A big thank you to the PSA and all the parents and staff that helped organise and support our Halloween Disco.
Today we had our second house meeting which had a focus on our playground. First of all the vice and house captains shared with us our house logos and slogans and also the values that our house thought were the most important:
The vice and house captains taught us a new community builder called; elephants, monkeys, helicopters and palm trees. They were taught how to play this game at peer mediator training.
Next we discussed the importance of being safe in the playground and why we need to create a playground charter. We got into groups and discussed what we should have in our playground charter, and the house and vice captains will take this information to make a school playground charter.
Thank you to our house and vice captains for organising the house meeting, and to the P7s for organising the groups.
To celebrate the end of Money Fortnight we invited our parents and families into school to share with them what we have been learning about in connection with money, and also our interdisciplinary learning context for learning. Activities included visiting the bank, sharing our storybook, making a rainforest in a bottle and making sushi. Thank you to all the parents and families that came along to support this event, there was a great ‘buzz’ around the school.
We are learning to use software to create pictures and words.
I can use Paint software on my own (independently).
I can use Paint software to create a picture of my story character.
I can use Paint software to type the name of my story character.
Last week we were exploring how to use Paint software on the netbooks. We were not allowed to ask Miss Burton any questions about Paint, instead we explored the software, making some mistakes along the way. We realised it was okay to make mistakes as we learned from our mistakes and our peers could help us if needed help.
This week we progressed in our learning by using Paint to create a character from our Three Little Pigs story and to write their name. We also learned how to save our work onto Pupil Shared, and realised this is an important skill for life as it means we can find our work again and can make changes to it at another time. you will see some examples of our characters below.
Making the most of the glorious weather P3/2 have taken ‘Nouns’ outdoors!
In P3/2 we have been revisiting a world full of nouns. We are able to identify nouns in the world around us and categorize them according to words that name a person, place, or thing.
Lit 1.13a
First, in class, we had to think of two different types of nouns for each classification. Mrs Allsop invited us to write them on the board…..
Next we went outside and played corners….each corner being either a name, a place, a thing/object and to really challange us added a corner where we had to write an adjective! Look at the fun we had…
Finally we had to draw a proper noun of a friend…..
Next Steps: We will be writing our own interesting sentences linked to our story writing…demonstrating our ability to use our knowledge of nouns.
We are learning to identify the main areas in the ear and how they allow us to hear sounds.
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•I can identify the ear as the organ for hearing
•I can identify the 3 main areas in the ear
•I can identify the function of the 3 main areas
We recapped on what we had already learned and we shared thoughts/ideas about how we hear sounds. We used a super interactive resource to learn that the brain and ear are used for hearing and how the process works. Not only did we learn to identify the 3 main areas and their functions, we learned about the different parts inside the ear, and even why you get dizzy if you spin around too quickly!
At the end, we were able to work together to name all the parts of the ear and completed an online quiz to show our understanding.
To help us visualise what happens when we hear sounds, we looked again at the rice and drum experiment – we love when the rice jumps up and down due to the sound vibrations!
Mrs Stewart was so excited that we had learned so much more than we had planned and that we could remember our learning when she asked us about it today! 🙂
Some comments from the children –
Cup your hands to your ears, it increases the sound you can hear – Rebekah
The ear is connected to your brain – Freiah
Interested in learning about the ear – Adam
Excited in the lesson – Matthew C
I loved the lesson! – Joni
I was surprised how many things are in the ear – Teagan
I was amazed! I didn’t know that much stuff about the ear, now I know loads – Gemma
I was quite impressed that we learned that much – Oliver
It would have been better if there had been a trickier quiz – Emme
Liquid in your ear makes you dizzy when you spin – Joni
Please click on the link to visit the website that we used to help us learn.
how we hear
or visit the website
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/brainandsenses/ear/
Today we had our first House Meeting and the Vice and House Captains did a fantastic job or organising and leading the meeting. They created their own House Meeting Agenda which started with discussing the House Community Contract, followed by a Community Builder so that we could get to know everyone in our house. They completed a Values Vote to select which 2 values their house would stand for. Then they set the challenge of designing a logo and slogan for their house. The results will be shared at the assembly on Friday. Well done on a fantastic first House Meeting!
We have been learning to create a story map for a traditional tale. We worked together as a class to make a story map for Little Red Riding Hood. We had to make sure that it made sense and we told the story in the right order. Here is our success criteria that helped us to make a fabulous map! –
Sequence – Beginning, Middle, End
Characters
Pictures
Writing, including WoW! words
Direction – so we don’t get lost following the map
Thought bubbles, Speech bubbles
It took a long time to do, but it was fun! Joni liked that we had taken our time over making the map. When we looked at our finished map, we were all very proud of what we had made. Oliver thought it was outstanding, Abby was surprised that it took a long time to do but was amazed to see what we had done and Ruari was excited. Georgia had a great idea at when she saw the finished map and so we added some wolf footprints to show his journey! Theo loved this! We knew that we had been successful because we had included everything in our success criteria.
Our next step is to create our own individual story map for the traditional tale, 3 Billy Goats Gruff! We can’t wait, we are SO excited!
You will see our finished map book when you come to our Open Day!
Thank you very much to those parents who managed to attend our Meet The Teacher event recently, it was lovely to meet so many of you! For those of you unable to attend, the powerpoint Meet the Teacher P3 from the evening has been attached.
We look forward to seeing you at our Open Day on the 15th October!
What excitment is happening with our |IDL context and story writing. The last few weeks have seen P3/2 look at a selection of traditional tales. The focus has been;
LIT 1.26a & 1.07a
We are learning to recognise the elements used to create traditional fairy tales
First we looked at a selection of story maps and identified what we felt made them successful
Success Criteria; (a Sory map should have)
Next we created a class ‘story map’ using the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as a stimulus. All the children were invovled in creating our master piece…please see below
Next Steps:
We will make our own story maps of the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’
