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Category: Primary 3
P2/3 class blog
For P.E we used the equipment in the hall.it was very fun
we watched an author talk about his books and some of his story’s were funny .We also looked at the maths and we were adding big numbers a together .
we also made porridge it was tasty .
Visit from The Dog Trust
We had a very special visitor this morning: Emma from The Dog Trust. Emma brought along her furry friend, Harry, to teach us all about looking after dogs and how to be safe around them.
Emma chose some enthusiastic volunteers from our class, to help show everyone how we should treat dogs. Here are a few photos of our class helpers!
Kyle learned how to use a stethoscope and how to spray the dog to prevent fleas. Aaron learned how to check a dog to find out if it has been micro-chipped. Patryk learned that he should ask the owner before patting a strange dog.
P2/3 and Mrs Howley
Super learning in Primary 3
Primary 3 have had a fantastic week filled with lots of learning. We thoroughly enjoyed our roots of empathy this week because baby Hana came into the class. We got to explore her likes/dislikes and asked many questions about what baby Hana could do. Many of the answers were ‘Not Yet’. We look forward to seeing her develop over the year. We also had a special visitor today. Mrs McGonigal came to do some listening games with us. She was very impressed with how well we can listen. We played some super games.
Here are some highlights of our week;
Poppy – We have been learning new spelling patterns. I learned ‘ee’ spelling pattern this week. I like using the pebbles to practise my words.
Julia – In PE this week we were doing cooperation games. My favourite game this week was chain tig.
Ryan – For writing this week we wrote our own imaginative chapter for the owl who was afraid of the dark. My chapter was called ‘Dark is Awesome’.
James – In maths this week we were comparing numbers using greater than, less than and equal to. I enjoyed the video to help me learn this.
Matthew – This week I have been a lead learner. I got to lead the talking books and I could put forward names to get class dojos for working hard.
Chloe – This week I have also been a lead learner. I have felt very responsible. I have enjoyed it.
Ahmad – I have enjoyed learning about 3 digit numbers this week and can give the number before and after a number. E.g. 100 – the number before 100 is 99 and the number is 101.
Kayden – This week we had a special visitor – baby Hana. She is our roots of empathy baby. She was very happy coming to our class.
Angelina – Baby Hana can make little noises and she likes to smile. We lay her on her tummy to see if she liked it and she did.
Vanessa – This week in RE we were comparing Father Kenneth to the Good Shepherd. They both are kind, they make us feel welcome and always forgive us.
Have a great weekend
Mrs W and P3
Busy, busy, busy in Primary 2/3
It has been another busy, exciting week in Primary 2/3 and the children would like to share their highlights with you.
Marcus – I liked making pizzas. My pizza had sweetcorn and ham. It was delicious.
Wojciech – I liked doing Superhero spelling and we learned about bossy ‘e’.
Leo – I liked playing with my friends at lunchtime.
Abigail – I liked counting to 100 in maths.
Patryk – I liked making the Enormous Crocodile using lots of kinds of green paper.
Josephine – I liked learning about Whole Body Listening and making a poster for our door.
Bernice – I liked playing ball games in PE where we had one ball then two balls.
Paul – I liked working on listening skills with Mrs McGonigal.
Nathan – I liked making cube towers in numeracy. Mine was really really big. I had to count to 84!!
Rafay – I liked writing about making pizza.
Alice – I liked planning our Spain topic for next week.
Zoe – I liked decorating the Enormous Crocodile.
Hayley – I liked making pizza.
Our first class Lead Learners were Ana and Paul and they did a wonderful job.
Food Technology was a popular lesson this week and everyone loved making pizza.
In Spanish we developed our talking skills and worked on saying hello and goodbye.
We’re all looking forward to Maths Week next week.
Have a good weekend.
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3.
Primary 2/3 Weekly News
What a busy week of learning it has been in Primary 2/3!
Everyone took their new reading books home and worked really hard on their literacy skills.
On Wednesday everyone was so excited to work with Mrs McCabe and Mrs Stewart to make fruit kebabs. We tried so many different fruits including greengages and pomegranates. We’ve already planned toppings for our pizzas next week – you can read our ideas in our talking book.
Writing was a focus for us on Thursday and we wrote about how we made fruit kebabs in Food Technology.
In IDL we continued to read The Enormous Crocodile and then thought about healthy and unhealthy foods for the crocodile.
In numeracy we have been working on numbers to 10, 100 and 100. Today we thought about how each of us learns best to help us plan our maths learning for the term. Some children like to use technology, some like to use counting cubes, some like to play games. We were all amazed by the range of ideas.
We were so excited when the UN Ambassadors arrived in our class today to share the fantastic news that we have been awarded the Level 2 RRS Award. Well done everyone!
In PE we worked on co-operative skills and learnt two new games – Video Games and Capture the Treasure.
Our Spanish focus this week was asking our friends what their name is in Spanish then telling them our names. We were so confident in our language skills!
Back to school for Primary3!
Well, what a fantastic first week in Primary 3! We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know one another better and have even made new friends in our class. It has been a very busy first week filled with lots of fun! Here are some of our highlights:
Angelina – “We did near doubles in our number talks.”
Vanessa – “Our week was fun because we done painting and fun things.”
Kayden – “We did pictures of owls using patterns.”
Madison- “We used different colours to paint the night sky. We used black, grey, white, purple and blue.”
Abdullah- “We practised our letter join.”
Alishba- “I like PE because we got to play lots of fun games. My favourite game was the bean game.”
Elenta- “In RE we wrote a prayer to God to thank him for our friends and family and ask him to help us achieve our goals in Primary 3.”
Lennon- “we wrote our dream for Primary 3 for our classroom door. My dream for P3 is to get 100 dojo points.”
Maeve- “I liked PE because we played the sheep game. It was a funny game and I liked being the farmer.”
Lilly- “I liked the tickly cat game in PE. I got to be the chaser.”
Oma- “I liked doing addition sums in maths.”
Matthew- “I enjoyed drawing myself for our class charter.”
Chloe- “I liked drawing Plop the owl using pattern and colour.”
Annayah- “I like our new topic ‘The Owl who is Afraid of the Dark’. I liked doing the painting and mixing colours to make different colours.”
Poppy- “I liked PE this week. I loved playing the tickly cat.”
Maja- “I liked PE because we were running a lot and I like running.”
James- “I liked painting the sky for our owls.”
Harry- “I liked watching the cartoon videos in assembly.”
Ahmad- “I enjoyed the rascal school video in assembly.”
Dominic- “I loved playing all around the world because I did fantastic answering all of the sums.”
Julia- “I liked everything this week and enjoy being in Primary 3.”
Ava- “My favourite game in PE was the tickly cat.”
Have a great weekend,
Mrs W and Primary 3
Amazing P2/3
It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 and the children would like to share some of their learning highlights.
Kuba – I liked the Daily Mile because I was running really fast.
Alishba – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.
Calvin – I liked art when I drew a chicken. It looked fantastic!
Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I finished my challenge and I got a new animal.
Andrew – I liked Big Writing because we thought about what would happen if we had no toilets after learning about Global Goal #6. My story was funny.
Pawel – I loved Ninian’s Natter because my mum was there and I showed her the pink and green in my learning. My mum loved my writing.
Levente – I liked working in groups to make posters showing where food comes from.
Kasia – My highlight was maths because we were adding and taking away within 100.
Chloe – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.
Annayah – I liked the Daily Mile because I got a dojo for running so fast.
Maeve – I liked writing a story because we were writing about the toilets closing and mine was really funny.
Zuzanna – I liked maths when we were doing bigger and smaller numbers. I hit a dip but I used a number square and I asked a friend for help and I got out of the dip.
Matthew and Maeve – we liked talking to the Rights Respecting Assessors and we heard at assembly today that we might have a chance of getting our Level 2 Accreditation!!
Rachel – I liked when we prayed together.
Harry – I liked doing the Daily Mile because I was fast!
Brooke – I liked getting ready for the Talent Show.
Have a lovely weekend.
From P2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley
Awesome P3!
Another very busy week for Primary 3!
SHELTER BUILDING – OUTDOOR LEARNING & TEAMWORK
The whole class showed their resilience and ability to cope well with change on Tuesday when our Shelter Building Activity was postponed at the very last minute. This was unavoidable due to the weather but we are delighted to announce that it will now be taking place on Tuesday 20 June in the afternoon (P1-P3 Sports Day in the morning)…..so watch this space!
RE/HWB
Primary 3 also discussed the importance of having enough sleep, rest and exercise each day. They were very good at explaining how they feel when they are tired and how this can impact on how well they concentrate in school.
In Maths, we were consolidating our understanding of Measure as well as looking at timetables and durations of time then combining this with some interpretation of diagrams. The boys and girls enjoyed using Mr McCurdy’s Health Week timetable to do this where they had to interpret the information to find out which day P3 were doing a particular activity, where the activity was being held, the time the activity started/finished then working out how long it lasted.
GLOBAL GOALS – Clean Water and Sanitation
Primary 3 have been really thinking hard this week about the availability of clean water in school (or at home) and clean toilets which flush – things we all take for granted. They saw images of poor toilets in some African countries for schoolchildren and had to imagine what they would do if they didn’t have access to either taps or toilets – not pleasant but the children were really engrossed and engaged in considering these situations. In writing they had to suggest reasons as to what might happen if there were not taps or toilets in St Ninian’s – ask your child to explain what they wrote about!
READING – Primary 3 have continued to develop their independence at making sense of what they read by accessing non-fiction texts and finding information from the texts to answer questions.
http://myonlinereading.com/
BIG TALK homework next week
Would you rather be the Three Little Pigs or the Wolf? Give your reasons!
Have a lovely weekend from Mrs Scott and Primary 3!
P2/3 Weekly Update
It has been another fantastic, busy week in Primary 2/3.
The children would like to share some of their highlights:
Angel and James – I liked looking at our Local Area. We thought about how land is used in our local area and made maps. We used Google Maps to help us.
Alishba and Aaron – I liked Big Writing because we wrote about how milk comes from cows. We made posters in groups too.
Andrew and Jakub – I liked PE because we played a game with the parachute. It was really fun! We played another game called Sharks and Lifeguards too. When you’re a shark you have to pull someone under the parachute and they become a shark. Then the lifeguard has to save you.
Harry and Matthew – I liked playing dodgeball in PE.
Zuzanna – I liked creating a character in literacy. I named my character Teresa.
Maeve – I liked making a character description. I called mine Yana.
Brooke – I liked the assembly when we found out the results of the elections for house captains.
Chloe – I liked the P1R assembly because it had Spanish songs.
Levente, Annayah and Pawel – I liked learning about Global Goal #6. We learnt about a school in Kenya where they didn’t have clean water and we listened to a song about clean water too.
Oma and Calvin – I liked doing Sumdog because I got more coins and a pet and I completed in the West Lothian contest.
Carly – I liked Spanish because we were learning high numbers up to 30!!
from P2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan.
