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P3/4 News and Home Learning w/b 23/3/26

Thank you for joining us at our Assembly on Friday 20th March and we hope that you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed performing at it. P3/4 would like to extend a Happy Eid Mubarak to all the children and families and we hope that you had a lovely shared time on Friday and over the weekend.

This week, we will continue to look at money in maths and we will start to revisit our four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) that will be a big focus of working with number next term.

In literacy, we will be continuing to write our class imaginative adventure story. We will also be adding more dialogue and paragraphs to the adventure in our chosen country that we are writing individually. Class readers will not go home until next Monday as we have still work to complete using our Literacy Detectives that involve our books.

In Science, we are going to look at how sound travels and this will happen over the next two weeks. In Art, we will be producing work for our frames in the school stair gallery. The theme for art will be the book ‘Just Ask’ by Sonia Sotomayor, a wonderful book about diversity. inclusion and understanding, please take an opportunity to read it with your child here is a link to You Tube JUST ASK by Sonia Sotomayor Read Aloud

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I am looking forward to meeting parents and carers, on either Thursday or Friday for our Parent Consultations to allow us to share your children’s learning. If you are not able to make your appointment or require to make alternative arrangements please contact the office.

Home Learning, this week, will be sent home in the bags on Monday and should be returned on Friday. There will be the weekly spelling words challenge, the Rainbow Maths Strategies sheets, a book to read for pleasure and the other curriculum challenge grid.

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P3/4 Home Learning and weekly news 3/3/26

This week, we will continue with fractions and money in maths. We have started our personal projects looking at a chosen country and we will continue to film our information films about our Scottish Inventors for our Assembly. In writing, we will be returning to Imaginative story writing focusing on paragraphs and dialogue.

Home Learning will go home on Monday and should be returned in the bag on Friday. This week in the bag there will be class reading books and some books for reading for pleasure, the weekly spelling word challenge and please continue to use the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheet, before and after. Also included for topic work will be a country challenge sheet and the country you can research and compare to the country you have chosen in class, is Peru.

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P3/4 Home Learning and News

We had a fantastic time at the Ballet Workshop at Dance Base on Thursday and P3/4 demonstrated their talents by dancing scenes from the Nutcracker. We hope that we will be able to show our videos of the event at our assembly in March. This week we have continued to look at addition and subtraction in maths and have started to look at Money in Beyond Number. In writing we are developing skills in producing a recount of events that take place in our lives, focusing on time connectives and sequencing.

Home Learning will be sent out on Monday and should be returned on Friday before the February holiday. This week in the bags there will be a book to read for pleasure and the weekly spelling challenge. The class should continue to use the other curriculum challenge sheet – Scottish Inventors and a Scottish Writer and the P3 and P4 Rainbow Mental Maths sheets. This week we will be visiting the Museum of Scotland on Thursday to look at some of the Scottish Inventions we have been learning about with the idea of producing small information videos about the inventions we have been studying.

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Scottish Book Week and P2 and P3 Book Bug resources.

Thank you for joining P2 and P3 on Friday for the Scottish Bookbug launch when the children received their Bookbug bags. It was lovely to see so many parents/carers sharing their enjoyment of reading with their children. At the event, I had talked about the resources available on the Scottish Bookbug website and I have attached the activities sheet for P2 and P3 and link to the website where you can find more information and resources. https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug

Thank you once again for your support.

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P3/4 Home Learning w/b 3rd November

Home Learning bags will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday. This week there will be the weekly Spelling Challenge sheet and class reader or book for reading for pleasure. Please continue to use the Math Challenge Grid and the SHANARRI Challenge Grid. This week we will be starting Multiplication and Division and in the bag you will find a copy of sheet 3 and 4 level 1 of the Royal Mile Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies Multiplication and Division Challenge Grid. Have a go at the challenges to practice your skills.