Literacy
During reading this week, we were developing our questioning skills. We took notes during our class novel to help us construct a question. When taking notes, we only wrote the important parts and did not write in sentences. Using our notes, we constructed a question and gave it a friend to answer.
Think week, we continued to develop our explanation writing skills. We had to explain the life cycle of a frog. It is very important that the title informs the reader of the content.
“We were writing explanation sequences of the life cycle of a frog” S.C.
“At the sequence explanation part we have to use the words, first, next and then.” S-L.W.
Maths
This week, we finished our times table topic. We were using the knowledge we have developed through this topic to help us tackle multiplication word problems. These can be challenging as we need to use our problem solving skills to calculate the answer.
“I have been using the pop its to calculate the answer. If it’s 2 x 2 I pop 2 along the way and I pop 2 down the way and then count the total.” B.P.
We were linking our multiplication to our word of work topic. In P3/2 we created our own bakery. We were given an equation and had to make cakes and add candles to the cakes to solve the equations.
“We used our times tables when working in the bakery. We had to put the candles in the cakes and find the total.” K.M.
Health and Wellbeing
For our topic of relationships we were looking at friendships. We had to identify the traits we look for in a friend and had to think about why these traits are important. During our class discussion, we identified that a lot of the traits we look for in a friend were also our school values.
During P.E., we were developing our football skills. We had to gain control of the ball when dribbling. We were also passing the ball to our team mates. This involved us adjusting our technique depending on where our team mates were.
