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We have had a busy time over the last wee while investigating Autumn and the changing of the seasons. We have been keeping a weather diary which means we have been outside a lot. We have been using our senses to explore the weather and chat about what we see , feel etc recording our findings. We have learned about temperature and weather forecasts.

It has gotten a lot colder this week which led to lots of fantastic questions. “What is frost? ” “Why does our breath look like dragon smoke when it’s cold?” “How can the numbers go below zero?”

Autumn Artwork

We collected lots of leaves and used them to create funny leaf people. We also created beautiful Autumn trees using our fingers to print with warm colours.

Here is some more of our recent artwork.

For our Fabulous Fireworks we used the end of a paintbrush to drag the paint outwards to create an explosion effect. Then we drew the silhouette of rooftops, painted it grey and very carefully cut it out. We love how they turned out.

We decided to create Poppies for Remembrance. We used a sponge printing technique and layered red and orange circles. We think that look brilliant even though they were quite easy to do.

Dancing Fun

We have been perfecting our Grand Old Duke of York dance for our Christmas party. Mrs Duffy thought we were so good that we had a go at the Canadian Barn Dance and we did really well , even though the music was so fast! Phew!

We are planning to learn the Gay Gordons too.

Open Afternoon for parents/carers

On Thursday afternoon we welcomed a number of parents in to our class to see what we have been learning. We showed them some of our work and we demonstrated some of the resources we use to help us with our literacy and numeracy. P3s were excited to show off what they can do with their Chromebooks.

Numeracy

We have been working very hard on our numeracy and are becoming confident in our understanding of Place Value. We are able to use a wide variety of hands-on materials (manipulatives) to support our thinking.

P3s completing a poster of understanding using Place Value Dice.

Building numbers with Base Ten materials

There are some amazing mathematicians in P2/3 who are absolutely brilliant at spotting patterns in our number system!

Literacy

In Literacy we have had a focus on reading for enjoyment recently and have loved exploring a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts from within our class library. We also have regular visits to Auchinleck library where we have time to read and relax and choose a book to borrow and bring back to school.

We have had fun exploring the books of Julia Donaldson in particular. We discussed our favourite stories, characters and illustrations. We created story maps and learned about descriptive writing.