Over the last six weeks, primary three have made a super start to the new term.

In the first two weeks, they started off the new session looking at the story of The Little Iceberg by Nicky Murray and explored many different cross curricular areas to really understand the themes of hope, friendship and belonging. Lots of fantastic work was produced and a fabulous display in the main corridor of the school was created.

In numeracy, along with SEAL activities, they have been focusing on place value and in maths they have been looking at collecting, sorting and displaying information. The children have all worked exceptionally hard to understand the value of digits within two and three digit numbers and have used concrete, pictorial and abstract forms to show their understanding in different ways. Graphs have been produced for both favourite colours and their favourite Julia Donaldson books and independent work was very impressive.

In science, everyone had great fun showing the different phases of the moon with Oreo cookies and it was an added bonus when everyone got an extra snack when they were finished 😀 The children all did a fabulous job and were very proud of their work within their teams.

In IDL, habitats has been our focus since our return and the children have been outside looking at our local environment identifying habitats within and out-with the school grounds. They have also explored the polar regions and the rainforest habitats, identifying animals found in each while discussing similarities and differences. A challenge was also given to produce a habitat for a selected animal and each group gave fabulous results using a shoebox as their prop. We even ended up with a fairytale castle as a habitat for a dragon!

Their writing has focused on the recount genre so far and a wonderful recount of the Three Little Pigs was turned into a newspaper report. The children are now working on a persuasive piece of writing, trying to encourage others to stop plastic pollution in our ocean habitats. So far I have been very impressed with their knowledge and great ideas 💡

It is now only two weeks until term 1 is over and I cannot believe how many wonderful things the children have produced in such a short time. We look forward to sharing other learning with you soon! Stay posted for more.

Mrs Hunter 😀