We said goodbye to James and his insect friends this week as we finished reading James and the Giant Peach. The end of the story was really good and very funny – the poor people of New York did not know what was happening when a giant peach floated over the city! We pretended to be journalists reporting on the story. On Tuesday we learned about some of the features of a newspaper article, working in a group to identify the who, what, where, when and how in an article, as well as looking at the headline and some eye-witness quotes. We then wrote notes for our own article on James’ arrival into New York. On Wednesday we wrote our own articles, they are really good, excellent information and descriptions of events.
In outer maths we made tables and drew bar charts on the colours of Smarties in one tube. The main focus was the drawing of the bar chart – learning the words axis and axes, labelling them and giving our bar chart a title. Everyone drew an accurate bar chart and we enjoyed the Smarties afterwards.
We enjoyed a visit to the school library this week. We are hoping to visit each Wednesday so please bring back books then.
As part of Book Week Scotland and our own campaign to further engage the children in reading, we had another BEAR (Be excited about reading) event on Friday. It was nice to read by torchlight, with an open ‘fire’ in the classroom, a different reading experience 🙂 We were very lucky to receive our Read, Write, Count bags on Friday too.
Thank you to everyone who handed in sticks, the teachers and support staff have been working hard this week to transform the corridor play area with lots of Stick Man related activities and even a family tree! We have really been enjoying playing in the new areas and being Play Leaders there too.
That’s all for this week, have a good weekend, P3A and Mrs Kennedy 🙂
