We have been thinking about what makes us grateful. We each wrote a note to say thank to someone we were grateful to. We are all trying to do kind things everyday so there are lots of people, both in class and at home, who we are grateful for!

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.

We had fun testing lots of household objects to see if they were magnetic in our ‘Scrapyard Challenge’. We took it in turns to choose an them, predict If it would be magnetic then check it using our magnet.  We found some of our results surprising. The 10p coin wasn’t magnetic but the 2p coin was & we discussed reasons for this. We enjoyed this activity and worked really well in our groups.

We had fun checking how much we remembered about magnets with a fact hunt in class. We had to discuss our answer in our groups then find the correct letter from around class.  We did really well!

As if by magic we made our safety pins look like they were flying in the air.

We didn’t manage to make the pins rise from the floor when our magnet was above our tables but, when we got to explore with them ourselves we came up with other ideas and they worked even better,

The magnets we used needed to be quite near the pins to make them fly. This told us that the magnets are not very strong.

We played a game to find out who could use their magnets to pick up the most clips. The winner was the person who had the most clips at the end of the game.

How do you think this could be used in real life?