This week I have been trying to balance Christmas fun with learning and keeping our routine. We began the week with our normal spelling lesson although the children chose the activities that they like best to practise their words. We also had a lesson on ‘fact and opinion.’ When answering reading comprehension questions we sometimes find it tricky to give our our opinion. We could choose various ways of showing our understanding – worksheets with highlighters, large sheets where we could work with others and games where we sorted facts from opinions. This is something we will continue to work on through reading comprehension activities.
We did some Christmas art on Tuesday, making spiral snowmen. This was good fun and we even managed to discuss a little about the effects of gravity on our spirals. These will be coming home soon.
In maths we used our addition skills to play different games – a racing track board game, snakes and ladders, bingo and smartboard games. It was fun and quite noisy but there was lots of good maths going on!
On Wednesday we finished off our Forces topic with Mrs McVay by making kites and flying them outside. Typically after all the windy weather we have had there was very little wind that day! They still flew though 🙂
We had a great time at Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime on Thursday. It was a really good show, full of lots of laughs and we loved when Mr Wells had to go on the stage and get married to Jack’s mum! There was lots of singing and dancing too – a very good Christmas treat!
We hear there is snow on the way this weekend – have a good one everyone!
From P3B and Mrs Kennedy
Brilliant blog! Loved seeing the pictures of the kids all flying their kites. What a great thing to do – Scott loves his science sessions with Mrs McVay.