We have been discussing how we are all different and special in our own way. We also made posters to Show Racism the Red Card.
Jessica – It doesn’t matter what we look like we are all the same underneath.
Alex – We can all have differnt things we can do.
Andrew – We used capital letters for emphasis in our posters.
Over the past few weeks we have been using punctuation to aid our expression when reading aloud. We worked in groups to identify and highlight all the punctuation from pages in the book – ‘The Day the Crayons Quit.’ We worked out what all the punctuation meant and we each took turns to read a section out loud. We were given 2 stars and a wish by the rest of the class and we had to work on improving our wish the following week.
Alex – We had to speak loudly if the word was in capital letters and even louder if it was underlined too.
Albie – When there is an exclamation mark it means you speak louder too.
Erin – You pause when there is a full stop and it’s only a short pause for a comma.
Fern – You are asking a question when there’s a question mark so your voice goes up.
The whole class then made a book called ‘The Day the Pencils Quit.’ We wrote a letter to Mrs Wight pretending to be a pencil that was not happy and was complaining to her. We used all the punctuation we had learned in our reading to make our pencils sound very grumpy. There were lots of different complaints from all the different coloured pencils.
Our aim was to use a variety of punctuation in our reading and we were all successful at this.
It was open hour when we were redrafting our letter so some visitors got to read them. If you visit our class everyone is more than welcome to read our completed book.
We have been solving problems by making a model or drawing a diagram.
We had to work out how many cows and hens there would be if there were 4 heads and 12 legs. Some of us drew cows and hens on our whiteboards to help and some groups used art straws and made models.
We measured the height of everyone in the class then compared our heights with Flat Stanley. Most of us were taller than Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is 122cm tall. We drew around Andrew as he is the same height as Flat Stanley. We turned Andrew’s outline into Flat Stanley. We made a painting of Erin who is the same height as Flat Stanley, one of Natasha, who is shorter than Flat Stanley and one of Jessica, who is taller than Flat Stanley.
We have been learning to measure using metres and centimetres. We drew around each other with chalk to create our own flat person, then measured the height of our outline. Our flat people were very colourful.
Zoe – We were drawing around other people and writing their name, then measuring their outline.
Grace – I did my favourite rainbow T-shirt.
Natasha – At first I got a bit muddled but then I worked it out. I measured from my head to my toes.
Josh – We measured our Flat person using a metre stick.
Fern – I liked drawing around each other and colouring it in.
Sylvie – I liked colouring in our flat person.
Lauren – We used metre sticks and we measured using metres and centimetres.
We made our Class Charter based on Children’s Rights. We acted out ways we can make sure everyone helps to respect their rights.
Murray – If I couldn’t find my friend I could find someone else to play with. We include everyone.
Fern – I acted out – working hard and not talking to anyone.
Jamie – I will let others join in my games.
We have been trying to solve a problem in which we had to connect stations with train tracks. We have been learning to use some strategies to solve problems. Today some of the groups made a model to help them solve the train track problem and some groups drew a diagram.
All of our class have settled in really well and are enjoying being big primary 3’s. We have written about our summer holidays and shared our stories with the class. We have been revising our numeracy skills and have made our Class Charter. But best of all, we had our first Golden Time.
Natasha – I like going to ICT because we get to do Education City. It’s really fun.
Andrew – I like everything in Primary 3 so far.
Alex – I enjoyed making our Flat Stanley’s.
Albie – I liked the new assembly because it’s just Primary 1 to 3 now.
Grace – I’ve enjoyed Golden Time and making Hama bead designs.
Ronan and Dominic – We like building with Lego.
