We have a had a busy few weeks in Primary three!  Here’s just a few things we have been up to………

In Maths topic, we have finished learning about Pictograms and Block graphs and today we started using Venn diagrams to sort information.  This is all part of our information handling topic.  We also started to create a mind map of everything we have learned in our Maths topic so far and will continue to add to this as we learn more.

It was money week last week, so we also set up a Post Office in our cloakroom space for Maths topic lessons.  This was an excellent opportunity to combine money week with our Katie Morag topic and use role play to explore what happens in a Post Office just like the one Katie Morag’s family run.  We also played a variety of money games.

Last week we also had the opportunity to use Sumdog in school which is a Maths website Williamston subscribe to.  We have all had a look around the site and played lots of fantastic Maths games, and this week we will be coming home with our own personal login to use Sumdog from home.  Our teachers are asking that we always use our school login to access Sumdog from home and that we all try to play some games before we come back to school after the October holidays.  Please can our parents help us with instructions, but try to let us answer the questions ourselves.

Also in our Katie Morag topic, we have been exploring what makes an island and comparing life on Coll (the island Katie Morag’s Isle of Struay is based on) with life in Livingston.  We have learned that the one thing that is the same for all islands all over the world is that they are surrounded by water.

In literacy lessons, we have been continuing to develop our flow and expression when we are reading and have been using our skills to illustrate parts of our reading books, create character profiles and identify the meaning of unfamiliar words.  We are also writing letters to Katie Morag as we felt this was the best way to get answers to the many questions we have about her life on Struay.

In PE, we have began learning Scottish Country Dancing!  The boys are being proper little gentlemen and asking the girls to dance.  We are learning a Canadian Barn Dance and next week we’ll try to music!

We have been having great fun in food technology lessons with Mrs Logan.  We have made toast and fruit kebabs so far and next week we’re making Katie Morag’s favourite – porridges!

We’ve definitely earned our October holidays!

We have had a wonderful first two weeks in Primary 3!  During this time we have been getting to know our new teachers and have had lots of fun doing different “Getting to know you” activities.  We have also been learning all about The Four Capacities, and are beginning to understand what it means to be a Successful Learner, a Confident Individual, a Responsible Citizen and an Effective Contributor.  This has seen us presenting our summer reading photographs or holiday postcards to the rest of the class in “Show and Tell” sessions, taking part in teamwork challenges and identifying our own literacy targets for this term to take responsibility for our own learning in writing.  We have also been revisiting our Rights and have been learning all about the difference between “need” and “want” and what the words “family” and “home” mean to us.

We have also taken the time to discuss expectations in Primary 3 and have come up with class Golden Rules for this year.  We were then asked to focus on a particular rule for our whole school assembly last week.  We were looking at “Looking after property” and identified that this meant our own belongings, things we borrow from our classmates and things that belong to the school.  We made posters that showed the difference between property that is looked after and property that is damaged and wasted and presented a selection of these to the rest of the school.  We enjoyed being able to be part of assembly for the first time in P3.

Here are our posters that we presented at assembly:

Wedding fever has come to primary three!  We have been very busy writing invitations, creating orders of service, making favours and flowers and writing speeches.  Darren came in to visit us this week and told us all about Christian weddings.  Tomorrow we are creating wedding cakes as part of a P3 challenge, with the winning cake being the centrepiece at our wedding reception.  We will be undertaking final preparations over the next few days, ready for our wedding ceremony and reception on Wednesday next week.

We have been very lucky to have a visiting teacher in class for the past few weeks.  Miss Hao, who is based in James Young High School, has been teaching us about Chinese culture, language and characters.  We found it quite tricky to speak Mandarin but enjoyed the experience.

We had great fun at sports day yesterday!  We played a variety of sports challenges, took a shot at kurling and hoopla and ran our socks off in different races.  We were all very tired but had lots of fun.  Our teachers thought we showed wonderful sportsmanship and all tried really hard.  A big thank you to our primary 7 helpers, who demonstrated each sports challenge station and kept scores for us.