• 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.

As part of Walk to School week, we were allowed to wear our favourite shoes to school today if we wanted to. Can you guess which shoes belong to which member of p3a??

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 have been thinking about our emotions. We spoke about different ‘zones’ of emotion – red, green, blue & yellow and the types of emotions we might feel in each zone. We have been talking about ways of getting back into the ‘green’ zone when we feel upset, cross or sad.

We LOVED reading the BFG in block 1. We tried to imagine what Giant Country would look like using the description in the text to help us. ‘The ground was flat and pale yellow.’

‘Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around.’

‘Dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons.’

‘The mountain was dark blue.’

We mixed shades of yellow & blue to create our background. Once they had dried, we added skeleton trees using charcoal. We cut out rocks and mountains from our blue painted paper. Finally, we added a pencil drawing we had done of the BFG. We think we’ve done a great job of re-creating Giant Country. Thanks to Mrs Ryalls for her brilliant display skills!

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.

As part of our work on gratitude, we did an activity where we had to think of 4 things each time. We wrote down the 4 best things we had done in class in the last week as well as the 4 best things about our class. We enjoyed hearing everyone’s thoughts! We have lots to feel grateful for 🙂