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Reading in Primary 3

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Reading at home

In the mornings, we enjoy choosing a book to read at our desks.  It is a lovely soft start to our day and we all enjoy having some quiet time to read for enjoyment in class.

Bella – Reading is really nice and it makes you calm.

Alexander – I love reading.  I love reading in school.

Jacob – I love “Where’s Wally?”

Damon – I love reading “Minecraft”.

Bonnie – I like to read information books to find out new things,

Annalee – I love reading  “Matilda”.

Stella – it’s fun to read in class and it is nice and quiet.

Peter – I like reading and the pictures too.

Luke – There’s lots of them (books) to choose from.

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P3 pupil leading our learning

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As our IDL topic this term is The Human Body we are looking at the  skeleton and internal organs. Bonnie taught us about 1 major organ, the pancreas. Bonnie had some books which taught  us all about the pancreas and diabetes. She had her little teddy, Ruffles who has diabetes and she used him to show where he can have his injections and blood checked. We were very interested and enjoyed learning from Bonnie, we asked lots of great questions.  Thank you Bonnie.

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Thank you, parents, from Primary 3!

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A huge thank you to the parents and grandparents who were able to come along and support the children today.  They were delighted to work with you and plant their seeds.  We will watch them grow over the coming weeks and the children will bring them home before the Easter holidays.  We hope you had a fun morning with us!

SHARING THE LEARNING IN PRIMARY 3!

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World Book Day fun in Primary 3!

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Supporting World Book Day

What a day!  Great fun was had by all in P3.  We started our day by coming to school in our pyjamas – we could get used to this!

We did a reading doodle activity before putting our detective skills into action and setting off on a Where’s Wally picture hunt!  Back in class we were joined by P4 and we all took part in a live World Book Day football quiz.  Lots of schools across the country were taking part in this and we had to answer a series of questions from famous footballers.

Throughout the day we have done some paired reading, reading crosswords and word searches,  designed book covers and took part in authors live (Scottish Book Trust) We watched and listened to Catherine Rayner who shared her picture book “Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep“, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm.  Catherine also gave us a sneak peek at her sketchbook, and showed us step by step how to draw Arlo the lion. We had our pencils and paper at the ready!

In the afternoon we enjoyed Paired Reading with Primary 6 and we all enjoyed this and asked to do it again soon.  Lots of us in Primary 3 brought in a book from home for the whole school book swap which will take place next week.

We will be bringing home a £1 book token home today which is valid to use until the end of March.

We love World Book Day!

Bella – It’s been a fun day and I liked doing the football quiz.

Cody – I am going to get a new book with my book token.

Stella – I liked coming to school in my pyjamas and getting a token.

Peter – I liked drawing the lion. (From Authors Live)

Alexander – I liked drawing a potato character.

Jessica – I liked doing the word search.  I found them all.

Iza – I found all the Where’s Wally pictures apart from number 8.

Kiera – It was fun when P6 came in and I read a book with Bailie.

Rocco – I liked Paired Reading and I read with Cora-Linn.

Jaxon – I liked the football quiz and Where’s Wally.

Luke – I love World Book Day!

 

 

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P3 – Scots Poetry Competition

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A huge WELL DONE to all of our Primary 3 stars for practicing their poems at home this week!  We were blown away with how well you remembered the words and had confidence to say your poem to all your friends in class!  On Friday morning the whole school gathered in the hall for our annual Scots Poetry Competition.  Congratulations to the children in Primary 3 for sharing their Scots poem to the whole school.  We are so proud of you!

Primary 3 are sending lots of Valentine’s love to everyone!

Have a wonderful, happy, safe and fun February holiday!

 

Primary 3, Whole School Events

Coding in Primary 3

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This week we had the opportunity to use our problem solving and coding skills with the Bee-Bots.  We gave our Bee-Bot a sequence of instructions to navigate around the classroom. We had to be confident with left and right and work out directions for the Bee-Bot to follow.

Once we were confident with the basic coding instructions we then used maps where we could navigate the Bee-Bots around the roads.

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Art and Design in P3

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We have really enjoyed learning about famous artists this year. As our IDL topic is a  Scottish focus we wanted to learn about a famous  Scottish  artist.  We learned about Gillian Kyle who is a textile designer. She is greatly inspired by all things Scottish. We learned that she was born in Renfrewshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. She creates designs for products such as aprons, cushions and table mats. She takes her influence from lots of Scottish products such as Tunnocks Teacakes, Caramel Wafers, Irn Bru and haggis. We used Scottish products and looked at the design of their packaging and then created a piece of art in the style of Gillian Kyle.

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P3 update

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We have enjoyed learning about a very famous Scottish dog, Greyfriar’s  Bobby. We have used ICT to do our own research about Bobby and we found some very interesting facts. We wrote our own information reports all about Bobby.

We explored the use of line to create pencil drawings of Bobby. We used straight and wavy lines to draw his fur and features. We tried to make it look as realistic as possible.

We had the opportunity to share our learning with the whole school at assembly on Monday. We invited the school to challenge themselves to save energy. We explained that you can do simple things such as switch the lights off when you leave a room, unplug chargers when not in use, don’t leave the fridge door open for long, turn the tap off when brushing your teeth and wear warm clothes inside instead of turning the heating up. We all had our parts to say and we spoke confidently and clearly. Well done!

 

 

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Learning about Robert Burns in P3

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~ ROBERT BURNS ~

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and song writer.  He is known around the world as Scotland’s national poet.  Burns Night is celebrated every year on 25th January, Robert Burns’ birthday.  Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759 in the village of Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland.  Burns had a very humble start to life.  He was the eldest of seven children and his father was a tenant farmer so the family often struggled for money.  From a young age, Burns worked as a farmer but his father knew education was important so he taught his children how to read and write. Some of Burns’ poems were based on the things he saw whilst he was out ploughing the fields.  He wrote ‘To a Mouse’ after he turned over a field mouse’s nest with his plough.  He wrote his first love song at the age of 15 but it wasn’t until the age of 27 that his poems were published.  Burns died on 21st July 1796 at the age of 37.  One of Burns’ most famous poems is Auld Lang Syne. It is sung all over the world on 31st December.

Primary 3 enjoyed learning all about this famous Scot.  We did lots of fun activities in class to celebrate him!

Karlie – He was very famous because of his poems and he worked on his dad’s farm.  Everyone knows who he is.

Cody – He was a Scottish person and he wrote amazing poems.

Kiera – He is very famous for poems.

Jaxon – He had lots of children and he had brothers and sisters.  He was only 37 when he died.

Bonnie – His first poem he wrote was when he was 15 and it was about a wee mouse.

Rocco – His house is a museum now.

Stella – I liked doing a fact file about him.

Jessica – We made Burns cards.  There are lots of statues of him around the world.

Damon – We listened to Auld Lang Syne and sang it.