Author: Mrs Leslie

Another great week in P3 and a thank you to all the parents who came to visit the classroom and to see the children’s learning on Friday. We hope you enjoyed it and will be able to return on Friday 17th November for the annual P3 Book Bug Launch as part of Scottish Book Week more information will be sent out this week.

Home Learning is attached and will be sent out in the bags on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week is the last week of our Mental Maths Strategies focusing on addition and subtraction, next week we will be starting to look at our Mental Maths Strategies for multiplication and division. I have attached a simplified/pictorial version of the math’s chilli challenges so have a go. Please continue with the Article 31 activity grid and I have attached this week’s spelling words with challenges. As usual there will be book in the bag for reading for pleasure.

I hope that every one had a lovely holiday and it was great to see the whole class back to school refreshed and ready to learn last week. This week we will be very busy with some people taking part in Halloween events and others starting back with their local clubs but I know that the class will meet these challenges enthusiastically. Last week, due to returning on Tuesday I did not issue any home learning but the class had a discussion and indicated that they wished to take their Spelling home to learn. This was voted on by the class and out of 15 pupils who were present to take the vote 12 have chosen to ask for spelling home learning. Therefore you will find spelling words and spelling chilli challenges in the home learning bags.

Last week we finished our Viking topic with a nail biting quiz in class and we celebrated the completion of our Viking boat. It has been a fun topic and we are now ready to move to our next topic which is weather and climates around the world suggested by one of our class. It has so far sparked lots of discussion about what we are going to look at, so watch this space.

In Religious and Moral Education we will be looking at our Hinduism topic and covering Science topics- Magnets and Forces and Topical Science. In PE we will be undertaking dance on a Tuesday, team games on Wednesday and cardio/fitness on Thursday. It would be a great help if you could provide a gym kit, in particular a t-shirt and trainers so that the children can feel comfortable when undertaking the PE lessons. In art we are hoping to look at some well known artists and their work this term, Rangoli Patterns and create some self portraits when work on symmetry.

Home Learning, w/b 30/10/23 will be sent home on Monday to be returned on Friday for discussion, feedback and self correction. This week the home work will be a maths chilli challenge from our Mental Maths Strategies and I have once again put a pictorial example on the sheet to support the learning. There will be a book to read for pleasure from the book box or class library, the Spelling challenge, children should practice/use the Spelling words from the group that they work in in class. However they can challenge themselves by using and looking at the other spelling words.

We have been looking at the UN Rights of the Child in class and in particular Article 31 and attached/in the bag is a grid to cover the next four weeks home learning curriculum challenges for the children to undertake, research or write about at home, then discuss in class. You can put all the home learning in the jotter that was issued to support your child. Regards Mrs Leslie

Another great week for P3 and it was busy! P3 were out and about this week on Tuesday to the Museum on the Mound for Maths Week and on Thursday we went to the Poetry Library for National Poetry Day to hear a reading by the Scots Poet Susi Briggs. At the Museum on the Mound we looked at different forms of money and coins from around the world, the history of coins and we toured around the museum to look at how money is stored both now and in the past.

At the Poetry Library will listened to Susi Briggs a Poet and Scots Writer read two of her rhyming poems. Then we drew a concrete poem of our favourite animal and the noise it makes.

It was lovely to meet parents on Thursday and Friday to share the P3’s learning and to discuss how far they have progressed in the first weeks of P3. I look forward over the session to share lots more of the P3 learning, thank you once again for coming and if you were not able to attend and would like to discuss your child’s learning please contact the office by email or phone.

Home Learning, this week will be sent out on Monday to be returned on Friday and will consist of a book to read for pleasure, the Viking grid of activities and the Mental Maths Challenge grid. I had spoken to the class and received feedback about the Maths challenges, some of the class have found the number of challenges and how to do them overwhelming and with this in mind I have reduced this week the challenges to three, mild, hot and spicy. I will still send the challenge grid home in its complete form but have also included a pictorial challenge sheet that the children have been shown in class to build their confidence in using the Mental Maths Challenge Grid.

It was a very short week but I must thank you for the great work that had been done at home for both home learning and homework. I must also thank you for your support in returning the home learning bags. Home Learning will be sent home on Monday in the bags and will contain the Mental Agilities Rainbow chilli challenge grid, the Topic (Vikings) grid and a book for home reading for pleasure. Today the children chose their books from the Book Box to take home on Monday.

Next week is Maths Week and there will be lots of fun activities for them to undertake during the week. We will have Maths Week launch at Assembly on Monday and on Tuesday P3 will visit the Museum on the Mound to take part in three workshops about money. Today we focused on Time, o’clock and half past as you can see every one was working hard on different activities about time.

We will be starting to write Poetry next week and have been invited to the Poetry library on Thursday to listen to poems being read by their writer as it is National Poetry Day. On both trips we will be walking and I would be grateful if you could provide a coat. Thank you for all your support.

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.