Author: Miss Young

Literacy

 

This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.

 

Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.

 

We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.

 

Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.

 

Maths

 

In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.

 

Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.

Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.

 

IDL

 

 

We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.

 

This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.

Read, Write, Count

 

We loved coming to school in our jammies on Tuesday. All our lessons were about the book ‘ROCKETMOLE’. We created a fact file about ourselves during writing this week. Armstrong the Rocketmole wrote a letter to us asking for our help with addition. We were all every excited to receive our Read, Write, Count Bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy

In writing, we were persuading the reader that reading was important. We had a class discussion before we started and we identified all the different ways that we use reading in our everyday life. When included powerful persuasive language and connecting words within our writing.

In P3/2 we worked very hard sounding out our spelling words. We continued with rainbow writing and using our words in sentences. This week, we also found making a chant a useful strategy to help us remember how to spell our words.

 

Maths

This week, we were learning about addition. When adding our numbers together we found number squares and sticks useful to help us calculate the answer. We were also working on addition word problems.

IDL

In our Vikings topic, we were learning about what food th

e Vikings ate. The Vikings did not have supermarkets like we have today and they could not import food from other countries. Therefore, the Vikings could only get food that they could grow and catch. To keep their meat and fish fresher for longer, the Vikings would salt or smoke them.

Literacy

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. We were improving our skim and scanning skills when reading to find information.

 

Darby- “In reading we were answering questions about the book. We had to write our answers in sentences”.

 

During ELF thus week we were focusing on varying our sentences lengths. We were trying to use connective words to extend our sentences.

 

Robyn- “In writing we were making our sentences bigger by using works like ‘because’ and ‘and’ “.

 

During Word Boost we were improving our vocabulary. We are introduced to the meaning of 6 boost words and we then use these to up-level our talking and listening and writing.

 

Maths

This week we continued to learn about number sequences. We were learning about number sequences where the rule was minus.

 

Aayan- “We were learning about number sequences that were take away. I used a 100 number square to help me work out the answer”.

 

We also were introduced to the game SumDog. There is a selection of different games that involve you using your maths skills. This is something we will be using in class to support our numeracy and maths skills.

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we enjoyed staying active and healthy during P.E. After warming up, we focused on balances.

 

Sarah-Louise- “We have been exercising and this makes me feel healthy”.

Literacy

During Literacy this week, we were up-levelling our writing by adding adjectives and using our core writing targets.

Alexis- “I was writing sentences about Pudsey Bear”.

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. When reading, we made predictions about what might happen and looked at the picture for clues.

Tyller J. “I was reading my book”.

 

We have been practicing our new spelling sounds every day. We practice using our whiteboards, rainbow writing and using our spelling words when writing a sentences.

 

Maths

In maths this week, we were learning about patterns. We were also completing a number sequence and identifying the rule of the number sequence. We used a 100 square to support us and work out the rule and complete the number sequence.

 

Calvin- “Pattern is when the same thing is repeated”.

 

Aaron – “We were learning about number sequence. This is when you add the same amount to each number”.

 

IDL

For our topic this week, we were learning about Vikings homes and what they wore. We looked at what Vikings made their homes from. We compared a Viking house to our home and discussed the different materials that were used and the advantages and disadvantages of these materials. We also learned about how the Vikings dressed and the materials that their clothes were made from. The Viking used materials such a wool, leather and fur to make clothes and shoes.

 

Robyn- “We were learning about what the Vikings wore. They wore capes”

 

Scarlet- “They wore jewellery and broaches”.

Maths

In maths this week we were partitioning numbers. Partitioning is when we split large numbers into smaller. This can make it easier to solve maths problems.

Darby- “We were partitioning numbers this week”.

Lucy- “partitioning a number means to spit the number. If you were to split the number 35, you would get 30 and 5”.

 

Literacy

This week we been reading our new books. We then had to read the book to find the information to ask questions about the story.

In word boost, our story of the week was ‘The Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson. We were learning the meaning of our boost words and then identifying if these words were nouns or verbs.

Brianna- “I was spelling words with the sound ‘s’.”

Kyle –“We read every week and everyday”.

 

IDL

This week were we using the drama technique of hot seating. Hot seating is a strategy in which a pupil played the character of the witch from ‘Room on the Broom’. The other students would ask the witch questions and the pupil would need to answer them in character.

Robyn- “We were asking our friends questions because they were pretending to be the witch from ‘Room on the Broom”.

 

 

Hope you all have a lovely holiday!

Literacy

 

This week we were describing how we looked, our personalities and our hobbies. We used the descriptive bubble to support our writing.

 

We have also been reading our books and looking for information to help us answer questions based on the text.

 

During spelling this week, we have been practising our words using rainbow writing, Play-Doh writing and writing the words with our eyes closed. We were also writing sentences with our new words.

 

“We were spelling out our tricky word on white boards”. (Sarah-Louise)

 

“I was getting better at reading because I have been reading everyday”. (Kyle)

 

Maths

 

This week we have continued with our topic of place value. We have been using hundreds, tens and ones cubes to represent different numbers.

We also had to collaborate and work as a team to identify the hundreds, tens and ones of the given number.

 

Health and Wellbeing

 

This week we were discussing how it feels to belong and safe. Everyone in the class shared an example of when then had felt that they belong or they were safe.

We also thought about our goals for the year. Everybody had to think of at least one goal they would like to set for in school.

Writing

Scarlet- “We were describing The Stick Man”.

Erica- “We were using the describing bubble to describe the sticks that were on the table”.

Sophia- “We were free writing this Friday”.

 

Literacy

Sai and Robyn- “We were spelling tricky words”.

 

Maths

Lucy- “We were counting shapes and using tally marks outside”.

Alexia- “We counted the tally marks and then made a bar graph or a pictogram”.

 

IDL

Harrison-”We read a book about Julia Donaldson”.

Aayan- “The book was a biography. This is a book about someone’s life but they did not write it”.

 

Mia and Emma- “We then wrote facts in our jotter about Julia Donaldson”.

Lucy- “When Julia was a girl she lived with her mum, dad, sister, gran, grandad and auntie”.

Sophia- “Julia Donaldson writes books for children”.

Darby- “She wrote poems when she was little”.

Robyn- “She wrote books for her three sons”.

Literacy

 

Erica- “We were describing ourselves in writing this week”.

Calvin- “We had a class discussion about our writing”.

Emma- “We got new reading books this week and then we answered questions about the story”.

Levente- “We were learning to spell new words”.

 

 

Maths

Sophie-Leigh and Sophia- “We were learning about ones, tens and hundreds”.

Alexia- “We counting to see how many ones, tens and hundreds”.

Mia- “You can only put one digit in the ones, tens and hundreds column”.

 

IDL

Sarah-Louise- “We were drawing pictures of characters in Julia Donaldson books”.

Darby- “We were using pencils and different techniques to make the picture look more realistic”.