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Literacy Week

We have enjoyed doing ERIC (Everyone Read in Class) time in class every day this week.

We had a visit from Bookbug. The pupils have a suspicion that they know who was under the costume.

We loved the Book Fair in the library and we have raised lots of money for our school. We will buy some books with that money.

We watched a couple of stories on the whiteboard.  We liked that there was a capybara in Zagazoo. Here are the links if anyone wants to watch them again.

CBBC – Zagazoo

BBC One – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

We made a door display – we chose George’s Marvellous Medicine.

We have had fun making our own medicines in the water tray and mixing them up.

We wrote our medicines for our class writing task. We had to chose what went in to our medicine and write out how to make our medicine. We also got to use our imagination to think about what the medicine might do to you if you took some. Some medicines made you grow, some made you explode, some made your hair fall off, some made you turn into a balloon and some made you turn into a different colour. It was very exciting!

We made a display for the canteen. We had to pick interesting vocabulary from our library books.

We learned about Braille with Mr Dally. It is a way of reading for people who are blind.

There has been a lunch time book club. Thank you to the parents who have helped out in the library.

We had fun dressing up for World Book Day!

It has been a very busy week.

We have had fun playing doctors. We love watching Operation Ouch when we are having our snack.

Michael and Megan came in for a visit to our class and we got to go outside and meet Bravo.

We have been learning about senses as part of our healthy bodies topic. We had fun finding out about noses and smell. We had 10 different pots to smell and try to guess what the smell was. We had cinnamon, orange, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar, vanilla, cheese, washing powder, hot chocolate powder and mint mouthwash. There was lots of funny faces pulled.

We had a fun morning visiting the street to see the vikings. We also got to see them in school  and show them the shields that we had made. We both had Viking Runes on our shields.

Click on the website below to have a shot at the skeleton game where you have to assemble the bones in the correct places.

Learn the Skeletal System – A Fun & Interactive Game • ABCya!

Here is what we will be working on in term 3.

P3 – Curriculum Information – Term 3 2025

We look amazing in our lovely Christmas jumpers/dresses/tops.

Here is the information on what we will be covering this term.

P3 – Curriculum Information – Term 2 2024

We have been recapping our number bonds before we move on to trickier adding. Some pupils had forgotten or were a bit slow so we have been working on recalling the bonds quickly. These two games have been a huge hit in the class and have caused lots of excitement. Each pupil has been trying to improve their own score. The more we play it, the better we get.

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

Select Number bonds, make 10.

Number Bonds 20 | Math Playground

Select the target number as 10.

P3a are rounding masters now! I am so proud of all of them! We have been using number lines, playing connect 4 games, paired games, show me games with a partner and we have completed some worksheets too. The rocket rounding game is a favourite with all the class.

Click on the link below to have a go. Some pupils were even managing to do it without the number line.

Rocket Rounding

Remember the thyme rule:

5-9 climb the vine

0-4 slide to the floor

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We enjoyed making cauldron pictures using paint bubbles. We painted some pumpkins then decorated it with pens. We played some halloween games in the afternoon including wrapping up mummies and the corner game.

We had a fun science lesson last term where we experimented with different items to see if they would dissolve in water or not. The pupils loved this lesson and had a great time. We tried sugar, flour, coffee, rice, salt, sand, chalk and honey. Can you remember which ones dissolved and which ones didn’t? We had to figure out what to do with the things that wouldn’t dissolve. The class enjoyed going outside to empty out their cups or putting it in the bin. Items that dissolved were safe to put down the sink.

Meta-skills covered during this lesson include: focusing, initiative, communicating, collaborating, curiosity and critical thinking.

We did an experiment to see if ice (a pretend snowman) would melt quicker or slower if he had clothes on. Ask your children the answer! They were all surprised.

We have also been having fun with ice in the water tray and seeing what we can do to speed up the melting process. We also got the paints out and painted on the ice.  Lots of fun!

Meta-skills covered are focusing, adapting, communicating, collaborating, curiosity, sense-making, creativity and critical thinking.

We had the best time in the wind with our crafts we had made in art with Mrs Sinclair. There was lots of skirling and screeching.

Meta-skills covered are focusing, adapting, initiative, curiosity and creativity.

We also put a rain gauge out to measure how much rain fall there has been. But it keeps being blown over in the wind. We are going to use stones along the bottom to hopefully keep it in place.