We have had another wonderful week in P3! We seem to have lots of budding authors as many of the children have been creating their own books in class. They have been fully utilising the writing area and showed many creative ways they can display their stories and books.

Numeracy and Maths

We have continued working very hard learning about fractions. We can now identify half and quarter of a shape and have also been learning how to split a line into halves and quarter. We have been using a fraction wall to help support our understanding of which fraction is bigger! We have also been learning about money and have been totalling the amount of coins. We have discussed different strategies we can use to help us calculate the total. On Friday we completed a problem solving task involving symmetry!

We used three different colours to make some symmetry. Kayla

The colours we used were red, blue and green. When we completed all patterns of symmetry with three colours we had to try it with four colours. Josh

The fourth colour I used was yellow. Ben

We used a mirror to help us see the colours on the other side. Daanya

Literacy

We have continued using our reading books to support our comprehension. We have answer literal and inferential questions along with true, false or can’t tell. Some of us have been focusing on rhyming words and we have all been practising our sentence structure, remembering finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. In writing, we created an imaginative story based on the picture of the troll. We had very different ideas and shared these together in class. Some of us thought the troll was kind and just wanted a friend whilst others thought he was hungry and looking for food!

Physical Education

In PE, we have are learning tennis with Mr McMillan and on a Friday we are continuing with team games. This week we learned to play Capture the Flag. We had to work together as a team to defend our ‘flags’ whilst trying to steal the other team’s. If we were caught whilst trying to steal then we had to go to ‘jail’.

You have to run into the other team’s side and when you have been tug you go to jail. Ashley

If you high five someone who is in jail they can come back out. The person who freed them and the person who is freed have a free run back to their side. Cameron

When you get the bean bag you put it in your team’s hoop and the team who has the most wins. Charlie

We needed to team build to get up to the other side to steal a bean bag. Aaron

Also, if we were inside the cones we couldn’t be tug. Amelia