This term the children are learning about Literature Circle roles to allow them to take part in discussions about text rather than just reading the words.
This week they were looking at the job of the ‘Summariser.’ This means to tell a shorter version of the story, selecting the main points. They have summarised Goldilocks and the Three Bears, a passage from the The BFG and The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The Tale of Peter Rabbit writing was for Miss Baillie’s corridor display and everyone worked very hard on their summary. Please stop and have a read when you are in school.
We also made paper flowers for the display. It was quite tricky but good fun using card to shape the petals and stem. They look fantastic on the wall.
In numeracy, we have continued our work on place value, continuing to partition and order numbers according to the value of their digits.
On Thursday we began some outer maths, extending our learning on symmetry this week. We were using a mirror to find lines of symmetry and drawing mirror images. We will continue to do some outer maths each Thursday.
In our class novel, The BFG, there has been a lot about dream catching and dream jars. The children particularly liked the part where The BFG put a nightmare into the nose of the Fleshlumpeater and all his wriggling about started a fight with all the other giants! The children made their own Dream Jars on Thursday as part of a lesson on density and chemical reactions. It was really good fun and our dream jars looked really cool. They thought about density – why the oil sank initially and then floated to the top. They also enjoyed making their dreams fizz with the little bubbles of gas created by the Vitamin C effervescent tablets.
In PE this week we did a bit of yoga. It wasn’t quite as quiet as a normal yoga class, as the children were excited at holding positions and wobbling about quite a lot! They worked really hard though and the relaxation session at the end was lovely – great breathing!
Enjoy the weekend everyone.
From P3B and Mrs Kennedy
