Following on from our beautiful artwork last week, we have been doing more research on the green sea turtle. On Monday we did some ‘reading for information’ where we read a passage about green sea turtles and wrote notes on what they look like, where they live and what they eat. We then used netbooks to find some other interesting facts and took notes on these too. On Tuesday we used our notes to write fact files about green sea turtles. We worked hard on our research skills, reading for information is quite new to us and we had to read carefully to find the information we needed. At the end of the week we did a reading comprehension on sharks. A lot of us are really interested in sharks and enjoyed finding out more about them. Again, we had to look closely for words and clues to help us answer the questions. Good work P3A!
In numeracy, we are continuing to learn addition facts to 20. We have also been reading word problems and translating them into written sums in our jotters. We have begun doing short ‘Number Talks’ most days, these are mental maths exercises to improve our number sense and to help us to solve calculations quickly. We each try to solve the problem in our heads, then we talk with others in the class, explaining our thinking and sharing strategies. There are a few hand signals that we use during number talks sessions and we have enjoyed putting these into practise.
In French, we continued to practise greetings. We have been learning:
- salut – hi
- bonjour – hello
- ça va? – how are you
- ça va mal – I’m not so good
- ça va bien – I’m good
- pas mal – not bad
- bonsoir – good evening
- bonne nuit – goodnight
- au revoir – goodbye
We played pairs and snap, matching the phrases to pictures. It was good fun and it made us say the words a lot 🙂
Our House Captains led the assembly on Friday and they taught us a little about each of our houses – Binns, Ochiltree, Hopetoun and Champfleurie. It was interesting finding out about the real houses. They also launched a competition for us to draw pictures of the houses, the winners will have their picture displayed in the school corridor. We will do our pictures in class after the October break.
Have a good weekend everyone, from P3A and Mrs Kennedy
