We have made an interesting start to our new IDL topic of Ancient Egypt. We were given an ancient artefact to study and investigate . We used our skills of observation to discuss with our talk partners what we thought our artefact was, what it is made of and how it is decorated. We then visited some websites to find out more information about our artefacts. Some of us had a pyramid, a Mummy, an Egyptian God, a sphinx and a sarcophagus.
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. Â 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!
It has been another very productive week in P3. Nativity rehearsals are well and truly underway. We have been on the stage, learning our lines and singing the songs. We have all worked very hard.
We have also made a Christmas poster which will be displayed on the wall in the dinner hall.
Ellie – I made winter trees for the poster
Luke – I made a snowflake
Cody – I used paint to make the snowy mountains
Karlie – I made the golden ticket
Iza and Bella –  we  made glittery snowflakes
This term we have had a big focus on our use of IT to support our learning. Most of us are very confident in logging on and getting started independently. Â We have been using our skills to search for information. We investigated the different jobs people did whilst living in a castle. Our favourite is the Gong Farmer. Ask us what he does. We have also got our sumdog logins working and we enjoyed completing numeracy tasks on the iPads and laptops.
This week we have studied the work of the artist Paul Klee. We were particularly interested in his painting called Castle and Sun. We noticed that he used 2D shapes to create this picture and we discussed the colours he used. We then made a picture of our own. We used oil pastels and water coloured paint.
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