As Monday was the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we all attended the special Remembrance Day assembly to learn about what it means and why we wear poppies. Then at 11am at the eleventh hour all the classes stopped working to take part in the two minutes silence to show our respect.
On Tuesday we all went to the hall to listen to Mrs Hocknull read the story about the Stick Man, written by Julia Donaldson. After listening to the story, we then had a discussion to “brainstorm” our ideas of what we would like to put into the play areas outside the classroom to change the area from construction to the Stick Man. We managed to come up with lots of different suggestions so we will now begin to change the area over the next few weeks.
We then linked the story of the Stick Man to our writing where we looked at how cartoon strips are made using different pictures, speech and though bubbles together with a sort description to tell the story. Using these techniques, we then made our own cartoon strips to tell different parts of the story. The cartoon strips look amazing and we will be using them to create part of the new Stick Man display in the corridor outside the classroom.
In literacy we also continued our work on common nouns and proper nouns. We are getting much better at recognising the difference nouns when writing sentences and when we need to use a capital letter.
In PE we continued to refine our ball and team working skills for playing Bench ball ready for the inter school cluster tournament which we will be taking part in at Linlithgow High School in two weeks time.
In Maths we are continuing to develop our “Number Talk” skills by learning about the different strategies we can use to solve the problems mentally. We are also using these skills to work out the sums during our Big Maths challenge on a Friday morning. During the rest of the week we are continuing to work on adding three-digit and two-digit numbers and looking at adding double numbers.
On Friday we celebrated “Kindness Week” by attending an assembly all about how being kind can make a difference to our lives in school and around the world.
Mr Ritchie and the tiggerrific P3B’s
