Tag: James and the Giant Peach

P3 Sharing the Learning

Thank you to all the parents, friends and family members who came along to support the children with their learning this week.

We had a lot of activities to try including making seagulls, making wax resist ladybirds, using comic life on the laptops, trying stop frame animation, playing games and making Empire State Building pictures.

We showed our stop frame animation of the peach travelling over the Atlantic Ocean.  If you haven’t seen it, you can click on the link and watch it here.

peach stop frame animation web

 

 

 

 

P3 Sharing the Learning Event

Maths
This week we have been focusing on counting forwards and backwards in 10’s.  It sounds easy, but we sometimes find it a challenge counting backwards from a large number.  347, 337, 327, what comes next?

Language
Although it has been a short week, we have all been working hard on our reading skills and challenging ourselves with our word walls.  Please remember to bring them into school every day.  In handwriting, we have been practising joining the ‘th’ join – try writing as many th words as you can and remember to join ‘t’ onto ‘h’.

James and the Giant Peach topic

We have been writing invitations to parents and carers to come along and visit our class next week.  We are going to be sharing our learning about James and the Giant Peach.  This will be an opportunity for us to show you our giant peach and the creatures we have made, and to see around our classroom.  We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

P3 Art

We have finally reached the part in our novel, James and the Giant Peach, when the peach lands on the Empire State Building in New York.  We have been looking at the shape and form of skyscrapers, and in art this week, we have been making line drawings of the Empire State Building.
“it was hard at first, but it’s fun”  “can we try this again?”

We think our drawings are all unique – we hope you like them.

P3 use Comic Life in ICT

One of the highlights of the day today was using the comic life program on the laptops to make a comic strip.  We used some of the photographs we took when we made the peach crumble last week.  Although we need to finish off our comics, the children were very enthusiastic and commented “it was great fun”  “it was hard at first”  “can we do this again?”.

Our next step will  be to add speech bubbles to our comic pages.

P3 Get Cooking

 

P3 made peach crumble as part of the James and the Giant Peach topic.  In writing we wrote out the recipe.  Then in the afternoon, after we washed our hands, we got started making our peach crumble.

We made two crumble dishes, one with  fresh peaches and  one with tinned peaches.  We compared the similarities and the differences between them.

First we put the peaches in the dish, then we weighed the flour, sugar and margarine.  We mixed them together and put the crumble mix onto the peaches.  We baked the crumble in the oven for 30 minutes.  After it cooled, we all had a taste of each crumble.  Most people in the class preferred the tinned peach crumble.

 

P3 make a Centipede

Our class have been reading James and the Giant Peach and we have made a lovely centipede.  First we got a long piece of foam, then we used a blunt needle and string to sew 100 legs on.  Next we painted the centipede green.  We each designed 2 pairs of boots, and we cut them out and laminated them.  We had a challenge pairing up the boots and fixing them onto the centipede’s legs.  Last we added googly eyes. We had fun making it, and we are very proud of our centipede.

Peachy Writing from P3

P3 are working on the novel James and the Giant Peach.  We are enjoying the story, and we have reached the part when James has joined lots of creatures inside the giant peach. This week is Maths Scotland week, and in writing today we were calculating how many legs were inside the giant peach. We wrote lovely sentences, and gave our writing a peachy effect with sponged watercolours at the end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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