P3 News from the week.

P3 have had a busy week with Math, Literacy, RME and a visit to the Museum of Scotland. This week in math we have covered time; o’clock and half past and we have continued to look at Place Value that is linked to the Mental Math Strategies. Although it was a short week we have continued to focus in Literacy on our sounds and patterns in class. In Word Boost we discussed and read the Obvious Elephant by Bruce Robinson that reminded us about our Class Charter and Respect values in school and how we are all working towards being Kind to each other and listening to everyone’s voice and opinions in class. Linked to this in class we have started to discuss the UN Rights of The Child and have focused for the last few weeks on Article 12 of the Rights.

I have the right to be listened to and taken seriously

In Religious and Moral Education we have been discussing what we know about Hinduism and what we would like to learn about this world religion. We will be focusing on different aspects of this world religion over the year and are going to look at the stories and festivals that are linked to the Hindu religion.

P3 enjoyed a trip to the Scottish Museum this week and we were given access to the Viking artifact boxes that the museum hold in their education resource department. We looked at replicas of artifacts that Vikings used in their daily life and when invading, settling and trading with other countries. We were able to compare some of the artifacts to what we use in our daily life and discuss if anything was the same or different.

P3 will have home learning sent home on Monday, it will be a book to read for pleasure, a math challenge and a grid of activities on their Viking topic that they can try at home for the next few weeks. I will also place copies of the home learning on the blog. Please return the bag to school on a Friday and home learning will be checked and shared with the class and books can be exchanged. Next week the school will be closed for three days due to Industrial Action but home learning (math, literacy, health and well-being and topic) will be placed on the P3 blog each day for you to access and for the children to complete.