Author: Mrs Scott

Hi everyone

Another very busy week in Primary 3!

During Catholic Education Week which continues next week too,  Primary 3 showed great insight and maturity in their understanding of what poverty means – in terms of what you really need to survive.

We have been celebrating Book Week Scotland this week.  On Thursday we were able to ‘Bring a Book to Lunch’ on Thursday which was fun! Along with Primary 4, we were also lucky enough to attend an Author Visit event at the Lanthorn Library. We actually got to meet Badger the Mystical Muff – wow! Here are some comments:

“We love reading…” and “This was the best day ever!”

This morning it was the gifting session of our Primary 3 Bookbags as part of the Read, Write, Count nationwide initiative. Thanks so much to the parents who were able to manage along to our event. We hope it was informative as well as enjoyable for you too! The presentation powerpoint and other documents will be available via the app for you to access.

In Number, Primary 3 have begun to look at Subtraction and have really been focusing on the thinking process they use individually. To support this they have been recording their thinking on a number line – this has proven a little tricky as Primary 3 have also been challenged to create their own number lines. We have been using maths language such as to the decade, crossing the decade, multiples of ten, single digits etc. We will be continuing to build on this next week and use the context of our Enterprise topic to add/subtract money.

Next week, Primary 3 will be busy preparing for our Lollipop stall…. They will be working in teams to create the lollipop bases and make posters etc. A huge thanks to everyone who has taken the time to donate lollipops, shoe boxes and prizes – it is much appreciated!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

From Mrs Scott and Primary 3.

Primary 3 Learning

Hi everyone!

Here are some of our highlights from Primary 3 this week which the children wished to share.

Exciting news! Primary 3 have decided that they are going to become authors of their own books. They are going to be writing their own imaginative stories through a writing process, just like real authors! We have started our setting this week and are very excited about it! We plan to produce our books, complete with front cover and blurb etc. Watch this space!

FIREWORKS SENSORY ACTIVITIES

In preparation for our Writing lesson where we were describing a Fireworks Setting, we had some SENSORY experiences.

James – we were smelling hot chocolate, tomato ketchup and fried onions. This helped us imagine we were actually at a Fireworks display.

Kerr – we had a picture of a bonfire on the smartboard. It made us think we were at a bonfire because it looked realistic. It made popping noises.

Sahara – we opened our classroom door so the wind could come in and make us feel cold.

Klaudia – we had to put our jackets on, just as if it was a real bonfire night.

Kaitlyn – Mrs Scott splashed a little water on us at the end so we could pretend it was raining.

FIREWORKS ART

Dawid – We used chalk pastels to help us draw fireworks. It was a fun task to do. It helped me learn about the lines and shapes of fireworks.

Adam – Mrs Scott made a skyline on our classroom wall and our fireworks look amazing above it!

Lucy – I noticed that part of the skyline looks like the Macarthur Glen glass dome and the clock tower on top of Morrisons.

Stefan – I liked doing my fireworks art. It was really fun.

POPPIES

Kerr – I enjoyed making my poppy and I learned that people died during the war.

AUTHOR JOTTERS

Klaudia – I enjoy writing in my author jotters because it is up to me  what I want to write about. I have been writing about the monster, the talking pen. Little Lucy and I am thnking of more characters.

Jarred – I am writing a story of my own called Super Poop. It is a detective story and a mystery. There is pizza and coca cola in it too and someone saves the day.

Amber – I wrote a story and it was called Boo the Hamster and his house.

Leigha – I’m writing a story called The Robbers and it is finished now.

Kaitlyn – My story is called Floofie Bunny and it’s fun.

Kayla – During Smartstart, I was showing my friends how to make 3d triangles using our collage materials.

Esmee – I am writing a story and it is funny. It is called My Cat Milo.

CINEMA TRIP ON TUESDAY

If you haven’t already, please return your child’s permission slip for the trip on Monday.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Mrs Scott and 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

Hi everyone!

Another very busy week in Primary 3, phew!

In Number we have been counting in 10s and 100s so we are using bigger numbers.

In Adding we have been working on our strategies to add within 100.

In PE, we have been focusing on our hand to eye coordination. We played Skunk Tag, Rock Paper Scissors as well as throwing/catching with a partner. These games also helped us think carefully  about the importance of good sportsmanship when someone is the winner and team work skills.

Here are some of our reflections on learning this week.

Brooke – We have been practising our spelling words in different ways. I have been learning that some words end in _ffs and others in _ves.

Ephraim – I like using the Spelling Challenge cards to stretch and exercise my brain.

Kerr – We made a very special class card for John our Janny who is leaving today. We will miss him a lot. There are lots of different bones in our body and they all have different names like pelvis, collar bone and backbone. We have been learning about compass points – North, South, East and West.

Riley – I learned that we have a shoulder blade.

Ephraim – I learned that we have a knee cap.

Stefan – In between the compass points you get South West and South East.

(NEVER EAT SHREDDED WHEAT) (NAUGHTY ELEPHANTS SQUIRT WATER) (NEVER EAT SOGGY WAFFLES)

Lucy – We were learning about the Sun, Moon and Earth. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to move all the way around. When you are an adult you have more than 200 bones.

Amber – Your bones are hard.

Kaitlyn – We drew pictures of the Sun and Moon using warm and cool colours. When you are a baby your bones are not very strong. They get stronger as you grow. Your knee cap can bend.

Klaudia – We have a rib cage and there are parts of your body inside it.

Mrs Heather was in our class for Number Talks and she was very impressed at how well we could talk about Number strategies.

In Grammar, we have been looking at nouns, verbs and adjectives. We have been looking for them in our reading books, listening for them in The Cultivated Wolf and trying to notice if someone uses one. We are finding it tricky to tell the difference. So, we have decided that from next week we will be focusing on verbs.   Try this Verbs game below: http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

This week, our Word Boost words were ache, ignore, budge, improve, emerge and racket. Our story was ‘A Cultivated Wolf’. It had an unusual context and the children loved it, especially as it was about a wolf who grew to love reading – just like lots of our Primary 3s!  Word Boost words next week are nudge, nervous, astonished, continue, separate, co-operate and our Word Boost story is going to be ‘Myron’s Magic Cow’.

Have a lovely weekend, from Primary 3.

Hola everyone!

Another busy week in Primary 3!

St Ninian’s Feast Day Mass

Well done to the boys and girls in Primary 3 who behaved impeccably during our mass which was celebrated by Fr Kenneth this morning.  They definitely deserved their longer break time!

Ninian’s Natter

Thank you so much to those who were able to manage along to our Ninian’s Natter and Meet the Teacher evening. It was really lovely to meet all of you and we hope you enjoyed it.

Science

Primary 3 have came up with some ideas of their own when learning  about skeletons after the September break.  Mrs Scott was amazed at what the children know already!

 Literacy

WORD BOOST – Our Word Boost story this week was The Obvious Elephant. The Word Boost words are confident, curious, obvious and bewildered. Due to next week  being a shorter school week, we will have a revision week where we consolidate the Word Boost words covered in Six Dinner Sid and Baby Brains.

In writing, we continued to use Flat Stanley as our context for learning. Building on our newspaper  report from last week, we wrote another report but this time it had bullet points. We wrote about  the advantages and disadvantages of being flat.

In spelling, we have been practising our key words – these are words which we come across lots of times during reading and writing. We sometimes need to use a strategy  to help us remember how to spell  them  eg  Does it look right? OR Words inside words.

Here are some of our thoughts.

Sahara – I liked listening to the Word Boost story.

Amber – I liked the part of the story where Eric got to ride on top of the elephant.

Stefan – I liked interviewing Flat Stanley to find out what he liked and didn’t like about being flat. It was fun!

Maths Week Challenges

These were a big success!

Kerr – I liked the coloured square challenge because it was interesting.

Ephraim – I liked adding up the coins in our Role Play shop to pay for things.

Leigha – I made triangles and diamond shapes with the elastic band shapes. It was fun.

SUMDOG LOGINS

Our Primary 3 class is now set up and most of the children should now have their Sumdog logins glued into their green diaries for easy reference. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Have a lovely holiday weekend and hopefully the sun will shine a little.

Kind regards,

Mrs Scott