Welcome back to our P3A blog!
In Literacy this week we have been learning to punctuate sentences correctly. We revised using capital letters for the first word in a sentence and for names of people and we looked at when to use full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. We played a game on Education City called ‘Rapid Rounders’ where we had to correct the sentences by putting in the missing punctuation. Afterwards, we punctuated sentences correctly in our jotters. This week we have also been continuing to practise joining our handwriting.
In French we have been revising the words for parts of the body. We listened to a song about parts of the body, watched and listened to a tutorial on French Games Net, played ‘Simon Says’ using our new vocabulary and we completed a French body parts labelling activity. We have been enjoying our French Fridays!
In Numeracy and Maths we are looking at addition this term. We have been playing some addition games on our laptops such as ‘Hit the Button’ to improve our number bonds recall. Some of us have been revising our number bonds to 20 and using our addition facts to solve word problems. Some of us have been learning strategies to add 9, 19, 11 and 21 to a 2-digit number and some of us have been adding multiples of 10 to 2-digit numbers. There is lots of amazing addition happening in our class!
This week we started to look at Australian landmarks. We watched a clip from David Attenborough’s series on The Great Barrier Reef and then we discussed with our learning partners what we already knew about Australian landmarks. We divided up into groups and selected an Australian landmark that we wanted to research. We used a search engine to obtain our information and then Miss Harrison showed us how to make a PowerPoint and insert text and images. We worked really hard in our groups and next week we will finish our presentations and present them to the rest of the class.
This week we have also been continuing to compare the natural environments of Scotland and Australia. We completed our fact files on native Scottish animals and we compared the habitats of these animals to the habitats of Australian animals. This week we also learned about climates and compared the climate of Australia to the climate of Scotland. We looked at world climates and then we looked at the weather in Linlithgow and Sydney on BBC weather. Using our knowledge of Scottish and Australian weather, we created weather maps in our groups.
Finally, we presented the weather of Scotland and Australia to the rest of the class. We were fantastic weather people!
This week we also had RME with Mrs Begarnie on Wednesday and music with Mrs Bain on Thursday. This term we will also have Mrs Hogg for Drama on a Thursday afternoon. We’ve certainly had a busy start to this term in P3A!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
