Author: Mrs Leslie

Welcome back and I hope that everyone had a lovely break and a good New Year. We are looking forward to a busy term and next week we will be sending out the Primary 3 Overview for Term 2 so that you will be able to share the learning with your child.

Last week focused on settling back into class and we reviewed our Class Charter and our focus for this term will be listening and following instructions. We also looked at 3D shape and this will continue with Ms Brunner on Monday in Maths and I will be focusing on dividing equally and understanding the language of division. Please continue to practice your times tables at home as this supports the calculations in division. We will be focusing on the red band of our Mental Math Strategies Rainbow, counting forwards and backwards. This will form part of the homework this term.

In literacy we were writing our New Year Resolutions and goals for this term. We produced a poster using the One Word Resolution idea to remind us what we had decided was our New Year Resolution. Some of Primary 3 have decided to be ACTIVE, some KIND, some COMPASSIONATE and some wanted to EXPLORE. As a class we will try over the term to meet these targets in the classroom, in the playground and in our community. The class will also be looking at their individual personal achievements outside of school and how they can use these skills to help and support their learning and others.

In reading we will be studying non fiction text and how we can use them in our topic and how we can recognise and verify true and false information that we have sourced. We will still continue to send home a book to read for pleasure from the class library or Book Box. Please remember to return the book or we will not send a new book home for your child to read.

Home Learning this week will be sent out on Monday and should be returned in the Home Learning bags on Friday for discussion, self correction and feedback. In the bag will be a book to read for pleasure, spelling challenge sheet and Mental Maths Strategies sheet. We have not started our project on Scottish Inventors and Writers this week but I will send a challenge sheet home once topic is started. PE will be taking place Tuesday and Thursday this week and I would be grateful if you could provide a change of clothes and footwear to take part in PE. Thank you for your support.

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.