Numeracy

This week, we’ve been continuing our work on subtraction and have been trying to use number line jumps more independently to show our working.

Some of us were learning the ‘friendly 10’ strategy, where we jump to the nearest ‘friendly 10’ number then jump the rest, to cross the boundary, rather than counting in ones.  We loved the challenge of doing this with bigger numbers too!

Number Talks

We did a ‘Target Number’ challenge where we had to think up with lots of different ways of making the number 9, using subtraction.  Here’s some of our ideas:

Literacy

We’ve been focusing on reading with expression to help bring stories to life and make them sound interesting.  We tried to read to a partner using as much expression as we could.

This week we’ve also been identifying WOW words in different book.  We tried to find some from our reading book and also from the books in our class library.  If a page didn’t have a WOW word, we found a boring or everyday word and tried to think of a WOW word that the author could’ve used to make it sound more interesting.  Here’s some of our ideas:

Christmas is Coming!

It won’t be long now until our Christmas Fayre and Christmas Concert, so we’ve taken a break from our ‘Castles’ work this week to start making the products we will be selling at our Fayre and to paint some scenery for our Christmas Nativity:

Thanks for another great week Primary 3/2 – hopefully you’ll be able to welcome Mrs Campbell back on Monday.