Greetings from Primary 3a and 3b!
We have had a busy week as usual and have lots of news to share.
The Numeracy team have been in Williamston this week, and we were lucky enough to have some time with them in class. We showed off our Maths skills and have been learning new strategies to help us with mental arithmetic. We are learning to be more efficient when answering a Maths question and are able to share our strategies with the rest of the class. We are trying to remember that the best strategy to use involves the least number of steps to get to the answer. In topic Maths, we have been learning about numbers from the past and have designed a product that uses Mayan, Babylonian, Greek, Arabic or Egyptian number systems. Our calculators, remote controls, clocks, phones etc were colourful and exciting and we had great fun adding our chosen symbols to represent numbers. This has been preparing us for learning about Roman numerals next week. We will be exploring numerals and using them in maths work and have been asked to bring a cardboard tube into school to turn into a Roman scroll.
On Monday afternoons, we have been taking part in dance classes with a visiting teacher. Amy has been bringing out our inner divas, and we have been strutting our stuff around the big hall. We are dancing to “Happy” to promote our Growth Mindset attitude.
Our teachers were very proud of us all for doing such a good job reciting our Scottish Poems! We have all had the chance to present our poem to the rest of the class and here are the top three who will perform at tomorrow’s School poetry competition
3a…………… Hamza Khan, Andrew Farquhar and Lucy Livie
3b……………Lucy Egan, Morgan Gess and Ben Brady
Well done, we all wish you the best of luck!
We started our new Science and RME topics this week. In Science we are identifying what objects are made from in our Materials topic. We used the “Box of Mysteries” to select objects, and then decided what we thought they were made from. In RME, we are beginning our Islam topic and revised our knowledge of the Mosque this week. We discussed the inside and outside of a Mosque.
