🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 2, Week Five
✏️ Literacy & Writing
This week our Explorer took us all the way to India! Inside the Explorer’s Bag we discovered a bundle of bright, colourful feathers, which inspired some fantastic creative writing.
The children wrote their own fantasy stories about what the magical feathers could transform them into or what special powers they might give them. The imagination, vocabulary, and storytelling were brilliant!
We also wrote exciting stories about being a spy in India, creating missions, disguises, and top-secret adventures.
In literacy, we also:
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Learned the “ear” sound in spelling
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Continued developing our independent reading time and comprehension tasks
🔢 Maths
In maths, we continued our work on addition using the chunking method, becoming more confident at breaking numbers into useful parts.
We also practised our times tables with Mrs Rose, building speed and accuracy.
To revisit data handling, we explored graphing again — this time using Mrs Teale’s sweets to create our own graphs completely from scratch! The children sorted, counted, presented, and interpreted their data with great enthusiasm.
🌍 Topic – Forces & Energy
Our big question this week was:
“Why do magnets sometimes pull and sometimes push apart?”
We- discussed magnets and how they are used in everyday life and we carried out hands-on investigations to explore:
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How magnets attract
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How they repel
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Which materials magnets work through
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How the poles of magnets affect whether they pull together or push apart
The children loved experimenting, testing predictions, and exploring “what happens if…?” with a wide range of magnet challenges.
💖 Health & Wellbeing
This week we learned about UNCRC Article 31 – the right to rest and play.
We explored what rest and play look like in our own lives, why they are important, and how they help us stay healthy and happy.
As part of this focus, we enjoyed a calming Cosmic Kids yoga session – Betsy Banana, helping us practise mindfulness, movement, and relaxation.
🏃♂️ PE – Teacher-Led
In PE we began with some body drumming before moving on to use our pool noodles to drum and rock out!!
We finished with a range of parachute games, practising teamwork, timing, and communication — and having lots of fun along the way!
🎄 Other News
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The Gingerbread Men made another visit to our classroom! They decorated our door and left some fun treats for us to enjoy.
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We are continuing to practise very hard for the Christmas play, learning lines, songs, and moves.
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We also started making some Christmas crafts, which will be appearing around the classroom very soon!
