P3A’s  Sweetie Machines!

Over the last 3 weeks, all the boys and girls have been working SO hard to design, collect materials and make a sweetie or chocolate machine, in line with our topic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mrs Orr, Miss Biggart, Mrs Jaimeson, Mrs Sloarch, Miss Lamb and Mrs McGuigan were absolutely blown away by everyone’s efforts.

Everyone received a special certificate and prize for their efforts. Although it was SO difficult to choose who should receive 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, members of the senior leadership team were finally able to make a decision after inspecting our designs and picking their winners anonymously.  A special well done goes to:

1st Place – Beth Munro

2nd Place – Neave Hamilton

3rd Place – Aria Vilela

We topped off our day by watching the original film, Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the children enjoyed their film vs book comparison challenge.

I would like to say a BIG thank you to all the parents and carers who gave so much of their time to help their children bring their visions to life! Thanks to you, we have had the best day and I know the children have thoroughly enjoyed making these over the last few weeks.

Writing

This week, we were learning to write instructions for a how to make a hot chocolate!

We started off by looking at pictures and trying to guess what the ‘bossy verb’ would be to describe the action happening. We managed to find lots of actions like ‘mix’, ‘whisk’ and ‘slice’.

Next, we took notes on the method. We used our new skill of creating a mind map to help us with this.

Finally, it was time to write our recipe! We used our notes to help us remember all the important steps, and made sure to use bossy verbs to tell the reader what to do.

Gymnastics

This week, we started our block of gymnastics! We were learning how to do different balances and how best to hold these. We enjoyed critiquing our partners and learning from each other. Take a look at the three different skills we learned in action…

1. Halfway handstand

2. V-Sit

3. Arabesque

Numeracy

We had lots of fun playing games in Numeracy this week! We took part in lots of active tasks such as place value loop cards, using our knowledge of the times tables by playing snakes and ladders, and even getting to play some maths games on our brand new Ipads!