Maths- We have been continuing our measurement topic. This week we have learned about capacity and volume. We know we can measure liquids in millilitres and litres.

Literacy- We have written recounts of our fiction books this week. We enjoyed creating these. It was challenging to put the plot into our own words.

RERC- We have been learning about Jesus’ miracles. We have read the stories Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother in Law and Jesus Heals the Blind Man. We know Jesus was able to perform miracles as He is the Son of God.

Science- We have continued our Energy topic. This week we discussed light energy and why we need to look after the environment.

Art- We have made Fathers’ Day cards this week, we enjoyed making these and following an Art Hub for Kids video.  Linked to our learning about the Euros, we created football art work where we drew different line patterns on a football using a handwriting pen.

PE- We enjoyed our Potted Sports events in our Sports Day. In our PE lesson we practising skills we have learned in a range of games.

Some highlights from the week have been the school barbeque and watching the Scotland game on Monday.

We have had another busy week in P3a!  Keep reading to find out what we have been doing.

P3a have been hard at work again this week! Keep reading to find out what we have been learning this week.

• Maths- We finished our money topic this week, rounding off by learning to use an empty number line to calculate change. We also created some money posters to show what we have learned. We have also begun to learn about rounding. We know that 1,2,3,4 in the ones column we round down and 5,6,7,8,9 in the ones column we round up.
• Literacy- We are learning about the features of an information report leading up to writing our own next week. In Grammar, we have been learning about irregular past tense verbs. We are continuing to learn how to form cursive script.
• HWB- We have continued to learn about regulation strategies. We thought about worries this week and chose a regulation strategy that we could use when we feel anxious.
• RERC- We have learned about Pentacost. We know this is when the Holy Spirit came to the Disciples and blessed them with the gift of speaking all languages to share the good news of Jesus.
• Social Studies- We have continued our learning on climate zones, focusing on the Mediterranean climate. We know about the countries, weather, food and languages that are spoken in this climate. We made tourism posters to advertise holidays in this climate.
• Science- We have started a new topic about Energy. This week we have created a mindmap to show our understanding of the different types of energy we have in our world. We know energy makes things happen.

This week we have had a lot of fun with our learning. Keep reading to see what we got up to!

• In Drama we learned about the differences between Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull. We used voice, our bodies and our imaginations to think about the differences between the characters. Most of us agree we would rather have Miss Honey!
• In Maths, we have been practising our counting to 100 and have started skip counting in 2’s all the way to 100. We have enjoyed playing games like Switch to help with our counting. We have been using Rekkenreks to practice our number skills.
• In Literacy, we have been practising spelling our Fry’s words. We have had a go at reading using Accelerated Reader on our laptops. We took our Literacy outside with Mr Muldoon and we described objects we found. We then used our describing skills to write descriptive sentences.
• In Art, we have been learning all about the artist Kandinsky. We recreated his famous circle paintings and learned some facts about him too! Did you know that he used music to inspire his paintings?
• In RERC, we have been learning all about the parable of ‘The Lost Sheep’. We learned about the story and we found out that the shepherd is like God and we are like the sheep. We know that Father Jeremy is also like the shepherd in the parable as he looks after our community.

This week in P3 we have learned:

• In Literacy we have been practising our sounds- we used the Vowel House and have been practising our Fry’s Words too.
• We have been doing a mini topic on Matilda- we predicted what we thought the story would be about before we started reading. We also read a description of Matilda and used clues in the story to draw what we thought she looked like.
• In Maths, we have been practising our counting (we can count forwards to 100 and backwards from 50). We also played some games like Switch and Figure Me Out where we wrote sums about ourselves.
• In RERC, we learned all about Noah’s ark. We wrote about the story and we drew Noah and his ark.
• In HWB we chose who our Trusted Adults are and spoke about why it was important. We also completed our class charter and have chosen a Toy Story theme because we like the messages in the story: To infinity and beyond, no toy gets left behind and you’ve got a friend in me. These are our key messages in P3.
• In Expressive Arts, we learned all about the 3 Little Pigs- we made masks, we coloured in pictures from the story, we retold the story and we recreated the story through drama.
• In Art, we designed owls and made a tree to have on our class door.