One of the Primary 3 pupils described today’s literacy activity as “hilarious”!

The children have been listening to Esio Trot with Miss Mack. Mrs Sutherland decided to give them a challenge and they had to find all of the silly words in a part of the story. They then had to explain why the words did not make sense. For example, did Mr Hoppy really grow flowers in a teacup and did Mrs Silver really have a pet squirrel called Bertie?!

There was lots of laughter in Primary 3 but also some very good explanations about why the new story didn’t make sense!

Here we are working hard and having fun!

This was a fantastic team building activity.  Students worked together using a rope to create 2-D and 3-D shapes.  Students needed everyone in their group to successfully build these complex shapes and provide a convincing argument that they had made the shapes correctly.

This is a mind-blowing activity which had students celebrating the challenge as well as their mistakes!  The goal was to create 2-D geometrical shapes by cutting them out of a folded piece of paper with just one cut.

The class found this challenge extremely difficult to begin with, however, after only a couple of minutes two children had successfully cut a square with only one cut.  Lachlan and Mitchell found two different strategies to this initial challenge.  Tiegan, Charlie and Jack quickly followed.  Well done to all who participated.

This activity was a fun way to develop an understanding of quantity and ways to make a total of 25.  In this activity students had the opportunity to count, add, keep track of totals, and use visuals to see the sum.  Students considered what quantities they would need to reach a total of 25 and also created a strategy for reaching a total before their partner did.

One misconception students often have when learning about fractions is that to half something you must cut it into only two pieces of the same shape.  This task developed the idea of different ways of creating half of a whole.  It allowed students to be artistic and create interesting patterns of their own.  It also allowed students to describe and justify their thinking.

In this task students were asked to consider ways to prove that a square was split in half and also to think of other ways to split a square in half and convince others that it was split in half.