Author: Mrs Leslie

I hope that you had a great learning day yesterday and I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Please remember to bring your Home Learning bags back to school and any maths and literacy work and homework that you were able to complete. The home learning today is maths, once again a more challenging place value challenge. In Literacy continue to practice your spelling but use Read, Write, Cover, Check and your literacy challenge is to create a story using your spelling words. See if you can use them all.

Good Morning P3 I hope that you were able to work on the learning that was sent to you yesterday. Today’s Learning is in the same timetable format as yesterday but with different Maths and Literacy tasks. Have a go at the more challenging Place Value questions using Deanes and today’s Literacy is practicing your group spelling words, that you were given on Monday, using rainbow writing. We have used this challenge in class and now it is time to try it out, once you have done this use your words to create silly sentences or you can even use other groups spelling words.

Good morning Primary 3 and I hope that you are ready to go with today’s home learning. Here is your timetable for the day ahead and maths and literacy activities.

Today P3 starts their home learning.

Home learning that will be undertaken during the industrial action will be sent separately each day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week following a whole school timetable.

I have provided home learning bags to support your child in taking home their home learning for this term.  Please support your child’s home learning by discussing their home learning with them and returning the home learning bags to school.

Home Learning will be issued on a Monday and where possible copies will be available on the P3 Blog in PDF. I have attached copies of the home learning for this week.

Monday 25th – Friday 29th – Maths Mental Agility sheet addition and subtraction – grid to be used up to 13th October- try different chilli challenges. One chilli, easy, two chillies slightly more challenging and three chillies – really challenge yourself. Mark off each challenge when you have tried it and return it in bag on Friday.

Reading – Reading books from the library or book box will be sent home for your child to read for pleasure and share with you.

Viking Topic Grid – grid to be used up to 13th October – try one or two challenges a week and return what has been tried on a Friday – remember to mark off what you have tried.

Contents of the home learning bag for this term will be:   

• Reading books from library or book box for reading for pleasure
• A Topic challenge grid that can be completed over the next few weeks.
• Maths home learning activity or challenge sheet

Please return home learning in the home learning bag by Friday of that week so that children can check and discuss the learning at Feedback time. Books will only be exchanged if they are returned to school, no new books will be issued until outstanding books are returned.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require support or wish to discuss home learning. Thank you for your support.

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.