What a great first week we’ve had in P3B. It is lovely to see so many familiar faces and some new ones too – a very welcome addition to the class and everyone has settled in well.
We began the week reminding ourselves of Springfield School Values – Resilient, Kind, Confident, Included and Respectful. The children remembered the actions well as you can see from the photo’s! They worked in groups to design a poster showing one of the values. They worked well together and I was very pleased with the final results. They now take pride of place at the entrance to our classroom.
As part of our outdoor learning topic ‘trees’, and to allow us to finish off the tree we have in our reading corner, we went outside to do a leaf identification task. We then brought the leaves inside and learned a bit more about why trees need leaves. We looked at them very carefully through magnifying glasses to see all the parts close up. Then we did line drawings and hung them on our tree. Our classroom tree is now looking great 🙂 A nice quiet corner for us.
We have been enjoying our class novel ‘The BFG’. This week we have worked on activities about ‘Appearance Vs Personality’ and adjectives. Roald Dahl is very good with his character descriptions – we are trying to be as good or better!
We have had PE twice this week, with Mrs Reid on Wednesday and we me on Thursday. The focus for my PE lessons this term will be handball as we will be attending a cluster P3 handball festival in a couple of months.
We also looked at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, including looking at a coupe of annimations to help us to understand them. We discussed the ones that apply to school and education, then children voted on what they would like our display to look like – they chose superheros. We will work on making our Rights Respecting School display next week.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend – nice to see the sun back again.
P3B and Mrs Kennedy
