On Monday we learned that this year P3 will be in charge of the Shoebox appeal. We will have to market the appeal, communicate it to parents and children and organise the shoe boxes as they begin to come into school as well as arrange to have them collected so they can set off on their travels to children less fortunate than ourselves. It is quite a big task! We began by making posters to let all children and staff know about the appeal. Our posters were to be clear, eye-catching and have the correct information on them. They are very good and are now ready to be distributed to classrooms around the school after the holiday.
We finished reading The BFG this week. We have really enjoyed it and it was a fantastic exciting but happy ending! We wrote our own blurbs and designed our own front covers – thinking about how we could entice others to pick up this book and choose to read it. Thay are all very good and thy would certainly make me want to read the book.
We were busy on Wednesday learning the very valuable skill of organising our work. We sorted out our trays to make sure all work was neat and filed int he correct order.
We continued our Australian topic with some Indigenous artwork. We learned about the history of very early Australian art – people told stories through pictures as they had no written language. We tried our own dot paintings which turned out very well.
In maths, we began some data handling – we carried out a survey on our favourite Australian animals and then displayed this information in a bar chart – making sure to label the axes and give it a title.
On Friday we had a lovely Harvest assembly and our very first Committee meetings.
It was lovely to see so many of you this week, have a lovely October break.
P3B and Mrs Kennedy
