Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Diana and Laura said the best part of their week was making our new role-play jewellery making shop.  Our previous cinema was not getting as many visitors so we decided to change it and the next most popular vote was a jewellery shop.  A group who was interested in making this, including Diana and Laura, had a £10 budget.  They worked together to shop on Amazon for beads and elastic string.  They calculated what was too expensive and what items totalled their £10.  Their shop sign looks very sparkly and I’m sure they will get lots of visitors to their shop.

Riley loved football with Miss White on Thursday.

Vivien’s highlight was teaching the class how to draw a house using one pencil movement.  You were not allowed to lift the pencil from the page.  She started it off as a challenge.  She showed the children what she wanted them to draw and they practised it on whiteboards.  It was so tricky!  Even Mrs Brown could not do it!  In the end, she revealed the steps.  Thank you Vivien for this super problem-solving lesson!

Linda loved the story from our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags called ‘The Worry Tiger’.  In this story, Rory came out of his den to discover a  jungle had grown in his bedroom!  We decided we wanted to transform our classroom into a jungle too!  Mrs Brown already had lots of vines so the children drew different jungle animals and put them all around the room.

Hasika said that her learning highlight was note taking.  For our writing this week, we continued to examine description writing.  As an extension to ‘Honey Bees’, we had a choice of writing about a ladybird or a dragonfly.  The children watched a short documentary piece on each and while they did, they jotted down some notes which would support them when they came to write their own descriptive piece.  What fascinating creatures these bugs are!

Aadya also enjoyed writing a descriptive piece about ladybirds.  She included all of the features:  title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation.  Well done Aadya!

Angel absolutely loved playing bench ball!  We finally moved on to playing this game after acquiring all the skills needed.  The score was 3-0.  We look forward to game two on Monday!

Olivia liked creating a piece of art called ‘Circles’ that Diana showed everyone how to do.  It involved drawing around various sized circles that overlapped and colouring each section a different colour.  Everyone managed to draw their circles and has made a start on the colouring.  To be continued…

My highlight was watching the confidence of the two young ladies, Diana and Vivien as they delivered their lesson to the class.  As the class carried out the tasks, they went around supporting.  This has sparked the interest of some others who want to teach the class something too!  Some future teachers in the making perhaps?

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

 

Regards

Mrs Brown