“Say Shava Shava”

We have had a wonderful week celebrating International Mother Tongue Languages Day. Our country was Pakistan and we absolutely loved the song we were asked to learn. The lyrics were a challenge but we managed it and also showed off some fantastic dance moves.  I don’t think this will be the last time we sing it together as a class.  We also created labels in Urdu of rooms around the school and had fun sticking them to the correct doors. We made our Pakistan flags and of course came to school on Thursday dressed in the colours of the flag.

Have a look on our school Twitter page to see us dressed in our flag colours.

Numeracy and Maths

Across the learning groups we have been learning a variety of skills including multiplication and division and addition with carrying. We also completed some problem solving and were tasked with sorting the coins in a particular way.

   

   

   

Literacy

Within reading, we have enjoyed creating character ladders  which is a lovely way to really get us thinking about the characters in a story. We have continued to look at sequencing along with testing our skimming skills at the beginning of our reading sessions.  Some of us were also tasked with reading and following a set of instructions to make a moving cat. We started our comic strips this week and will complete them next week. At the beginning of our writing lesson we completed some visualising. We listened to an extract from The BFG and then drew what we thought was happening. It was lovely to share our drawings with each other.

   

Sun, Moon and Stars

We completed our learning about the Sun, Moon and Stars by learning about the different Phases of the Moon and also creating Start constellations. Below are some photos of an experiment we completed in class to demonstrate the different phases. One person was the earth, another the sun and then 8 children sat around the circle to represent each phase by holding our ‘moon ball’.  Also, thank you to Caleb for bringing his Space Projector into class and sharing it with P3a, we really enjoyed looking at the stars and the planets on our classroom ceiling.

   

   

Expressive Arts

We have also completed our block of drawing by creating a stormy landscape similar to Vincent Van Gogh’s, Field Under Thunder Clouds. We used chalk on black paper and then use different techniques we have learned to create a stormy affect and different patterns in the fields.