Author: Mrs Leslie

This week P3 will be going to the Children’s library so please remember to send in books to be returned and to bring in the library cards. In Maths we will be looking at rounding and estimation and in money we will be looking at how much change we get back from various amounts. In literacy we will be creating our persuasive posters around our topic, Japan following on from last week P3 when they created Pokémon posters. I am looking forward to meeting and sharing the P3’s great learning with parents and carers on Thursday and Friday at the Parent Consultations, if you have not received a time or day please contact the office.

I have attached the home Learning for this week coming, w/b 18th March 2024. This will be the last week of Home Learning before the April Holiday and Home Learning will begin again on week commencing 22nd April. Home Learning will be sent home in bags on Monday and should be returned on Friday. This week will be reading for pleasure, weekly spelling challenge, Rainbow Mental Math Challenge, before and after and the topic Grid that has already been provided.

This week we have been looking further at our topic, Japan and we decorated Japanese bowls and looked at the traditional design of cherry tree blossom, painting Cherry Blossom Scrolls and researching the Japanese version of the children’s names. We also got a chance to practice our chopstick skills and we are going to create instruction videos to help other people learn this skill. This week we will be looking at Pokémon and Manga Art in our topic and will be creating posters about our favourite Pokémon or even creating some new ones.

In maths we looked at money and what we could afford from different amounts. We also continued to look at fractions, decorating our pizzas to half and quarter. In writing we undertook our writing assessment based on a recount of our trip to the library.

Home Learning this week will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday. There will be a book to read for pleasure, weekly spelling words and Mental Maths Rainbow challenge. Please continue with the Topic Challenge Grid, the work has been wonderful.

In Primary 3 this week we had a visit from Generation Science, who showed us how to programme a Lego Robot to play football and score goals. The class used their coding skills to programme their robots to shot and score balls into the Lego nets. We also visited the Children’s Library this week to look for books for our Japanese topic. Miss S and I were very impressed with the Topic Challenge Grid homework that the children had brought back to school. We have decided to create a display in the classroom of all the brilliant drawings, recipes and Spanish words that that have been brought to school.

This week home learning will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the Home Learning bag will be a book to read for pleasure, if a book has been returned, weekly spelling words with challenges, maths challenge sheet (numbers before and after) and the children have already a copy of the Topic Challenge Grid.

We had a great week, last week in P3 with lots happening and we are looking forward to another exciting and busy week ahead. On Mondays, Ms Brunner and P3 have been looking at money and recognising coins and change from various amounts. On Wednesday and Thursday we started looking at fractions, whole, halves, quarters and thirds using different cakes that we divided in to pieces to represent the different fractions, it was all a bit sticky but very sweet.

P3 spent time last week working on what Respect looks like in school, the community and what Respect means to them. We will be displaying these messages throughout the school and in the classroom to reminds how important respect is in our school. P3 also made a decision on their next topic and they were asked to vote on a country that they wished to research and compare to Scotland. They had to vote between Japan, Mexico and New Zealand and they voted for…

We will be looking at the country and its traditions, food and features. P3 will research these areas and then compare them to Scotland.

Home Learning this week will be issued on Monday in the home learning bags and should be returned on Friday. This week in the bag will be Spelling words, a book to read for pleasure, Maths challenge sheet and a home learning topic grid. In our mental maths strategies we are moving to the orange band on our rainbow, numbers before and after. I have provided three of the challenges with examples to support learning at home and Ms Brunner has provided further strategies on the blog. The home learning topic grid is based on one of the countries that P3 had voted on, Mexico and although Japan won the vote some of the class had expressed an interest in looking at Mexico. I hope that they enjoy the challenges. I would like to remind you to provide your child with in a PE kit and PE shoes to change into for their PE sessions Tuesday and Thursday. Can I also request that no toys are bought into school as this can cause upset in the classroom and distract from the children’s learning.

Our focus this month will be being Positive and throughout February we will be focusing in class and around school on positive behaviour to each other and in the playground. We will be starting Explanation writing in P3, this week, looking to write about how sound travels and we will be linking this to our topic about the Scottish Inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell. In maths we continue to look at money and how we use it and recognise it. In number we will be focusing on number before and after, forward and backwards and counting in multiplies ie 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

Ms Sunthonlap from Edinburgh University will be joining the class on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and then after the February week fulltime until the Easter Holidays. Please remember that PE is on Tuesday and Thursday and it would be very helpful if the children had shoes suitable for PE and a change of clothes. 

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday to be returned in the Home Learning bag on Friday. In the bag there will be a book to read for pleasure, if the reading book has been returned, a maths challenge sheet and spelling challenge sheet. Please continue to use the Scottish Inventors and Writer grid for other curriculum homework. Please have a lovely February holiday when it comes and there will be no home learning in P3 issued the first week back from the February break. Regards Mrs Leslie.