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Mental Agility First level

Hi and welcome to the second section of our MENTAL AGILITY rainbow this term!

Until Christmas our school will focus on ADDITION and SUBTRACTION!

Please find attached activities children work on in class.

We would really appreciate your support in practising them at home too!

It is vital to use concrete material as long as they are needed!

Concrete resources, also known as manipulatives, are physical objects that children can pick up and manipulate to improve their maths knowledge. A variety of concrete maths resources can help children to understand the relationship between numbers and the number system.

Another important skill is to be able to count forward and backwards from different starting points such as

Can you count from 18-24, 39-46 or

Please count backwards from 98.

This will enable learners to be able to count on from a number to add another collection or count back for subtracting purposes.

To hide the one or more collection helps to gain confidence:

(Empty) Number lines and Hundred squares are very helpful to gain a good understanding of number.

Take a look at this amazing website and have a go playing the games or quizzes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwv39j6/articles/z8hyfrd

Primary 3 Blog

P3 Home Learning and News

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.

Great Viking game idea from Emmanuella

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.

Primary 3 Blog

P3 Home Learning Thursday 28th September

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.

Primary 3 Blog

P3 Home Learning Wednesday 27th September

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.