This week we concluded our learning focus on Australia. We presented our PowerPoints on Australian landmarks to the rest of the class and we discussed what we had learned. We also made comparisons between the natural environments of Scotland and Australia. Miss Harrison was very pleased with how confident we were when delivering our presentations and we were able to use ICT to successfully share information with others.
In Art and Design this week, we learned to create pictures of a view we had observed. We looked at images and a film of fireworks and we drew pictures to show what we saw. We used rulers to draw buildings in the foreground and then used oil pastels to create fireworks in the background. Here are our fantastic fireworks pictures…
This week we started our Book Study on Charlotte’s Web. When we came into school on Tuesday, there was a spider’s web on our classroom window with the message ‘Hi’! Miss Harrison read us the first chapter of the story and told us all of the things that we will be learning through Charlotte’s Web. On Wednesday, we looked at story settings. We looked at different pictures of story settings and we discussed with our learning partners stories that we knew that were set in each setting. We used clues from the text in Charlotte’s Web to discuss where we thought the story was set and then we used our own ideas to create a drawing or a model of the setting. Some of us also wrote descriptive sentences about the setting of Charlotte’s Web. In Literacy this week we have also been continuing to use our knowledge of punctuation to punctuate sentences correctly. We also revised when to use capital letters and we were able to use capital letters for names of people, names of places, dates, titles and at the start of sentences.
In Numeracy and Maths this week we have continued to learn different strategies to solve addition sums. We used 100 Squares to add on multiples of 10 to 2-digit numbers. We then used our knowledge of adding multiples of 10 to add 11, 21, 9 and 19 to 2-digit numbers. Some of us also learned how to bridge/cross numbers when adding. We looked at strategies to solve addition problems such as 17+6 or 65+17. Miss Harrison also showed some of us how to use a written method to add 3-digit numbers.
In Science we have started to learn about forces and magnetism. Miss Harrison showed us a science clip and then we investigated how a force can make an object change shape. We had paper, tin foil, play dough, cotton wool and cloth and we explored whether we could push, pull, stretch, squeeze, stretch and twist each material. We discussed how we applied a force to change the shape of the materials. Finally we played a game called ‘Squeeze and Squash’ and we were able to use vocabulary such as pushing, pulling, stretching, squashing and twisting to describe forces.
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
