We had a great start to Term 3 working really hard this week.  In literacy we were recapping our knowledge of identifying and using adjectives.  This will help us improve our setting writing which we will be continuing to work on this term.  In maths we were working on fractions of a shape and understanding what different fractions look like.  We were also calculating the fraction of an amount.  We began our Scotland topic which we will be working on for the next few weeks.  This included naming all the Scottish cities and finding them on a map, doing some Scottish dancing and creating our own Charles Rennie Macintosh pieces of art.

This week we continued on with our descriptive setting writing.  Our topic this week was a winter fair with a colourful Christmas tree.  We discussed the picture as a class and used our senses to come up with lots of ideas to describe the setting.  We then worked on including adjectives to make our writing even more detailed.  In maths we focussed on rounding to the nearest 10 and will continue on with this next week.  As the weather is getting colder we painted some fun snowmen pictures which look fantastic up on the classroom walls.

This week we were focussing on non fiction books in reading.  We discussed the different features of them and how they can help us find the information we need.  We then continued on in writing using our senses to describe a setting.

In maths we were working on our multiplication strategies.  We used arrays and grouping to help us find the answers as well as being able to skip count.  We will continue to practise these to improve our recall.

Our topic just now is Body Systems and that has been our focus in our creative play area,  So far we have named some of the main bones in our bodies,  looked at our major organs and their function and learned how our eye works.

In Art we were using line and tone to draw a detailed eye and also had a go at some optical illusion art.