Welcome to the first post in our Class 3 blog!
We have had such a busy and fun first term this year. We have particularly enjoyed being able to mix more with other classes, which we missed out on for much of last year. Here is are some highlights from our Term 1…
Exploring our fabulous outdoor space!
Inspired by the upcoming COP26, our learning context for this term has been about materials and recycling. We started the term learning about the properties of materials and explored the concept of human-made and nature-made materials in our playground and classroom environment.
We then focused our attention on sorting materials into recyclable and non-recyclable and we learned which recycling bin to use for different materials.
We even recycled old boxes to make a fabulous Enormous Crocodile for Roald Dahl Story Day!
We have a tailor-made English programmes in Class 3, with everyone getting down to their individualised or group literacy tasks each morning after we’ve had our Morning Circle.
Class 3 are a musical bunch and joining Primary 5 for Samba drumming each Wednesday afternoon has been a highlight of our week this term…click on video link to take a look!
Recently, we enjoyed recording a song entitled ‘I am the Earth’ with the rest of the Middle School, which will form part of the COP26 opening ceremony. Parents can check out the video recording on our Class 3 Team.
Primary 4 and 5 have been our main buddy classes this term and we have shared lots of fun outdoor learning experiences and mini-excursions with them. We have also enjoyed weekly visits to Class 2.
This term we have focused on developing our Mathematics skills and vocabulary in various areas of numeracy, Information Handling, 2D Shape and Patterns.
Making our geoboards with Primary 4/5 and exploring different 2D shapes was a lot of fun!
As was making autumn inspired repeating patterns with Class 2.
During Maths week, we did a litter pick with Class 2 and graphed the results of the materials we found. We discovered that most of the litter was made from plastic.
Next term will continued to explore how we can reuse, reduce and recycle everyday materials and explore why plastic has become a big pollution problem for our planet…
…watch this space for the next instalment of our learning journey!
