On Thursday when we arrived in our classroom it had been transformed into an airport. We had to check in our baggage and collect our Boarding Passes, which were then scanned to make sure they were correct. After ordering our in in-flight meals, we boarded the plane to Sydney. We fastened our seatbelts for take off and watched the in-fight security information.
There was a suitcase with lots of pictures of things relating to Australia in it, there were also some books, sun cream, sun glasses and a sun hat. We enjoyed pulling out each item and they generated great discussion.
With our learning partners, we discussed what we would like to learn about Australia, we wrote these down and drew pictures for our planning book. There were lots of interesting questions – ‘What does the temperature go up to?’, ‘How high can kangaroos jump?’ ‘What is the capital city of Australia?’ ‘What do you grow in your fields’ and ‘How many hours would it take to get to Australia in your car?’ plus many more.
I’m sure we will have fun investigating over the next few weeks. We will also be comparing Scotland to Australia and hopefully making contact with a class in an Australian school, particularly as a lot of the children would like to learn about school in Australia.
If anyone has been to Australia and would like to come in to talk about their trip, or has any items that you think may interest us, please get in touch.
We rounded off our outer maths ‘Symmetry’ topic this week, using our knowledge and skills to create our own symmetrical art. The pictures are excellent and I could tell that all of the children have a good grasp of symmetry as I saw them create their artwork.
A few pictures from our literacy lessons this week. We have different activity stations around the classroom to allow us to practise our spelling words, we choose which stations we would like to work at.
Following on from our imaginative ‘My Dream’ writing, where we were looking at adding interesting vocabulary, We begun to learn about synonyms. We had a lot of fun making word mats to help us in future writing lessons – showing alternative words we can use to up level our writing.
We have also been learning another Literature Circle skill, taking on the role of illustrator this week. We learned a bit about the job of an illustrator and liked finding out that they draw designs not just for books but for lots of merchandise, posters, websites and animations too. We practised by illustrating the part of The BFG where Sophie and The BFG have breakfast with The Queen. The children listened very carefully to Roald Dahl’s excellent description and certainly made the words come alive with their illustrations.
There has been so much more fitted in too – French, reading, numeracy, PE, science and drama, as well as working on a special surprise for Jessie, our wonderful dinner lady who retired today! We had a special assembly, attended by the whole school, what a send off!
Last minute photos just in from Mrs Hogg who took us for Drama this week:
Have a lovely weekend, from P3B and Mrs Kennedy
