This week in P3B, to get ready for Halloween we used some Halloween related words to write acrostic poems. We made sure to use adjectives to make our poems more interesting. We also took part in some problem solving during maths to help solve who stole the Halloween cake. In pairs we took a clue each then worked as a whole class to put the clues together to solve the mystery. We were brilliant detectives! We learned a bit about The Day of the Dead and how it is celebrated at the same time as Halloween. We made some colourful skull masks. We also learned how to say some Halloween words in Spanish and in Sign Language! We drew some animals that we know live in the Rainforest using oil pastels on black card so that the bright colours would stand out. On Friday we took part in some Halloween activities with our friends in P3A and had great fun!

Our Learning Highlights:

“I liked doing the masks. They are skulls. They are for The Day of the Dead. It’s a thing that Mexican people celebrate.” – Akash

“I managed to get an apple very easy when we were apple dunking” – Ali

“I liked drawing the rainforest animals. We used oil pastels” – Niamh

“We were doing Halloween poems. We could either pick the word pumpkin, cauldron or Halloween to write an acrostic poem” – Aeryn

“I liked finding the cake thief by solving maths problems. We worked with a partner to solve a clue. We gathered together and mixed the clues up.” – Naman