On Monday afternoon the whole school first met with the Rookie Rockstars team to learn and sing some new songs which we practiced every afternoon in preparation for our CD recording. Come Thursday we were all very excited to record the CD and did a fantastic job. We will be performing our songs at our concert on Thursday 22nd November and I definitely think P2/3 have some future rockstars in the making.

In Numeracy we are continuing to order and sequence numbers and work on getting faster at our human number line. We have enjoyed regular ”number talks” where a sum is presented and we need to solve it mentally. This has encouraged the children to use a variety of strategies and generates a discussion amongst the class about what strategies are the most efficient and develops children’s justification skills.

Our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic continues and this week we have had some discussions about the characters that we have met so far and have started to form our own opinions about them. On Friday we were thinking about some adjectives that we could use to describe Augustus Gloop and are putting them towards our character profiles. We have also been summarising the chapters we have read and using clues from the text to make predictions about what might happen next.

On Friday it was Children in Need day and we got the chance to dress spotty and bring in some money to donate. In class we decorated spotty biscuits!

Over the past weeks in maths we have been learning to sequence and order numbers. We were each given a number written on a whiteboard and were timed to see how long it could take us to order ourselves from smallest to largest. We have now been doing this as a warm up activity and so far our record is 47 seconds!! This collaborative activity encouraged a lot of discussion amongst the children about where they should stand and why. Our class record is yet to be beaten but every time we do this we find we are getting faster and faster!