Category: Primary 3 Blog

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.

We have had a lovely Scots week in P3 and have written magical, imaginative Scottish Stories with mythical beasts. We have also been focusing on dividing equally in Maths and have started our money focus with Ms Brunner. Take a look at the different ways we can use our resources and skills when dividing.

This week we will be focusing on our forward and backward number to strengthen our Mental Maths Strategies.

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag will be reading for pleasure, Spelling Challenge, Maths Mental Maths Challenge and continue to use the Famous Scottish Inventors and Writer grid. Thank you for supporting the class in making some excellent Scottish pictures and inventions.