P2/3 took lots of our learning outside to celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day. We had so much fun!

Literacy

We started with a walk round the school grounds to discover what we could see, hear and feel. The frost was probably the most talked about thing. The children talked enthusiastically about the patterns they found on the ground and the difference between the sunny spots and shady spots.  There was also much discussion around the frosted leaves, crunchy grass and melting ice.

Before we went out for a walk, we had got a message from Rosie the Bear.

We spotted Rosie’s picnic on the ground near the nursery and eventually found poor Rosie hiding up a tree. The children found lots of clues about what might have happened. Most thought it was the Gruffalo (or the Gruffalo’s child because Rosie wasn’t on a high branch), some thought a dog had frightened her, others a bird rustling in the trees and someone suggested it was us being noisy!

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at greater than, less than and equal to so this morning we worked in pairs to follow a range of instructions using words such as “big” “smaller than” and “the same size as”. Here are just some examples.

Hug something that is very big:

Find something about the same size as you:

Put three small things in a row:

Touch something big and small at the same time:

Dance around something that is bigger than a car:

We also used found objects to make number sentences using the greater than and less than symbols: < and >

Art

We ended the day with some nature inspired art.

For me, the best thing about the day was seeing and hearing the children as they talked to one another enthusiastically about the nature around them and the tasks they were working on, coming up with ideas, making links and working so well with one another.

The photos only show a fraction of the experience!

P2/3 got the chance this week to check out our fantastic new play area.

I observed so many fantastic interactions. These pictures will hopefully give you a flavour of the wonderful role-playing skills, creativity and social skills the children were demonstrating.

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 😀

P2/3 have been learning about cold colours and hot colours over the last few weeks.

We began by linking our art to our work on The Little Iceberg at the beginning of the term. We used chalks and tissue paper to create our icebergs and we used crepe paper to make our cold colour fish.

We then looked at hot colours and used finger painting to blend the different colours together to create a painting of a campfire.

Finally, we combined and contrasted hot colours and cold colours .

They look really effective, don’t they?

Hello P3,

Well done to those who have been completing their homework and sending it in to wlfallahill-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Here are the activities for the week beginning 9.11.20

P3 Homework activities week beginning 9.11.20

Dear Parents,

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