Author: Mrs Leslie

We have had a really busy week in P3 with a visit to our Reading Partners at Canongate Publishers and our Christmas Party. We must thank our reading partners who gave us a lovely book reading and each member of the class was given a book to take away with them for Christmas.

Our Christmas party was great fun with lots of games and dancing. We even had a visit from a Naughty Elf who had left us footprints and fairy dust all over the classroom.

Mrs Wilson, Miss Appleby, Ms Macaulay and myself would like to wish you a wonderful festive holiday and hope you have a fun filled but restful Christmas and New Year. We will see you all in the New Year when P3 will be doing lots more fun and exciting learning. Best Wishes from the Primary 3 Team.

Two weeks to our break for Christmas but we have not slowed down in P3. Last week in PE we completed creating our dance sequence about Climate and Weather, which once we have practiced, we hope to record as part of our topic. In Maths we have been revisiting our 2, 5 and 10 times tables and have introduced the links between 2 and 4 times table and we are looking at 2D and 3D shape this week. In Writing we have worked collaboratively to write an imaginative story about The Storm which the class wrote their own individual endings to. This week the class have chosen the title ‘The Candy House’ and will work on the middle and end of the story themselves but work as a group to start the story.

This week there will be no Spelling words, however I have attached a Reading Advent Challenge sheet, created by the Scottish Book Trust, that should be attempted over the next two weeks. There are 24 challenges, try as many as you want and record in your Home Learning jotter or on the activity sheet sent home. I hope that you enjoy sharing the challenges with your family. In Maths I have enclosed two Times Tables Challenges one for the 2 times table and the other for the 4 times table. Have a go at both or just try one it is up to you but remember to challenge yourself. Home Learning bags will be issued on Monday to be returned on Friday and books should be returned with the bags or no new book will be issued for Reading for Pleasure. Also thank you for the great work done on the Shanarri Home Learning Grid I look forward to reading more of your ideas and achievements.

We went to the Children’s Library this week to listen to stories and look around the library. We were able to find books on our Climate and Weather topic and next time we go we will be able to borrow books as we have nearly all got our library cards.

Home Learning this week will be Maths, Reading for Pleasure, Spelling Challenges and the Shanarri Grid. Please find attached the math and spelling for this week and hard copies and bags will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday.

Our lovely volunteer Reading Partners from Canongate Publishers, who support our reading on a Tuesday in Literacy, have kindly invited us to visit them on Wednesday 20th December in the morning. They are organising fun Christmas activities for the class and a chance to do some Christmas Reading.

Last week P3 started their Imaginative Writing and together we began to create a story called the Storm. This week P3 will continue to write the story and add their own twist to end of the story. In Maths we are continuing to look at our Mental Strategies Rainbow and focusing on multiplication and we will be looking at the patterns and links between the 2, 4 and 8 times table. We are also looking at direction and turns in non number this week.

On Thursday we are visiting the Library for a tour and to get our library cards, I have sent home library forms to be completed so that your child is able to have a library card to borrow books. This is a great free resource and you will be able to use the cards during holidays to borrow books to read.

Home Learning this week will be given out on Monday to be returned on Friday. There will be a Mental Maths Rainbow Strategies challenge sheet, a Spelling challenge sheet and book to read for pleasure. Children will get their book changed or they can continue reading it when they bring their home learning bag with their reading book. There is a new challenge grid based on the areas of SHANARRI that the children have been learning about in class and this will be other curriculum home learning until the end of term.