This afternoon we were tasked with creating our own outdoor maths games. We worked with a partner to create our game. We had to think of some important things to include in our game so first we brain stormed together to discuss things that we had to remember.

What to think about in our game design:

• to include instructions – Erin
• how many players does it have – Millie
• what will the board game look like? Should it have bright colours? – Spencer
• what pieces of equipment do you need to use? – Rajath

We then got designing…have a look at us designing away….

Tomorrow we will vote on our favourite game for P3a which will be submitted to the whole school competition and the winning design will be printed on the playground for everyone to play!

This afternoon we put on our wellies and off we went to the “spider woods” to have some fun with maths!

First we worked in groups to great sequences and patterns and build 2d shapes with natural resources. We worked with a partner so we had to demonstrate our team work, talking and listening skills too. Have a look at some of our masterpieces…..

Next we moved up the wood and into the forest. We decided that we would work together as a whole class and use our STEAM skills to design and construct a den. It was fantastic watching everyone delegate out roles such as the stick collector, the “sweeper”, the builder to make the process more efficient. Then some of the class had some further design skills to put wooden flooring down inside, a bench for seating and create a “fire” for heat! Great team effort P3a!

It has been another busy day in the P3a classroom. As usual we started off with maths..the stars are learning about to reverse addition numbers.

The sound we are learning in class this week is the “ph” sound which actually sounds like the letter “f” when you blend the 2 together. We enjoyed thinking of words with the ph sound in them and then we were very focused during our station time.

Look what we created in the play creation zone today too!

After lunch is was time for expressive arts. We are still learning about the artist Paul Klee and we are creating pictures today with tissue paper to create the backgrounds and tomorrow we will be adding pen to the top to create ours faces, have a look tomorrow at our finished masterpieces!!!

We have been learning how to say different types of animals in French so I thought a fun activity would be to work with a partner and take take part in a  french animal quiz. This also tested our team work, listening and talking skills. We all had a great time!

This morning we thought we would take advantage of the sun and get outside to practise our times tables!

As well as all of our learning that we do within the curriculum, we are still focusing on the play pedagogy in the classroom too. The boys and girls LOVE to spend time in the construction area and this week “cupro blocks” arrived in the construction area and we have loved putting our building skills to use creating many wonderful buildings and structures.

“I started off building the base by making a cuboid because it makes it stronger this way, then I built it up taller by adding a layer each time. I also added a window too” – Skye

“We worked together to build this structure, it got taller and taller, we managed to make it 9 levels tall but we couldn’t go any bigger because we couldn’t reach any higher!!” – Lewis, Ben, Jack and Magnus

“We built a volcano! Ruairi started by putting the thicker blocks on the ground and then Ella started adding to it by adding the longer blocks onto each layer. The red lego is lava coming out of it!” – Ella, Jack and Ruairi

“I worked with Calum to build a hotel. We made a balcony so that you can get air!” – Skye

What a busy day we have had in P3a!

We started off the day with maths. We are all working really hard learning lots of different maths skills. Have a look at some of the pictures and see what we got up to!

Then we had phonics and we learnt a 4 letter sound today….eigh.

We enjoyed moving around different stations.

This afternoon we carried on learning about Paul Klee and created some new masterpieces of our own involving feathers!

Every Monday afternoon after we have read our reading books, it is time for Expressive Arts and artist we are studying in class at the moment is Paul Klee.

We created our own Paul Klee pictures today linked to one of his art works and they look fantastic. We focused on drawing rectangles and squares free hand with wax crayon and then used water colours to fill in the boxes. Water colours are light paints and therefore allow us to see the words on the book page still.

This morning we have been working on our maths skills since we arrived at school. After a quick mental maths, we began learning some new maths skills.

Have a look to see what we have been doing…

The stars are working on their number bonds:

The diamonds are learning about the properties of 2d shapes and predicting if they can tile and then tiling with the 2d shapes:

The rubies were working on their measuring and estimating skills and estimating the length of items and then using a ruler to measure how long they actually are in cm:

Well done to Naqeebah, Zoya and Zainab who were the values winners for August. Since school started back they show courage on a daily basis, well done!