This morning the children in P3 were learning to order words alphabetically to the 2nd and 3rd letter.

We were tasked with first of all getting ourselves in alphabetical order using the first letter of our name. We quickly realised that we had 2 names that started with E, 3 names that started with L and 3 names that started with M.

So we used our learning to re-order these people using their 2nd and 3rd letters of their names as Luke and Lucas both had a u for their second letter.  Great problem solving and ordering skills Primary 3!

Primary 2 were completing their maths target whilst having fun and working in a group.

This afternoon we started our writing block on acrostic poetry. We were learning how to recognise the features of acrostic poems. The p3’s learnt that acrostics have a topic word hidden in the first letter of each line and that we can look for the poem’s theme by reading the first letters vertically.

We then decided to write our own poems about fireworks. We looked at a picture of fireworks first and created a word bank describing the fireworks. Here are just some of P3’s suggestions… (we wrote even more in our jotters!)

Next we wrote the word vertically down the page in capital letters and we got writing! Some excellent ideas for our first attempts at independent writing!

This afternoon we went outdoors to create our own mazes using chalk. We worked with a partner and created a maze. We added difficulty to the mazes by adding in dead ends and obstacles. We then let each other try out our mazes. Before anyone could try out our maze however, we had to tell them the instructions before hand which showed off our talking skills.

We have been using our creativity skills and today in the creative zone many of the class became fashion designers and using old material, pillow cases, bed sheets and art materials designed some impressive outfits. They used bull dog clips to hold the material together and get the outfits fitting just right. Who needs shop bought outfits when you can design your own?!

We have been reading George’s Marvellous Medicine in class and we are already up to chapter 3. We have had lots of fantastic discussion about the book so far, predicting what might happen in each chapter,  analysing the front cover and recalling the key events so far. We have also thought of many “wow” words to describe 2 of the main characters: grandma and George.

We also created some fantastic artwork using straws to create the illusion of smoke coming from the pot of medicine.

It has been a very busy week in p3/2. We have enjoyed exploring the classroom and the zones. Have a look at some of the amazing things we have created during the week.

Look out for news from our class!