Another busy, busy week. We began the week continuing our grammar work. Over the past few weeks we have been learning about nouns – proper and common nouns and have been trying to remember to use capital letters when writing a proper noun.
In Science with Mrs Begarnie we furthered our research on forces. Mrs Begarnie left some forces resources in the classroom for us to use during our ‘Learning Through Play’ time. We have had great fun making steeper and steeper ramps! We have also tested different surfaces and tried our which works best to allow our cars to move well.
On Wednesday, we really enjoyed having some parents and other family members in the classroom to see some of our numeracy work. We worked in groups at different problem solving activities, sharing our strategies and understanding as we talked to each other.
We collected an amazing 60 shoe boxes in our Shoe Box appeal! They were collected on Wednesday and are now on their way around the world to children less fortunate than us, there are going to be 60 very happy children – a big thanks to Springfield families for supporting this 🙂
We continued our ‘Reflective Reading’ with a ‘Jigsaw Jumble’ on Thursday. Our activity was based on our Outdoor Learning topic – The Life Cycle of an Oak Tree – (although we didn’t actually get outdoors as the weather was so awful!) We are now really good at explaining the life cycle – ask us! We worked in groups to sort out sentences that had been cut in half. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds – we looked for capital letter and full stops to sort the writing into which strips were at the beginning of the sentence and which were endings. We then had to read really carefully to check which parts went together to make sense, checking tenses and singular and plural words as we worked. Every single group managed this task really well – all got 7 out of 7 sentences correct! We had some visitors from Norway in the classroom during this lesson too, they came to visit Springifled as they had heard about all our wonderful children and they were very impressed 🙂
A few weeks ago P7 set us a challenge to design new pictures to put on our school House display. We looked very closely and the houses – Ochiltree, Hopetoun, Binns and Champfleurie and drew excellent line drawings to submit for the competition. The winners will be put on display in the corridor.
On Friday, we had another French lesson on fruits, it is always good to revisit these words often so we really remember them. We played some games on the smartboard, a corners game and a fun ‘line bingo’ game. Our vocabulary is getting really good.
Have a good weekend everyone, P3A and Mrs Kennedy
