🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 3, Week Three
✏️ Literacy & Writing
Our spelling sound this week was ‘ie’. We found lots of creative ways to practise our sound and spot it in books and in other places around the school.
Our writing was inspired by another Julia Donaldson story, The Smartest Giant in Town. The children explored the text in lots of creative and thoughtful ways.
They wrote thank-you letters from the animals to the Giant, showing empathy and understanding of how the Giant had helped each character. We also created detailed character descriptions of the Giant and designed animal profile cards for the animals in the story.
To support our writing, we took part in a fun giant drawing and painting activity, working together to create life-sized giants. This helped us develop our use of adjectives and adverbs and supported our collaboration, communication, and creativity (Meta Skills), which we then used to improve our descriptive writing.
We also continued to encourage a love of reading through our QR code reading wall, which links to a range of books, as well as our book review and recommendation area, where children can share and recommend texts to others. Our weekly Flashlight Friday continues to be a favourite, giving children time to enjoy reading for pleasure and talk about books they love.
🔢 Maths
In maths, the children worked on shape with Mrs Smith, exploring and identifying different shapes and their properties. We also continued our work on compass points, linking direction and movement, and spent time exploring number sequencing and patterns, looking for rules and explaining how sequences change.
💻 ICT
During ICT this week, the children focused on developing their mouse control skills. They also completed a Story Blast comprehension activity, which was very popular and helped build reading comprehension in a fun and engaging way.
🌍 Topic – Vikings
We continued our Vikings mini-topic, focusing on Viking life and homes. The children explored what everyday life may have been like for Viking families and how their homes were designed and used.
As part of our topic learning, we took part in a draw-along activity to create Viking longships, and the children have begun painting them. We’re looking forward to finishing these next week, in time to explore Viking longships in more detail and learn all about how they were used by the Vikings for travel, trade, and raids.
🧘 PE – Teacher Led
In PE, we warmed up by recapping compass points through movement, helping to reinforce our learning in an active way. We then took part in a yoga session inspired by The Smartest Giant in Town, using movement and balance to represent different characters and moments from the story. The children showed excellent focus, control, and creativity throughout the session.
