P3/4 Weekly News

Learning Overview

Literacy – This week in reading we have been focusing on creating questions for our reading books. He have been exploring literal questions and evaluative questions. In writing we have been learning how to write directions to get from one place to the next. This is called Procedure Writing. We have also had a focus on digital literacy this week where we watched the new ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and compared it to the old film ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. We discussed our preferences and explained why.

Numeracy – This week we have been developing our mental strategies to work out calculations through our ‘Blether Stations’ with our talk partners. We have also been working on addition this week and have explored adding 2 and 3 digit numbers with carrying in the written method. Some of the children have been working on some different addition strategies e.g. near doubles and pairing numbers to make 10.

Health and Wellbeing – We have been celebrating anti-bullying week and World Kindness Day this week. We have been discussing about what makes a great friend and sharing qualities that we see in others through out ‘Special Person of the Day’.

IDL – We have been developing our enterprise skills this week as we prepare to make our own creations to sell at the Christmas Fayre. We have been working in teams to create a company name and logo. In Science we have been exploring melting, freezing and boiling. We have used what we have been learning about melting to create delicious Chocolate Krispie Cakes.

Pupil Voice – Our Highlights!

It’s your lead learners Kerr and Lucy here! Here are our weekly highlights:

This week has been lots of fun. We have enjoyed PE this week as we were working on our hand eye coordination using balls and cups. We also liked the IDL afternoon because we got to do play, food technology, science and enterprise. On Tuesday all the school from P4-P7 went to the Cinema to see ‘The Grinch’. We thought it was funny! In our class we started the ‘Special Person of the Day’ for World Kindness Day. We like this because it makes people feel happy because people say nice things about them. We also loved Art this week. We made remembrance pictures.

Next Steps – Home Learning Opportunities

This week we have been learning how to write a set of directions to get from one place to another.

Can you draw a map and write a set of directions to get from your house to somewhere you like to go? It could be the local park, woodlands, a friends house or a family members house.