Category: Primary 3

Happy New Year from primary 3/4!

We hope you all had a lovely, peaceful and restful holiday.

It has been a great start to 2016 in primary 3/4. We have been busy rehearsing for our show ‘Great Scot’s’ and can’t wait for everyone to see it. We have really been enjoying getting together with primary 3 and primary 4 to have a chance to watch their scenes and the story of their great Scot. You are all in for a great treat!

This week we have also been discussing our school values, which are important to us all. We focussed on our values of friendship and teamwork, being the best we can be; everyone has a voice and respect, honesty and equality. We thought about all the different ways that these things happen throughout our school. Next week we are going to use all of our fantastic ideas to create a poster for each value.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

‘This week has been fan dabby dozy!’ said Jan

Each week we have been working in our reading trios to explore lots of different types of texts. We call this our ‘Short Reads’ and this week our ‘Short Read Tournament’ has come to an end.

We ended our tournament with a ‘Picture It’. He said ‘We were picturing Santa’s new Sleigh’. Isabella said ‘We had to make sure that we included everything that was in the story.’

After adding up the scores the overall winning trio was the ‘The Scientists’ with 674 points. Well done to Adrin, Kacper and Brooke for all their hard work. You have worked very well with each other. There was also an extra prize for the team that had shown that they have been working on their team work. The group that won this prize were ‘The Astronauts’. Haseeb said ‘they have been working very hard in their trio to win this prize. Lukasz said ‘We have really improved from the first week’. Well done Caiden, Jay and Lukasz. Keep up the super team work.

We watched ‘Mog’s Christmas Calamity’ and we wrote a poem thinking about of our senses. Jacob said ‘seeing, hearing and smelling are our senses.’ In our poems we thought about what we seen in Mog’s Christmas Calamity.

Jay P wrote ‘A bad day for Mog and the Thomas’s’

Nasim wrote ‘Merry Christmas from the friendly neighbours’

What we heard:

Joseph wrote ‘Incredible loud cheers.’

Hannah wrote ‘horrible explosion’

What we could smell:

Ailie wrote ‘smoking turkey’

Aidan wrote ‘Ah smoke! So much smoke!’

A busy week!

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mres Kerr

This week we have been experts at 3d shapes. We can name shapes and find out how many corners, edges and faces they have.  Joshua: We did a class survey to find out which shape was our favourite, and most people liked the pyramid the best!

Mirren: We are doing a Spanish song next Friday at assembly. It is called los peces en el rio. I have been practising it at home. It is on youTube.

Finlay: We have been learning about the Nativity story and we had to find missing words from the story so that the sentences made sense.

We came to school today dressed as our future jobs. We were doctors, nurses, vets, footballers, a policewoman, a farmer, a ballerina, a VIP, a youTuber, a hairdresser, a hotel worker,  Santa sleigh ride helpers, artists, a baker, a rugby player and a soldier!

Batshewa: We are on the second purple candle of our class Advent wreath. I helped to paint the pink candle. It looks beautiful.

Aidan and Louise: We have been writing this week about going for a ride on Santa’s sleigh. Ho! Ho! Ho! Louise: I think my story was really good because I got to help Santa make his way to all the houses. Aidan: I loved seeing all the presents for all the children.

Happy weekend everyone,

P3 and Mrs Howley

 

 

 

Scotland Week was another very busy week in Primary 3. On Monday we learned all about St. Andrew, the Patron Saint of Scotland. We enjoyed making Scottish  flags to celebrate his feast day.

Tuesday was the last visit of the year by baby Holly and we were amazed to see her reaching for toys and holding them! Another milestone for her!

Wednesday was exciting as we had a Scottish story telling event which made us laugh.

This week we have been practising our Christmas party dances and we are really doing well with our Virginia Reel, Military Two step, Canadian Barn Dance and the Gay Gordons!

In Maths we have been learning all about shape and we have enjoyed shape quizzes and finding correct shapes to match descriptions. We did 2d shapes and started 3d too!

Tune in for next Friday’s news update!

Mrs Howley

This week has been wonderful!

To end our Earth, Sun and Moon topic we presented our topics to the class.

Evie created a Sun fact file. Shannon remembered that Evie asked the class lots of fabulous questions about the Sun. One of Evie’s questions was “How hot was the sun?” We couldn’t believe that it was 5,500 degrees.

Jacob said “I really liked Ailie’s topic because the PowerPoint was good and the reading was clear.”

Mark said “I liked Shannon’s because all of her aliens were called Mark.”

Jay-P said “I really like Caiden’s interesting facts about the moon.”

Haseeb said “I liked Aoife’s because it had lots of information about living and non-living things. Hannah said “I liked Aoife’s rocket it was very big and cool.

On Wednesday for ‘Scotland Week’ we had a visit from a theatre group to tell the story about the ‘History of Scotland’. All of primary 3/4 agreed that this was great. Adrin said “you had to use your imagination”. Ailie said “I really liked when he built the castle.” Aidan said “my favourite part was when Andrew seen Nessie”

Lukasz said “I really liked the speculators. They were cool!” Jan reminded us that you had to “engage your imagination to see through them”. Kacper said “the speculators took you back in time”

We all learned some great things about the history of our country,

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr.

We have had a great week!

On Wednesday we had ‘Travelling Tuba’ in to visit us and it was fantastic. They taught us all about the story of the tuba. We even had a chance to give some of the instruments a go. Please see our class story on dojo for some videos of Wednesday’s fun.

We received a very exciting delivery yesterday in our classroom. When we arrived back from music we found our classroom door lying open with leaves scattered on the ground. There was a balloon with a letter attached. Joseph carefully opened the letter and read this out to the class. It was from the man on the Moon and his name was Roger. He told us about life on the Moon and that he had just received a telescope from a little girl on Earth. So we decided to write a letter back. We were working on asking good questions in our letter. Here are some of our questions we asked Roger.

Jan asked “Why would you not build a city on the moon and live with the aliens?”

Ailie asked “How were you born?”

Adrin asked “How big is the moon?”

Rachel asked “How do you breath?”

Shannon asked “What do you do on the moon?”

Lukasz asked “Why don’t you build a space rocket and come to Earth?”

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr