Primary 3

Phew! Another busy week in Primary 3.

Primary 3s as Teachers

Kerr – We helped show the Primary 1s how to use a netbook. We used our own instructions that we had written during our Writing lesson.

Ephraim – I loved teaching the Primary 1s all the things that they needed to do to use a netbook.

Kyle – It was a fun thing to do to help the Primary 1s learn more about netbooks.

Sahara- My group was showing the Primary 1s how to log on to Sumdog.

Kaitlyn – We got to be like teachers by teaching a small group how to use a netbook.

Klaudia – I think it was really cool and fun to do. Some of the children were quite shy and I’d like to do it again to get to know them more. Then they might ask more questions!

James – Our netbook went out of charge when we were using it so we were able to show the Primary 1s how to plug the charger in and solve the problem.

Lucy – I thought it was funny because the Primary 1s were surrounding me when I was explaining things to them.

Amber – We were mini teachers teaching little children!

Primary 3 Author Jotters

Lots of excitement in Primary 3 this week! As part of our focus on Developing a Writing Culture across our school, we thought it would be a good idea to create more opportunities for free writing in Primary 3.  The wealth of quality  discussion from this stimulus has been fantastic and their enthusiasm has impressed both Mrs Conway and I very much. We may well need to move onto our second jotters soon! In just a few days, we have talked about some of the aspects of an Author’s process of writing including editing, changing ideas, doodling, drawing, illustrations etc – keep it up Primary 3!

Brooke – we got our first Author jotters this week. We can write our own stories and they can be made up as well. We can write about ourselves, it is up to us!

Jarred – I was reading my story to my reading group. They were my Audience and I was the Author.

James – Lucy read her story to me. I was her Audience. My story title was ‘Superpig’ as the pig called Wilbur in my reading book gave me the idea!

Adam – My story was a pretend one and I drew lots of pictures just like a real Illustrator.

Kaitlyn – I made a book and it was called ‘Floofie Bunny and Her Great Adventures’.

Kerr – I wrote some poems as our Autumn Shape Poem in Writing gave me some ideas.

 

Maths/Numeracy

We have continued to look at Place Value and developing our understanding of how numbers relate to each other when adding.

Ephraim – I liked getting to use the Diennes materials for hundreds, tens and units.

Topic

Our new Social Studies topic will have some different areas of focus around our Local Community. Primary 3 will be discussing this as a class next week and helping to form our plan on what would be helpful to learn. Watch this space!

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Kind regards

Mrs Scott