Happy Halloween from P3/4!

We all had great fun dressing up and celebrating Halloween with some pumpkin craving and spooky fun activities throughout the day.

P3/4 embracing their inner Halloween character.

This week P3/4 have been exploring their creative side and embracing elements of STEM during their early finisher tasks.

Below the girls have used their prior knowledge and building skills to create a mechanical moving Halloween scene.

Below Elvie has created a Halloween themed poster.

This week P3/4 have been embracing their spooky side whilst completing different active literacy activities.

In the picture above, the girls have used their spelling words to create the outlines of their fantastic Halloween pictures.

P3/4 have been advancing their ball skills to develop important movements needed for football.

This week we have focused on ball control making sure we can stop the ball effectively with our dominant foot and passing the ball to an acquired target using the inside of our foot.

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P3/4 have been using their mental math strategies to help solve some tricky addition and subtraction word problems.

We were learning to identify specific terminology used for addition and subtraction written problem solving questions and use that knowledge to help solve for the answers.

Pupils could select the level of challenge they wanted to complete. One chili being the least challenging to three chilies being the most challenging.

P3/4 have been working on their number talks and mental math strategies.

A team of pupils challenged themselves to use their mental math strategies to add numbers with 5 and 6 digits.

P3/4 have been learning and revising number talk strategies to help to solve addition and subtraction calculations mentally.

We took our learning outdoors to complete a mental math hunt around the playground.

Pupils worked in teams to find 8 different calculations cards and then solve them.

Their challenge was to find and solve all 8 cards to then be able to make a word with the letters on the back of their cards.

Each team had one word and collectively all the words made a sentence for the whole class.