To start day 3 of Health week we had a football session with Davie. He taught us that there is 4 parts of the foot you can use to kick the ball. We played lots of fun games where we had to dribble the ball and try to get the ball off of each other.

We then completed the Daily Mile. Some of us managed to do more than a mile today.

We learned that in Guatemala children make Worry Dolls. They tell these handmade dolls their worries and then put the doll under their pillow. When they wake in the morning the doll has taken away all their worries. We decided to make our own worry dolls out of wooden pegs. We used fabric, wool and pipe cleaners to make our Worry Dolls.

We are really looking forward to sports day this afternoon!

What a fantastic start Primary 3 had to Health Week. Our first activity was with Destination Judo. We had fun trying to escape from our partner and using our strength to hold each other down.

After break we had an interesting talk from Nicole who plays, coaches and referees football. She talked to us about the rules of football and showed us her yellow and red cards. We enjoyed chatting to her and asking her lots of questions.

We then walked over to the Community Garden where we had a colour wheel and we walked around the garden and through the woods looking for these colours in nature. We added little pieces to our wheel to complete it. We found flowers, leaves, petals and grasses. We had the chance to smell some herbs and flowers. one smelled like toothpaste.

In the afternoon we played some table top games. Whilst playing these games we were learning to take turns, show consideration for others, understand that we can’t always be the winner and to be happy for our friends when they win. It was a relaxing, calm time in class.

We also spent some time out in the trim trail. The weather was perfect. We climbed, shuffled, balanced, ran and took turns.  We have had a great day. can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.

At St Mary’s we are very proud of Karlie, Jaxon, Bonnie and Jessica who made the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Saturday. It was a lovely service with Mass celebrated by Father Marcin. It was a very special night for the children and their families.
We had a party to celebrate this very special Sacrament. We had cake, sweets, dancing and games.

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.

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.

it was Christmas party time in P3. We had so much fun. We enjoyed dancing the Grand Old Duke of York, the Hokey Cokey and the cha cha slide. We had fun playing pass the parcel and the corners game. We were very lucky to have a special visit from Santa who gave us all a lovely gift. We loved our treat of some party food and Gillespie’s ice-cream.

Christmas is underway in Primary 3. It was Christmas jumper and Christmas lunch day. It was lovely to be served by the P7s. Some of us had steak pie and others had turkey. We all agree it was delicious. We spent the afternoon turning our cattle into a Christmas wonderland. We painted Santa and his sleigh, a gingerbread house, a snowman, candy canes and Elf!

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