Today was our creativity art hour in class where we were learning about Corita Kent. We were learning about the impact of using different colour combinations and experimenting with colour layering and combining. Our creations are fabulous!
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P2/3 have been learning about weight in our measurement topic. We were estimating then measuring the weight of items in our kitchen. We were all able to estimate what weight these items were (either 1 kilogram or 1/2 a kilogram) then measure them to see how accurate we were.
Today we worked on a problem solving activity called legs in the barn. We had to use our addition and multiplication strategies working with whole numbers and fractions. Lots of groups drew pictures, created a table or used the guess and check strategy.
To raise awareness of Children’s mental health week we watched a short assembly from Place To Be. We then read a few short stories to explore the theme if belonging.
Today we explored colour mixing and the Artist Paul Nash. We were thinking independently , problem solving and demonstrating creativity.
Today in our random groups of three, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, we were solving our rich tasks. Lots of collaboration and pupil discourse. We also evaluated how well we worked together in terms of listening, sharing ideas, turn-taking, working together and being kind.
Today we had our first Rights Respecting Champion meeting of the year. We talked about new ways of sharing the rights with others in our school, competitions we will organise in the school and making sure we have all our rights on every display. This was a very productive meeting time where all children have the opportunity to have their voice heard, allowing them to participate in decision making, planning and leading new events. This meeting was based on article 12, “ I have the right to be listened to and taken seriously.”
This week we have been continuing on with our project on British birds. Yesterday we went on a lovely winter nature walk with our tally mark checklist. We were tracking daily sightings of winter birds in Woodmuir. The children loved this activity and worked together very well. In our lesson today this led on nicely to talking about an effective tool for visualising our data on bird types.
The children came up with bar graphs to display our sightings and whether we would choose a vertical or horizontal bar graph and how a bar graph should look. Lots of numeracy and maths in today’s lesson which we are ready to log in our individual floor books.
