Primary 3.2 wrote a book called ‘The Day the Pencils Quit.’ As we had been using punctuation to help us read with expression, we invited P1 to hear our story. We used expression to read a page each.
Primary 1 then sang us some songs they had been learning.
We went on a shape hunt in the playground. We found lots of 2D and 3D shapes, and we also found right angles.
The windows are rectangles and squares and they have right angles. – Albie.
I found a right angle on the Buddy Stop and it’s a rectangle. – Jessica
The corner of snakes and ladders is a right angle and it’s a square. – Zoe
The corner of the rectangle is a right angle. – Josh
We have been identifying 3D shapes. We knew all of their names and correctly matched up each shape with it’s name.
Alex – Cuboids faces are made up of rectangles and squares.
Jessica – Cones have got a circle on the bottom.
Lauren –Cubes faces are all squares.
Albie – I spotted that a some of the pyramids had a square on the bottom but one had a triangle.
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 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.
