Last week Mr McIntosh came to visit us to see what we were doing for Topic in P3!

We had been set The Sunflower Challenge.  We were to create a sunflower using only newspaper, sticky tape and our imaginations!  We had to remember to have a stem, roots, petals and leaves.  Our sunflower had to be at least 1m tall.

We were put into groups to show how well we could work in teams.  We had great fun and impressed Mr McIntosh by knowing about germination!

Puppet Show!!

 

 

On Thursday we enjoyed a great treat. SPS was visited by Dave and his puppet theatre. 

We enjoyed a show in the Hall which everyone found hilarious, and afterwards Dave held a workshop for every class.

P3 and Mrs Miller enjoyed practising with the puppets and after that we were directed by Dave in a puppet show of the famous story, "The Pied Piper of Hamlin".  Mrs Miller is terrified of rats but she managed to hold a finger puppet of a baby rat and was quite proud of herself.

The rest of us has great fun and learned about how to talk to the puppets and ask other puppets questions.  We learned how to make the puppets move so that they looked real. Some of us wish we had a puppet so that we could continue to practise being puppeteers!

Since David's visit we have discussed different types of puppets and Mrs Miller has brought in Spike.

We look forward to more learning about puppets and hope David visits us in SPS again!

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

First Week of Term!

 

 

P3 worked hard this week.

We started thinking about our new topic, "Living Things", and discussed what we wanted to learn together.  (We already have tadpoles and many of them are still alive and healthy!)

 

We learned about what Easter really means in the Christian calendar and discussed the story of the death and rebirth of Jesus according to the Christian Bible. 

We enjoyed making Easter crafts.  We decorated eggs; we coloured Easter ornaments; and some of us TRIED to make giant Easter eggs using wool, balloons and LOTS of PVA glue.  We wouldn't say the latter was a success but it was fun and messy and we learned alot about how not to do it next time!

Here are some of our photos for you to look at.  We thought it was funny that everyone wanted to wear the Easter ornaments like earrings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Amazing Models!

 

 

 

P3 are amazing!  And so are the models they've been making at home as part of their Ancient Orkney topic!

 

We have been overwhelmed by how carefully and seriously the pupils accepted the challenge of building something relating to Ancient Orkney from any material they wished.

And parents... you have been so supportive of this project.  Thank you so much!

 

We have all the models displayed outside our classroom.  Everyone who passes by admires the variety and skill of the model making.  If you are in school, please come in and have a look.  You'd be most welcome!

 

In the meantime here are some pictures to enjoy.

 

HAPPY SPRING BREAK, P3! :-)

 



Sport Relief 2014!

 

 

 

We had great fun in school this afternoon!

P7 and Mrs Leitch organised the Sport Relief activites which the whole school enjoyed.  Hope you enjoy looking at this series of pictures.

There were lots of yummy cakes to buy and several fun activities including Beat the Goalie; the Bottle Stall; Hit the Can; and Wet Sponge the Teacher!!!  Mr McIntosh and Mr Taylor were good sports and even allowed Mrs Miller to photograph them for our P3 blog!

 

 



Friday Afternoon!

 

 

Another busy week in P3! 

After music on a Friday, however, we have a time to work and play together in the Junior Area at Activities!

Some of us go to music club; others visit P1 and 2 classrooms to join in the fun there; others enjoy playing with construction sets or crafting materials with visitors to our P3 classroom.  It's good to share this time with P1 and 2 doing something creative at the end of a hectic week. 

 



 

World Book Day in P3!

 

 

Gosh!  What a very busy week we've had in P3 this week!

 

As you can see from our pictures, many in P3 decided to dress up as favourite book characters on Thursday 5th March as part of our Book Day fun.  We had a great time in class working out who all the different characters were too!

 

Can you guess who they all are?

 

P5 presented an excellent Assembly to the whole school about World Book Day.  We enjoyed reading along with our friends in other classes and having the quiz which P5 had prepared for us all.  This older class had also organised a competition to design a special bookmark.  Leah in our class won for P3.

 

 

P7 have been organising the Book Fayre in school too this week.  We went to visit their book exhibition at the school library and many of us ordered books.  We are looking forward to our books arriving soon.  We think P7 did a fantastic job of running the Book Fayre! And we know they have raised alot of money to buy books for the school library too!  Well done, P7!

 

P3 have been having lots of check-ups in Maths and Writing this week.  We had a visit from Sarah from the Pier Arts Centre.  We have been thinking alot in our Health and Well-Being about getting along together.  And we even had a FROG visit us from P6!!! 

 

We hope you enjoy the photos!