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 🙂