• Yesterday afternoon we turned into bug detectives and we searched the area near the MUGA. We were hunting for living and non-living things. Then we recorded what we found and discussed it with our partners. It was fun to take our learning outdoors and we enjoyed exploring the school grounds.

Here we are Problem Solving. We drew round our partner’s foot then drew round our own foot. We compared the size of our feet.

We realised that if we want to know the measurement of our feet then we need to use the same size of measure – standard measure.

We used our Cuisenaire rods to measure each of the footprints so that we were using a standard measure.

We mixed our rods up and made different combinations but, we always arrived at the same number in the end.

It was good to get active when learning in Maths.

As part of walk to School Week we took part in Shoe Tuesday. Some of us even wore odd shoes. we are trying hard to walk, park and stride or use our bikes to come to school this week.

We had a very busy Friday.

We learned where our new playground zones were, we learned about Walk to school week and the exciting Shoes Tuesday when we can wear funky shoes to school.

We also had a very exciting Assembly where we found out which month our class had for the school calendar. We were so excited when our class got February.

We now have to come up with some creative ideas for our page!

We also spent  time choosing a library book to take home to read for pleasure.

In our Problem Solving activity today we had to think what the number 6 meant to us.  We came up with lots of things like the shape of the number, like an upside down 9, six objects and even the colour green.

We then used counters to make 6 in different ways and discussed the fact that it does not matter what order the counters are in. We still arrive at the answer 6.

Being able to make numbers in different ways can help us with our counting.

Some of us have been trying hard to cope with new challenges. A lovely story we shared in class was, ” Amazing Grace” by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch.

In the story Grace puts her mind to doing something and she achieves it. She even becomes Peter Pan in a play; taking on the leading role.

We thought about what we want to achieve in P3 and many of us wanted to become better readers, be able to join up our handwriting, learn more times table  or be able to solve trickier problems.

Will we manage to do it?

As a gentle start to the term we drew an alien character, labelled our diagram clearly then we wrote a description about it. We tried to think of adjectives to make our descriptions interesting.

We also had a little bit of fun playing with our aliens before writing about them.

We have been using our knowledge about magnets to design our own games.

Now we are going to make the games and play them. Our partner will evaluate our game and this will help us to improve it.

We have been creating our own characters. Then we labelled their features and tried to use some very interesting adjectives.

As a class we made up a wordbank that we used to help us with our spelling.

We then used our labelled drawing to write a character description. We worked very hard on this task and many  of us are managing to join up our handwriting now.

We really enjoyed being able to share our writing with a partner and doing Peer Assessment. It was fun to read someone else’s description.

We have been thinking about the good times we have in school, things we have achieved and happy times with our friends.