Category: Primary 3

Dear All

This week in literacy we did a spelling test on the soft g and the hard g sound. We also did the mp, nd and ng sounds. We learned about common nouns and proper nouns.

In French we made a mind map of ourselves, the people who are important to us, our pets and our hobbies, then we wrote the French words.

In numeracy we did grid references using battleships, zoos, maps and a giant floor map of Scotland. We also learned double and near doubles playing a dinosaur game. We practised our times tables and got up to our 7 times table in 5 minutes.

In health and wellbeing we played Gaelic football in the wing. We had lots of visitors in to see our learning and they said we were very focused and amazing!

In learning across the curriculum we researched different tartans and made up our own tartans. We practised for our assembly next week. We started thinking about what we would like to know about the Vikings as we are starting our new topic next week.

Typed by Daniel Wilson and Mark Linton

Hope you have a good weekend!

Dear All

This week in literacy we did a book review on our reading books. We had to answer questions on the board and then write the answers in our literacy jotters .We did dictation. In dictation we did the PH sound. We did EA spelling. We had a sheet on EA words to do. We did handwriting and in handwriting we did ! ? – “ and s.

In french we did commands. The girls went to one side and the boys went to the other side and had to give each other commands to do e.g. Silence! and Levez-vous! (stand up!)

In numeracy we did the ball game doing our times tables and we went up to the 6 times table from the four times table. We had to look at what number it was at and what letter it was at. We also did grid references for maths in the morning.

In health and wellbeing we did Gaelic football in PE. Most people liked it. We did walk a mile. We had assembly. It was all good.

In learning across the curriculum we did music with Miss Bain and played instruments to Katie Bairdie song because it was Scottish. Travelling with Tuba came in to play Tubas. It was very loud and people tried to blow on it.  They got loads of people to come up to make a band. NYCOS came in to practise rhymes with us and we learned what ‘pulse’ meant.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Mark, Cori, Sienna and Mairi

Dear All

Happy New Year with lots of cheer! Hope you had a good holiday.

This week in literacy we wrote about what we did in our holidays and what our new year’s resolutions are for 2018. We practised writing, spacing consistently. We did show and tell to hear about each other’s holidays. We listened to a poem about someone who had a sore pinkie and a rhyming story about fish. We also sang a song about someone who had lost a bouncy ball. We listened to a Hamish McHaggis book about Stirling Castle. In grammar we learned to write commas in lists and we learned to write words with the ‘ph’ sound.

In French we revised the French alphabet, the weather, greetings, how to say our name, months of the year and numbers. We learned how to say pets and animals.

In numeracy we went into groups to learn our times tables forwards, backwards and divided by. We also learned our number bonds to 15 using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In health and wellbeing and learning across the curriculum we went outside to match leaves to trees. When we came back in, we matched cards of leaves to trees and put them in our jotters. We had music with Miss Bain and learned how to read music singing in low, high and medium voices. We learned a Scottish song called Katie Bairdie.

Hope you have a good weekend!

On Monday in Maths we worked with our Learning Partners to try and solve the “Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Bells”. One of the naughty elves had hidden the beautiful shiny gold bells which decorate the reindeer’s harnesses.  The reindeer cannot fly without them! We had to use all our maths problem solving skills to find the answers to the clues.  By working through the clues and finding the correct answers we eventually found out that the culprit was an elf who wore a green hat, curly shoes, had brown hair, worked in the toy department and was called Neville.  The bells have all been found and the reindeers are now all ready to help Santa delivery all his presents.

In the afternoon we joined P1 and P2 for a Big Winter Read. We listened to Miss Baillie reading “The Polar Bear Son” and we will be doing work about the story when we return after the holidays.  Then when we returned to the classroom we learned how to make a Christmas “pop up card” with a polar bear inside.

On Thursday we had a fantastic time at our Christmas party and showed off our amazing dancing skills. At the end of the party we all enjoyed a nice ice-cream to help us cool down.

Then on Friday we took part in the “Christmas Carols around the Christmas Tree” by singing our song “Santa Clause is coming to Town”.

Have a lovely Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all back in The New Year.

Dear All

This week in literacy we wrote letters to Santa, Rudolph and Cupid. We have been reading a Hamish McHaggis book called ‘The Skirmish at Stirling’. It was about William Wallace. We got our own personal dictionary and we write any words we have learned to spell in it. We edited our literacy jotters and gave feedback about what our next steps are.

In numeracy we checked our place value, estimation and symmetry assessments to see what we still need to learn.

In health and wellbeing we did PE with Mrs Reid and did some dancing and played Christmas games. We did two plays. The P3’s acted the ‘The Penguin’s Lost Scarf’ and the P4’s acted ‘The Lonely Snowman’. It was fun! Everyone enjoyed acting or watching and they were both good. We had our Christmas parties this week. We really liked them! They were awesome! It was really noisy! We had ice cream. We put up a little Christmas tree in the class. Thank you to Calan’s gran for letting us borrow it.

Hope you have a good holiday, a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Dear All

This week in literacy we learned the ‘air’ sound. We did dictation and learned to write neatly, listen carefully, write words with the ‘air’ sound in them and put in punctuation. We revised our plurals from last week and we know that if the plural word ends in ‘x’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘s’ we need to add ‘es’ to the end. We also learned about possessive adjectives e.g. I put on my coat. We learned how to write diaries and we wrote a diary entry of what we do on Christmas Eve. We had show and tell and people talked about their favourite things, while the others listened and then we gave them questions and comments to show that we were listening. We learned to work together as a team to write a story, using spinners to choose the character, setting and time.

In French we have learned the names for body parts and we can sing ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes in French. We made monster pictures using body parts, numbers and colours when Mrs McAlpine said “Mon mostre a… We also learned how to ask what the weather was like and say different kinds of weather.

In numeracy we used Sumdog to practice patterns in shape and we also paired Christmas pictures on an advent calendar on the smartboard. We drew patterns on the board and others had to try to continue the pattern. We added numbers in a group using different strategies and concrete materials including rekenreks, cubes, counters, wizards on the wall and straws. Then we talked about what was the most efficient strategy.

In health and wellbeing we talked in our groups about bullying. We were given different situations and talked about the best way we could help people. In PE with Mrs Reid, we learned more Scottish dances, it was really really fun!

In learning across the curriculum we read another Scottish Hamish McHaggis book called ‘The Lost Prince’. It was about a baby deer that got lost in the woods of Balmoral Castle, where the Queen goes on holiday. In science we also learned about the body with Mrs Begarnie! We found out how the lungs work and conditions like asthma.

Hope you have a good weekend!