This was a slightly shorter week but we still managed to get lots done.  In writing we have continued on with our discursive writing and the children are making great progress. We were also using different activities in spelling to recap all our phoneme sounds.

It was week 3 of our Active Play sessions and again we were lucky with the weather.

In Maths we were focussing on the seasons and the months of the year as well as continuing to practise our place value through games.

Finally we continued on with our learning in our Creative play area.

Last week was week 2 of our active play and again we had lots of fun keeping active outdoors, enjoying the lovely weather that we had.

We also began a new block in our creative play area.  Our focus just now is European countries.  Some of the activities we worked on as part of this was to use the Lego to try and recreate some famous landmarks, made a Picasso inspired face and used an atlas to identify some of the main countries in Europe.

Finally in art we created some aquatic inspired mosaic pictures.

We had a great start to this week enjoying time outdoors taking part in the Active Play program.  This involved working together as a team, lots of running around and importantly having fun.

After all our exercise we continued on with our discursive writing.  Mrs Potter was very impressed with the great planning discussions we had together before we began.

In Maths we began looking at part part whole models which will help us with our understanding of addition and subtraction.

Finally we continued our Fairtrade learning in our Play area where some children decided to create their own Fairtrade shop to sell their products.

We now have our play area set up with our focus for the next few weeks being Fairtrade. We were learning how beans grow and using our data handling skills to show how far different products travel to reach us.

There was lots of fantastic learning going on and we have more great artwork for the walls.

Another popular activity were the Bee-bots which we had to program to visit the different shops.

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We finished the week learning about the lifecycle of a sea turtle.

Our under water scene scratch art was a fantastic success and we are all really pleased with the results.

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We then continued our topic by working with a partner to discuss and sort different animals in to those that live on land, those that live in the sea and those who live on both land and sea.

We were working hard again on our place value this week in maths and have now all began our new reading books. These will be taken home each night.

Last week we were learning about place value in maths and completed lots of different activities to show we can identify and make different numbers.

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We also began our Under the Sea topic.  We are now able to names the 5 different oceans and where they are on a map.  At the end of the week we started making some wax scratch pictures.  Firstly we coloured our piece of paper with brightly coloured crayons and then covered it in black paint.  Next week we will scratch off some of the paint to hopefully produce some colourful under the sea art work.  Look out for our finished masterpieces later in the week.

P3a have had a fantastic week back and have settled in well to their new class.  We began the week by discussing the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and decided which ones were important for our class. Working together we decided on the following rights;

• The right to be HEARD
• The right to be SAFE
• The right to LEARN
• The right to PLAY

We used these rights to create our Minion themed class charter which we will all follow to keep our class a happy and safe place to learn.