P3 Celebrate World Book Day

Along with the rest of the school (and thousands of other schools around the world!) the children of primary 3 celebrated World Book Day on the 2nd March 2017.  The boys and girls dressed as a character from their favourite book, and I am sure you will agree from the photographs that everyone looked tremendous! So a huge thank you to all of our parents and carers for all of the effort that went into the children's costumes.  The children had a fun-filled day packed with activities to celebrate popular authors, illustrators, books and reading ofcourse! This included a class book hunt, a competition to design a book cover and blurb, a trip to Faifley library to hear stories from the Librarian and paired reading opportunities with some of the primary 6 children from the upper school.  The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and are already looking forward to to the next World Book Day.  Don't forget to redeem your child's book token at participating bookshops for a free book (from a choice of 10 books) or £1 off selected other books.

Logan's fabulous Cat in the Hat costume!

Brooke and Caden get cozy in the reading corner.

Sasha enjoying some paired reading with primary 6.

Hailey looked great as a crazy scientist!

Ashleigh enjoying our class novel George's Marvellous Medicine

Kara enjoying paired reading with primary 6.

Dylan likes a challenge and has picked this huge book to read!

Princess Elsa (aka Leigh) enjoying paired reading with Gemma from primary 6.

Leah and Robyn are enjoying paired reading with primary 6.

Courtney and Shaun (or is it Harry Potter?) enjoying our class novel George's Marvellous Medicine.

Aiva our Scientist is getting some potion ideas from George's Marvellous medicine!

Princess Abigail with her favourite book Tangled!

Primary 3 Learning Through Play

The children in primary 3 have been exploring our novel study (George's Marvellous Medicine) through play-based approaches to learning.  This approach provides the children with more personalisation and choice in their learning and allows them to develop skills such as communication, problem-solving, creativity and independence in a fun and engaging way.  It also allows the children to make natural links in their learning and apply concepts and skills that have been previous taught in class.  The children have particularly enjoyed being Scientists and having the opportunity to make predictions and carry out experiements in our Science Lab area!

This is the letter that primary 3 received from a Scientist to introduce our exciting new topic and novel study George's Marvellous Medicine!

The children use the Planning Board to select which area they want to learn in.

The children can use the thinking prompts on the wall to plan their activity and review it.

Shaun and Iain are enjoying making potions in our Science Lab area!

Scientists busy at work!

Libby is developing her technology skills through designing and making a science lab using lego.

Mary is carrying out an experiment to check if her prediction was correct.

Boyd is applying the measure and capacity skills we have been learning about in maths.

Ashleigh and Courtney are working together to find facts about Scientists and Inventors using ICT.

Dylan is creating his own medicine bottle at the Create and Make area.

Primary 3 enjoy exploring science in our STEM Hub!

During this term the boys are girls of primary 3 will be conducting weekly science experiments in our STEM hub then linking this to their Big Writing lessons in order to develop their functional writing skills, with a particular emphasis on scientific report writing.  The children explored what would happen when raisins were dropped into water compared with lemonade.  The children came up with a question relating to what they wanted to find out, made interesting predictions about what they thought would happen then following the experiment they wrote up the procedure, results and a conclusion. The children thoroughly enjoyed being scientists for the morning, and as you can see, followed all the safety rules by wearing their lab coats and safety goggles!

The children are discussing what they are noticing.

Mary is helping to gather the equipment.

Cara is observing cautiously to see what happens.

Evan is keeping his eye on the raisins!

The children discussing the science that is taking place.

Sasha is taking a closer look.

Abigail and Leigh watch closely.

Brooke and Caden thinks science is fun!

The children were developing their team working skills.

Aiva is having a fight with her safety goggles!

The children are developing their communication skills through group discussions about the results of the experiment.

The children take it in turns to drop their raisins into the water and lemonade.

Brooke takes a closer look.

 

Primary 3b get creative!

The children in primary 3 are focusing on functional writing this term and this week primary 3b wrote a set of instructions for making reindeer hot chocolate cones to sell at our Nativity show.  The children thoroughly enjoyed making their hot chocolate cones, and I am sure you will agree from the photographs, that they did a superb job!

The Vikings are coming!

Primary 3 have been learning about who the Vikings were, where they came from and what they wore.
The boys and girls would like to share some interesting facts with you:-
"They didn't have horns on their helmets" Leona.
"They sailed in longships with a figure head at the front and the back" Libby.
"They weren't all fierce warriors, some were farmers" Leon.
"Viking armour wasn't actually that good, it was made of leather" Dylan.
"I know that Vikings thought that mead, an old drink was medicine" Kara




We have had lots of fun building our longship and making Viking helmets too.

LOOK AT OUR FIERCE VIKING WARRIORS!

We had fun dressing up as Vikings.