We began the week getting our new homework and working on our spelling skills at active stations. We also got new reading books and have enjoyed reading them throughout the week. We have begun to have some discussion about what we have read. As a group, we can chose to be either Word Wizards, Punctuation People, Character Cruzaders or Setting Soldiers – this gives our reading session a focus for discussion. Most of the groups chose to be Setting Soldiers this week.
In Numeracy we have continued our work on place value, working with larger numbers. We had active stations and completed many activities to allow us to practise. We really like the place value basket ball game that is on the topmarks website – it’s free and easily accessible if anyone wants to play it at home: www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
In outer maths we learned more about symmetry. We were deciding whether objects or pictures were symmetrical and explaining the reasons for our answers. We also worked on identifying lines of symmetry. We enjoyed a symmetry hunt outside too.
We have also been working on capital letters and full stops as Mrs Kennedy had noticed that some of us are forgetting them as we write – some very long sentences 😉 We are now getting better at remembering capital letters in the correct places but it is tricky to decide when to use a full stop and begin a new sentence. We will continue to work on this.
In PE we continued to develop our skills for benchball – different types of throw this week. We have begun to think about what kind of throw to use depending on where our teammates are on the court.
We got together with P3B for a lesson on Islands on Tuesday. We suggested quite few islands that would be good for our geography topic. After a vote it was decided that Hawaii will be the island that we learn more about and compare to Scotland. If anyone has anything Hawaiin please let us know, if you’ve been maybe you could tell us about it?
Our assembly this Friday was a little different as we all attended a House Assembly for our own houses. The P7s who would like to be House Captains spoke to us then we voted for them. Lots of voting this week!
Enjoy the weekend, P3A and Mrs Kennedy
