. On Tuesday, we used our new Numeracy and Maths jotters to record our number partitioning. Miss Harrison was very proud of our work and the presentation was excellent. We got 3 dojo points for neat jotter work!

Since we are such sensible and responsible P3 pupils, this year we are going to become P3 Play Leaders. This will involve supporting the P1 pupils with their play. This week we went to P1 and became leaders in different play areas. We encouraged the P1’s to play nicely together, share and take turns. Miss Harrison gave us different scenarios and we discussed how we could help in each case. Mrs McAulay and Mrs Gordon commented on how fantastic and responsible we were on our first day as play leaders.

In P3 our Outdoor Learning focus is ‘Trees’. Throughout the year, we will be taking part in different outdoor learning activities and observing the changes in trees over the seasons. This week we looked at the two types of trees and we were able to work out with our learning partners what makes a tree an evergreen. We looked at the different characteristics of deciduous and evergreen trees and then we went out to our outdoor area and we went on a tree hunt. We used a tree identification sheet and looked carefully at the different leaves that we found.

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

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

Welcome to our first blog post in P3A! We have had a busy week back at school and have worked very hard and settled in well. This year we are the eldest children in the infant area and we have been trying really hard to be good role models. Miss Harrison has been extremely impressed with us and we won the Peg Challenge on Friday for our excellent behaviour in the corridor.

On Tuesday we looked at our school values. We played a game similar to ‘Simon Says’ where Miss Harrison called out the different values and we had to perform the actions. We were very confident with our values and Miss Harrison couldn’t get us out! We discussed how we could display each value in school and then we worked in groups to make posters about each value. They look fantastic up on our school values wall. We made sure that they were attractive to our readers by making them eye-catching, clear and neat.

This week we also discussed what makes a good P3 pupil and teacher. We worked in groups to write down some ideas and then we shared these ideas with our whole class. Miss Harrison typed them up and displayed them beside our behaviour traffic lights. We would like Miss Harrison to be intelligent, fun, kind, helpful and buy some Star Wars books for our classroom!

This week we started our new class novel for this term, ‘James and the Giant Peach’. On Tuesday afternoon we decided to give our reading area a ‘James and the Giant Peach’ theme so we worked in groups to draw the outlines of the main characters and then we used different media to add colour. Later in the week, Miss Harrison read us some more chapters and we discussed with our learning partners what we thought might happen next to the main characters. We used our visualising skills to draw our predictions. We included lots of detail and used information from the text to help with our drawings of the main characters. On Friday we revised what we already know about adjectives. We used our knowledge of adjectives to identify words that Roald Dahl used to describe the insects in James and the Giant Peach. We highlighted the adjectives in the chapter and we discussed why authors use adjectives in texts.

On Wednesday we had Mrs Tulloch for Science/STEM and then Mrs Reid for PE. This will be the same each week. This term we are learning about sun and moon changes with Mrs Tulloch. As well as having Mrs Reid on a Wednesday, we also have PE with Miss Harrison on a Thursday afternoon. Miss Harrison will be taking us for benchball as we have a P3 Benchball competition in November. On Thursday we practised our throwing, catching and passing skills and set ourselves time challenges to see how many passes we could make with our partner in the time set. We looked at making three passes before you could score and then we played some benchball games.

On Thursday we revised our addition, subtraction and multiplication skills. We played a game on Education City where we had to select the correct operation for each sum. We then played a game called ‘Inverse Machines’ and made our own inverse machines for our Numeracy display.

On Thursday, we looked at children’s rights. We watched a video about children’s rights and discussed which rights we have at school. In our groups, we looked at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and highlighted which rights were applicable to school. We shared our ideas with our whole class and we have displayed these rights on our Class Charter.

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

P3A and Miss Harrison 🙂