Author: Mrs Leslie

Welcome back and I hope that you had a lovely week off and are ready for a busy run up to Christmas. We will be looking at starting our imaginative writing this week and we will be looking at the setting of our stories. In Maths we will be working on time and in number our focus will be using our subtraction skills. We will have PE with P2 on Tuesday so please remember to bring your PE kit back to school. In our Viking topic we will be investigating the Viking Gods and visiting the library to return our Viking books.

Home Learning will be issued on Tuesday and should be returned on Friday. There is a Spelling Challenge using our spelling pattern focus, Maths challenge using time and a challenge grid based on Space and Keeping Our Self Safe during and running up to Bonfire Night. In the Home Learning bag will be either a class reader or a book to read for pleasure. I have attached a copy of the Home Learning for Spelling, Maths and Other Curriculum.

What a fun week we have had in Primary 3 taking our maths outdoors. We have created shapes, clocks and great outdoor games over the week. We were also joined by Primary 2 who shared different number and counting games outside with us.

We have taken a few pictures to let you see what fun and great learning we were doing outside. Hope you enjoy sharing this with us!

It is Maths Week in school and we are taking our learning outside. We will be using our playground to find 2D and 3D shape, time and number. We will be working hard to solve outdoor maths challenges and in writing this week we will be creating a recount of the alternative Fairy Tale The Three Little Wolves and the Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas.

It was lovely to meet the parents and carers at the Parent Consultations and to share the wonderful work that Primary 3 are doing. I hope that you enjoyed sharing the children’s learning and that you have had an opportunity to share and discuss it at home.

Home Learning this week will be issued on Monday and should be returned before the holiday on Friday. This week Home Learning will be Activity 4 Mental Maths challenge, Weekly Spelling challenge and this week the children will be taking home a book to read for pleasure.

P3 have had a great week writing and editing their poetry about walking with animals and in maths they have continued to look at time and addition. We took part in Climate Week and were able to attend a live broadcast by webinar with Jasper from The Wildlife Centre in the Cairngorms National Park. We saw the wolves, owls and talked about what homes they live in and how they make their homes from the resources they have around them.

This week we are hoping to have our webinar on the Vikings with the Scottish Museum, it had to be changed from last Friday to this Friday. We will be discussing in class Article 8 from the UNCRC which is the Right to have an identity and a name. We have already been talking about where our names have come from, passports and the flags of different countries.

Home Learning will be sent out on Monday and should be returned on Friday. This week our spelling challenge will be to create a word search and I have placed a blank template of a word search in the bags. There will also be Maths challenge Activity 3 and either a book to read for pleasure or your child’s class reader.

Last week rushed passed and being a short week Friday came quickly. Primary 3 worked hard last week and I must thank all the parents for their support in getting our Home Learning off to a flying start. The feedback from the children is that they enjoyed the work and I can see that from the amount of work that has gone into each piece of Home Learning.

Last week we continued with our sound patterns in spelling and all groups have started to use their spelling in dictation on a Friday. In maths we have moved on to addition and subtraction and we will be focusing this week on the maths vocabulary we use to describe addition and subtraction and applying it to our number work. We have been working on our Hinduism topic in Religious and Moral Education and we will be looking at the story of Sita and Rama to link with our Festival of Light Theme and learning about Diwali.

Another thank you for PE kits and additional shoes for indoors they have been very useful due the weather never being the same each day. Once again we will be painting this week and if you wish to send in an old shirt to protect your child’s clothes please do.

Home Learning will be issued on Monday in the bags and should be returned on Friday. This week there will be either a book to read for pleasure chosen by your child or their class reader, weekly spelling words challenge and the school’s Mental Rainbow Maths Strategies challenge. Please continue to use the Viking Grid that was sent out last week as this will be the other curriculum Home Learning up until October holiday. Please find attached copy of the Spelling and Maths.