Category: Whole School

Welcome back to our P3A blog!

In Literacy this week we have been learning to punctuate sentences correctly. We revised using capital letters for the first word in a sentence and for names of people and we looked at when to use full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. We played a game on Education City called ‘Rapid Rounders’ where we had to correct the sentences by putting in the missing punctuation. Afterwards, we punctuated sentences correctly in our jotters. This week we have also been continuing to practise joining our handwriting.

In French we have been revising the words for parts of the body. We listened to a song about parts of the body, watched and listened to a tutorial on French Games Net, played ‘Simon Says’ using our new vocabulary and we completed a French body parts labelling activity. We have been enjoying our French Fridays!

In Numeracy and Maths we are looking at addition this term. We have been playing some addition games on our laptops such as ‘Hit the Button’ to improve our number bonds recall. Some of us have been revising our number bonds to 20 and using our addition facts to solve word problems. Some of us have been learning strategies to add 9, 19, 11 and 21 to a 2-digit number and some of us have been adding multiples of 10 to 2-digit numbers. There is lots of amazing addition happening in our class!

This week we started to look at Australian landmarks. We watched a clip from David Attenborough’s series on The Great Barrier Reef and then we discussed with our learning partners what we already knew about Australian landmarks. We divided up into groups and selected an Australian landmark that we wanted to research. We used a search engine to obtain our information and then Miss Harrison showed us how to make a PowerPoint and insert text and images. We worked really hard in our groups and next week we will finish our presentations and present them to the rest of the class.

This week we have also been continuing to compare the natural environments of Scotland and Australia. We completed our fact files on native Scottish animals and we compared the habitats of these animals to the habitats of Australian animals. This week we also learned about climates and compared the climate of Australia to the climate of Scotland. We looked at world climates and then we looked at the weather in Linlithgow and Sydney on BBC weather. Using our knowledge of Scottish and Australian weather, we created weather maps in our groups.

Finally, we presented the weather of Scotland and Australia to the rest of the class. We were fantastic weather people!

This week we also had RME with Mrs Begarnie on Wednesday and music with Mrs Bain on Thursday. This term we will also have Mrs Hogg for Drama on a Thursday afternoon.  We’ve certainly had a busy start to this term in P3A!

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

P3A and Miss Harrison xxx

 

On Monday we learned that this year P3 will be in charge of the Shoebox appeal.  We will have to market the appeal, communicate it to parents and children and organise the shoe boxes as they begin to come into school as well as arrange to have them collected so they can set off on their travels to children less fortunate than ourselves.  It is quite a big task!  We began by making posters to let all children and staff know about the appeal.  Our posters were to be clear, eye-catching and have the correct information on them.  They are very good and are now ready to be distributed to classrooms around the school after the holiday.

We finished reading The BFG this week.  We have really enjoyed it and it was a fantastic exciting but happy ending!  We wrote our own blurbs and designed our own front covers – thinking about how we could entice others to pick up this book and choose to read it. Thay are all very good and thy would certainly make me want to read the book.

We were busy on Wednesday learning the very valuable skill of organising our work.  We sorted out our trays to make sure all work was neat and filed int he correct order.

We continued our Australian topic with some Indigenous artwork.  We learned about the history of very early Australian art – people told stories through pictures as they had no written language.  We tried our own dot paintings which turned out very well.

In maths, we began some data handling – we carried out a survey on our favourite Australian animals and then displayed this information in a bar chart – making sure to label the axes and give it a title.

On Friday we had a lovely Harvest assembly and our very first Committee meetings.

It was lovely to see so many of you this week, have a lovely October break.

P3B and Mrs Kennedy

Final week before our October break, and there was still so much learn. It’s been a busy week, but everyone has been working hard, and I am sure can not wait for a lovely relaxing week long break!

Numeracy: This week in Numeracy we have been learning how to use the Formal written method to solve division problems. We have found using this method as a quick and easy method, but again we have realised how important it is for us to learn and know our timetables. We have been practising our timetables in class and Mrs. Matos has set us the challenge to continue to practice at home. To consolidate all our learning from this term, we completed a variety of different word problems and we needed to use our skills of numeracy vocabulary to know which number operation we needed to calculate. We used the formal written method for all four number operations.

Literacy: As we draw to an end of our Brazil study and comparison, we learnt about deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. As a writing activity we wrote an essay on deforestation and the effects it has on the Amazon Rainforest. Our essay needed to be written in paragraphs, show our understanding of deforestation and the effects it has, as well as sharing our opinion and ideas. We were so engaged in learning about deforestation , that we held a small debate. The class was divided into four groups, each group was representing a party ( Greenpeace, Large Meat company, Traditional medicine and a travel agency), each group needed to use persuasive language on why they would need a section of the rainforest. It was a very interesting outcome.

HWB: This week we learnt about food hygiene during the preparation of food. To help us to put what we had learnt into practice we made some Brazilian muffins. We made sure we cleaned our surface areas, washed our hands , wore gloves, wore hats and aprons. With only 4 ingredients it was sure something very different to what muffins usually taste like.

Home learning: Over the last few weeks, Mrs. Matos has been so impressed with the high quality of home learning that the children have been brining in. From using ‘junk’ materials to create Favela’s to filling a shoe box with items that relate to a book that they have been reading.

P7b and Mrs. Matos