{"id":22132,"date":"2020-03-13T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/?p=22132"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:01:22","slug":"p3-weekly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2020\/03\/13\/p3-weekly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"P3 Weekly Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Overview<\/p>\n<p>Literacy<\/p>\n<p>This week we wrote descriptions of our school bags, with a focus on adjectives and action verbs.\u00a0 In spelling we consolidated our learning by using our newly-found typing skills to type our words then change size and font.\u00a0 \u00a0 In Word Boost, our boost words were sink, wreck, consult, rattle, havoc and advice.\u00a0 We have continued to listen to The Bolds To The Rescue, read by the author Julian Clary, with lots of giggles throughout.\u00a0 The hardest part of listening to this book, we all agree, is switching off the audio book at the end of each chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Maths<\/p>\n<p>In maths we have learnt about fractions &#8211; making and naming equal parts and then identifying equal parts.\u00a0 Our next step is to name fractions then to count fractions.\u00a0 Everyone had a great time making fractions, cutting them out then checking their work.<\/p>\n<p>HWB<\/p>\n<p>Our focus this week has been on wider achievements when all the children shared the amazing things that they have achieved outside school &#8211; ranging from baking a cake to swimming lengths of the pool!<\/p>\n<p>IDL<\/p>\n<p>Learning on the Vikings continues to engage everyone and we used Mighty Writer to create fabulous imaginative stories about our character, Sam The Viking.\u00a0 After researching artefacts and discussing sources of evidence everyone designed their own Viking shield. We were surprised to learn that a Viking shield could be a metre wide!<\/p>\n<p>Pupil Voice<\/p>\n<p>Evie \u2013 I liked learning about fractions.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria- I liked listening to the story of the Bolds.\u00a0 I like listening to the audio book.<\/p>\n<p>Alasdair \u2013 I liked writing a description of my school bag.<\/p>\n<p>Leon \u2013 I liked drawing pictures in the play area.<\/p>\n<p>Home Learning<\/p>\n<p>Talk about fractions in the home e.g. half a pizza, quarter of an apple etc. Consolidate learning on fractions by trying this Topmarks game at home &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/html\/fraction-matcher\/latest\/fraction-matcher_en.html\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hand Washing &#8211; keep up the hand washing at home and remind your child how to wash their hands correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Keep listening to the fabulous stories on the World Book Day website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/world-of-stories\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, please remind your children to wash their hands carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Have a lovely weekend.<\/p>\n<p>From Mrs Caskie, Mrs Keegan and P3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Overview Literacy This week we wrote descriptions of our school bags, with a focus on adjectives and action verbs.\u00a0 In spelling we consolidated our learning by using our newly-found typing skills to type our words then change size and font.\u00a0 \u00a0 In Word Boost, our boost words were sink, wreck, consult, rattle, havoc and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2020\/03\/13\/p3-weekly-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P3 Weekly Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions\/22137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}