P3a

This morning two people came into our class with a tank!!!! They filled it with water bits of plant pots and a water pump. The water is making bubbling noises.

The two people spoke to Mrs Woodward and left. There is nothing in our tank and we don’t know what its for.

Mrs Woodward says we will find out next week. We can’t wait!!! What do you think its for??

Mrs Woodward has put a picture of the tank on Twitter have a look @chrystonprimary

Mrs Allan was moving house and Mrs Woodward taught us today. We have done work on adding TU and HTU, we did our Big Maths Challenge and some of us beat our best score!!

We wrote our Life Story after reading Charles’ story. We had discussed how these stories met the rights of the child. We checked our weeks spelling and wrote 2 sentences.

We have all made an alphabet poster to show the rights of the child. We have also helped the parent association by filling out a survey on our playground. They are looking to make it a fun ground!!

Our new topic is about The Rights of the Child. We discussed the rights and we chose 3 that we thought were the most important. We chose:-

• Adults should do what is best for you
• You have the right to live
• You have the right to make friends.

We wrote some persuasive pieces of writing about one of the rights to explain why it is so important. The right we chose was ‘the right to have good health’. We read a book called ‘For Every Child’ and we used some ideas to illustrate one of the rights.

 

In maths we are focusing on written methods to solve addition problems. P3 are practising 2 digit numbers and P4 are practising 3 digit numbers. We sometimes have to remember that when a column adds to more than 9 we have to carry over the tens digit to the next column. We are continuing to practice our speed tables and we are all doing very well at beating our scores. Matthew is very close to catching up with Mrs Allan’s score. We are also continuing to improve on our Big Maths Beat That score. 3 pupils in P4 can complete all 40 questions in 90 seconds. Josh is now trying to complete the 40 questions in 30 seconds but it is a very hard challenge. 6 pupils in P3 are completing all 17 questions in 30 seconds and 4 are able to complete in 20 seconds. P4 have started to practice ‘Coin Multiplication’ and are able to multiply any number by 1, 2, 5 and 10.

 

In reading we are continuing to read our novels and we have been making some popplets about our different characters to practise the strategy visualisation. We have to find facts from our book that tell us about the characters and we must always remember to include page numbers to explain our reason.

 

For PE we have started to keep a record of our scores at 4 different activities and we will see how our scores improve over the next few weeks. The 4 tasks are running, skipping, hopping and an obstacle race.

This week we have started our new topic on The Rights of the Child.  Some of them we discussed were:-

–  Adults should do what is best for you

–  You have the right to live

–  You have the right to make friends

–  You should not be put in prison

–  You have the right to play

–  You have the right to good health

–  No one should hurt you in any way

–  You have the right to education

 

We discussed these in our groups and decided on the 3 most important.  The ones in bold are the ones the class agreed on.

Which ones do you think are most important?

This week we have started to learn about symmetry.

 

Yesterday we learned that different objects, items and shapes can be symmetrical.  If something is symmetrical it means it is the same on each side when you cut or fold it through the middle.

We took photos, using the iPads, of different items around the class that showed symmetry.

Today, we used the pictures to find out how many lines of symmetry they had.  We separated them into ones with one line of symmetry, none and more than one.

We stuck them on and displayed them on a poster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we were able to have lots of fun in the sun.

 

Mrs Woodward rewarded the whole school with an extra 10 minutes of Golden Time as we were all behaving well at assembly.

 

 

 

We also decided to take advantage of the good weather and go outside for PE.

We Started with some running exercises to get warmed up.

Then we split into groups and set up 4 different stations with different materials.

The 4 stations were : –

–  running lengths of the playground

–  weaving through the cones

–  collecting a beanbag

–  going through hoops

 

 

 

We all had great fun and hope there will be more nice weather soon.

Yesterday we all took part in the fundraiser event in the hall.

We split into 3 groups for the 3 Activities which were shuttle cocks, basketball and the bouncy castle.

We had a shot at each activity and had good fun!  Everyone enjoyed the bouncy castle.

We are looking forward to seeing the results of the sponsor event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday afternoon we all worked together to do some baking using fair-trade ingredients.  We had to gather our ingredients and our equipment before we could get started.  The ingredients we used were 125g butter, 200g digestive biscuits, 300g dark chocolate, 100g marshmallows and 3 tablespoons of golden syrup.

First, we had to wash our hands very carefully.

Secondly, we broke up the chocolate into smaller pieces and put it into a glass bowl.

Then, we had to put the bowl of chocolate onto the hob and stir it until it was melted.  WARNING!  Be careful as the bowl gets very hot.

After that, we sliced the butter and put it into the bowl to melt also.

 

Next, we added the 3 tablespoons of syrup and stirred until it had all melted and mixed together.

 

Following this, we poured half of the chocolate into another bowl.

Before we could add the digestive biscuits we broke them up into smaller pieces and we started to add it to the bowl of chocolate and mix it together.

 

Afterwards, we slowly added the marshmallows and continued to mix it together.  WARNING! Do not lick the spoon – it is very unhygienic.

Now, it was time to put the mixture onto the baking tray and smooth it out flat.

Finally, we added the extra chocolate to the top.

 

 

This morning, Mrs Allan had to slice the cake and put it on display for the bake sale.  We can’t wait until we go to buy it later and see how it tastes.

 

 

YUM! YUM!

 

Today, we made fraction number lines.  We used small pieces of card.  On one piece of card we wrote a fraction in fifths or tenths.  On another we wrote the fraction in words and on the final piece we drew a picture displaying this fraction.  Then we had to arrange them in the correct order.  Have a look at our pictures to see what we did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The P4s were working on the fifths number lines and the P3s were working on the tenths number lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This morning we have been starting to make instruments.  We have been using different materials such as bottles, tubs, boxes and other everyday items.  We will be putting the finishing touches to them this afternoon and then we will hopefully be able to play them.

 

 

We had to design our instruments and collect all our equipment.

 

 

 

 

When we had completed our instruments we noticed many different things :-

–  they made lots of different noises.

 

–  they looked different.

 

–  we used different materials to make them.

 

– the thickness of the elastic bands changed the pitch of the sound – if it was thicker it was a lower sound and if it was thinner it was a higher sound.

 

– the size of the holes in the plastic bottles also changed the pitch of the sound – the bigger holes made a lower sound and the smaller holes made a higher sound.

 

–  we had to do different things to play each instrument – hitting, shaking, strumming and blowing.

 

– how hard you play also affects the pitch of the sound.