In Numeracy and Mathematics, we have been learning to add a 2-digit number and a teens number. We looked at adding the tens, adding the units and then adding our answers together. We have also been learning to add two 2-digit numbers. Some of us have also been doubling 2-digit numbers, adding several numbers and adding a multiple of 10 to a 3-digit number. This week we have been using our addition strategies when looking at costs, prices and profits for our Christmas Enterprise.
In Literacy, we have been writing character profiles about Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web. We watched a video about describing characters in a story and then we looked at some characters from different texts. With our learning partners, we discussed what the characters looked like, their personalities and what they liked and disliked. Afterwards, we worked in groups and we wrote words and sentences to describe Wilbur’s character. Finally, we worked on our own to write character profiles about Wilbur.
This week we have also been learning to answer questions about texts. We listened to a poem called ‘Market Day’. We played a game on Education City about rhyming words and then we identified the rhyming words in the poem. We answered questions about the poem and we tried to write our answers in sentences. We also used clues from the text to draw a picture of the market.
This week we took part in Tesco’s Christmas Competition. We received a letter from Tesco in Linlithgow asking us to make snowmen to be displayed in their store over the festive season. They asked for the snowmen to be bright and colourful. We used a variety of media such as glitter, paint, oil pastels, material and pens to create our snowmen. Hopefully you will see lots of our snowmen at Tesco soon!
This week we have been busy planning and preparing for our Christmas Enterprise, the Christmas Fair. We began by making reindeer lollipops. Before we started the production process, we worked out the cost of each lollipop, decided on a price for each lollipop and then worked out our profits. When we were making our lollipops, we had to work really hard to make sure that they could be sold. Some of the cutting was quite tricky but we were resilient and we now have fifty cute reindeer lollipops ready to sell!
We have also been making wooden Christmas tree decorations. Again we looked at the cost of each decoration, decided on a selling price and worked out how much profit we would make if each decoration was sold. We painted our decorations and once dry, used glitter glue to decorate them. We will continue to prepare for the Christmas Fair next week. It really is like Santa’s workshop in P3A!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P3A and Miss Harrison xxx
