It has been a week of colour and fun in P3b. We had an amazing time on Wednesday completing the Colour Run. We were extremely excited leading up to the colour run and all took part with so much enthusiasm. As you can see from the photos we were all delighted to be soaking wet and covered in a variety of colours.

   

On Monday we learned about the three primary colours and the three secondary colours. We also explored the tertiary colours. We were given the challenge of making our own colour wheel using only the three primary colours. There was lots of mixing and trial and error but we were all able to make a variety of colours. This will prepare us for our Picasso pieces which we will be completing in a couple of weeks.

    

   

    

More fun was had in the woodland this week. We have been learning about the habitats of minibeasts and discussing why a minibeast would choose a particular habitat. We spoke about dark, damp places along with leafy, green places and dry, sheltered places.

We had lots of fun searching for more minibeasts and had some time to play at the end of our session.

    

    

    

    

Wow, what busy busy week we have had in P3b. We are really enjoying listening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and this week demonstrated our creative side by inventing our own sweets. Some of our sweets can turn your nose blue, make you turn invisible, cause you to always smell coconut and lots of our sweets last forever! We discussed textures and scents and gave our sweets really creative names.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us have continued our work with subtraction. We completed lots of work with the tens and units materials to support our understanding and are beginning to learn how to borrow and exchange. Others have been looking at multiplying and dividing by 3 and have been looking at different strategies we can use to complete calculations.

   

Literacy

We have been looking at characterisation this week. At the beginning of the week we completed character studies based on one of the four children from Charlie and the Chocolate factory. We discussed what the character does in the story and chose adjectives to describe that character based on this information. We also discussed if we would like that child to be our friend.

For writing, in groups we worked on one of the four children including Charlie and created giant posters which detailed as much information as we have learned about that character. We then used this information to complete a table based on that character to show our understanding of the five points of characterisation.

   

   

Health and Wellbeing

After completing our experiment last week about handwashing, we know how important it is to wash your hands. This week we created posters which we will put up around the school to promote handwashing. We had to include the different steps you need to take and also included some interesting facts about handwashing and germs.

Outdoor Learning

This week we started minibeast hunting and had a lovely time searching underneath stones, leaves and in amongst the grass and trees. We loved showing out minibeasts off and were very careful when handling them ensuring we put them back in a safe place. This has got us thinking about their habitats and next week we will be learning more about this!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Ibrahim, Caleb, Charlie and Ethan made a pizza restaurant. They created cutlery from leaves and twigs and served a variety of different pizzas including pepperoni mmmmm!

 

P3b are really excited about our new class topic based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was planned as a focus through our Literacy learning however we are so interested in the story and have already came up with some wonderful ideas for our display along with some exciting lessons.

Numeracy and Maths

Subtraction has been our main focus this week. We are working on two-digit and three-digit subtraction and some of us are looking at subtraction with exchange. We also completed our short money topic by learning about different ways we can pay for items. Some of the children have shown an interest in old coins and brought some in to show the class. We had lots of fun working out how old they were!

    

Literacy

We are enjoying listening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and completing activities associated with the story. This week we created our own newspaper report detailing the release of the 5 golden tickets. We also redesigned the front cover of the book with wonderful illustrations. We are continuing with our own reading books in our learning groups and this week have been learning about ‘silent w’ and ‘silent k’ for spelling.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we learned how easily germs can spread and the importance of washing our hands. We demonstrated this through a  glitter experiment.

One person in each small group covered their hands in glitter and then shook hands with other children in the group. The glitter represented the germs and we were amazed at how easily it spread. We then tried to wash off the ‘germs’ in a variety of different ways. Some of us only used a dry paper towel, others washed their hands with cold water for a few seconds with no soap and the rest washed their hands for 20 seconds with warm water and soap. I am sure you can guess which one worked best to remove all of the germs!

We loved using the visualiser to show the rest of the class our hands. All of our hands were nice and clean by the end of the experiment 🙂