For our writing task this week, we challenged ourselves to up-level our weekend news that we wrote on Monday morning. The children self-assessed their piece of writing and decided how they were going to make it even better. P3 worked hard on this task, and each child produced a great piece of writing!

Last week we linked our writing lesson to our topic on Water. We learned about the Water Cycle, and then we wrote about the cycle from the perspective of a water particle going through the process. We then used our writing to produce some wonderful Water Cycle posters!

We have been learning about Common and Proper Nouns. We have been trying hard to include capital letters in the correct places, as well as forming our letters correctly.

Since returning after the Easter holidays, our focus in maths has been Measurement. We have explored measuring in metres and centimetres, choosing the most appropriate unit of measurement based on the size of an object. We always estimate before measuring an object, and as the children are becoming more confident, their estimates are getting closer to the actual length of the items! We learned about capacity and had lots of fun experimenting with water, rainbow rice and cubes.

We are currently learning about weight, where we will be using the kilogram and ½ kilogram next week. With Miss Davie, the children have started to focus on problem solving skills.

Last week in Health and Wellbeing we were describing and recording strategies for getting on with others in the classroom. The children had some great discussion about what we (both children and adults) need to do our best in school.

This week we have discussed money and responsibility. The children have created lots of interesting discussion around wants and needs, as well as spending and saving money.

In PE at the moment, we are focusing on Hockey skills. This has been a hit so far!

We started our new topic on Water since returning to school after the holidays. So far, we have learned about the Water Cycle. We did a science experiment to see the Water Cycle being re-created in a plastic bag stuck to the window! This proved to be successful and the children identified the different parts of the Water Cycle in the bag. We are learning about solids, liquids and gases, and have carried out another experiment exploring melting ice and insulators.