In Numeracy and Mathematics this week, we have been looking at adding two 2-digit numbers, using our addition facts to solve problems and finding doubles and near doubles to 100. We have also been revising how to solve missing number problems. We looked at starting with the smallest number and ‘counting on’ to the other given number to find the missing number. Missing number problems can be very tricky but we tried our best!
On Thursday we attended the P3 Benchball Festival at Linlithgow Academy. We were divided into two teams and we played games against other P3 classes in the Linlithgow Cluster. Miss Harrison was very pleased with us as we followed the rules, displayed excellent teamwork and sportsmanship and used a range of skills and techniques throughout our games. On Friday our whole class got a School Values Award for participating confidently at the festival and we also won Class of the Week.
This week was Anti-Bullying Week at Springfield and we have been really busy learning about friendship and recognising that each individual has a unique blend of abilities and needs.
This week we have been looking at being unique and recognising that each individual has a unique blend of abilities and needs. During our art lesson, we watched a Sesame Street video about what makes us special. We explored what being unique means and we took notes on our own personality and our interests. Using our notes, we thought about what makes us all unique and we created hand images to record our ideas. Every hand is unique, just like us.
We explored the theme of ‘friendship’ through Charlotte’s Web. We discussed the friendship between Charlotte and Wilbur and we listed the qualities that made both characters a good friend. We watched a clip from the film of the moment when Charlotte and Wilbur became friends and explored how to be a good friend. We played a game where we had to match qualities of a good friend and then we had an individual challenge where we had to write words and sentences to describe a good friend.
In writing this week, we learned to write recipes. We wrote recipes for a good friend. We shared our notes sheets with our learning partners and discussed what we thought made a good friend. Miss Harrison then showed us how to set out a recipe and we looked at using bullet points to make a list of ingredients, using numbers for each step, ordering our steps and using bossy verbs. We worked really hard on our recipes and if followed carefully, they would make wonderful friends!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
