Hello P3A families,

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

Caleb said the best part of his week was playing the maths warm up game, ‘Counting Cowboys’ were the children had to shoot the answer to the other cowboy.  The focus was subtraction.  The cowboy who did that first (correct and fastest) got to have another turn.  Caleb won!  We have water pistols for our cowboy guns and hope that Santa will bring the class 2 cowboy hats for Christmas!

Alicaj liked music with Mrs Morrison where the children were singing a Viking saga song.

Ollie has enjoyed our second PM description story called ‘My Grandma’.  The class discovered that this piece of writing, compared to our last piece, ‘Honey Bees’ had a lot more characteristics!  Next week we will compose a whole class piece of writing about a different grandma and then go on to write a descriptive piece called, ‘My Teacher’.  This can be about their current teacher, a previous teacher or they can make up a story about a teacher.

Rory loved making nature perfume and collecting sounds in the woodlands.  He collected 3 sounds.  The children also had the opportunity to take a shoe off and like Rory from ‘The Worry Tiger’, feel the wet leaves under their feet.  There were some brave girls but no boys who wanted to take part.  The perfumes smelled beautiful!  ‘Eau to Woodland’.

Ethan said his highlight was making cards for our parents as part of our lessons on forgiveness.  We will bring these home on Monday.  The children have written a lovely message inside.

Chahiti  has really enjoyed our learning about the history of aviation as part of their topic, ‘Inventions’.  The children were fascinated to watch clips on early flying machines and gave their opinions about what they liked about the designs and why they thought some may have failed.  We look forward to measuring 36.5 meters in the playground next week which was the distance the first successful flight took place by the Wright Brothers!  The managed to keep their flying machine in the air for 12 seconds the first time!

My highlight had to be our lesson in the woodlands where the children made the perfume.  They were so enthusiastic about it and kept wanting me to smell their creation.  We had leaves, berries, sticks, petals, nuts and mud.  Emmmmmm!  Nice!

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

 

Regards

Mrs Brown