We have had a fun and busy week in P3A. On Tuesday afternoon, we went to the PTA Halloween Disco. Aren’t we a scary bunch?!
In music with Mrs Bain, we chose appropriate instruments to create atmospheric sounds to tell the story of The Witch’s Magic Potion. We followed conducting signals to control the volume. In fact we even learned Italian because we now know about crescendo and diminuendo!
In reading this week, we have been looking at giving a personal response to a text. We started by looking at pictures of different items and used emotion cards to show whether we liked, disliked, loved or hated the items in the pictures. Next we played a board game called ‘Likes and Dislikes’ where we selected a topic and moved round the board expressing our likes and dislikes. Finally, Miss Harrison read us a story called ‘Castle Adventure’ and we discussed what we liked and disliked about the story with our learning partners, giving reasons for our answers. Individually, we wrote what we liked and disliked about Castle Adventure, giving reasons why.
In writing this week we have been looking at writing letters. We wrote letters to children in a school in Australia! We used our planning time to write a paragraph about ourselves and to write down questions that we wanted to ask the children in Australia. In our writing lesson, we looked at features of a letter and we used our planning sheets to write our letters to our Australian pen pals. We ensured that we included an address, a greeting and a closing farewell. We worked really hard with our letters and we are looking forward to receiving our replies!
In Numeracy and Maths this week, we have been continuing to look at different strategies to help us with addition. We have been playing different ICT games to revise our number bonds to 20 and to practise adding two 2-digit numbers. We have been using our number bonds to 10 to help us to add a single digit to any 2-digit number. For example, we have been using addition facts such as 5+4=9 to solve 85+4. Miss Harrison also showed some of us how to partition 2-digit and 3-digit numbers and then re-combine the answers to solve different addition problems. We have also been using 100 Squares, Numicon and ten frames to help us with our addition.
This week we have been continuing to learn how to use technologies to share information with others. We worked in our groups to finish creating our PowerPoints on Australian landmarks and we were able to successfully add text, images and animations. Next week we will share our presentations with the rest of the class and we will learn lots of facts about The Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock and Fremantle Prison!
Thank you for reading our blog post,
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
