Hi everyone

This week we have been learning:

MATHS

We have continued to learn about time, reading quarter to and quarter past on digital and analogue clocks.

This is challenging for many children, please help your child by talking about the time as part of your daily routine. Please see the class home learning blog for ideas of games to play at home.

We revised the  months of the year and linked them to the seasons.

LITERACY

We have completed two pieces of writing this week. The first piece was an imaginative story- to write a new adventure for Clara and the Nutcracker Prince. The second piece was personal writing – the children were asked to write about their favourite part of Christmas.

MUSIC

The children were listening and responding to Tchaikovsky’s Trepak. They used dance and percussion instruments to keep  the correct rhythm.

PE

Children were developing their skills needed for badminton.

ART

The children created a hanging decoration using three colours.

FRENCH

We revised the weather phrases we knew and looked at the work of Claude Monet. We talked about which French weather phrase would suit each painting.

P3 CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT 19.12.19 2.30PM

Here are the songs we will be singing, please help your child to learn the words.

Starry Night

First Noel

Drummer Boy

Away in a Manger

Joy to the World

ADVENT CALENDAR

We were planning on having a chocolate calendar in the classroom and giving the children a turn of opening the window. Please speak to Mrs Bailey on Monday if there are any problems with this.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Munro, Mrs Bailey and P3M

Please see below a summary of learning in P6M this week. Thank you to the pupils who helped me write this.

29.11.19

Hi Everyone

This is what we have been learning this week.

MATHS

We have been learning about time this week. We spoke about what time is and talked about the seasons, months and days of the week and linked them to hours in a day. We discussed why it is important to tell the time and thought about real life examples of this. We recapped on what they could remember learning in P2 and went over how to read o’clock and half past. We discussed am, pm, earlier, later and spoke about 24 hour notation. We have gone on to learn about quarter to and quarter past on digital and analogue clocks and will be continuing with this next week.

LITERACY

We have continued to enjoy the children’s book talks and the variety of books they have chosen to speak about.

The children completed a piece of imaginative  writing this week. The subject was Greyfriar’s Bobby and what might have happened if he had sneaked out of his house and started exploring Edinburgh. As well as focusing on punctuation and spelling we were trying to think of a beginning, middle, end and use describing words to make our story more interesting.

TECHNOLOGY/SOCIAL STUDIES

As part of our topic on homes and our local environment the children began to build their own houses using junk. We spoke about different types of houses and what they are called and the children identified the kind of house that they lived in. They drew a plan of their house first and chose the best materials for their design and explained why they had chosen them. They had to share the resources with their classmates and use problem solving skills to find ways of joining materials together and making their structure stable. The children were very engaged with this activity and tried very hard even though it was challenging at times. There will be an opportunity to finish their houses next week.

We were extremely fortunate to have a visit from Mrs Carter an archaeologist who spoke to the children about Buckstone 100, 500 and 2,000 years ago. This is what the children thought about her visit.

‘I learned a lot about the picts’

‘I loved looking at the stones’

‘I like the activities’

‘I found it really interesting’

CAROL CONCERT

We have been practising songs to perform at our carol concert on December 19th. We are raising money to help the Guide Dog charity .

HAMPER

Next week we will be accepting donations for our Christmas Fair hamper, our theme is Scotland.

TISSUES

Thanks so much for all the donations of tissues, we are nearly running out. Further donations of tissues gratefully received.

Have a lovely weekend.

P3M, Mrs Munro and Mrs Bailey