This week we completed our entries for the P7 School House competition. The P7’s asked us to design new pictures for the four houses Ochiltree, Hopetoun, Champfleurie and Binns. We looked at various pictures of the houses before coming up with our own designs. The winners will be put on display next to the house “sprig” jars in the corridor.
For our enterprise activity P3 took part in the “Shoe Box” appeal. Between the two classes we managed to collect 60 boxes which were picked up by the charity on Wednesday. A tiggerrific thankyou to everyone who sent in a box or handed in items to make one up. The children from around the world will be delighted to receive one at Christmas time.
In Maths this week we were delighted to welcome so many Mums, Dads, Grannies and Grandads to our class to see us learning using our “Number Talks”. After a short introduction by Mr Ritchie we worked in groups at different maths stations to show the different strategies we used to solve the maths problems. We had Solve the Sum, Target Number, Magic Cup Challenge, Playing Card Challenge and Concrete Challenge. The children all enjoyed working with our visitors.
In reading we have been continuing our work using the new resource called “Reflective Reading”. We have been looking at different texts and playing “Blankety Blank” where we have to work out the missing word and then further challenge ourselves by coming up with an alternative word or words that could be used. We have also played “Silly Words” where we have to identify where an incorrect word has been used and work out what the correct word should be. It is important that when we choose a new word it is still in the context of the story.
In grammar we have been learning about the difference between common and proper nouns. We are trying to remember that we need to use capital letters when we are working with proper nouns.
As part of our outdoor learning we have been looking at the life cycle of an oak tree. We watched a speeded-up video of how an oak tree grows from the seed of an acorn into a spectacular oak tree. We then recorded this information by making an illustrated life cycle diagram. If the weather is better next week, we will be going on an oak tree hunt around the school to see how many we can find.
Mr Ritchie and the Tiggerrific P3B’s
