We have had another fantastic week in P3A and we won Class of the Week again today!
In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we have been learning to count on in fours and fives, estimate numbers on a number line and round numbers to the nearest 10. We completed sequences by counting on in fours and fives and we made a human number line to help us with our rounding. We also played games on Education City to consolidate rounding and estimating and we completed written work in our jotters and workbooks.
In Literacy this week we have been looking at retelling a story in sequence. We listened to the story ‘The Frog Prince’ and we took notes on the setting, characters and structure of the story. We then used our notes to write the story in the correct order. We had to make sure that we included the beginning, middle and end and that we put the events in the correct sequence. This week we have also been continuing to spell words with different letter patterns and we have been practising our common words.
On Friday (we now call this ‘French Friday’) we revised the colours in French. We listened to the Rainbow Song in French, played different games on our Promethean board and used our knowledge of colours in French to complete a paint splat activity. Afterwards we worked with our learning partners to test each other on the French colours.
This week our class were given a very special job! Our house points were relaunched on Friday at the assembly and we have a new House Points display near the hall. Miss Baillie asked us if we could create line drawings for the new House Points display. We looked at photos of Champfleurie, Hopetoun, Ochiltree and Binns and we discussed the lines and shapes that we could see. Miss Harrison then showed us how to create a line drawing by sketching and looking at smaller shapes which go together to make a big picture. We worked so hard on our drawings and we can’t wait to see them up on the new House Points display!
Last week we told Miss Harrison that we would like to learn about Australian animals so this week we started to explore the natural environment of Australia. We watched a video about koalas and then we took a trip to Australia to learn about other Australian animals. Afterwards, we selected which animal we would like to research. We completed our own Animal Fact Files! On Thursday we used a search engine to find information and we looked at using key words to find the facts that we needed. We took notes on our animal’s description, habitat and diet and we noted down any other interesting facts. Next week we will be transferring this information onto our fact files.
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
