In reading this week we have been learning to use alphabetical order to find words in a dictionary. We watched a Learn Screen on Education City about using a dictionary and then we played a game called ‘Space Venture’. We worked with a partner to locate words in the dictionary to play the game. Afterwards, Miss Harrison gave us some words from our chapter in Charlotte’s Web and we had to use our dictionaries to find the meaning of the words and write them down.
This week we have been learning how to use speech marks. We learned about different rules that you need to follow when using speech marks and then we went to different activities. We picked our own learning activities. Some of us were rewriting sentences putting the speech marks in the correct places, some of us were looking at speech bubbles in a text and writing the words using speech marks and some of us were copying sentences from our reading books, showing speech marks correctly, on a graffiti wall.
This week we have been continuing to learn to spell words with different letter patterns. We have also been revising our common words. We always practise our spelling in different active ways and this week we were making our words out of play dough, typing our words on the computer, making word searches with our words, creating secret agent words and tracing around our spelling words.
In Numeracy and Maths we have been continuing to learn different addition strategies. This week we were learning to add two 2-digit numbers by adding the tens, adding the units and then adding our answers together. Some of us have also been learning how to add several small numbers and some of us have been learning to use a written method to add two 3-digit numbers. We have all been using our addition facts and strategies to solve different word problems.
In Social Studies this week, we were learning to identify forms of agriculture in Scotland & foods associated with these. Miss Harrison told us about different types of farms in Scotland and then we played a game where we had to match the food/produce associated with each farm. Finally, we drew pictures of food/produce associated with different forms of agriculture in Scotland.
In Science we have been continuing to learn about forces. This week we were learning that forces can make things move and/or change direction and that forces can be either pushes or pulls. We watched a video called ‘What makes things move?’ and we discussed examples of pushes and pulls. Then Miss Harrison gave us different images and we had to organise them into two groups – pushes and pulls. We also investigated what happens when a push and pull are equal in strength and opposite in direction.
In Art this week we were learning to create work using the visual elements line & pattern. On Wednesday we were introduced to a new character in our book, Charlotte. Charlotte is a spider who makes beautiful patterned webs. We looked at photographs of a spider’s webs and discussed the different lines used in the web. Miss Harrison showed us how to use straight and curved lines to create a web and then we picked which way we would like to make our own webs. We used oil pastels and wax resist or markers and oil pastels. Our webs are beautiful too!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
