We’ve had a very good first full week in P3A. Our routines are becoming more established and those with classroom jobs are doing really well, helping our classroom to run smoothly.
We began the week learning about the Queensferry Crossing. As we have had a lot of building work done in the school recently and the builders are still here, we thought our corridor could be turned into a building site. As the Queensferry Crossing is an important construction in our local area we learned a bit more about it and made our own bridges using paper straws. We looked closely at the lines and shapes on the bridge and worked hard measuring, cutting and sticking the straws to create our pictures. The finished results are fantastic and they make a great wall display. We learned some cool facts about the bridge too, our favourites are: the height of the bridge is the same as 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and all the cabling used on the bridge would almost reach around the equator – 24,874 miles!
In PE we have begun to learn some skills used in the game Benchball. We are going to a P3 Benchball tournament at Linlithgow Academy in November so we will be focussing on these skills and learning how to play the game so we are really ready for the tournament. We also did a yoga session with Mrs Kennedy on Thursday – it is a great way to start the day and we were all very good at it.
We read the story ‘Have You Filled Your Bucket Today.’ This is a story about how being kind to others helps them and you to be happy.
We worked in groups, reading statements and deciding if they were ‘bucket filling’ or ‘bucket dipping’ actions. We then wrote some of the things we could do be kind to ourselves and others.
Mr Wells asked each class for some artwork for the corridor so we set to work painting a bugs-eye view of a flower. We looked closely at part of a flower and painted only some of it. We also learned a little about the artist Georgia O’Keefe who painted flowers in this way. They look very effective and we have some of them up in our classroom too.
Our first Play Leaders took some P1s for corridor play on Thursday. This is a job that every P3 will be doing as we will have several sessions throughout the week where small groups of P3s will take some P1 or P2 children to play with them, they will help the younger children to play nicely and tidy up well! Fantastic work guys!
We have been enjoying ‘James and the Giant Peach.’ We looked at describing words this week as we listened carefully to Roald Dahl’s descriptions of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. We drew pictures of what we think they may look like and wrote lots of great describing words.
We have been learning more about place value in numeracy – partitioning the numbers and identifying how many tens and units make up the whole number, some of us were working with hundreds, tens and units.
On Friday we learned some colours in French – Mrs Kennedy was very impressed by how quickly we picked up the names of the colours and even how they were spelled as we played French hangman 🙂 Maybe you could ask us what these words mean – rouge, marron, bleu, blanc, jaune, vert, rose, gris, noir, violet and orange.
We hope you all have a great weekend.
P3A and Mrs Kennedy
