This week we have started our subtraction topic by revising some simple subtraction strategies within 20. In Maths, we revised our learning on 2D shapes from P2 and learnt to recognise 3 new shapes – pentagons, hexagons and octagons. We learnt that the number of sides is the same as the number or angles.

In Literacy, we have been discussing the good things and bad things about zoos. We are working on groups discussion skills and were given roles within a group of 4. We are going to keep working on this. We wrote a discussion on zoos with sentence starters for each argument. To make it a balanced argument we had to have 3 good things and 3 bad things. We learnt a new opener to introduce that bad things – On the other hand.

We also started our new topic ‘The Sun, the earth and the moon.’ We learnt what each is and made a fact poster. We made an earth that orbits a sun and a moon that orbits the earth.

In PE, we learnt the Military 2 Step. Everyone did a fantastic job at learning the moves and keeping in time to the music. Next week we are learning the Canadian Barn Dance.

In Heath and Wellbeing, we are learning about kindness. We read the book ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today’ and spoke about acts of kindness. We wrote some of them on apples to hang on our Tree of Gratitude so it can also become a Tree of Kindness!