We cannot believe that it is time to write another class blog and let us tell you, we have been BUSY bees :O!

Our theme for October has of course been… yup HALLOWEEN! We have been doing soooooo many activities linked to it, we’re not quite sure whether the spookiness will ever leave our classroom.

For Writing, we wrote our own magic potion. We were so imaginative with the ingredients we used, that Miss Jack and Miss Mackay were super impressed! We think we could sell some of them to the Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus they were that good!

As a class, we wrote a FANGTASTIC haunted house story and we got really into this. Together, we brainstormed, looked at movies for inspiration, planned and then finally wrote our story (Miss Jack only helped us with a little bit of sentence structure). We are really proud of it as we really did try and work our hardest.

In Maths, we used our adding and subtracting skills to complete some horrifying calculations, and then use our answers to colour in a Halloween picture! This was a fun way to consolidate our learning. We also practised our place value knowledge by using spooktacular pictures to represent numbers!

 

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes too; we now know about their properties! Of COURSE, we continued our Halloween theme by decorating, cutting and folding paper to make mean 3D monsters!

In our Outdoor Classroom, we had a competition to see which group could build the highest, free-standing structure using 3D objects – it was a close call but the Pineapples won with a magnificent height of 2.87M!

We have begun our topic ‘Animals Around the World’ and we have been loving learning about this. We began by discussing what we already knew and what we would like to learn. We now know that there are 7 continents on Earth and that animal habitats and survival methods are different in each continent!

In R.E we focused on Mary. We learned all about the Rosary; we know why it is important in Catholicism and how to pray it correctly. We also know all about the Mysteries of the Rosary. These are important parts of Mary and Jesus’ life and learning these, allows us to build a stronger relationship with God. Each day, we began and finished with a Hail Mary. Unfortuantely, we are unable to have our family and friends in to see our superstar talents in our Nativity: ‘Gabriel’s Big Break!’. That’s OK – Mrs McBride has organised a videographer to film us acting it and these will be available to you on DVD. We think this is a really lovely and special way for our families to celebrate Christmas together.

Thank you so much again for reading our Class Blog. We hope to see you back here next month for another update! We’ll leave on a funny note with a little joke:

Q: ‘What did the ghost teacher say to her class?’

A: “Watch the board and I’ll go through it”

Love,

Primary 3b x