This week in our topic about Hawaii we have been looking at where the islands are located using a map of the world. We discovered that Hawaii is made up of over 100 islands but it is best known for its main eight. They are called Kahoolawe, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Oahu and Hawaii also known as “big island”. The capital city is called Honolulu and it is situated on Oahu Island which is the most popular with visitors. We then worked with our learning partners to research the weather and made weather maps using the weather symbols. We then presented the weather report after the Hawaiian News on the TV. We had lots of fun role playing as weather reporters and discovering that the weather is very different from Scotland.
In PE we divided ourselves into four teams and played Bench ball on the full sized court. The winning teams then challenged each other in the final. We are getting much better at moving and passing the ball around the court.
In maths we have been continuing with our addition by adding a two digit number to a single digit. Some of our questions were written as word problems so we had to read the questions very carefully to work out the sums. We are getting much better at using our new square papered jotters to correctly lay out our work. On Wednesday we also completed our work on symmetry. After the October break we will be moving onto Data Handling and looking at tally marks, pictographs and bar charts.
In writing this week we looked at creating character profiles. We chose to create a profile all about Percy the Park Keeper. We learned how to describe what he looked like, his personality and also wrote a little bit about his life so far in the stories. We are continuing to work on presentation, writing neatly and trying to improve our spelling and punctuation.
Today we took part in a “BEAR” event – “Be Excited About Reading”. We all brought our favourite books into school together with our teddies and a cuddly blanket. We discussed and shared our favourite books in class over a nice cup of hot chocolate and marshmallows. After the holiday we will be start to become more “reflective readers” by introducing comprehension activities to further develop our reading skills.
We are all now looking forward to having a nice break as we have been working very hard at school. The time has just flown past!
Have a lovely time over the holidays and we will all meet up again on Tuesday 22nd October ready to start Term 2.
Best wishes,
Mr Ritchie and the Tiggerrific P3B’s.
